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The Cordova daily times., 1922-04-07
GREAT RECONClLER' GIVES
 HIS VIEWS ABOUT DIVORCE

SAN FRANCISCO, April Lone of the closest students of the di- vorce question in the United States, Judge Thomas F. Graham, during his twenty years on the Su- perior Court bench has earned the title of "the great reconciler," due to his success in bringing together couples seeking matrimonial dis solution. Despite his efforts along these lines and his marked success he has granted thousands of di- vorces. He has written for the International News Service some of his observations on divorce and the remedy for the appalling num- Der which are encumbering court calendars everywhere.
 Herewith is the first of a series of five articles.
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MOTHJ

The trials and tribulations of o modern Jack Spratt and his wife or how to get fat and how to grow ! thin-furnish both fun and reflection in 'The House That Jazz Built" the brilliant Wanda Hawley Realart comedy which is apearing at the En- play treats most humorously of a situation that is duplicated in many hundreds of homes every day. Doug las Bronston adapted it from Sophie Keer's popular story in The Satur- day Evening Post.
 Jimmy Burke, alias "The Dancer" in Someone in the House. is a crook of the polished type who con- fines his operations to the world of fashion, where, ever punctillous in dress and manner, he is quite at home. Having completed a brilliant coup in the theft of the Dale pearls, he is planning the robbery of the famous Brent diamonds.
 While on his way to his retreat, the pawnshop fence" conducted by "The Deacon" he is shadowed by Po- liceman HalIoran but manages to elude the officer and disposes of his swag. On leaving the pawnshop, The Dapcer comn1etas arranpementS to purloin the Brent diamonds.
 That night, as part of his plan; etc. etc, at the Empress Saturday night only. l.
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Keep the public informed by advar' tising regularly in the Cordova Daily Times.
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I
 among the clergy, who regard the
 bonds of matrimony as holy and, once accepted, to be unbroken during life | time.
 COUNTLESS MARRIAGES OF CLAY"
 | There is a saying, sprung from some poet, no doubt, that marriages are made in heaven. All happy mar riages are, but after years in dl- vorce court studying over the effort to break the bonds made daily, an impartial observer is forced to the belief that countless marriages are ot clay. There is something wrong here, yet how to deal with it?
 Many good people, with the best intentions on earth, will say that the divorce laws should be entirely re- pealed. They point to statistics ol the growth of this evil as evidence of the social dissolution of our country and ask what we are to do.
 That divorce has increased at an ap- palling rate, so far as statistics go' IS true Yet who can say that the per centage of happy marriages was hlgh- CT a century ago. than now? This means that we must accept the fact or the fuller personal liberty granted wo- man in later years. Time was when woman was a chattel, when mans right to beat or use his wife as slave was unquestioned. Now man may not so misuse a dumb animal without fear of arrest and prosecu- tion.
 Thus it appears that with fuller lib erty has come completer humanity, the desire of the public to take hand in private affairs and, in what partic- u1arly interests us, to allow woman to free herself from her husbands tyran- ny and abuse. Of course the husbands rights are of equal standing with wife's in a divorce action, yet it must be considered that in the olden times the husband might cast off his wife with greater ease by far than he can now.
 HOOKED ON WITH DISLIKE"
 While divorce is of comparatively recent origin as compared with the in stitution of marriage it has always been looked on with dislike by con- servative people.
 A generation ago "grass widow was more or less ostracized from her own set. The term "grass" implied contempt, and a woman would rather undergo any kind of domestic tor ture, if she was the kind to vince under the worlds unkindness, rath- CT than obtain the title. Now to say Mrs. Jones is not living with her hus- band does not mean that she is any the less welcome among her social set. But here comes the rub. Society ceases to be shocked If Mrs. Jones or MT. Jones is waiting for final de- ] croo fo marry what fha cnrrant neWS-
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MERCHANTS AND PROFESSIONAL MEN WHO AD- VERTiSE IN THE cORDoVA DAILY TIMES
The Cordova daily times., 1922-04-07
EAT AMERICAN CORN

