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Show DIVORCE THE j GREATMLEM National Crime Against Childhood Child-hood and Confession of Failure Fail-ure By American People. Minneapolis, Minn. Nov. 12 Divorce Di-vorce was characterlzoii aa "the ureat est question In the world today and aa a national crime agalnnf childhood and a confession of falluro and weakness weak-ness by the American people," by Bishop J N McCormlck of Grand Rnpldfl. Mich, in an nddress beforo t tie international rurny ongrebs here late yesterday The number of divorces granted '.n America Is an evidence that we favor fa-vor trial marriages and that we aro practicing progrensh e iolygamv,-continued iolygamv,-continued the speaker "America is held up and right, as the land of easy divorce. It used to be hame ful. now It la almost respectable ' One of the causes of divorce is the flippant attitude we adcpt toward If. Men and women actually boast of the number of their marriages. The number of our professional dhorce lawyers Is a disgrace to the country "If we spent less time on the problem prob-lem of divorce and more on the problem prob-lem of marriage the world would be bette r off "Make our homes more attractive and cultivate the old fashioned virtues of patience, contentment self-sacrl flee and Christian charity and the dl vorce evil will disappear "A step which will aid In its solution solu-tion would be for In-? clergy of all churchy to agree not to marry persons per-sons who could not be married in t heir own rhurch " |