The Washington times., 1921-10-31
FEMINIST move
SEENMENkCE To
/. CHRISTIAN HOME
Pastor Fox Scores Divorce
Laws and Hypocrisy Built
Around Marriage.

the most sinister enemies OF court
ship, marriage. and the Christian
home and IL one OF the foremost
breeders OF divorce. according 10 the
Rev. IL. p. Fox. pastor OF Hamiine
NJ, II. Church. Ninth and r streets
northwest. who last night preached
on 'Courtship. Marriage, and Di-
vorce."
"The so-caiIed feminists. who in
fact are outrageously unfeminine.
have committed moral suicide by
adopting the double moral standard"
said DIR. Fox. ''Wearytns OF the
hardships, the injustices. and the
drudgery to which women for GEN.
! turtles have been subjected. the
feminists have impatiently gone to
an extreme. Their slogan essential
ly has become: Men do as they
darned please: why not women?
And instead Of denouncing the double
standard. they have availed them
selves OF IT,"
Divorce in Every Seventh Marriage.
DIR. Fox said that every seventh
rrriage today resulted In divorce
and that II the. present rate con-
tinued. the number of divorces soon
riases, situation which now al
most has been reached In certain
localities.
There is +, large school OF popular
novelists, playwrights. film pro-
ducers, essayists. and philosophers
who today are teaching that the
homogeneous marriage relation is un-
desirable and who are thus under
mining the Christian home" he said.
''The sad part is that scores and
scores OF people are accepting their
hnc cSrtn xxrff xySd nf
leading actors are living today In a
virtual state of polygamy."
DIR. Fox said that most divorces
could be traced to two chief causes
economic pressure and distorted
ideas of happiness.
THE demand for luxuries has be-
come so great that married persons
find life unbearable unless they main
tain the same standards they enjoyed
when single. A young man Just get
ting married is expected to have as
large an income as his father-in-law.
The young married man and married
woman want to continue to dress the
same as they did when they were
single. And IL the y are unable to
maintain the same standards. they
get tired Of married life.
Ideas Of Happiness False.
Married couples expect TOO much
Of married life. They have false
ideas Of happiness. They expect to
live in paradise and never quarrel.
Then comes disillusionment and dis
appointment"
DIR. Fox said that aside from the
feminist movement, the most danger
Gus enemies of courtship are hypoc-
risy and romanticism.
There is nothing but Hypocrisy
in our attitude, Of ridiculing,
teasing. and joking about such
sacred institution as eourtship. And
there is a still greater degree of
hypocrisy in that Puritanical view
that courtship is something unholys.
We should regard courtship as some
thing 81 cred, not to be tested about.
"Romanticism also is killing court
ship. Romanticism makes coiirtship
something unreal, fanciful. gilded. de-
void of reason. 1t is all right for
those who are counting to raise
fancy's standard. but they should
not wave 1t over reasons fort. Rea-
sol never should be dethron ID at
such an important period of life"
Uniform Divorce Laws Needed.
Dr. Fox said that the great need
was, for uniform divorce laws
throughout the country. .-.
AT present we have a separate
divorce ccde for virtually every
State" he said. These codes range
from the South Carolina code. where
couples can be divorced for no rea-
s!n at oil. TO the Dakota code, where
they can be divorced for sixteen spe-
cific reasons and then for any other
reason deemed good and sufficient by
the presiding magistrate"
DIR. Fox said that the real solution
of the divorce problem was the
throwing of greater sanctity and se-
riousnrss around the marriage ce'e.
mnny ard the instilling Of Christian
ideals H. the hearts OF those nuier!rg
tho lra,Iirge relation.
do not believe In immartaiitv
ct ralicrs or the perma nat dsr.i-
nance Of anv one race" sail III.
Fox. Spread eagle. Fourth OF July
talk about our immortal narion Is
:. ostly d .Nc;'' of reason. This nut'Cn
has no inherent qualities that will
guarantee il perpetual domin ltior Of
the wcrld Put II this nation does
fall. Will fell for one AMI only
one reason-tecause the Christian
l:nrnc has teen undermined"