The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-10-21
Next Week

17,00O officers and men. In fifteen min utes' firing it could wipe New York city off the map and make wide gaps in Hudson County, N. J.
 This grim array of sea bulldogs will be backed up with two of the ten armored cruisers, the North Carolina and Washington, mounting forty guns, together, and the scout cruiser Salem, one of three of her class, with only two guns. The United States has thirty other cruisers of other classes. They are scattered all over the world on station and patrol duty. Many of them are in the Philippines.
 A fleet of thirteen of the thirty-four torpedo boat destroyers which Uncle Sam owns will be here to ward off swift night attacks by small craft. Nine out of his thirty-two torpedo maneuvres. The United States has eighteen, the Cuttlefish, Tarantula,, Viper, Grayling, Bonita, Harwhal, Salmon, Snapper, Stingray, Tarpon and Octopus, will be porpoising along under the cover of the big ships.
 AS auxiliaries will be the Mayflower, bearing the President of the United States, the Dolphin, flying the flag of the secretary of the navy, and the supply ships Celtic and Culgoa, the range ship Lebanon, the repair ship Panther, the tenders Patapsco and ana the nOSplId1 SQlD SOldCG.
 With the clamor against divorce daily growing more vehement among the leaders of religion in all sections of the city and state. Rev. John l.. Scudder, one of the most forceful and able preachers of the Metropolitan dis trict has given his ecclesiastical .breth- ern a stiff jolt by his open advocacy of the dissolution of the marital tie
 T think divorce should be granted on at least eight grounds says pr. Scudder. Any man or woman should be able to secure a divorce for un> faithfulness, desertion, non-support, drunkenness. insanity or contagious disease and incompatibility am strongly in favor of national divorce law if it will enlbody all these caus- es. It doesn't seem to me that any one of them require explanation, with the possible exception of the last. use incompatibility in it's strict dic- tionary meaning, incapable of exist ing together in agreement or harmony The galley slaves who in their free. dom were mortal enemies and now are chained ankle to ankle lead lives of heavenly ease compared to those of the man and woman who have learn- ed to hate each other and yet are bound by the staggering yoke of mar riage How can the ministers of the faith of the pitiful Christ condemn these wretches to a lifelong hell of suffering?
 What sort of children will develop, in an atmosphere of hate and dis cord?'' demanded pr. Scudder Their entire view of life, will be distort- ed. They will grow up bitter, soured little cynics, utterly scornful of the normal human happiness which is only to be found in marriage. It's a per fectly simple and practical thing when they are not in question. Even when they are the problem is not solved by keeping intact the home which is no home. Sometimes this has to be done but the problem. is not solved Division between the divorced parents of the financial support and companionship of the children, with their best inter- ests always to the fore, would in my opinion come much nearer a solution