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British Divorce Rate Increases,
But Is Still Below United States

woman. The mans chances are better,
for one reason, because of the sur
plus of women in Great Britain. There
are between 100000 and 100000
more women than men in the country.
The increased number of divorces Is
regarded as partly due to recent legis-
lation which greatly circumscribes the
reporting of divorce court proceedings.
Only when the judge gives his sane
ton is it possible to describe a case
with any detail Nor is it possible TO
take photographs or make sketches of
the persons involved, either in the
courtroom or the law courts environs.
Until the present Michaelmas term
the divorce court division of the law
courts in the Strand was one of the
most depressing in appearance and at
rnoSphere of any of the courts. Judges
and counsel had long inveighed against
the draughtiness in Winter, and curl
Gus spectators even were discounted
by their drab surroundings. AS a re-
suit OF extensive renovations these
courts have now taken, on something
Of drawing room complexion. Mar
riages are now being dissolved In o
really CHEEKY atmosphere.
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Summary Reveals $50 Gatherings Held
Annually by Variety of Organizations

BERLIN-Man is loquacious crea-
ture. The more he learns the more he
wants TO talk about it. A summary Of
the international congresses. exhibitions
and special assemblies held in Europe
during 1880 reveals the unusual total Of
S36. or an average of some 10 month.
Modern transportation has made It pos
siole for specialists in every field Of
human cooperation throughout the
world to convene for the advancement
of their work. America, in this way,
has had her share in a majority Of
these European gatherings, Is Of which
were labeled as world" affairs.
Tramps Convene at Vienna.
From a staggering list of clippings,
reports, partial recapitulations and
propaganda sheets one CLEANS the en-
ligl1tenment, therefore, that the Inter-
national Congress Of Critics was held
this year at Prague, to think UP quaint
and acid things TO say about what other
people are doing; that the international
Congress of Tramps took place al
Vienna: that the International Anti
Prohibition Leagues with a strong
American delegatioDD gathered at Buda'
pest: that the International Anti-To-
bacco League roundly condemned that
weed at Dresden; that the international
Congress for the Protection Of Creditors
and an International Congress OF
LOCKERS were held at Vienna. The Oxy-
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Commerce, includes all discovered por-
tons of the globe.
The apparent reversal of the Supreme
Court decision by an act of the State
Legislature, which in reality and from a
technical point of view was not that at
all, was due TO pecularitieS of Mexican
jurisprudence and the conditions which
had obtained in Morelos for II years
past.
Before the revolution which over
threw President Porfirio DiaZ, Morelos
was one of the richest states in Mexico.
Enormous sugar plantations and mills
yielded the state large revenue each
year But during revolution headed
by Emiliano Zapata, who formed an in
dependent government in opposition to
CarranZa, the mills and plantations
were destroyed. Morelos was reduced to
ruins and poverty. So complete was its
economic and political Generalization
that it was unable to resume its former
place in the Mexican Union until 1880.
From 1914 until this year 1t was ruled
by provisional governors appointed by
the President of the republic.
Gen ISmael ValaSco, provisional gov
ernor in 1924, determined to find Solu-
ton of the states financial problems.
Despairing of the resuscitation of the
local sugar industry. he cudgled his
NJ d1LA 4OA cOlllCIlAAI16 uVoAACo oukdA WA4IA
could be produced economically in
Morelos and for which there existed a
worldwide demand. The quick and
easy divorce was his solution.
Within the next few years two diff
ferent divorce laws were promulgated.
Neither, however, was completely salts
factory. The present law, the result
of three years experience in nurturing
the infant industry. was promulgated in
1927 by Provisional Gov. Ambrosio
Puente.
Contained One Flaw.
The Puente law incorporated the
most advanced principles of divorce
procedure known at the time and full
filled the requirements of the most i'm
patient customers. But 1t contained one
flaw-it was promulgated by q proVis.
CONTINUED on Fourth Page.)
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foot in Mexico is declared to have adj
vanced the science of divorce beyond
anything elsewhere approached. Reno,
Paris and other competitive cities. in
Guiding less progressive communities
elsewhere in Mexico, are asserted in
Cuernayaca to be fading inevitably into
the background. A jealous sister state,
Coahuila,, is attempting to improve on
the MoreloS divorce and commission
of leading Coahuila jurists is studying
a measure which would make almost
every one eligible on some ground to a
permanent legal separation. Nevada,
as you would learn in Cuernavaca, was
compelled by competition from Morelos
to reduce its residence requirement.
The Mexican State Of Yucatan has
disappeared from the divorce picture
since MoreloS entered the field in
earnest.
Few Have Seen Cuernavaca.
Repentant couples from as widely
separated places as China and the
Balearic Islands, and many from the
United States, have recovered in Cuer-
navaca their freedom to stay out nights
or assert at will their inherent ten
denotes toward incompatibilitN Few
of them have ever seen Cuernavaca;
many have never visited the Western
Hemisphere. The legal right to free
dom has arrived by registered mail in
the form of an deliberately sealed docu-
ment. authenticated by the Divorces
consul in Mexico City and very pretty
for framing or throwing in the teeth
of the other party to the alliance thus
dissolved.
Satisfied customers in every quarter
of the globe are the best advertisements
for the Cuernavaca divorce industry,
according to one of the industry's high
priests, who adopts strictly box Office
attitude in his study Of social prob
lens. Even dissatisfied parties to the
transactions sometimes help create new
business. There was the case of the
