The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-11-10
Law Providing for Annulment of
Juvenile Vows Creates Such
q Condition
CHILRDEN ONLY ARE
AFFECTED BY POLICY
Two Recent Cases Actually Con-
stitute Wedlock on Pro-
baton
BY CARLTON TEN Evck.

NEW YORK, Nov. lO.-They have
trial marriages in New York. The
law OF the Empire State provides for
marriages on probation, the marital
tie to be dissolved by the courts IL
the venture proves unsatisfactory.
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Green
baum went further and declared that
New York licenses trial marriages for
children.
True the august statutes do not re-
fer to trial marriages specifically. The
law In question. severely condemned
by several prominent jurists, pro-
vides that marriage contracted
by minors, or when one of the parties
Is minor. whether with or without
the consent OF the parents or guard
ian Of the minor. shall be annulled by
the court when application for such
annullment Ia made by the minor
party. To obtain the legal annulment,
1t Is not necessary to set forth
grounds why the marriage was not .
success. Nor 1t Is necessary for both
parties to consent to an annulment.
Another trial marriage for chill
dren dissolved" said Justice Giee-
erich, In passing on the most recent
case. few days ago. Seven gray
hairs In seven months OF matrimony
was the reason for annulment given
by Chester ]. Spaulding. q 17-year.old
bank clerk. Chester ran away with
Q girl not a. old as himself and they
were married. The venture was a
"a hA h<swv htso hav n
awoke the other morning and looked
in the glass. he saw seven gray hairs,
he said. The prospect OF one gray
hair q month for the rest of his life
while married appalled, Spaulding and
he ran to his lawyer. The lawyer
took him to the supreme court and
Justice Giegerich, while deploring the
circumstances, could do nothing but
annul the marriage. The girl-bride
was not consulted. The law did not
provide for Il.
Mildred Rudd. the champion run
away girl Of the Bronx" is barely IS.
She went to party while she was
still under age. She was introduced
to youth who called himself Vincent
Day. They eloped and were married
that evening. Mildred learned that
her new husband was Vincenzio MI
carl, her fathers chauffeur. She went
homo to papa, and the marriage was
BY Justice Greenbanm. Prev
iously Mildred had run away four
times. She has run away again since
her marriage was dissolved. 1t was
Mildred's case that made Justice
stand aghast at the
strange flaw In the law. The boy and
girl, he said. had clearly had trial
and the law could do moth
Ing but legalixe the AFFAIR.
New York's editorial" green grocer
ID dead. Early workers who passed
L. T. Galatians shop the other day.
1sed to being entertained by the huge
signs that Callahan painted and hung
With his own hands, we're disappoint-
ID to SEQ that q bunch Of crepe and
! typewriter notice Of Galatians
leath were the only signs visible.
They marked the passing Of m &C.
centric old man whose racy opinions
N politics were for many years hand
ID out along with his advertisements
" his wares.
Through the closed door could be
,sen the last editorial painted by
who expected to display II
IN the day that he died. It said:
THE tariff IL now q law. Stop
IruntinG. Put your shoulder to the
wheel, and make It q success. No
bill can stop the welfare and pros
verify Of this \country."
Several yearstago Callahan wrote to
he late Mayor Gaynor. telling HIM
hat o certain weights-and-measure or.
finance he had signed was impracti-
able. Mayor Gaynor replied: What
vou do not know about fhe grocery
would al . great big book"
That was too much. From that day
N. Callahan never missed q chance
n q day without attacking the mayor
n his grocery editorials" In which
le often made Gaynor ridiculous. The
asst Gaynor squib appeared the day
'efore the mayors death. Galatians
writings were almost ~ diffuse ~
hose Of Gaynor. He advocated that
few York should be split up into two
tates. advised women on how to buy
alse hair. told how to select dia-
nonds and pet dogs, and how to pick
husband.
Callahan, between his political "edi-
orials" and poems on the old home
tead,. mothers sweet old face, and
litty's eyes. sandwiched the praises
4 pure virgin olive oil, shrimp paste,