CONSTANTINOPLE, April 7. - American corn flour and corn grits are making their first appearance in Soviet Armenia and other parts of the Near East this year, these pro- ducts having been substituted for wheat and rice on an extensive scale by the Near East Relief in it's work through Asia Minor and the Caucasus.
The Cordova daily times., 1922-04-07
MISMATED COUPLES, LEADING
 TO DIVORCE, ALARM JURIST

paper phrase terms an affinity. But the unhappy outcome of marriage aris- ing from the disregard of social con vention seems to be acting as a check in this regard.
 So, with all the looseness of the present view, the old institution Of marriage maintains it's hold upon so- ciety, the best and greatest guaran- tee of the worlds future.
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BUSINESS DIRECTORY

PROGRESSIVE MERCHANTS AND PROFESSIONAL MEN WHO AD- VERTiSE IN THE CORDOVA DAILY TIMES
 AUTO SERVICE Alaska Transfer Co.
 ATTORNEYS Donohoe x Dimond E. F. Medley. F. H. Foster.
 BANKS Bank of Alaska First Bank of Cordova.
 BoTTLING WORKS Cordova Beverage Co.
 BARBER SHOPS The Ideal.
 CHICKEN RANCH Jos. Fry.
 CLOTHING Laurie Bros. W. Clayson. The Blum, ONein Co. Ffnkelstein & Sapiro. CIGARS AND NEWS STAND Chas. M. Rosswag
 DRUG STORES Cordova Drug Co. Northern Drug Co.
 DENTISTS Dr. Charles Daggett. Dr. M. L. Biggs. Dr. c. V. Daggett. Dr. Louis H. Wolfe, Kennecott Dr. R. w. Nickerson.
 FUR DEALERS R. W. Drew. Tacoma Geo. R. Goshaw Co.,, Seattle.
 GROCERIES Cash Grocery The Blum, o'Nein Co. Finkelstein & Sapro.
 HARDWARE The Blum, ONein Co. Finkelstein & Saprio
 HOTELS Cordova House Manhattan Hotel Overland Hotel, Chitna. Hotel Atwood, Seattle.
 INSURANCE K G. Robinson. Cordova Abstract & Reality Co. l
 JEWELLERS Paul Bloedhorn. Osborne Bros. HOME SERVICE" PAINTS w. P. Fuller & Co.,, S. F. LAUNCHES AND rows Rolfe No 9 Pioneer and Swan.
 LAUNDRIEs Jones' Laundry.
 LADIES' FURNISHING Helen Bell Style Shop. LUMBER YARD AND MILL Cordova Mill & Lumber Go.
 MEAT MARKETS @i / Northern Meat Market.
 MACHINERY WORKS Cordova Machine Works. :. Harmon Machinery Co.,, Inc. MERCHANT TAILORING . T. N. Hubbert.
 NOTARY PUBLIC K G. Robinson. B. F. Medley. POOL AND BILLIARD HALLS Mecca Club Tho Club Northern Club. Oscars Plane. AND PAPER HANGERS I. D. Bogart. PLUMBERS AND STEAM FlTTERS Smith & McConaghy. Chas L. Graber.
 PHYSICIANS Dr. w. W. Council. Dr. W. H. Chase.
 PHOTOGRAPHY Charles Scarborough.
 RESTAURANTS Model Cafe. First & Last Chance Charley Chong. Bill's Place.
 RAILROADS Copper River 6 N. W. Ky. LIGHT, WATER AND PHONES Alaska Public Utilities. SECOND HAND STORES Gus Cozokas.
 TRANSFER COMPANY Alaska Transfer Go.
 STEAMSHIP LINES Alaska Steamship Go. Pacific Steamship Co.
 REAL ESTATE Cordova Abstract Realty Co. K. G. Robinson.
 THEATER The Empress
 UNDeRTAKERs H. B. wciking 6 Go. - vN- L. aL
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TRY TO CORNER GOLF

LONDON, April z. The persis- tent exodus of leading British gol- fers to the United States continues to receive emphasis in the local press
 A special correspondent in writing on the subject states: Tt would seem to be deliberate attempt to make a corner in the worlds golfing talent.
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GERMANS FORM TRUST

MOSCOW, April 7.-The trade or gan of the Supreme Economic Coun- cil reports that a German firm has secured the monopoly of leather ex- ports from Russia. The trust formed ital of $5,5O0,000, the Russian govern ment retaining 5000 shares.
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Judge of Superior Court, San ErapciSco