deputy sheriff in the South of the
United States who was summoned by
an irate ex-wife on her discovery that
she had lost the legal right to share her
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ex-mate's woes and income. The sher-
if, according to all available data, gave
little assistance to the lady in distress,
but promptly wrote her husbands law
yer, asking his terms and outlining in
minute detail his own wife'S incurable
incompatibility. His divorce arrived
three months later.
Ethics Painfully Stressed.
The ethics Of the legal profession
make impossible, or at least impractical,
the type Of advertising which might in
oriefest time attract to Cuernavaca all
the worlds freedom seekers. Except for
ethics, which ON occasion are rather
painfully stressed in Cuernavaca, 1t
might be possible to obtain your divorce
merely by clipping the coupon from an
advertisement in the family newspaper.
But an imposing start in this direction
was made recently when newspapers all
over the world printed the news that the
Morelos divorce law had been declared
unconstitutional. A Mexican Supreme
Court decision to this effect was quoted,
and although the dispatches explained
that Supreme Court decision in Mex
leo affects only the case at trial, it was
generally and reasonably assumed that
the court probably would hand down
similar decisions m all future cases
contested on similar grounds.
A large crop of potential bigamists,
the results of remarriages following
Cuernavaca divorces, appeared on the
horizon of the days news and large
section of the public learned for the first
time of the ease and simplicity with
which family ties can be cut in Mex
leo. After this interest had been sus-
tanned at high pitch for four days, the
businesslike Morelos Legislature followed
up with sales clinching masterpiece
consisting Of decree which validated
all divorces under the law in question
The votes of the obliging legislators and
the significant stroke of the governors
pen which legalized this decree were
cabled to and printed in every country
where matrimonial bonds grow heavy.
And this according to estimates on
file at the Cuernavaca Chamber Of
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LONDON.-Although divorces have
been steadily on the increase In
Britain in postwar years the percent
age of dissolved marriages here is still
far below that in the United States
which Is at least one source of con-
ISOLATION for those who view with anx-
iety the long list of cases due to be
heard in the divorce division of the
law courts in the present MichaelmaS
term.
1t is also considered to be a happy
sign that in the last year 200 petit
tionS for divorce were Cancelled and
the pairs reunited. Likewise it is con-
Sidered to be of good augury that more
than fifty engagements of persons
identified with the upper crust" of
society were broken before it was too
late. For it is argued that while it
may require courage to break an en-
gagement it is better to disappoint
Cupid at this stage of the proceedings
than to show him he was all wrong
after going to the altar.
The record divorce year i'll England
was 1928, when the number of DEGREES
made absolute was at the rate of
for every rs marriages. In 1929. &C
cording to the report of the registrar
SCAISAoAs WAC
vorce to every 90 weddings. But 20
years ago l divorce to every 500
marriages was thought to be a high
percentage here, and l in 700 was
the subject of serious concern in the
early sos of the last century.
According to law courts records the
real danger years in marriage in Brit
ain are between eight and ten years,
although the fifth year has, in many
instances, proved to be the turning
point. Nevertheless last year saw the
dissolution of 448 marriages of pairs
who had lived together for 20 years
or more.
In more than 40 per cent of the d.
vorces there had been no children of
the marriage, and in SO per cent there
had been only one child.
Once bitten, twice shy is not the
mental attitude of many of King
Georges subjects whose first trip to
the altar has ended in disaster. The
number OF persons who remarry is very
much on the increase. For instance,
last year 2,403 divorced men and
2,0l9 divorced women tried their luck
in second marriage. But in only 215
instances did divorced men marry di-
vorced women. Splnsters were favored
by the divorced men IN. 70 per cent of
such marriages, and bachelors by 81
per cent of the divorced women. 1t is
reckoned that the chances Of a di-
vorced man being remarked are much
greater than those Of q divorced
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creasing the number of babies at the
other DR.. Louis l. Dublin has pub
liShed an important work on this phase
of the problem and has shown that the
whole biological picture of the human
family is undergoing a radical change.
In addition, DR.. Raymond Pearl of
Johns Hopkins and DR.. E. M. East of
Harvard and others have shown that
within the next six or eight generations
the limit of the population of the Unit
ed States will be reached. Pearl be-
lieves this limit of OUT population will
be 197.500 900 and that it will be
reached not far from the year 2100
East believes the time is in sight when
the whole world will be filled with all
tn people it will support. These
students have suggested that babies
already born may be the great-grand-
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startling, changes in many phases of
our economic and social life. And by
heartbreak age mean old age without
the peace, security and personal dignity
to which az life of honest work and
striving entitle every human being in a
land that calls itself civilized.
Just because great changes creep so
slowly upon the human family, few
people realize that this problem is in
creasingly based upon one Of the most
striking phenomena of our times, some
thing wholly new in the history Of man.
kind-namely, the increase in the rel
alive number of old people and the de-
crease in the relative number of young
people. Medical science, hygiene and
better living are keeping vast numbers
of people alive into the older decades
of life at one end of the scale. while
birth control and other agencies are de-
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BY BERNICE THoMURE MORRIS.

