San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-08
DIVORCE is TOO EASY.
To The Editor:

To The Editor:
Divorces are on the increase these
days at an enormous rate, and there
ought to be something done if pos
sible to lessen SO many divorce cases.
1t seems that any one can get mar
RED about as easy as going to a
picture show, and get divorce just
as easy. 1t seems that all that any
one has to do these days to get mar
rled is to have two dollars to pay for
the license, and can get someone TO
unite them in the blissful bonds of
matrimony by paying them one dollar
down and dollar as they catch it.
Many these days get married inside
of a week from the time they first
meet each other, and will be suing
for divorce in two weeks time. The
truth of the matter is that many are
just simply making joke of the mar
riage vow these days. They don't
seem to realize the fact that the
marriage oath is the most solemn of
all oaths, and that it is not for only
a day. week. month or year, but for
a lifetime. Now there are many rea-
sons for so many divorces. Many
can get married too easy, and get a
divorce on coffee grounds. The mar
riage knot used to be the hardest
knot to tie, and the hardest to UNI
tie, but today it seems to be the
easiest knot tied, and the easiest I'M
tied. There are many of today that
get married who have three or four
others picked out before they get
married to fall back on in case they
don't like their first husband or their
first wife, knowing that they can get
divorce so easy.
There should be a law in every
state that would compel every man
and woman to go through a medical
examination and give proof of a good
character before they could obtain a
marriage license. This thing alone
would lessen divorces at least one
half, and it would make better hus-
bands and wives. and there would not
be so many little innocent children
born in the world to suffer on ac-
count of the guilty. When this thing
of so many divorces will only be a
Z thing of the past, it will be a hard
blow on the tin horn lawyers that
have been making it their business
10 try to separate husband and wife.
They will have to look out for a
more respectable job. No one has
any right to try to separate that
which God has seen fit to Join to-
gether.
A woman was boasting and brag-
ging TO me few days ago, about
having her fourth husband. and said
that she also has the fifth one in
view, and that she could get a d.
vorce for ten dollars.
There is the public dance hall
the WA they are allowed to be car
ried on these days they are the
cause of many divorces.
A place where nine times out of
ten nothing but jazz and rag time
music is played, and when n flapper
steps out on the floor she is grabbed
by jelly-bean and they stick as tight
together as the bark on a hickory
tree, and when the noise that they
call music stops they will still boiler
for more. j don't understand why
any good mother and father will al
low their daughters and sons to at
tend such places. Jazz and rag time
music they play at these dance halls
and the dance that goes with it is
not respectable, and ought not to be
allowed. Jazz music as they call it
is not music at all, it is only noise,
or In other words nothing but negro
music. | truly believe that the time
is not far hence that rag time and
Jazz music will only be thing of
the past, but don't believe that there
Will be any first class musicians OF
the country that will shed any tears
over it.
There is the automobile. tbe wov
that many of them are allowed to be |
used is much the cause of divorces.
Many mothers and fathers will allow
their daughters to go out riding with |
strangers; don't know who they arc.
or where they go, or how long they i
Will be gone. Autos are also being |
used to great extent these DAYS for |
immoral purposes, and thieves are
using them to accomplish their dirty
work. They can get to the job quick |
and get away quicker. / am not down
on the automobile, they are n great |
thing, and we. sure would miss them
If we didn't have them. although we
got along when we didn't have them.
You must first have a thing before
You can miss il, or in other words. a
thing you never have, you never
miss.
The telephone of today also is the
cause of divorces. the way so many
of them are allowed to be used. There
are many of them that are being used
for immoral purposes, and TO make
as it is commonly called. their dates.
There ought to be law in every
rNe which would impose a heavy
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