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ect of the Lutheran Church
Missouri Synod, sent question:
naires on the subject to 5000
clergymen. They listed the main
causes of marital breakup as:
/. Drink. 2. Sex problems. 3. Re-
ligiOn.
But when couples in their
congregations were asked the
same questions they listed the
main causes as: /. Finances. 2.
Difficulties with in-lawS. 8. Dis
agreements over child training.
Mr.. Hansen properly con-
cluded that if much is to be done
to avert marriage breakupS a
good deal more accurate APP
praisal of the causes must be
made:
Lawyers Quoted.
Lawyers are inclined to think
sex plays the major role. I
talked with several in divorce
courts throughout the country.
Typical comments were: you'll
find a sex problem in 80 per
cent of the cases." "A man and
woman who are well mated do
not end up in divorce court"
Whatever else may be the
trouble, you usually find sex
involved"
In England a Royal Commits
sion on Marriage and Divorce,
set up to study the increase in
marital breakups since World
War II, reported that the Or
ganized bar considered sexual
failure the primary and basic
cause"
But among doctors and sociol-
ogists there is a different view.
DR.. Robert w. Laidlaw, past
president of the American Asso-
citation of Marriage Counselors,
declared, sex may, appear on
the surface as a major cause OF
marriage failure. But this is uSu-
ally not the sex relationship per
Sc. The marriage failure grows
out of a personality difficulty be-
tween the two people which is re-
Elected in poor sexual adjust
ment, but not caused by it.
PsychiatriSts generally, feel
that if a couples personality adj
justment is good they will do
their best to adjust sexually. But
if their personality adjustment
is not good they tend to magnify
and exaggerate their sex prob
lens.
Sense Of Romance Lost.
Far more real in many cases is
the loss of sense of romance in
the marriage relationship. One
woman. speaking words thous-
ands of wives have felt, went to
the Family Society of Philadel-
phia and said simply, my hus-
band has stopped loving me-"
She felt that all the inner feel
ing, the sharing, the affection
that had made their relationship
meaningful had ebbed away.
Another woman, married 10
years, mother of two children,
told a case worker her husband
had become cold and unroman-
tic" and that her marriage was
now only way of providing a
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Sixth Of q Series.
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Divorce Gronted ~
Sex Widely Blamed for Rift,
But Isn't Apt to Be Real Cause

nome Tor the ch1ldren. Such q
need for affection and love
emotional rather than physical
Qualities-are found back of most
cases which might on the surface
be catalogued as sex problems.
They are problems of q total
relationship.
In-lawS, most experts agree,
contribute quite as much to mar
riage wreckage as they are gen.
orally believed to-but not in the
same way. The common picture
is that of a mother-in-law inter-
fering in her sons or daughters
marriage. making life miserable
for the young couple, provoking
rivalrieS, arguments and perhaps
finally a breakup.
This is not the whole story. The
real reasons for in-law strife lie
not so much with the in-laws
as with the married couple them
selves. A boy remains too tied
to his mother, or a girl over
idolizes her father-and so reith-
er is a mature candidate for mar
riage. The in-laws do not horn
in so much as they are dragged
in.
Still Dads Girl.
In. Salt Lake City. Utah, Mrs.
p. was on the brink of divorce
when she went to a family agency
for help. She had married a man
eight years her senior and they
had one child, age 2. A father
in-law problem-Mrs. P's father
was wrecking the marriage.
But was it the father-in-law's
doing?
From the case record: "Mrs. P.
subjected her husband to fire.
quent comparison of him with
her father, and he fell short Of
the fathers wonderful charac-
teristics. AS we worked together
it became clear that Mrs. p. had
a great attachment for her ia
ther which prevented her from
accepting her husband and adj
justing to the marriage situation.
In some of the more violent quar-
rels with her husband she called
for her father to come help her."
The case of Mrs. N. is another
variety of the in-law triangle,
with the mother-in-law dragged
in. Mrs. N. went to the Com
munity Advisory Center of
Bridgeport, Conn, seeking help
toward a divorce. Her husband
was the youngest son in a fam
lily and continued after mar
riage to take his troubles to his
mother. Like many a man who
becomes married legally but not
emotionally. he still regarded his
mother as his best girl.
The advisory center sent Mrs.
N. for family counseling rather
than a divorce. The case record
tells of Mr.. MS overdose tie
to his mother and his continued
enjoyment Of his rather pam
pered position as the favored
youngest son." and how Mrs.
N. resented her husbands con-
fidences to his mother" The
problem was not so much with
the mother-in-law herself as it
was to Help Mr.. N. complete
the long-overdue process of
xr,ao va;vnU
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No Bath in II Years

