Show FOR Fon U UNi UNIFORM FORM DIVORCE IH LAWS LA New Nest York Times The Tho national congress on cia uniform laws of marl marriage ge and nd divorce has now undertaken the most part of ot its is task This is the he preparation pl of oC a list of or cau causes eg for divorce which will wJ command the conent consent consent con- con sent sent ent of all al tho states stales states In this It has proceeded with wih much circumspection There are doubtless members of or the congress congress- and even of the committee which drew tho the report lepolt who have made mado sacrifices of their personal preferences for or the sake of conformity and uni- uni Without doubt man many of them consider the proposed ed law lat lax There may also be those In the congress who think hink Jt It That hat is le less s Ikel likely seeing that it is less strict than the statutes of a number of or states already are re and that it was not for greater laxIty but for lor g greater cater strictness that the he congress was convened The causes causs for fOl the am annulment of oC marriage mariage as void ab are aro al almost almost almost al- al most e exactly actY those enumerated b by Coke and ed by the common law aw of oC England They are therefore scriptural as well wel as legal legal But the causes for divorce are arc much more extensive ex- ex and numerous than titan those thoe of oC the he common law nut lInt it i will wi he be difficult dir dif for Cor whoever does oes not go as Caras far Car faras faras as to lo take the sacramental view of or marriage to deny that all aU of them are destructive of oC the purpose of the conjugal conjugal con- con jugal ugal i relation elation Adultery bigamy conviction and sentence for crime followed by hy a continuous con- con Imprisonment for fOl at least two years extreme cruelty such as ns to endanger endanger endanger en en- danger life or health habitual drunkenness drunkenness drunk drunk- enness for foi or two years ear and willful desertion deser deser- tion timi ton for Cor the same length of time Whoever argues argue against the admission admission sion Ion of or an any one of or these causes for the tho dissolution of marriage o must do so on other othor grounds than tho the humane and secular consideration of ot the happiness of the parties partes or of their children And be H lt 1 noted it I is not necessary for eV everybody who accepts the report to la lay aside his own standards not even oven for every over it I I is nn i tot for clergymen for tor- tor e example cample to tc exhort ll their flocks nock to abide by stricter and higher standards as al the Roman Catholic clergy will i continue to do Even a state like South Carolina which allows of or no divorce at al all may apparently l keep cep Its is statute still in force so lon long as It gives full Cul faith and credit to the statutes of or other other- states framed in accordance with wih the report of r the committee an and Its Is tion ton by the congress It I has been said Mid that It I Is more Important for the law to be known than for tor It I to be bo right e We e can cn substitute uniform for fOI known and say the same thing about the tho American law of oC marriage mariage and divorce AntI And nd pr practically I uniform the efforts of oC this admirable congress congress congress' promise to make malce that thai law |