Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-04
FAMILY COURTS
TO MEET MENACE
Continued From First Page.l


There will be more than 100000
divorce cases filed before the courts
of the land this year, and something
must be done to save our family
life, the greatest civilizing force We
have" he continued. The family
court should be an extension of the
principle upon which juvenile courts
are founded.
Correlatc Work
1T will be possible, under this
system, to correlate the work of
the juvenile and divorce divisions
of the court and obtain reliable
scientific data. This is the final
purpose of the family court and it
will be through the facts developed
that the requisite knowledge and
information necessary for the regu-
lation of marriage and divorce will
lie acquired. No scientific law has
ever been made on the subject of
divorce. Divorces are granted for
certain causes. but no effort is made
TO classify basic causes"
Elihu Root, former secretary of
state, speaking before the judicial
section of the Bar Association said
he favored wiping out the business
of attempting to bring about justice
by statute" and that he believed it
justice"
Root Speaks
"A few meager rules embodying
the fundamental principles are all
that is necessary he added. "One
of the great troubles with legislation
to-day is that it does not permit the
judges to do Justice" Young and
inexperienced lawyers in the legis-
laturcs who. because they did not
turn out the way they thought it
should, proceed as soon as they get
a chance in the legislature to bring
about the change they think ought
to he made were largely responsi-
bic for the condition. he thought.
The real reasons for criticism of
the courts is not that the people
have lost faith in the courts and
confidence in our judges, but that
they have come to where they want
less and less to be bound by law
Criticism of the League of Ma
tions Covenant as lacking n den
mite pledge that the nations W.T.!
uphold international law WIS
made 10y DR.. David Jayne iln,
former AMBASSADOR to Germany, in
an address before the American Bar
Association last night. Speaking on
The Nations and the Law" DR.. Hill
said:
The fundamental issue of world
order is not the possibility of form
ing a union of powers strong enough
to impose it's will upon other states
but the question whether the pow
erS entering into such a combina-
ton are disposed to bind themselves
to the acceptance and observance of
lefinite legal principles, irrespective
of their commercial interests and
military strength. We must repu-
dlate, as inconsistent with the ma
ture OF truly constitutional state,
any form of international assoCia-
ton that does not assume as its first
PoStulate tie authority OF interna-
uonal law over all nations.
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