The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-07-23
War and Love Deities Aren't
Working Hand in Hand.
Matrimonial Strikes OutgrOwth
of War RestIessness.
AN EPIDEMIC OF DIVORCES
Six Thousand Chicago Couples
Dissolved Partnership.
One Out of Three Marriages in
Iowa q Failure.

Chicago, July 23.-Matrim onial
strikes are just another phenomenon
of post war restlessness, according to
Chicago jurists. With industrial
strikes reported hourly where strikers
quit for no apparent reason. the di-
vorce courts are kept busy in the same
way.
In Chicago last year. six thousand
couples were divorced. Judge Sheri-
dan e. Fry of the court of domestic
chain swapping a result of the war,
not a@result of war marriages.
Judge Fry's observations have led
him to see three main reasons for SOL
dier divorces. First, he gets weary of
the quiet round of marital life, heaves
a bit of china and thus starts some
thing. Second. the wife of several
years is apt to be suspicious of the
husband who has been subject to the
wiles of those foreign girls for a year
or so. Third. the improvident husband
who was driven into the army has i'm
proved little.
Booze played a part, poker had a
share and effective 'vamping" caused
some trouble, but the big increase in
divorces, Judge Fry maintained, is due
to the causes he named.
World Ties Stronger, But
Oakland, Cal, July 23.-War
strengthened ties between nations
but weakened matrimonial ties, Judge
T. w. Harris of the superior court
declared today. Wartime marriages
predominant among those brought up
for annulment, he said. Suspicious
aroused during absence of the soldier
husband and cooling of conjugal love
during the absence are leading causes
action.
One Out of Three Fails in iowa.
Des Moines, Ia. July 23.-New
laws to check Iowa's greatest rush to
sever matrimonial relations are neces-
sary, according to Judge Hubert Ut
terbach today. Hasty war marriage
are responsible for the record which
recently reached the proportion of
one divorce for every three maria ges,
he said. Judge Utterbach recon-
mended state inspectors to carefully
investigate all divorce petitions.
Hire Additional Judge.
Lincoln, Neb., July 23.-An addi-
tional judge on the district bench to
handle domestic relations cases has
been found necessary here. Officials
said there has been slight increase
in the number of divorce petitions
in Nebraska, possibly due to war
conditions, but that the new court
became. necessary largely because of
the natural growth of the population.
Claim They're Outsiders.
vorces in Milwaukee increased 35.4
per cent during the first six months
| of 1919, Clerk of the Court Max Bin
ner said today. War conditions may
| have caused the increase, officials
said, but Wisconsin disclaims 20 per
cent of the dissatisfied married folks,
that number coming from outside the
state.
Mars and. Cupid Friendly in Texas.
Dallas, Tex, July 23.-Mars and
Cupid worked hand in hand to thwart
Texas divorce proctors, according to
court records today.
Despite the fact marriages showed
a great increase in the first six months
| of 1917, when hundreds of youths
married hastily before going over
seas, and scores of girls in this district
married men in training at the big
army camps near Dallas, divorces
were fewer in the first six months of
the present year than in the same
period of 1917.
The~fecords. as checked up today.
showed eighty-one fewer Divorces for
the first half of this year than the
1855 recorded for the first half of the
year which saw the beginning OF
Americas participation in the war.