Show MILITANT WIFE LAUNCHES WAR AGAINST ALIMONY IN CHICAGO Mrs Mis Bessie Cooley Cooey Orders Husband to Stop Pay Pay- Payments ments to First Wife B nr ROY HOV J. J GIBBONS GI DONS I. Writer CHICAGO July 12 A 12 A modern modem Joan Arc has risen here In the person of one Mrs Bessie Beasie Cooley and round her standards are sire gathering recruits from Chicago's pretty badly defeated army of alimony payers Her cry Is- Is Is Down with alimony gold digging Millions for defense but not one cent for alimony alimony- aUmon i the heartened troops under her command arc sing sing- singIng singing ing as a march song Mrs s. Cooley is the wife of or Dr Ver- Ver Vernon Vernon Vernon non P. P Cooley Cooley was married once before and the first wife is still receiving almony alimony which makes the present militant Mrs Cooley angry The Illinois court recently ruled on Dr Cooleys Cooley's petition to have havethe havethe the alimony to the first Mrs Mis Cooley stopped The court supported his con con- contention contention contention that Mrs Cooley No 1 was spending the money he was paying her In riotous living but that fact so the court ruled as a mere moral issue did not warrant any order for the discontinuance of payments pa ments It was as a long legal treatise on oct morality and alimony And the up up- upshot upshot upshot shot of the whole thing was that Dr Cooley was ordered to keep paying and probably would have haye done so If It hadn't been for Mrs Cooley No 2 2 No sir she said Lc them put you in Jail But dont don't pay another I I I I i if j II Mrs 1 Bessie essie Cooley above tabo leader of or the anti alimony league leacue nho who de do- declares dares clares that her Dr Vernon ernon I P. P Cooley below must go to jail be before be- be before before I fore he pays pas more alimony to Mrs 1 Cooley No Xo 1 I. Millions illions for Defense but hui Not One Cent for Ali All Alimony Alimony mony Is Battle Cry cent No without children who Is b able to support herself Is Js de deserving de- de deserving deserving serving of alimony If It while she Is living with him and is still his wife rule a woman con con- conducts conducts conducts ducts herself In an Improper man man- manner manner mannor ner nor a husband can go into court and rid himself of her completely But If Jt after she divorces him and lives riotously on the alimony he is forced to pay her it U Is that his duty to her should be greater than while he is married to her herThe The two theories dont don't harmonize There are too many gold-diggers gold among divorced women and half of them arent aren't deserving of tion FORMS ANTI ALIMONY LEAGUE As the first part of her drive Mrs Cooley is forming the Society of Dis Dis- Disgruntled Disgruntled Alimony Payers Eligibility to membership will be based on experience only A big mass meeting of members is being planned and will take place here just as soon as the society can whip its battle plans into shape Many Chicago Judges agree with Mrs Cooley that there Is need for a movement such as she has set in motion They concur that alimony to healthy and bodied able-bodied ex wives without children Is as out of date In the changed order of social con con- conditions conditions conditions as a horse and buggy |