San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-15
DIVORCE TOO EASY"


DIVORCE TOO EASY"
Dear ketner Il have read n great
many of your letters to our home pa
per The Sunday Light and because
they were published in The Light.
makes them all the more worthy of
notice and comment. For example,
your article on divorce" last Sunday
was good, good because it is a candid
fact, that is the basis of the article.
Divorce can be obtained too easily
1t is really astonishing, all a woman
has to do nowadays is to get in touch
with the miracle man" or those you
correctly named "tin-horn lawyers"
and state her wish, the miracle man
draws up a typewriter form which
covers most every crime on the calen-
der, lies or no lies, truth or no truth,
they stop at nothing TO gain their OBJ
Ject, divorce, or rather their fee
they ignore the husband or | should
say victim; they do all they can to
brighten him into agreeing to this
beautiful state of existence divorce"
and compelling him invariably (if they
CAM to pay for the whole darn thing.
L cannot agree with you, Mr.. Ket-
ner, when you blame such things as
automobiles, such amusements as dane
ing, such necessities as the telephone
and last but not least the greatest of
all beneficiaries in public amusement
line, the motion picture. First of all
our great, great grandfathers and
mothers danced, so did our fathers and
mothers, yes danced and enjoyed it and
have proven that dancing don't in all
cases cause divorce.
How many happy husbands and
wives use their automobiles daily
how many innocent pairs, spend their
leisure hours in their auto? / can
not see how this can bring about di-
vorce. Then the telephone, good night
man. have heart, how many tele-
phones are in use and have been in use
for years and seldom if ever will the
mere fact of telephoning bring about
the detestabie state of matrimony-
divorce. Now then the motion pic
ture shows, where so many real good
lessons are taught, where SO many
people can see and realize the lives of
some great people, and for almost moth
ing they can see their favorite stories
brought to life, By splendid characters,
stories that have been made world
wide famous by their authors and pos
sibly they never would be able to
buy the books. But here they can see
for themselves, the story brought TO
life again. Correctly photographed
and EACH of their favorite characters
in the book, can be plainly seen, a
living moving character, portraying
again for your pleasure, the lives and
characters of those who have long
since passed way, it is really bless
ing to man and all humanity and I'm
sure cannot be classified as n menace
to matrimonial happiness.
No Mr.. Ketner it is not those in
nocent commodities that destroy the
sacred honor of marriage, it is the
mind, and realizing that you have not
impressed me with the actualness of
the fact that all the things you have
censored, can cause divorce-I will
tell you what causes more divorce than
anything else, more trouble between
man and wife, more unbearable life
than anything you can mention and
what really causes all divorces. 1t
is the interfering selfish, ever prone to
gossip and scandal, relatives. If the
married couple have little spat, it
would soon heal itself, il they were
left alone. but the dear kind hearted,
ever-meaning WEI, relatives interfere,
the breach widens, life is Lell, they
exaggerate the faults of one TO the
other and of course in real honest
to-goodness seemingly real manner de-
clare "that it is the only thing to do"
meaning divorce. God bless them.
there is a crown of thorns waiting for
everyone of them, those wonderful
sympathetic well meaning relatives,
for Mr.. Ketner as you say and it is
as true as gospel "What God hath
Joined together let no man or woman
put asunderS' This is his great COM
mand to all and He certainly meant
it.
/ can see the expressions on the
faces of "the miracle men" the "tin-
horn lawyers, as they stand before
the judge of all judges, on that judg-
ment day and hear his question. "Wen
what did you do down on earth to
merit your entrance into Heaven
What will they answer? Not a word.
Their great oratory that they ex-
pounded while breaking His command
on earth, will have left them, the great
attitude they took while standing in
court, defaming the one or the other
imam or wife, while doing his level
best TO separate them, will all disap-
pear and they will hang their heads
in acclaiming their guilt. miracle men
no longer. firemen forever.
Mr.. Ketner. again. you emphasize
the whole truth when you say: To
prevent thing from happening you
must first Of all do away with the
thing that causes it to happen.
Righto, do away with them, the well
meaning. ever interfering relations,
and hypocrites. do away
with them by all means. In days of
old. the ducking pond was the cure
prescribed for gossips. scandal breed
FRS and interferers; make them hard 70
find the kind that offer your wife
such beautiful sympathetic advice as
this. "Oh Dearie, | am so sorry in