Francisco.
 SAN FRANCISCO, April 7. - In a newspaper Sunday supplement of a few weeks ago there appeared a long list of divorces and their sordid stories. The subject was American heiresses who had been married, or rather, been sold to fortune hunters in return for titles. The moral was obvious that that kind of marriage was for the novelists to deal with in their romances.
 Plain cases of desertion, 1nfidellty and misunderstanding, among people ill ordinary circumstances are not Tor the novelists-they are for the stu dents of our social system, the phil anthropist and the law. Something is wrong in the great social body Of which title-seeking heiresses are as one in thousands. So the real signifi- canoe in the article lies in the fact that the subject of mismated couples is a large one in the public eye. The number of divorces that fill our courts has aroused deep mistrust for the future among our solid and con- servative citizens and particularly among the clergy, who regard the bonds of matrimony as holy and, once accented. to be unbroken during life time
The Cordova daily times., 1922-04-07
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS
IN UNITED STATES COMMISSION FRS COURT IN AND FOR COR DOVA PRECINCT, TERRITORY OF ALASKA, IN PROBATE.

'S''S% VT -ilNAG EHntTN1 In the Matter of the Estate of Charles
 c. Keenan, Deceased.
 Notice is hereby given that Bartley Howard, the administrator of the Es- tate of Charles c. Keenan, deceased, has rendered and presented for settle. rhent, and filed in the above entitled court his final account of his admins. tration of said estate; and that Satur- day, the 10th day of June, 1922, at 10 o'clock a. m, of said day at the office of the United States Commissioner and ex-officio probate judge of said court, has been appointed as the time for the settlement of said account at which time and place any person in. terested in said estate may appear and file exceptions thereto.
 Dated at Cordova, Alaska, the 6th day of March, 1922.
 A. J. ADAMS, Probate Judge. FRANK H. FOSTER,
 Attorney for Administrator. \ March April II.
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too old. This employer was a kindly
man and did the best he could. He
managed to get her admitted into a
fairly comfortable home for old women
at Little Blue.
Perhaps It tells something Of what
Mary was like that she became known
there as Mother" A rare tribute,
rather, to be known as "Mothcr"
among old women in home. She
talked often Of her tragedies as nearly
all old people do, and strangely the
worst thing that might have happened
for her peace would have been that she
should suddenly forget them. Here
again Mary Roper's saga nearly ends.
Was It some philanthropic outsider,
or one of the other old women who,
after Mary had beer at the home and
talking of 1t for ten years, suggested
an advertisement in the National G. A.
Il. monthly? 1t is not clear. Bat,
anyway, a suggestion of the sort was
never wasted upon Mary. The placing
cf advertisements had becom" n sort
Of ritual.
One morning, almost fifty weight years
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Wdnderer Found HdUen
Near to His Old Home

Now Jim Roper had moved to Colum-
bus, not sixty miles from Hebron, found
job there and raised his two children
in the belief their mother was dead. It
was not much of life for any OF them.
He let the boys remain IN school until
they were ten. Then he sent Joe to
black boots in front Of the courthouse
and Charlie to sell papers near the
railroad station. AS for himself, he
sometimes had job and sometimes
none. His taCiturnity grew. He talked
to them little and never about the war
o. their mother. A question on either
subject would throw him into fury.
When Joseph was twenty and Charles
seventeen he suddenly deserted them and
went to live with comrade in Cleve.
land. Two years later he died and was
buried in the soldiers lot of the Erie
cemetery.
Charles soon afterward began
roaming life, and In a few years had
dropped from his brothers knowledge.
Joseph remained IN Columbus, found
good job and married.
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Silent, Moody Soldier
Returned From the War

