The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1912-12-12
CHURCHES TO AID TO
SUPPRESS DIVORCE
One out Of Every Ten Marriages
Proven to Have It's Sequel
in Court Of Separation.

Chicago, Dec. 10.-.The Home and Its
Enemies occupied an entire session of
the Federal Council OF the Protestant
Churches today, with special reference
to family life, Sunday observance and
have been divorced In the United.
States during ten years, said DR..
George p. Eckman, editor of h Chris
tan Advocate. Ten per cent of all
marriages inathis country are dissolved
by divorce, he added. In some states
o%ne-fourth of all the marriage con-
tracts are broken in this way. The
rate Of divorces multiplies faster in.
the United States than elsewhere. 1t Is
double that of Switzerland; three times
that of France; five times that OF
Germany, and many times that OF
England and Canada. The number of
marriages in the United States in
but the number of divorces granted
during the same period was 81 per cent.
Women Turn tc Trade.
Industrial conditions were held to be
largely responsible for the unhappy
situation in many American homes.
The umbe OF wage earning women
16 years of age and w increased from
LAT per cent in 1870, to 20.6 per cent
in 1900, but in the occupations which
have to do with home life there has
been a decided decrease. The women
in trades and transportation" in 1870,
according to the census was only l per
cent, whereas in 1900 1t was "a per
cent. The Introduction of the type!
writer some 80 years ago did more than.
any other one thing to open up new
fields for women In 1870 the entire
group of women bookkeepers, account
ants, clerks. copyists, stenographears.
and typewriter5 numbered only 8,023.
In 1900 it numbered 245,517. During
these 80 years the whole number Of
women g%ainfully employed increased
100 per cent, but the number employed
in this group increased 1850 per cent,
or over Is times as rapidly as h whole
body of working women. Meanwhile,
the number engaged in agricultural
pursuits and in personal and domestic
service is rapidly decreasing. The
small wages paid to women in indus
trial life was considered an important
factor in the maintenance of a decent
standard of living.
Glory of Home On Wane.
The report of the committee de-
clared that "the dignity which Jesus
ascribed to womanhood and the sacred
ness which He attached to childhood
render the vices which impair the glory
of the home detestable in the eyes of
all good persons, but the church will
not be relieved of it's duty until ON
formations of libertinism and prosti-
tuition have been supplemented by
practical efforts to eliminate their most
prolific sources" Strong resolutions
were adopted with reference to the pro
lection of women from men who are
morally or physically unfit for married
life. It was also recommended that
the terrible evils of sexual vice should
be given greater attention by the
clergy, teachers and parents. Uniform
marriage and divorce laws We're en-
dorsed. The council voted that this en-
tire matter was a problem, which con-
cerned not only the church affiliated
with this body, but that it demands the
cooperation of Jews, Roman Catholics
n other religious bodies and ethical
movements.