IN 1VoRcEs by mail. long distance
and telegraph or even in per-
son, but with no irksome de-
~ tails to spoil enjoyment Of
local scenic beauty. constitute
the contribution of Cuernavaca, Mex
leo, to the solution of mankind's soluble
domestic problems
Cuernavaca divorces, famous now
around the world, have served not only
to terminate unfortunate matrimonial
complications created under score of
foreign flags, but have rescued from
bankruptcy the treasury of the State Of
Morelos, of which Cuernavaca is the
capital Viewed from all angles-to
quote a local official-the amazingly
simple and efficient divorce law Of
Morelos is boon not only to the I'M
happily welded, but also to the state. ,
Yes, very decidedly, the divorce bust
ness is a boon to Cuernavaca, and
promises rapidly to become the prin-
cipal industry of what was once the
greatest sugar producing state of
Mexico. The most modern and scien-
tific Notwithstanding low overhead,
mass production, advertising and in
sured speed and safety at a price to ap-
peal to a wide market-are being en-
ployed to make this promise come true.
Industry Still in Infancy.
Although it is obvious that the in
dustry is still in its infancy. remarkable
progress already has been made. The
idea of the master minds of the in
dustry apparently is to make the matter
of divorcing an undesirable spouse as
simple as writing a postcard-simpler
if, as in the case of some Cuernavaca
Divorces, writing is not an art to
which you've ever given much time or
practice.
Devotion to this ideal, combined with
a liberal admixture Of ingenuity and
plished wonders.
The unique feature Of a Cuernavaca
divorce which obviates the necessity OF
either party to the litigation setting
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parents of people who will live to see
that day arrive.
With the day, then, already in sight
when the whole world will be filled with
people, and with science making it GER
tain that it will be filled with larger
and larger proportion of old people and
a smaller and smaller proportion OF
young people than ever before in his
tory, and with old people, with their
natural and acquired conservatism
probably more than ever in the in
dustrial, political, social and, heaven
help us. also in the educational saddles,
not only does the biological, but also
the psychological picture present some
awe inspiring features. It may indeed
be because of these underlying biologi-
cal causes and not from any mere "ac-
cident of history" that we witness the
ICopti0,Ied ON E0,IrtI1 pace
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Y ALBERT EDWARD wIGGAM.

BY ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM.
7 EARTBREAK age is becoming
one of the overshadowing prob
lens of the modern world. AS
4 4 current evidence of this, at the
opening of the New York State
Legislature on January Z, Gov. Franklin
D. Roosevelt laid strong emphasis upon
methods for meeting this problem with
which every nation is struggling, and
so far with only partial success. 1t is
problem that, all students agree. is
going TO become more acute and insist
ent during the next two or three gener-
atoms - that age through which your
children and grandchildren will have
to live. 1t is more than likely that the
problem itself and the methods in in
dustry, legislation and education taken
to solve 1t will make radical. even
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Continued on Fourth Page.)
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WIDER RANGE OF MEDICAL
CARE HOPED FROM SURVEY
Cost Being Analysed and Extent of
Illness Checked in Five-Year
Study Started in 1927.

