New Britain herald., 1924-04-24
ONE MARRIAGE IN
 SIX IS FAILURE
So Declares Speaker at Woman'S
 Voters Convention

is sounder than it's morals, Miss
 Marion Griffin of Memphis, Tenn.
 told the uniform jaws committee ot
 the national league of women voters
 in convention hecr today. Miss
 Griffin cited 49 varieties of marriage
 and divorce laws in the IS states and
 lie District of Columbia as under
 mining the American home and
 family and leading toward final break
 ing up of the states. In 1910 the
 speaker said one marriage in ten was
 broken by divorce: in 1928 one in six.
 She advocated a federal amendment
 10 the constitution to codify the mar
 fiage laws
 The evil of so many marriage laws
 is apparent from the great number of
 states in which there is no minimum
 ige law" she said. 'In many states
 neither good health nor normal fit
 ness nor financial independence in any
 degree are required: nor is inter- Yiage between whites and persons Of color prohibited: nor between reia- tives of the same degree as first cousins; only four states disqnalify kaupers, and only three drunkards."
 Reasons for Divorce
 Reasons for divorce differ even more widely, Miss Griffin said. from New Hampshire with If couses for divorce and oregon and Washington with divorce for any cause and court aeems sufficient, to Now York with only one cause. and south Carolina with none.
 Miss Elizabeth ]. Hauser of Girard, O., discussing standards for party members" told the education in gov ernment and politics conferences that 'we can scarcely fail to note the eX- traordinary need for house cleaning this spring" Miss Ilauscr is secre- tary of the national league.
 Tt will be 2 great day for his country" she said "when the women voters, conscious of their might. nn- dertake political cleanup with tho same ,igor that characterized their house cleaning tt home."
 The chicf concern of both major parties today, and the dominant in- ilncnce in platform making, Miss lIanser asserted, is to get votes, This does not presnppose she added that there arc not some among the leaders and many among the rank and file who believe that to deserve success should be the primary consideration.
 .Eonseientions and intelligent wom- en voters like ourselves for example, finding no standards for members im- posed by the parties arc inclined 10 attempt to establish some standards for themselves. Interested in the i present and the immediate future, they will not place too much impor- ! tance on traditions. however. glori- , ous. or upon past achievements how ever meritorions" i
 The education conference wns told by Dr. Fletcher Harper Swift Of Inc College Of education, University of Minnesota that moro than five | million children of school age in the I United States arc not in school and that hundreds Of thousands of those who arc, might better he chasing labbits' than spending their time under the tutelage of nnderpaid and teachers.
 states Responsibility
 'The state must assume whatever is necessary 10 guar lntee that education opportunities ,hall be universal and adequate" he aid
 Mrs. Agnes Warbasse of New York, secretary uf the CO., operative movement before the living 'osts conference. Shc said that If me million homes suddenly were pro- 'idcd in the United states the people f the country still would not be well If for shelter.
 International cooperation is still lecessary for tho protection of { Imericans. particularly young girls nd boys going 10 foreign countries or amusement or work. Miss Grace ! .bbott. chief of the chiljrcn's bureau. 'nitcd States department of labor old tho social hygiene conference. of other countries are in- | uenres for good or evil in the lives l f Americans she asserted. Miss | bbott who was unofficial representa- ve Of the United States on the ad- ] isory committee of the traffic in | omen and children at the league of atiors meeting in Geneva in March. ' a23, said he United states had gone lrther in the development or sound T ublic opinion in social hygiene than i' lost nations. Ii
 Numcn in Industry
 Every state in this country except II lorida has enacted at least one law q 1vefing only women and insuring to \ iose who work outside the home me measure Of standardization of Ie conditions under which they work. it iss Mary Anderson. director of the II breau of inc United states si apartment of labor. told the confer lee on women in industry. which is U ing held here in connection with | 2 convention Of the National League si Women Voters.
 Miss Anderson said that about Q 100. .g0e women arc covered by such II us. the most numerous of which are ose that govern the hours Of woman " tor. This limitation varied from sht 10 eleven hours day and 15 ties prohibit the employment of To ,men at night in crrtafiu occUpa- 70 ms. Forty-ore states have laws bl al women shall be furnished srats ' their work and 15 states have nimHm woman wage laws.
 '.It has not brcn inc xpcrirnrc of l4 ? bil4au that these laws have Eert N