The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-01-13
By hsfCE ALDEN

NEW YORK, Jan. 13.-Through the jubilant laugh.cr oi parents who have obtained their freedom via the divorce court there sounds the undertone of the sebs of the pitiful bewildered little orphans of the divorce mill.
 This is the age in which child raising, child rearing, child care and education have reached un- dreamed of summit of perfection But this is, too, the age of easy divorce and wrecked homes strewn with the wreckage of young lives, lives that are only too often used as weapons by irate humans in their fight against each other. The child of divorce is the most pa- thetic child in the world, what ever the financial status of it's parents, for is not the little one generally deprived of his father or his mother; making it often neces- sary to learn to care for a new papa or a new mama while it's lit tie heart is pining for the real parent and the old home that was home for the child despite the differences of the parents.
 Not Happy
 Everybody thought tn al Dick Barthelmess and his wife, the dainty dancer, Mary Hay, were divinely happy. They both seemed enraptured with tiny little Mary, their daughter, and, even when a rift was rumored, friends thought that the baby would prove too strong link to break. They were divorced when the baby was only three years old, but still old enough to love both it's father and mother. The court awarded the child to each parent for six months at a time. But Dick has married again and so has Mary. Dick and his new wife are so devoted to the child. The last visit paid by baby Mary had gone beyond the stipu- lated term and Mary Hay, who is now married to Vivian Bath and has a twc-year-old boy by this marriage, has had to serve her former husband with writ of habeas corpus in order to have the child for Christmas. Little Mary loves California and is tremend- ous pet of the whole film colony and her host of friends were heart broken to see her go East.
 Talk It Over
 It would be enlightening to those parents who think of them selves before their offspring if they could sit down and have a talk with the three little Bedford-Jones children, Helen, Henry and Nancy. Their mother and their father, who is Henry Bedford Jones, the we'll known fiction writer, parted on Christmas Day in 1928. Since then the Bedford-Jone youngsters have led a hectic life. They are aWard- ed to the mother and Bedford Jones agreed to pay his ex-wife SIT OOO at the rate of $500 month ly together with $200 extra each month for the support of the chil- dren. But when he arrived to take his children for Western trip, he found them far from well dress ed. He says that he had to out fit them for the trip and that they were of the idea that their father had murderous designs on them. They had a marvellous tune in California and didn't want to return home, But the father ad- hered to the terms of the court award and sent them home to their mother.
 Henry BedforG-Jones was mar ried recently to Mrs. Mary Ser hardin, a wealthy widow. But his new-found happiness was disturb ed by the news that his daughter, Nancy, had been sent to the Guard ian Home because of hyste.ical outbursts. The child was also suf- fering from curvature of the spine.