Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-17

so many that no dignity or honor car
| lie in marriage between a man and
woman who hate each other and are
miserable together beyond the point
OF adjustments"
MANY a marriage the bishop re
| piled patiently, which seems hope
| lessly unhappy can be made quite
| otherwise when tolerance, mutual con
cessions and courage are brought to
bear. The wide open door of the
| divorce court Is in itself one of the
| chief reasons for hte appalling in.
crease in divorce. If divorce were diff
f1cult to obtain, as in Canada. vast
, numbers of those who now fly to the
| courts for trivial and even for serious
reasons would find they could over
| come these difficulties and live to.
gether happily and satisfactorily.
Surely happiness is as prevalent in
Canada az in the United States?"
can YOU" we queried, overcome
human desires and the will to be
happy by suppressing them?"
Il am convinced" replied Bishop
Manning earnestly. that the over
whehning ma iority of those who now
seek divorce would find it quite pos.
I sible, If they knew they must do SO, to
live together with mutual respect and
regard. and that many of them would
find the full happiness and reward of
married life
Bishop Manning does not share the
opinion among many students of
psychology that freedom to go largely
does away with the wish to go 1t is
his sincere belief that if YOU know YOU
cannot escape you will adapt yourself
comfortably to your conditions.
Like members of the Roman Cath
Ole clergy we have interviewed on
this subject of marriage and divorce,
DR.. Manning lkens the risk of marital
unhappineSs to the risk Of the ulti-
mate sacrifice in war
Advocates of DIVORCE" says he,
have much to say about the tragedy
of unhappy marriages and the right
of those who have made n mistake to
find happiness in a new alliance But
there are considerations in life higher
than personal happiness and pleasure
1T is hard that any should have to
suffer, but in the present imperfect
state of humanity we are confronted
with choice of evils. individuals
must, in some cases, suffer in their
married lives or else the very exist.
ence OF marriage must be endangered,
as 1t Is now. Between these evils
there is no question as to which we
themselves willingly when the call
came to them in the Great War, so
all Of us must be willing to suffer and
make sacrifice If need be for the sake
OF our country and our race"
Many may be tempted, Of course
to ask why the individual should be
sacrificed to the race. if, indeed, per-
sonal misery adds to the welfare of
the race. And even to ask IL reason
ably happy people are not more help
ful to humanity on the whole than
those who lose heart, hope and
strength in the fight against over
whelming Odds"
Accept the principle that marriage
is not permanent" replies the bishop,
but that it may be terminated when
conditions make 1t difficult and you
are asking the woman to enter into
a temporary relation from which the
man is at liberty to free himself
whenever hes wishes to form a new
alliance. VIII any one contend that
this will make either for the moral
development of manhood or for the
sacredness of wifehood and mother
hood? Human history teaches us a
different lesson"
Most divorce suits are brought by
women, and women's growing eco
nomic independence is leading more
and more wives to free themselves
from mates they do not, and for FIRE..
quently excellent reasons, cannot
love. Nevertheless, Bishop Manning's
80 years service and study OF hui
mainly in five different States, be-
ginning with California and ending
with New York, have convinced him
,iuaIfarah ly that fho proto cfion and