El Paso Herald from El Paso, Texas • Page 14

li Week-End Edition, June 7-8, 1919. EL PASO HERALD LCOD El PB COURTS: A Demonstration Of Engineering Since Jan. 1, 724 Marriage Licenses Issued, 157 Divorces Granted; This Many More Suits Pending; Cruelty Is The Main Reason, Desertion the Second Excuse, infidelity the Third; Parents Are Held at Fault. By FRANK WITTHAM. ECORDS of the El Paso divorce courts show that during: the period beginning January 1 and ending May 31, a total of 157 divorces were granted and that during the same time 724 marriage licenses were issued.

Thus, it is seen that 21 1-3 percent of the marriages in El Paso go wrong andterminate in divorce. The divorcet granted by each court are: 34th district court, 64; 65th district court. 54; 41st district court. 39. In addition to the above are indicative of a normal or average period of any reeent year, fully an number of nnitn have been filed and are pending before the thus betas Ineligible in Screened Porches Attract Friends on these hot days and friends help pass the time.

Why go gallivanting about the country looking for a cool resort when you can have such comfort among your friends right, at home. Plenty of time ye! this summer to get your worth out of a screened porch. Why wait longer? Rheinheimer Lumber Company PIEDRA5, ALAMEDA AND MYRTLE STREETS Phone 498. the compilation of the statistics for the five months of 1010. The condition, however, is alleviated somewhat, according to one by the fact that some of the divorces recorded are granted to persons who establish a residence here merely for the purpose of obtaining a divorce.

Cruelty Main Excuse. all of them might be termed bona fide residents of this he said. I look for a continued increase in divorce for another generation and then a gradual decline to our old former standards when divorce was exceedingly unpopular. to the reasons given in the netitions for divorce, cruelty stands first in number. This, however, often used as a sort of cloak for some specific reason.

Desertion is second, and in this class the men are slightly in the among petitioners. The third cause Is Infidelity, or causes art? numerous, but constitute isolated instances. The plea of desertion often covers many other reasons which the plaintiff em. in his or her Another judge whose records show an inereare declares that financial often constitute the i that breaks FI Rivals I.os nireles. I he said, the majority of the persons who apply for divorce have financial troubles.

In fact can remember only one divorce case in my where both person were well fixed financially. Now it may be that their make them of home conditions and their finances, or it may be that thp financial breach forms a wedge for per' sonal troubles. I do not know about that. residence here the courts are strict. A residence in the state is required and six months in the county, although these terms may run concurrently.

Only a few cases have been thrown out of court for these The divorce rate In Los Angeles. to be the highest in the United At The HOU Mon day KIET This is the largest display of Wash Skirts ever made at one time on our great Second Floor. Hundreds of new Wash Shirts made of white gabardines in regular and extra sizes. Some of the attractive features are tucfe, cross stitches, pleats folds etc. Some very new ideas in novelty pockets.

Nearly all handsomely trimmed with pearl buttons. Some embroidered. thc few corded piques in the collection. Never have the styles been so pretty or the so moderate. Tafye your choice at $3.95 Up 2nd Floor HIS is the pontoon bridge which will be constructed against time by a company of the Eighth engineers under command of Capt.

Thomas K. Petty, at the triangle of Franklin street and the railroad crossing near the union depot, tonight at 9 oclock. Recent trials at Fort Bliss in constructing this bridge were done in periods ranging from three and one half to eight minutes, The bridge will be erected as a war maneuver of a retreating army with the subsequent dynamiting, and machine gun firing, after the company race across it with equipment trucks. Searchlights and flares will add to the i spectacle. The 82nd field artillery band, led by Lieut.

E. J. Lacock, will give concert preceding the demonstration at 8:30 oclock. Is 32 percent, and authorities (tual distrust and unfaith and fear here declare that at the present rate of Increase in El Paso this city soon will have an equally high percentage. Mrs.

Itose jrovernmcnt aocinl expert, who is in behalf of the clrls here, declares that the entire situation out of the fnilure of parents of the nation to observe their duties. is about one divorce in every five marriages; think of she said. "Why do people marry if they are not planning for a life contract? soon totters to its ruin. pitiful cases of young bovs and girls entering into marriages for which neither is fitted fills our divorce dockets. strength of our nation in faith in its prowess.

Each feels that the paramount Issue rests upon its shoulders; in its hands the destiny of the nation. Too Mnch Stress on Sex. the same way must parents ac- jcept the guerdon of responsibility of the home, the bulwark of the na- jtion. In these since man is the shame of the nation that periloUs privilege we have no standard laws regarding Rich-Tone is a friend the weak "It has made me strong and well J. R.

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Get a bottle $1 at reputable drug stores everywhere. Compounded by A. B. Richards Medicine Sherman, Texas divorcee. The present system is a mockery; marriage in one state is protected by such strict laws as make divorce impossible; in another the divorce laws are so lax that any pretext is accepted as legal grounds for Is it that the peoples of the having no spiritual ideal In I universe, are perishing from a of the soul? Where Fall Short, The parents of today are largely for the Indifference to de! ceney on the part of the children.

