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Now th«* divorcee Is not off THE SCIO TRIBUNE equals. color in society circle« at ail. Th« IMHgt> gVMY THIJIUMtAY BY T. L. WG«»«. KtMTOB AND fBOP Entered at the ooaU'ffiee at Scio. Dragon aa *«cond class matter. aUBWKimoN. IN ADVANCB MX MONTHS fl.75 1.00 AOVKimKINO KATBB- Loeal advertising per line first in* •ertlon ........................ 10 Esch subsequent InscrUoo per line. .06 Display adv rtliing First insertion per inch ......... 26 Farit subsequent Insertion ........... IS Advertisements should reach this olh< not later than Tm-sdsv to maure publi cation m the current isso». All foreign advertisement» roust be paid for in advance of pubbraUon. / p/eJgr allegiance Io mv flaf ano the Republic for uhlc/i U itaruu, one Ration. fruity ieihle, »ilh liberty ana lutlitt /or all. SCIO. OREGON. DEC. 16. 1920 THE DIVORCE EVIL The American home la the haw* upon which our American civiliza tion and government is constructed lies troy our domesticity and out governmental structure will soon crumble. It follows then that what ever destroys the American nome is a blow al American government and there is no one feature of American society which ia destroying our Am erican homes so rapidly as the div orce department« of our courts Take any of our metropolitan new» papers and you wdl I m * astounded, if not alarmed at the long lists in th« divorce column. The divorce, especially when there are children, ia especially sad It proclaims that those children probably have not had the home training they are justly entitled to The h<»m«i where the father spends the major part ef his idle time at resorts of various kinds, is a drunk ard, or is untrue to his marltai companion, or where the wife and mother ia what is commonly under stood as a gadabout, or likes to as sociate wiUi other meg too well, are the iieople whose names ap|>ear in divorce ’record«. Then think of their children who are on the street when they should I m * at home. N<* wonder they form habits which place them in ref 01 ma lories and la ter on. perhaps, in penitentiaries. Then after the divorce. If th«* caildren are awarded to the mother who usually can give them but a meager support their lot is not a happy one bv any manner of means. They may not have been taugot ha bits of industry and form other ha bits on the streets most generally vicious which often lead to crimin ality, If the children are awarded to the father their Condition ia often worse Happily, however, there are excep tions to this rule. The responsible parent does his or h *r duty nobly and the children grow up to be good citizens But if the home environment is what the American home should lie. aven it it is humble, there ia an at mosphere which the growing child ren breathe which is almost a guar anty of good citizenship ♦ putush an-i Mr Wilson will b* as glad to punish the diahon«wt grafter divorc* Is no longer a stigma They as h« is to reward merit. marry our aons and daughters with It would have bc«*n the same had out a blush and occasionally a happy the preeidimt b*en a republican. in »< »me way too manv of us are home results. Yet there are married people who dishonest or are grafters when we should be divorced. Bather they work for the public. Even the la should never have married. But borer employed on nublie works having been legally seuaraud they does as little work as he can and yet should not rush into another mar hold his job. We had a sample of this sort of riage They should know their pro posed husband or wife before taking grafting up on the power line last a step which may lead them again summer as »■«•II as wastefulness and carelessness on the part of the man to the divorce court. The lime to prevent th# divorce agement. Men simply will not do ia before marriage. People should as honest work or manage as care- kn«w each <>th«*r intimately for st fullv when working for the public least six months I m * fore they assume as they will when employed in pri ths marital relation. It is safe to vate endeavor. And this trait seems to prevail in say that not more than <>ne out of a dozen divorced couples spent MX the characters of the vast majority months in courtship. Then why not of th«* iieople whether laborer or enact a law requiring ciuples who contractor. Th«* contracts during the late war contemplate marriage to have spent six months in the pleasure of court were an large that the grafter, or ship It is wisdom to not marry in more properly named thief, had in numerable opportunities to get in haste to repent at leisure. Of course to attempt to enact any his work. And criminal wasteful- law to regulate marring«* would be n«as could lie observed wherever to create a hardship on occasional public work was going on. The air But couples. But where one hardship; craft scandal was deplorable should exist fifty couples would be what could be done