Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-05-06

source Of revenue. Now fancyatreat-
ing any other offense that way. Ina /.
agine states in which stealing was on
ly a regrettable incident, Dr. where
murder was tolerated! In South
Carolina you cannot get a divorce on.
any grounds! In Washington the,
courts can give it to you for any
cause: they consider sufficient. There
a case: a man and his wife OBJ
tanned a divorce and both remarked.
Now they find they are both .biga-
mists. because it vas shownIthatg the:
wife went West. with her. husbands
knowledge and consent. to establish
her residence there for the explicit
purpose of getting a divorce. 1t was
well-esta blished law that If a hus-
band or wife seek the jurisdiction Of
another state for the sole object of
obtaining a divorce, withoutsa any real
intent. of living there, making their
home there, goes, in other words. just
for divorce purposes, then the decree
having been fraudulently obtained
will not be recognized anywhere!"'
But thousands do it.. Rachael"
But thousands don't seem to real
ize-I never did before-that that is
illegal. You can't deliberately move
to Reno or Seattle or San Francisco
for such a purpose. All marriages
following a divorce procured under
these conditions are illegal. Besides
TINS, the divorce laws as they exist
in Washington, California. or Neva-
da are not recognized by other states.
and SO a a couple are separated
upon the grounds of cruelty or in
compatibility in some Western state,
sney are still legally man and wife in
New York or Massachusetts. All
sorts o. nldeous complications are 60
ing on: blackmail and perjury!
49, wonder why divorce laws are so
little understood -" Alice unused.
Because divorce is an ahnorn,.
thing. o can't make it right. and
of urs we are a long wav rrom
making it wrong. But that is what ~
is coming to. l believe. Divorce will
be against the law some day! No ~.
vorce on any grounds: It cannot no
~reconciled to law; it defies law. Riphr
on n face Of it. it is breaking a
contract. Are any other contracts to
be broken with public a%pproval2 We
will see the return OF the old. simnle
law, then we will wonder at orr
selves! am no a woman who takes
naturally to public work. wish 7
were. But perhaps some da%I can
sm7ke the system a blow. It is won.
en- lax me who understand. and who
Will help to end it," -
II Is only the worthwhile women
VINO do understand" said Alice
lou arc the marble worth cutting.
lA1e Is q series Of phases; we are none
OF us the same from year to wear.
= ous are not the anne girl that YOU
when o married Clarence
Brenckenridge-" :
What a di rent wonan!" Ra.
Icnael said updsr her breath.
Well" said Alice then 4 lit4,e
frightened. why wont you think ma
,perhaps Warren might have hanoe
loo: that whatever Warren haa done
1t was done more like-like the littIe
boy who has never had his ninr ,.ho
! gets dizzy with his own freedom. IN
does something foolish without. an.
alyzing just what he Is doing?"
But Warren. after ali. Isn't; j.
child" Rachael said sadly. :
but Warren is In some p
that's Just IT." KIfce aaid. eararls
HE has always been lsinEuiarly-vaii
unbalanced. in some ways. Don't Won
know there was always q sort 81 Sml
plictty- a sort Of bright Innocence
J; Warren? He believed What.
yer anybody said until you iauxhc,
~ niHs ne tool every one Of hi,
friends or his own valuation. IT, on,
~ where his work IL concerned tha,
you e zee Warren positive, and
dictatortal. and keen-
Rachael's eyes had filled with te.rs
~ ,but ne, the man I loved, and