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Show oo ALARMING STATISTICS Divorces Reach an Enormous Enor-mous Total Federal Law Imperative New York, Jan. 15, More than 70,-000 70,-000 children, mostly under the age j of 9 years, were deprived of one or I both parents by divorce in this coun-i coun-i try during the last year according to figures With which the Rev. Francis 1 M. Moody stirred members of the New ; ioth state narriage and Divorce commission at Its meeting yesterday "On the Pacific coast,' he said, has I been the greatest divorce c enter of the I world In the year 19 12 alone there were granted in the Cnlted States more than 100,000 divorces In to ' vears 3,700,000 adults were separated by divorce, and more than 5,000,000 I persons were affected by these cases ; Illinois alone provided l20.i00 divorces; divor-ces; Pennsylvania, 55,760; California, 50,000, and New York I t.J.'.u New York state, however, sent 18,169 of j its couples into other states to procure pro-cure divorces and there were probably prob-ably many migratory cases that are' not recorded In this total. At present pres-ent 90 per cent of the cases so by default, de-fault, with onlv one party represented' represent-ed' Working for Federal Law. Mr. Moody offered a resolution to organize a federal commission in this slate to work for a uniform lederal law governing marriage and divorce, Which should be the central organlza-' organlza-' tlon for all state commissions of this character which have alreadj been formed in some state and which would ineel jn convention in Chicago in May The Rev. Dr. Samuel Mc-tiine Mc-tiine Lindsav was appointed temporary tempo-rary chairman of the organi.inu com-j com-j mittee. |