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Show URGES DRASTIC MARRIAGE LAW Ransdeil Proposes Amendment Amend-ment to Prohibit Divorce With Right to Re-wed. UNIFORMITY IS SOUGHT Says Evil Has Increased 319 Per Cent in U. S. in Last Forty Years. Washington. Feb. 4 Divorce with the ripht to re-marry would be prohibited pro-hibited for ever In the United States and in all places under the nation's jurisdiction by an amendment to the federal constitution proposed todav by Senator Ransdeil of Louisiana Enactment of uniform marriage laws for all state and territories, with provision for separation without permission per-mission to re-marry, would be directed direct-ed by the amendment "The remedy by constitutional pro hlbition is dr::stic." said the senator, sena-tor, "but the malady is so fatal that nothing short of It will prove efficacious. effica-cious. In the United States divorce is spreading with alarming rapidity. It has permeated every walk of life and is prevalent among every class of people The total number of divorces di-vorces granted In 1867 was 0937. or 27 for every 100,000 population. Forty For-ty cars later, in lOuf., there were 72,-062 72,-062 divorces, or 86 for each 100, ono. thus allowing for the Increased population, popu-lation, divorce had increased 319 per cent "If the United States were to write in the constitution an amendment prohibiting absolute divorce, it would not be taking such a radical step a might at first be thought, but would be following a beaten path. South Carolina all honor to her forbids divorce It is absolutely prohibited In Italy. Spain and to two-thlrda of the population of Austria-Hungary, and Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Peru. Chile and others have similar laws. "While many excellent people arc divorced and some of them make new homes, the inevitable trend of divorce di-vorce is to break up more homes than it builds up and to reduce materially mate-rially the number of children." nn |