DIN West of the American Medical As
ISOLATION has posed as the most i'm
potant question confronting the medical
profession.
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BY FRANK ii. sIMoNDs

81 Il; s; g. ]: !; :: = S.; i:
from his trip to get the Nobel
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-05-28
n. Y. DEFEATS
BRAVES7TO4
Red Birds Are Beaten 40
BY Pittsburgh
Pirates
BY GAYLE TALBOT, yr-
Associated Press Sports Writer

IT"
IT'S been q long. hard haul for
John McGraw and his New York
Giants. but they finally have
reached the top OF the National
league percentage column.
After having flirted with the
leadership for q week, during which
common sense at times told them
they were ahead but the figures
tod them differently. they removed
the last doubt by trimming the
Boston Braves yesterday, TO 4,
while the Sc. Louis Cardinals were
receiving q blanking from Pitts
burgh, 1 to 0. The Giants were out
In front by q game and q half to-
day.
Frank Hogan, husky Giant catch
or. and Heine Meme, Pittsburgh
right handler, elaborated 70 change
the complexion OF the race. Hogan
warped one Of Schools curves in
to the stands with two on base TO
climax a four-run Giant rally In
the third inning from which the
Braves never recovered. Meme set
the Cardinals down with eight
scattered hits. al singles. 70 hang
I'D his fourth straight victory.
BoSton's third straight loss 70
the Giants cost Bill McKcchnie's
hopefuls their hold on third place.
The Chicago Cubs, by downing
Cincinnati, 8 10 4. moved IN. In
scoring their fourth consecutive
victory the Cubs pounded four Red
hurlers for IL hits.
After having seen their lengthy
winning streak clipped the previ-
Gus day. the Philadelphia Athletics
came right bark with a 6 70 5 deci-
sion over the Yankees. Bing Mil
Ter doubled with the bases loaded
in the eighth TO score Cochrane
and Simmons with the winning
runs.
Walt JohnSon's washington Sen
ators took advantage Of the oppor-
tunity to move into second place.
Their double victory owe the Bos-
ton Red Sox, ii TO 3 and 4 TO 3.
put them a game ahead OF the
Yankees and four and one-half
games off the top.
The Chicago White Sox swept a
doubleheader with Detroit. 5 to
{ and 10 to /. Pat Caraway's pitch
ing in the second tilt featured the
day. A four-run outburst off Earl
Whitehill in the last Of the ninth
save the Bushmen victory in the
first game.
The Cleveland Indians produced
a similar punch in the ninth
round to take their third straight
from st. Louis. s to 4. Held to one
run until the ninth the Indians
came back to drive Sam Gray from
the Hill and win on Burnett's
single. We Ferrell went the route.
Brooklyn and Philadelphia were
not scheduled in the National.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-05-28
FIGHTS LAST NIGHT

NEW YORK|lmmy McLarnin
Vancouver. 3. c.. outpointed Billy
Petrolle. Fargo. N. D.. Nol. Eddie
Ran, Poland. outpointed Billy
Light. ST. Paul. l0). Johnny Cato.
New York. outpointed joey Mar
Gus. Portland. Ore. CBl.
PHILADELPHIA Billy Jones,
Philadelphia. stopped willard Dix,
California. C2l. Johnny HAYES.
Philadelphia. knocked out Ray
Bowen. Washington. u. C., ~.
BOSTON-Leo Lari-ee. Water
bury. Conn. outpointed Sam Bruce.
Buffalo. N. ". d0l.
OUEBEC-Pete Ssnstol. Norway.
cutpointed Benny Brostoff. New
York. l0l.
KANSAS CITY Babe Hunt.
oklahoma City. outpointed Walter
Cobb. Baltimore. lM. Jimmie
wooten. Omaha. oltDointed Jess
Freeman. Kansas City. co.. News
paper decisions.
NEWARK. ". Jack ThomD-
son. San Francisco. outpointed Pete
August. Bridgeport. Conn, Gn1.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-05-28
enzHna Tie BROWNSVILLE HERALD SPORTS SECTION aHnzn
CRABS TAKE
One AT LAST
Spudders and Steers Split
Pair; Exporters 8
Indians 4

