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Show NOTED DIVORCE JUi6E W. M. M'lWIN TAItO or ran OOVSRNOR OF ILLINOIS. Jurist Hat Masts a Study of Untftrly Inn Reasons far Marital DlfTcul ties Opposed to Women Working. Chicago If Republicans on the northwrat aide ran bring It about. Judge Wlllard M McKwen will receive the nomination for governor Out aide of parly men he ran also count on support from an unusual source In hit sit year on the bench Judge Me Kwen haa tried 1000 divorce case and hla friends declare thai hla homely home-ly philosophy and good advice ennn elated at every opportunity In tbe patching up of family troubli are rer tain tn have won him at least one ad vocate In every divorce ault While Judge McKwen haa gained moat fame aa a lawyer, public proae culor and Jurist, hla close acquaint snees My hla practical philosophy la the mainstay of hla succeee and the quality which will make him an Ideal state executive It la this philosophy learned on the farm. In the nlahi law school, the atate'a attorney a of flee and on the bench which haa gain ed htm a reputation aa one of the great divorce Judgea of the country lie haa made a study of the uoderly log reasons for the appeal of men and women for court relief In marital dlf Acuities Tbe divorce court, lie declares, la an cipreaalon of the times It shows tbe drift of American clvlllatlon and It waraa atateamen and churchmen that they mual devise aome means to develop mora normal men and worn en who can It Mtltfled tn live con lenledly under more normal condl I Ions than the present lime affords "Conditions are abnormal when the woman haa to go from the home and work to support herself and others aid Judge McKwen 'The prime duly if woman la motherhood and the rare if tbe home Man should be the pro vlder. unless there la great enter gency by reason of his Illness or other Incapacitation As soon as he allows the woman tn tako hla place and do the woik which eopiiorta him and hla be becomes abnormal and a menace Tho buaband who loafa ought lo be put In Jail 'W'emen nre losing the respect of women Htntlstlcn compiled recently by Ihn bureau of commerce and labor show that one woman In every five women In llio United Bute works That la an nppatllnR proportion It shows both the reason and the result of tho popularity of dlvorco In thlt WiVLttf- V""11") n'Jtma lokaloh on man when ahe works beside him day by day tier opinion of hlta Is lowered "She cannot be oipectod to work all i im ii I u h me ul night i , ltd a rainiii I I iii r she remains mi is '" ln indirii a man for whoa) l t s I nut ha Hie hlxhest regarg ,f tlli lur miimi Unliable Hn u. n i ni.. or hirailf naturally ate ulao- IlMMident In such marrlaxa nr is not the !epe(t that iiMlntalha 'K'l1 neaa j Oni of the greatest evils c the working soman question It tll , t j It will have on the future i n!i i f . our rounlrv Woman Is mor Inprri wl trrfr 1M JM f f Judge Wlllard M, McCwen. tlonahle than man, and man It drl her Into a position from which be tan pull her down to hla own level tl morals Normal people hnvo n wliols.i respect for marriage. Normal bes- wiii get tflarrled at church or at boar and not ektp to a Juatlco for the wet ting Church and homo weillepi slick. The people who contract tlissi io rarely found In tho dlvorcaoiM The Idea of many people whet tbf get married that they easily con b divorced If the venture docs not'nyre tuccessful Is altogether wronK ln I many oases separation and dharre Is llio only, reasonable thing tn protect huabsriil 'and wire from one another but tho question of thn ruptarrlice of divorced persons Is one that should receive more attention at tho hands of legislatures" |