Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-06-12
BY MARGARET DALE
ecisI Correspondent Of Great Falls Tribune

speciaI Correspondent Of Great Falls Tribune
Copyright. 1922. By The Great Falls Tribune.
Chicago, June Ill need a vaca'
ton from broken hearts,"
In these words Judge Joseph NJ
SABBATH, the great doctor of the Chi
cago divorce courts, worn and broker
by the strain of years Of listening tt
the marital troubles of others, tolt
Sunday why he has asked for a TEN
porary transfer to the civil bench.
The wailing of the children is ir
my ears, the little injured by the sep.
aration of their parents. | must for.
get it for a time, until l get strength
to deal with them again. l will be
ready to 60 back to it in September
but for a while / want to settle differ
ences by pocket books and not by
hearts,"
In the two years he has served in
the divorce court, Judge SABBATH has
heard $500 divorce cases, al average
of nearly 10 a day, and three phases
of them have unnerved him, he says
couples, custody of children where
reconciliation was impossible, and the
question of alimony. He points to the
fact that u of the matrimonial wreck.
age that has drifted into his court, he
has been able to salvage the domestic
happiness of $50 couples.
"These reconciliations have all last
ed without a single exception he says.
II have followed them up and many
of the couples have COM back to me
with tears in their eyes. to thank me
for saving them from disasters"
This quaint little old judge of So
eventual years is resting from his Ia
bors in the apartment he occupies with
his wife at the Chicago Beach hotel.
But he was not too tired to talk about
his work. the work that has broken
him. The DON was fairly filled with
flowers, mostly from those he had
saved from themselves. The judge was
seated in an invalid's chair, but he did
not appear i'll; nevertheless, he has the
appearance of a man who is all tired
out. And there was that air of judicial
dignity about him despite the dark
green yellow striped dressing gown he
wore, and rather squat figure. Judge
SABBATH came up from the people and
he boasts that he understand them"
Born in Bohemia in a poor family of
il children, he came to America as an
immigrant at the age of Is. His first
job was in a clothing store, but he de-
cided to become a lawyer. He sold
clothes by day and studied law at night.
hen ne 1lnaliy was admltted 10 the
bar he practiced law with such success
that 1900 Bohemian citizens of Chi
cago petitioned him in 1910 to run for
municipal judge. Only the other day
he was reelected by the largest vote
of any of the candidates.
when / was transferred to the
divorce court" Judge SABBATH said, my
job seemed to be to wreck homes and
: tried to turn it into one of building"
Thirty-four years of happy married
life have made Judge SABBATH a great
believer in marriage. Marry young"
he always advises. He was married
when he was IS and is the father Of
three children.
"a judge must deal with a divorce
rase>as a doctor deals with a case Of
Illness" he continued. He must dag
nose the aus of the trouble, not
merely treat the effects. If the root
of the trouble is found and means are
shown by which it can be cured, the
result need not always be disastrous.
Most people will listen to reason.
Long g / ceased TO believe that
I was serving the best interests of the
people by granting them wholesale de-
crees regardless of circumstances.