The vee small voice OF Galveston.
deep In the Texas League cellar.
wa heard wednesday afternoon at
Galveston where the Buccaneers
finally broke their long losing
streak. defeating Houston. 9 70 s.
The Buccaneers had lost ten con-
secutive games and played over
thirty innings without a score. Az
the end OF the sixth inning. the
Buccaneers had a s 20 I lead. but
lost 10 and had 10 put one run
across In the last half or the ninth
TO break into the win column.
At Wichita Falls. where there's
more baseball players than fans.
the SpudderS and Dallas split n
doubleheadcr Lefty Minogue, south
paw sensation with the Steers. was
shelled from the mouA1 In the first
game with a six run stampede In
the third inning. This rampage
gave the Spudders an q 20 I lead.
and the handicap proved too steep
for the Steers. although they rail-
lied for six runs III the seventh and
eighth innings. but lost. 8 TO z. Lee
Meadows, hurting five hit baseball.
gave the Steers n 3 TO O win In the
nightcap.
AT Shreveport. Fort Worth's
league lead was whitfield when the
Sports defeated the Cats. 8 to 3. The
Cats clawed their way back We'd
nesday night. trimming the Sports
l8 10 9.
The second place Beaumont Ex-
porters continued their winning
way az San Antonio where they
dropped the Indians In a night
game 8 to 4 The Exporters Jumped
into an early lead with n run each
in the second and third innings.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-05-28

tPeruvan Polo Authority. also
author Of Tom Stiff and His
Electric Wheelbarrow" and The
Boy Sprouts in Patagonia
The following fantasy in a minor
is entitled: IF Sports Were Hand
led as Society Is. soft music and
colored lights please, professor.
Hello. hello. This the sport
desk?"
Yep"
Wanna give YOU a whale OF a
story. Make a powerful piece for
the paper"
"Okay. shoot"
we had a gorgeous ball game
this afternoon. Svampville played
an extraordinary. brilliant brand OF
the national pastlme. led by the
doughty Roy RuffleS. ROY
R-U-F-F-L-E-S. Got that spelling
Be sure and get it right. Ruffle5
used binding speed and a sweeping
curve. holding the opposition to ID
scratch hits. They can't keep that
boy out Of the big leagues much
longer. Boy hovdy, you shudda seen
him. He was right. AT bat he got a
walk and three nifty foul tips
Who did Swampville playa"
The hard smuggling GintoNn
Jennies. Don't forget to mention
Ruffles' pitching"
What was the Score7-
Don't remember exactly. Think
II was Svampv.ile "a. GintoVn %
Ruffles had them on his hip all
the way through. See II you can't
ret that in the heading
"Okay. I'll fix II up. BY the way,
who is this speaking?'
Roy Ruffles."
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-05-28
M'Larnin Jabs Out Victory In
Return Go With Billy PetroIIe

Of depression as a crowd OF $4,000
packed Madison Square Garden to
see McLarnin turn the tables on
Petrolle last night. The gate re-
ceipts OF sS2.377 set q new high
for 1881 and stimulated a feeling Of
prosperity in Garden circles.
McLarnin waged a cool and cal
culating fight, designed to Illustrate
the rushes Of Petrolle. Despite an
injured right hand. Jimmy's plan
Of campaign was sufficiently eff
fective to give him a clean-cut mar
gin In six Of the ten rounds. Three
OF the others went to Petrolle and
one appeared even.
McLarnin favored his damaged
right hand almost from the outset,
using 1t chiefly in the third. II was
hurt in his previous 90 with Pc
trolle and. according to his man
ager. Pop Foster, met with fresh
damage last night.
McLarnrn weighed i42 and Pc
trolle 1873.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-05-28
Tigers Will Play
Strong Team Sunday

The Tigers Will play the Mercedes
Bears here Sunday, it has been
announced.
The local club has hit q LONG
stride this season. taking the San
Benito Box Makers and the Har-
lingen Red Ants into camp.
The Tigers have been reinforced
by two players from the Cubs. They
are Serrato and Rivera.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-05-28

NEW YORK. May 28.-R-Jim-
my McLarnin's comeback. by way
OF a decisive victory over Billy Pc
trolle. satisfied the master minds
Of fightdom today that there arc
still plenty Of customers available,
providing they have the proper in
ducement.
There was not the slightest sigp