MINEOLA, N. Y. R.-Re-
fierce Francis G. Hooley took
under advisement recently a sep
aration suit in which a wife
charged that in IL years of
marriage her husband never took
a bath. The husband is employed
by the Department Of Sanitation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-06-18
Money Problems.

Money problems also rank
high among the reasons back
of the divorce petitions.
In Detroit the Family Service
Society cited 1.-The heavy pres
sure put on some families to
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Divorce Granted
BY Howord Whitman

The reasons people give when
they go into the divorce courts
are rarely the real reasons for.
marriage failure. They simply.
on advice OF counsel, pick the
easiest legal ground-usually
some catch-all such as mental
cruelty" or general indignities."
And since over 80 per cent Of
all divorces are uncontested, the
real reasons never do come out.
What are the real reasons?
The Rev. Paul Hansen, direc-
tor Of the family research prof.
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Sensational Discovery
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Not for People

After much experimentation, Dr. Otto
Weininger Of the University of Toronto has
found that systematic coddling is good for white
rats. According to what he set forth at the
recent meeting of the American Association
for the Advancement of Science, his tests have
shown that these monet oo-lovable little crea-
lures, when they are petted and "babied" over
period of long DURATION grow up to be health
ier, more resourceful and better able to with
stand adversely than those that are treated
roughly and without affection. The meaning
of all this is not quite clear, but DR.. Weininger-
even while cautioning people not to Jump too
fast to conclusons-has suggested that maybe
his findings have bearing on human psychol-
ogy. Maybe they do, but still, just because
some rodents may have been made rugged by
easy living, it would be foolhardy-after CEN
turies of experience-to ignore everything that
has been said and written about the virtues of
discipline and the danger of spelling the child
by sparing the rod. There Is middle ground
between too much softness and too much
toughness. Ben Franklin may have spoken too
sternly in saying, Love well, whip well,' but
there can be little doubt that If our race were
bronght up with undertaking kindness, without
any hard knocks, it would be likely to develop
in due course into a race Of habby mollycoddles
and delinquents, adult and juvenile.
Evening star., 1954-01-07
Two Strows in the Wind

1t is to be hoped that two recent items in
the news have not escaped the attention Of
the French authorities.
One was an Associated Press dispatch from
Bonn It stated that West Germany built 475,
600 new dwellings in 1953-a new postwar rec
ord The other was an item in the Wall Street
Journal written from Hamburg.
The harbor installations and shipbuilding
facilities of that city were 80 per cent destroyed
by allied bombers in World War H. Now,
scant eight years later, Hamburg huns with
activity. Much the same Is true Of such other
German shipbuilding centers as Bremen and
Lubeck-so much so that West Germany has
risen from crushing defeat to overtake and
displace the United States as the worlds second
largest shipbuilder.
These are isolated examples. They do not
begin to measure the whole of Germany's re-
covery, nor the speed of its advance. They are
significant, however, in their suggestion that
West Germany is we'll on the way to becoming
Europes leading economic power. The French
had better reflect on the implications of this,
as they stall off the ratification of the European
Defense Community treaty. For while they
might succeed in killing EDO, they are sadly
mistaken If they think that by doing so they
will somehow turn back the surging tide of
German recovery.
Evening star., 1954-01-07
Something Wrong