Jim was not at all the same old jim.
Tie mover boastcd. lie made ambigu-
ous threats. lie never talked politics
sometimes he would not talk at all for
doys, not even to his wife and children.
but sit chin in hand in front of his
home. watching the sky. Kilcy offered
the Job at the store, but Jim made no
move TO take it. Sometimes he would
not eat and pretended not to hear when
food was offered At other times he
would suddenly accuse his wife of try
ing to starvc him and would demand n
dinner of specified things on the In
slant.
"Shcll shock" OF course, and rap
idly becoming infcctious--but there was
in those days no such term and no such
implicated understanding.
A period followed In which Jim left
the cottage and came back irreguarly,
sometimes not for weeks. In this time
the whole burden Of support for her.
self and her Children fell upon the
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Jim went out of Hebron with the
rest of the Twenty-sixth Ohio VOL
unteer Infantry. Mary and his in
fant son and old Kiley were, Of
course, among the crowd that
watched them march from the court
house and disappear over the road
that led across Licking County to
the railroad.
How much Jim did in the war is
not very clearly known. Possibly a
great deal, for his regiment was at
Gettysburg, helped to storm Lookout
Mountain and followed Sherman
across Georgia.
Twice during the war he returned
to Hebron. The first time there was
a bad wound in his left side, and
Mary, half grateful to the rebel who
had made it, nursed him, almost re-
gretfully, back to strength again. He
was the whole time impatient to be
back with the army, and when at
last he did set off again it was SEEM
ingly a much happier day for him
than when he had first moved out
with his company. Not much later
he was back again, with the furrow
of a Confederate bayonet across his
forehead. This time sergeant came
to offer him an honorable discharge
for wounds, and the palpitating wife
heard him refuse it stormily.
Somewhere between Atlanta and
the coast a bit of shell tore away
three of his right fingers. Such a
man could do little more for eman-
cination or the Constitution, and
he was discharged willy-nilly ana
sent back to Hebron.
Another son had been horn In the IN
t,ryal and christencd Charles Roper
The baby delighted him, and he swore
TO make the child the greatest hghter
Of men or wildcats alive. He talked
often like this and an alarm, OF which
she had beginnings during his fur
lo,,rhs, began to grow steadily IN
Mary
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toned the boys coat over bis night
gown and picked up the shawl that was
used as the baby's wrap. The mex,
thing she knew he was taking them out
o: the door.
Mary watched them so as though 1,
were dream. The door closed ON them
and she could hear them going off be =.
hind the window. What could II sl,
mean? She puzzled quietly for a little
while as one will over distractions. Then
as though some one had shaken her il
came to her all at once.
She rushed out Of tho hou,. md
frantically down the road after them
II he heard her coming he gave no sign,
though Joseph turned his head and
shouted TO her.
When. breathless. she came full upon
him she pulled at his coat.
Jim jim! Where are you goink ?
His answer was to push her away.
But she took the edge of his coat
again.
Jim ! Tell me where you are going |!
Tell me where you arc taking the
babies !"
He shifted the infant on his shoulder
slightly and with his free arm gave her
a push that sent her headhrst on to
the road.
When she had picked herself up he
was disappearing down the hill. She
ran this way and that, tearing at her
clothes. weeping and shouting. When
little later nsighbors found her thev
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Just Put on His Hat
and Walked From Home

|. At this sound the bitterness in Mary
strained and broke. She began long
cold indictment Of his sins, to which
he listened In strange silence. At the
end of it he put on his hat, walked
to the crib in the corner and lifted the
youngest boy to his shoulder.
As though stricken the wife watched
him. She saw him go into the next
room, heard word or two between
him and the other boy. She tried to
comprehend what was happening
Something dreadful-but what? 1t was
not until he came back into the room
dragging four. year-old Joseph by the
arm that she found speech.
"What are you doing?' she asked
in a dull voice.
He answered not . word, bat but.
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F0rgetfulness Covered
Pains of Her Losses

For long time after that Mary was
sick. She did not ask for her husband
or her babies. She had forgotten them.
She had never had husband or babies.
She was little girl gathering cow
slips and bluebells In the fields along the
canal. She was sitting with her mother
in front Of the FIRE helping to sew
together little silk squares of yari.
Gus patterns. She was singing with
the other children on a Sunday morn.
Ing She was holding a candle up the
backstairs to bed, half frightened at
the shadows and straining for the COM
forting hum of words from below where
her parents sat talking. Very slowly,
indeed, did the ruthless reality return to
her, and when she did at last ask where
were Jim and Joseph and Charles
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Mrs. Mary Roper and her son Joseph
Science Could Haze Prevented
Clouds From Mrs. R0per's Life