alriut it? Men It was new lM*nertt«*<l and be raved ’.he disgrace were in#xp«-ri«*m*d. busmen». Yet we know this inex- of th# divorce court, for it is even perience e st the American taxpay yet a disgrace but ¡»rapidly growing ers a half billion dollars. respectable. No, the pre*ent administration is Then divorces ar# granted upon too frivolous causes. A couple se«*k- no more to blarr c than were Presi ing divorce if given a severe lecture dent McKinley or President Lincoln. bv the judge might often patch up It is »imply the downright dishon their differences and live peaceable esty and grafting of the American peotde some of them. As said be if not hanpy. Then If re marriage should be pro fore. we can punish but what bene hibited for five years instead of one fit will it be to u«; we who pay the year, as the law is now, people would bill to send a few of these dishonest think seriously before rushing into devils to the penitentiary where we will have them to support? It is a ^he divorce court. game where the taxpayer loses no A divorce law enacted by congress instead of by the stales if strict matter what th# result. enough would result in good. But th« right lime to prevent the divorc« is before marriage. A ripe acquaintance and a determination to l become true helpmeets as our fath ers ami mothers did will not onlv result in happy marriages but a careless divorce court. HUNTING FOR DISHONESTY But parents who provide this kind of a home do not as a rule ap|M*ar in the divorce courts. Go back to pre-marriage days and you will find this was not a hasty marriage The young man and young woman prob ably spent months in their courting. They knew each other and when they married it was for life. They not be hel«i responsible for the dis purposed tn build a true American, honesty and wastefulness of the home American p«>ople. Guilty contract- Fifty or sixty years ago the div ora could not be called dishonest un- orced man or woman was in the ' til dishonesty han been proven. eyes of the world a disgraced per (When found out it was too late. J A th I »«ni. J. K. Har-i«*», Mr» Jennie W«roe«. 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Mr. Hard ing mav form an international alli ance with the large nations of the world, sufficient to control the world but that would be doing just what son. Many true American home« The public money had tie«n spent or Washington warned us against. (Continued on page 4.) would nut receive them as social i stolen. All we can now do is to J. J tiaruse. W . F.Oill, PaasMnasi. W. F. dill. Aaraav«»». D. C- Thoma RULE OR RUIN. Our republican friends in congress nations; unl«-*s large nations on whom have had smelling friends out seek- nwv-sarily must rest the responsi ing dishonesty and wastefulness in bility of enforcing the mandates of the supply war activities of th** Wil the league or association, has power son administration. Of course they | to enforce its mandate«, it ia simply found it for there are dishonest a structure whose foundation ia democrats (awmming that ail of the builded on sand. That the small nations which have contractors during the war were ail to gain and nothing to lose should democrats) as well aa dishonest re bring this feature to the fore in this publicans. Strang«* to say. if a man is dishonest or a grafter his political first session of the league is surpris complexion does not add to or de ing. Of course each signatory has tract from his character. It will the right of withdrawal, but for Ar crop out if the opportunity ia pre gentine to refuse to play ball just tiecause she could not have adopted sented. It was the same with contractors such rubs and regulations as she during the Civil and Spanlah-Ameri- desires, and for two or three small can wars. The embalmed beef scan nations to dedarethey will withdraw dal emanating from the Chicago if Bulgaria ia admitted to member packing houses, from whom earthed ship. does not argue well for the l«eef fur our soldiers in Culm was future of the league. Of course the failure of the Uni purchased, is almost a stench until ted States to sign up on the league today. Even President McKinley's has placed that body at sea and with secretary of war a as almost con victed aa living guilty with the scan out nothing but a makeshift rudder for guidance. The nations of the dal. In the CivH war contractors were world depended upon the United more hon«*sl than they are now, or Stat«*« tn furnish the leader. When they had not learned the tricks of the I'n-t- I Stat * faded to com« to the grafter aa men of today know time, national pride alone forced them to go on with the organisation. them. Of course dishonesty and waste But from the first da» it could be fulness have been and will be found. seen that a leader was lacking The When a man is found guilty punish constructive power was not there. 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