The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-01-16
HUSBANDS REGARDED MERELY
AS MoNEY.MAKERS A SocloL-
oGlST SAYS.
ALL DUTIES AND NO RIGHTS
And That Accounts for the 10000
Cases Of Wife Desertion Yearly in
New York, He Belieyes-F aVors
Domestic Relations Court.

New York. Jan l5.-TWcnty thou
sand wives are deserted annually in
Greater New Yurk-tcu thousand In
Manhattan and th" Bronx, six thou
sand in Brooklyn and the remainder
in tine outlying district Of the greater
CITY.
Upon these statistics. compiled from
police court records BY Bernard Rab
biuo. formerly chairman Of the legal
aid bureau of the Educational Al
lance. is based a bin that will be in
troduced soon into the New York
l,g g.slature authorizing the establish
mcnt Of separate tribunal for hus-
bands and wives, to be known as the
court of domestic relations. The
till. which has the Endorsement of
Bishop Greer, the Rev. stephen $.
Wise. Judge Rosalsky, Isaac Selig
man and other widely known men,
is now being prepared by Mr.. Rab
bno.
The economic conditions OF city
life are in measure responsible for
the twenty thousand cases of wife
descrtiou which come up annually III
New York City" MIR Rabbino said
today a WIFE and husband should
live happily together If they under
stand each other wife desertion, in
the majority of cases. is due to sim
plu misunderstanding between hus-
band and wife, and ofteucr than not
the disagreement is the w.tr's fault
Too many American wives believe
that "a husbands life j. all duties and
no rights. and. following their exam
pie foreign women who, when they
came to America. respected their
husbands soon achieve independence
without acquiring the responsibility
and the sense of mutual Obligation
that should accompany it, The wo-
man who in Russia regarded her hus
band as semi god, has not been in
this country many months before she
comes To regard him as a mere mon
cymaking machine to provide for the
wants of an Irresponsible goddess
herself"
And. do You think wife should
regard her husband merely as a semi.
god? Why do things by halves
was asked
1T is possible" MIR Rabbino said
that in Russia they eXaggeratr the
Importance OF the husband. but not
more than the position Of the wife is
oycrratcd in this country. and | real
Is believe that false conception 81
the American spirit by foreign NO
men is responsible for much unhap
pincss and wife dcscrtion \ cour
OF domestic relations, such as sue
gcst. which would Doe dedicated eN
clusiNcly to the adjudication ot dif
frrtncts between husband and wife
as the children's court is TO the tria
of the misdemeanors OF childrel
would. ! believe, have a tremcndou'
cfrcct in the settlement of domesu,
troubles
THE paramount duty uf such
court should be the reconciliation q
husband and wife Whenever ppssibl,
10 the police courts, whore the poo
peop'c are today compelled TO al
their troubles, ofror the proper rl
yironmont? No matter how we'll Il
means it ami how much ne would l.lI
to, magistrate cannot play IA
role of high priest in "a polio
court lie has neither the time NJ
the means. \ wife ana mother.
husband and father do not belong /
the company OF drunkaris, pickpocl
] cts and highwaymen. Their ailment
are of very delicate nature an