The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1921-11-19
FAMILY LIFE IS NECESSARY.

A perusal of the daily court do
ings brings one face to face with
the fact that by far the busiest Of
our courts, OF justice are those
which operate for the consideration
of the differences of husbands and
wives.
With startling regularity II seems
that this machinery OF the law is
called upon to legally separate those
whom God hath Joined together"
Those court dockets are always
crowded with the cases OF dissatls-
fled wives and incompatible hus-
bands.
That which should cause us much
concern in this consideration Is the
s fact that the percentage of such
cases from among our group is
more than ordinarily high.
Why this is true cannot be ex-
actly determined maybe. But an
attempt at understanding the eff
fects of the continuance of such a
condition through future years will
bring MS to q realization of the
fact that they will be disastrous TO
our hopes for acQuisitive and am
bilious future generations.
There is no stimulus to real &C.
complishment nor urge TO ambitious
endeavor similar to that which Is
inculcated In children during their
tender years and caused to grow
steadily because of the nurturing
influences Of a healthy home life.
The history of successful peoples
is the history of the development
of home life and the production of
physically and mentally fit progeny.
Any condition which initiates
against such scheme, works di- |
rectly against the hopes of that
people among which il maintains
for a brightly illumined record OF
achievement in future years.
The cultivation OF popular
mind which tends to sheer at the
conventionalities of former DAYS,
and, by its very disrespect for the
unwritten laws OF family life, drags
abyss of polygamous life and IL |
legitimate offspring. is a confession /
of an abb ldonment of the nope OF
real COCO
The consideration Of the actual
conditions is not necessarily filled |
with forecast of gloomy md UNI
fortunate future conditions which |
are bound to maintain For II never
happens isAt the speculations Of or
binary mortals are fulfilled by the
actual meanderlngs of tho world |
and its society.
II should happen however, that
such a consideration would render
those whose opportunities Cor direc-
ting the popular mind are greatest
to expend special effort in an at
tempt at drging that more lasting /
family life be guaranteed by the
cultivation by those who undertake
il of a mind which thinks In terms
OF ultimate advantages,
The free and unrestricted use OF
divorce courts as relief from con-
ditions which the use of more com
mon sense would render OF less i'm
portance, ~ the beginning OF pro-
gress toward an easy stage of free
love which has never proven bene-
fetal to any peops.
Nor is II TO b, successfully ar
gued that present day conditions |
initiate against successful marriages.
In our opinion such a position is
rot warranted In the light of the |
fact that with an increase in the
opportunity for separation OF the
principles in marriage agreement,
there has also come larger oppor-
tunity for proof Of its advantages.
We are led to feel tat what is /
most needed is return to that
mind which has aly ays uppermost
in IL the end of all human striving
the building Of a better world anu
peopling it with workers whose aim
shall be better world than that
into which they were born.
Such, we believe. is the real end
OF striving and OF living and II Is \
nor helped BY too free use Of d.
vorce courts.