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Show DIVORCE IS INCREASING Harvard Professor Says It Is a Symptom, Not a Disease Cambridge, Mass., Jan. 23. Divorce in the United States fa Increasing at a rate three times faster than the Increase population, according to statistics gathered by Piof. Francis G. Peabody of Harvard. Prof. Pea-body Pea-body explains the situation thus: "The divorce evil Is a sign, not of decadence, but of transition, the cost of progress paid in the emergency emer-gency of a more Btable order. It is a symptom rather than a, disease. This symptom is caused primarily by tho social disease of restlessness, the excitation of the nerves of raotlrfn. a condition which may be described as Araorlcanitls. "This disease In family life lakes the form of robellion, migrations and change." |