Treasury Secretary Humphrey has reason
to be concerned over security measures at the
Bureau Of Engraving and Printing. There is
certainly something wrong with a security
system which can be preached as easily as the
perpetrators of the 100000 new-currency theft
preached it week ago.
According to Secret Service accounts, a
bureau employe had no trouble in walking out
Of the building with $128000 in packaged bills
hidden In special pockets sewed into his coat
tails. Nor did he have any difficulty in sub
stituting two bundles of worthless paper for
bundles of currency he was placing in a 7ault.
Moreover he succeeded in breaking open the
two currency packages somewhere in the build
ing, stufing $4,000 in small packets into
paper bag and hiding the bag underneath
platform truck. The secreted money escaped
detection despite supposedly stop to-bottom"
search of the bureau following discovery of the
theft by an alert employe
It is true, as Mr.. Humphrey pointed out in
ordering the Secret Service to review the whole
security setup at the bureau, that no system
Of safeguards can be regarded as completely
perfect. But the amazing freedom which
Evening star., 1954-01-07
to The Star

preston that the Russian government
is one that can be trusted. 1t is be-
coming crystal clear that Lawrence is
one Of those "go it alone" advocates.
contrary to the thinking Of our Presi-
dent, the Joint Chiefs Of Staff and many
other straight-thinking Americans in
high position.
Because his buddy, Senator Mccarthy,
is suffering setbacks, Lawrence accuses
critics Of Mccarthy Of disservice to our
country. Yet Lawrence claims that
controversy in itself is healthful in a
democracy. and informative" What
kind of controversy, Mr.. Lawrence?
The only kind we want in our country
is free controversy where a position is
not forced upon our people. For If it
is, we head for totalitarianism.
Mr.. Lawrence goes on to complain
that Americans are being told that they
must refrain from responding to ap-
peals for their opinions when made
by United States Senators. How naive
can one become? Senator Mccarthy
took a terrific beating on his write
the White House" stunt. Why is it so
difficult to accept defeat where Nc
Carthy Is involved?
Ike Republican.
Evening star., 1954-01-07
BY Charles E. TroceweN

the light, it swooped even faster and
farther.
Such swoops were seldom seen in
such comparatively small space.
"The cats will get it," said Temple
ton Jones. Don't worry"
He went to the basement and
ushered the four cats up the stairs.
They were properly agog at the great
dark shape swooping and looping there.
there.
One cat ran south. another north,
the third west and the fourth east.
This geographical coverage got them
nowhere, however. and did not touch
the bat, which continued to bat back
and forth as usual.
A bat in one room with four cats and
Templeton Jones
The bat was finally knocked to the
floor with a broom wrapped in cloth,
then taken outdoors, and there re-
leased, where it flew away seemingly
none the worse for its experience.
But the cats had nothing to do. with
it, and to this day do not know how
that bat ever got away from them.
Bats are held in great esteem by
some persons. Several very interest
ing books have been written about
them. It seems that most of the tales
about them are untrue, such as that
one about them carrying bedbugs. At
times they do harbor parasites, but
these are not bedbugs. the scientists
say, and viii not harm manor woman.
Evening star., 1954-01-07
This and That . .

tions in nature. getting ahead Of man
by millions Of years.
The world is full Of bats. little ones.
big ones. vampire bats, fruit-eating
bats. etc. They. are all mammals that
fly with the ability of birds, in a sense.
The qualification must be insisted on,
because these strange creatures cam
not make sustained fight. but only in
Swoops and leaps. These are not as
erratic as they seem, however, since
the swoops are mostly made in search
Of insect food.
In these wide aerial dashes, most
easily seen by man at dusk on a quiet
summer evening, the bats miss all wires
and poles and trees. They do this
by the impinging of sound against a
little organ they possess in their heads.
Thus. though very old, they are
strictly up to the minute.
Bats are feared by most persons.
especially women, although often when
the male of the household covers in
bed. it is the female of the species that
wraps her head in a towel and goes
after the invader with broom.
Templeton Jones, whose exploits are
sometimes given in this paper, once
Sicked his four cats on bat that came
into his bedroom from the attic.
Probably the high flyer had been
alternating behind a rafter. or some
thing
Anyway, it swooped into the Jonesian
bedroom, and when Jones turned on