The Calumet news., 1912-06-17
for UNIFORM
| DIVORCE Law
NATIONAL FEDERATION OF WON
EMS CLUBS TO MAKE
THE DEMAND.

san francisco, Cal, June lI-The
national Federation OF Women's Clubs.
which will meet here this week, will
undertake vigorous campaign for a
national marriage and divorce law.
Backed by the power of the fedora
tons 100000 members, some of them
voters. the club-women will go before
the law-making bodies and press the
passage of the law. II they should
succeed. II would be tremendous tri-
umph for women. Men have been try
ing to have such law passed for
years, and as far as they got Is to
secure the reference of the subject to
the commissioners OH uniform state
laws appointed by the state governors
In convention.
Club women who nave gone over the
ground carefully say that they be-
ieve the interest awakened the coun-
try over will spur the legislatures of
the different states to take action In
regulating marriage as well as divorce.
They declare that the need of a uni
form law Is apparent.
Mrs. Philip N. Moore, president or
the national federation said recently
in presenting the subject. that before
getting q divorce most persons mad
TO Law bare many secrets TO the judge
whereas in contracting marriage men
and women were at liberty to walk to
the altar without telling anybody any
thing about their health, morals, hab-
it's of life, or financial standing.
Demands for Remedy.
The reason, she said that the exc
cutive board of the national fedora
ton. had come out in the open and
nassed a resolution favoring uniform
divorce law was the number of COM
| niunications received by the board
from, club women all over the United
| states. asking whether something
| could not be done to remedy the di'
vorce evils in this. that. and another
| state.
Then. i'm order to rounG up the stat'
federation OF women's clubs and &c
them to consider the matter thorough
w and to spread the propaganda
among all the women's clubs connect
ed with each state organization. tn
resolution was submitted to the ex
ecutiye committee Of every state fed
Grafton.
This has been going on for nearl
two years and Il is the result OF thi
,natured deliberation that will be pre-
sented by the delegates from women
clubs in every state and territory 9
this country at the June biennial.
Prominent in the debates of tn
question will be New York delegates
who for some years have been activ
in promoting this issue New for
club women are a little proud oil III
fact that some OF them have consist
entlv oualied as workers in move
3 ment as important. perhaps. as an
[ vet inlorsed by club women. A recei
| taIk with some Of the leaders show
that a regularly planned campaie
has been in progress for some un
to help along the movement. IL all
: shows that New York women have Il
in enthusiasm.
Discussed for Years
+. "rhere hasn't been great deal
= noise made but the thing mas pe'
Talked m and looked at from mai
{ noints of view for perhaps thr
years" declared Mrs. Clarence Burn
= "More than three years ago. when
was chairman of the child labor con
: n,ittee. Mrs. Sarah Platt Decker ask
me TO take her place temporarily
chairman of their legislative commi
toe. and | remember that on one occ'
sion I recommended we have un
form divorce law and that club won
u en- work for 1t.
probably the suggestion had pe'
made before. but UP to that time won
= en.s clubs had not discussed to any e.
@ lltent the ndyisability of uniior
4 marriage and divorce law, nor exec
: IN a. few cases had they shown al
naAticular desire for the establishme
of such a law
n "you can imagine. therefore. u
change Il is to have 100000 wom'
] | hack of such movement-oVV'V
women ready to start out to get som
$ thing done to have law of this XII
made federal law nally. Why, the
influence can't be overestimateo-
wiley. you know. gives to the Natio,
al Federation of Women most OF u
il credit for the pure-food Dill
Each state Must Act.
i "As the question stends today the
, are all sorts of ramifications.
|. course. while uniform divorce
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