CCENCEtha science hich healing scars physical and
mental Of pictimcouh haze
dy Of Mary Roper But until the
ar turned ocard alternating the aftermath Of the baefd for
those who through their ordeal still bearing its marks
J Roper Was "shelshockd Tr4e the
those days after tho Blue had grapped with the
had come home.
Those ho tried take up their old aees but ho reped
moodess and fits of i'll temper merely called
1hue their annen put ,o thn the forgotten
So Nth Roper As his moody spells gro found himself
reeeang less and less sympathy Then his deron
And to the last of his he bore the of "queerness
But today it different Uncle Sa spending to take
his soldier boys ho Roper Wus-roody tacrn and
and by the latest heags nar
at SPAR as ,phen they marched away to France
Occupatonal theapy vocational ranng-hese
things unthought of in Jim" Ropers day.
Had Mary mioht han. hod
much sunshine instead Of shddow.
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Pm Heard Call of War
ana ShOuldered a Musket

AZ the end of year a boy was
'h, ,Fh, About the same time the
nhg County Clarion went fren-
sa.S 10 press with the news Of Sc
s'''0h and Fort Sumter. Not many
" 'ater a recruiting sergeant in
H., aa,A blue coat and cap and light
,s, Nv trousers with a great swath of
"'e stripe in them appeared on
porch OF kiley's store and tackled
s,r ~ L'ncoln's proclamations to the
,ms ~ ''m, who had come out to see
.. was up, read it over the SER
ass shoulder and was his before
Anished reading.
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Her Wooing Came
Alonq Canal PathUdy

Let US believe, at least, that when
she was Mary Harris she was the
prettiest girl in Hebron; not belle,
but better than a belle-slim-
wasted, ruddy-cheeked and black
eyed, one Of those types produced by
the early American life; to whose
culture the butter churn contributed
as much as the harmonium; to whom
Fate might with equal carelessness
gve for wife to a statesman, a barge
owner, a missionary, a banker or a
town prodigal.
Fate gave her, Of course, to Jim
Roper, as much in his way type of
the miieu as herself. That it was
tated thing there can be no doubt
ing, for from the moment he tied
the first bag Of sugar for her and
asked her to walk along the bypath
et the canal, there was contentment
% neither side until they were mar
.lsd less than a month later.
Jim did not belong to Hebron. He
came from over Springfield way. As
every one said Of him, there was
'omething wrong somewhere, for he
had deserted the farm that his
father had left him, and after knock
png about various corners of Ohio at
ast reached Hebron, where he man.
ssed to get a job as clerk in the
general store. He was then twenty
pVe, lank, clear-eyed, on the whole
rather handsome and a good bit of a
9favo. He was no great hand for
Iork' but he got on we'll enough with
q Seth Kiley, who owned the store.
efhaps because of politics, for Jim,
ke old Seth, was a rip splittin'
n'onlst, as indeed were most peo-
. thereabouts.
The early married months Of Jim
10 Mary seem to have been one of
NOSE rural idyls which occur some
"meS' There is no doubt that Mary
sorshiped every lank incia-of this
eHo" who was the best jumper, the
eSt quoiter and the best rider in
IrKing County-as who might not ?
ne seems, after his marriage, to
aVe AVE jumped rather less, to have
,uaen rarely alone, to have been at
De quot games infrequently and to
A'e confined arguments to store
hours.
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rounding shoulders Of the wife. who
had watched herself growing dull eyed
and heavy footed, and at last bitter,
for stories were brought unkindly to
her.
One evening. Jim, uncouth and un-
shaven. appeared after fortnight's
absence. He at once demanded supper.
lie watched with stiff stare while she
prepared it. AS she was carrying a
dish of meat to the table her own eyes
met this stare. She let fall the dish
and the next instant Jim was on his
feet shouting all oath.
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"L0ts of Life to LiUe,"
Is Mary's Optimism,

AFTER ffty-eight years Of
- 1randering and probation,
Mary Roper says there is still
"lots of life to Hve." Optimism
that spirit ,ohich has buoyed
her up for more than half a cen-
tury, stiU dominates her life.
81 1Udnt to see Charles no,D
that I haze Joie With me again."
she says. "Some day before I
die he 1Diu come back, I am sure
of 1t.
And there is still lots of life
to live"
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II is here in Hebron that the saga
|of Mary Roper chooses to begin, in
|.he two decades preceding the Civil
| War. The earlier numbers are not
IS complete as one might wish to
have them. Those who might supply
what is wanting in them are dead
or cannot remember, and Mary her.
self is now so old as to confuse her
memories.