Kathleen Norris Says:
Moratorium on Divorce
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p retty lough time."
By KATHLEEN NORRIS
A L L the tim e he is aw ay
and for six m onths after
he gets home, it ought
to be m ade illegal for a sol
d ie r’s wife to ask for a di-
vorce.
If we had had a law like
th a t for the last four years,
hundreds of A m erican hom es
would have been saved. And
as the saving of the A m erican
hom e is as im portant as the
saving of A m erica, this would
have been a wise law.
PATIENCE AND
AFFECTION
Naturally it is difficult for a
returned veteran to slip right
back into familiar civilian life
again. He has had all sorts of
hardships and painful experi
ences. His nerves are raw
from danger and discipline,
or perhaps a siege in the hos
pital. II hen he comes back,
expecting his wife to be ready
to soothe him and make up
for all the misery, he is fre
quently disappointed.
She probably has had a
hard time of it, trying to man
age on a small allotment, or
working part time. Housing
shortages, food rationing and
other homefront problems
had worn her down. There
may be children to care for
after a tiring day at work. No
wonder she is not quite as
sweet and young as he antici
pated.
All too often these disil
lusioning homecomings end in
divorce. Quick tempers and
frayed nerves bring on quar
rels of various sorts. The only
remedy seems to be in separa
tion. Hasty action quite often
causes lifelong heartbreaks,
where a little patience and af
fection would soon solve the
problem, says Hiss Norris.
Soldiers are subject to hundreds
of laws, some good, some petty;
they must obey them all or suffer
humiliating and painful penalties
A man doesn’t ask to get into the
service, he is drafted; It may mean
the loss of an arm or a leg. or of
his eyes, but he has no choice.
It may mean that he comes back
from years of service to discover
that the sweet and gentle woman
of whose love he has been dream
ing has taken on another lover, that
she wants a divorce, that the babies
whose little crumpled snap-shots he
has been treasuring through many
an hour of danger and loneliness,
are to be his babies no longer; he
has lost home, wife, children at one
blow.
But he has lost much more than
that. His morale receives a dead
ly stroke. He is tired, disillusioned,
perhaps embittered, perhaps sick
ened and saddened by the long
bout with death, by the sight of
crushed bodies and torn limbs. Of
course he doesn't come home the
sunny.
unanalytical.
easy-going
young fellow who went away. Of
course he needs great doses of af got her divorce and the care of two
fection and silence and patience, small girls. Roy married a woman
if he is to be cured.
who has quite a little property out
Derision In Two Days.
in the country and 1« having a good
He doesn't get them. "Roy ha0 time managing it. Miraculously, he
only been home two days," writes finds himself loved and useful ;
a Seattle wife, "when we knew It Anna is out in the cold.
was no go!"
" I’ve always loved Roy,” her let
Two days! After 31 months In the ter finishes, "and is it fair that I
Inferno of the South Pacific, after should be left to raise the children,
risking his life over and over and with no help from him—because he
over. Roy comes home to his dream has no money — while he has a
woman, and finds she isn't a dream glorious
time
running
three
at all. but a quite human, faulty, ranches?"
aggrieved young thing who believes
Thousands of wives have de
that she has had Just as hard a time manded divorces from servicemen
as he has. His children are grown during these years. And almost
out of recognition; finances are in equal thousands have wished they V
an unstable condition; Anna knows were back with the original mate.
he ought to go back and finish his A few months of patience, a genu
law course, but good gracious, she ine desire to understand what a man
can’t live on a government allow Is feeling, a careful preparing of the
ance all that time — and what on children's minds, and before you
earth are the Bakers to do?
know it, the strangeness of the re
Poor Roy! He wants sympathy, adjustment wears away, and the
petting and understanding, he wants man and woman find that they still
the appreciative attention of all his want to be companions in the ad
old friends he has had a pretty venture of life.
tough time. Instead, no one takes
If you are one of those wives who
any particular notice of him. and met your man with good news, with
Anna poses a new problem every a hopeful plan, with a heroic fac
other day.
ing of the unavoidable changes and
"Roy had only been home two difficulties, then you have done your
days when we decided It was no job for America as well as he did
go,” Anna writes. "All our friends his
agreed that he was simply impos
If you are not. you may be among
sible.”
the thousands who leaped into war
In 48 hours she had time to dis time or postwar time divorce, you
cuss him with all their friends, ap may already be feeling, as I feel,
parently. Roy knew he was unpopu that a wartime moratorium ori
lar, and that didn't help.
divorce would save a great deal of
Roy Married Again.
heartbreak.
Among other funda
But there's another half to this mental stupidities, we humans very
story. All this was a year ago. Anna often don't know what we want.
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