Young people are reared to manhood and womanhood and no serious effort made to bring into their lives accurate knowledge of all the fundamen- tals of life. A man will guard the treasure of his mind and glory in the strength of his fine body, yet he will enlighten him not at all upon the principles of right thinking and Person of the trinity, the Holy Ghost. a is placed upon sex. In so many of the relations in life men and women are but fellow human beintrs. Friendship, business, sickness and sorrow, iov and delight, thev are shared as human beings, not influenced by sex.

nation car. be stronger thnn its weakest part and surely the weakness of our great land lies in Its mar- riaee laws: the leeralitv of its multl-marriaere: Us progressive mar- riasres that leave and ruin of hearts and homes and lives and HOLD PONPFICAl7 MASS ON PENTECOST SUNDAY Sunday is known in Catholic circles as Pentecost Sunday, the day on w'hich the faithful honor the third livin; men imaken to the duty that they owe not only to their own boy hut to humanity? When will women awaken to the need of intelligent knowledge on the part of their daughters? hen will mothers accept the responsibility should not be strangers who bear the desolating cry we but It is a day also on which every bishop is bound celebrate pontifical mass in his cannedral. Masses at the cathedral tomorrow will be at 6:30. 7:30, I 9 and 10:30 a. the last being pontifical.

with the Rt. Rev. bishop A. J. Schuler presiding, assisted by the cathedral clergy and a number of visit- intr clergy.

The sermon of the day will be delivered at 10:30 mass by the very Now Comes The Greatest Event Of The Year 10th Begins Monday Morning, June 16th NINETEEN YEARS AGO THE WHITE HOUSE was born. Through all these years of struggling have never found it necessary to deviate one iota from the straight and narrow path of TRUTH, HONESTY and SQUARE DEALING. Our remarkable record of growth during the past NINETEEN YEARS is one of the MOST NOI ABLE achievements known within the annals of Texas Retailing and this r.ecord will stand as a monument to El GREATNESS FOR ALL TIME. Step by step, THE WHITE HOUSE has climbed the LADDE.R OF SUCCESS until today the great MOTHER OF PROGRESS has given it an enviable place of fame and fortune. But we are not unmindful of the part the public has played in this success.

We gladly and whole-heartedly recognize OUR PATRONS AS OUR REAL BUSINESS BUILDERS of this great institution. We believe in reciprocity It has become our custom after taking a profit for 5 I weeks of the year to show our appreciation by selling EVERYTHING for ONE WEEK WITHOUT PROFIT to ourselves. And as usual at this period of the year we will hold a GREAT SIX-DAY ANNIVERSARY SALE in which Give Our Profits To Our EVERYTHING WILL BE ON SALE A I APPROXIMATELY WHOLESALE COST. Each day in the Daily Papers we will give you interesting information about this event. Watch our Advertisements closely.

SALE WILL BEGIN MONDAY MORNING, JUNE 16TH. MAKE YOUR PLANS NOW TO COME. Mail Orders Filled "The House Of ne Orders Filled The Store Of Service 4580 from the lips of daughters. Rev. chaplain McFadden, U.

S. re- Had the girl been guarded by the one I cently promoted captain. At 7:30 n. guardian in the world bishop Schuler will confirm a class have known how to safely pass children and converts, through every crisis of life. 1 of self and of the man AD TEftUlLA.

who loves her, she leads him into Adalivo Valles, 15. and Carmen Con! dangers. Later, when they marry, treras, 16, are being held by city de! their life begins with the joy all gone tectives for investigation by federal and lessened love for each other; authorities following their arrest for it is now rooted in fear of each Thursday night by detective sergeant other and distrust. Claude Smith and detective A. C.

Va- Oljitrnst Ruin. rela while in possession of Co bottles house built on the sands of mu- 'of tequila. BOYS IN HERALD CLASS FINISH SWIMMING LESSONS Boys taking swimming lessons at the Y. M. C.

A. this week in The Herald swimming classes completed their tests Saturday morning. These boys tried out Saturday morning for their tests at the They must swim 50 feet and dive from the spring board into deep water in order to qualify for The Herald buttons, which will be awarded on next Monday night at 6 oclock at the The gathering will be in the nature of a and G. A. Martin of The Herald, will preside and award the buttons to the winners.

Only the winners are to be present at this feed. The boys in the contest who had finished at 11 oclock Saturday morning were Stuart Gail, Theodore Ketchersid, Algie Stevenson. Linville Ferguson, Raymond Enochs. Leslie Jones, Clint Loveladv, Lvle Deer, Dayton Love lady, Hinton McIntosh. Guy Smith, Carl Pratt, Rupert Johnson, Kenneth Albert Ouzts and Arthur Thomas.

As only about half the boys eligible for the final swimming contest at the showed up for the Saturday contest, those in charge have stated that any boy who might have stood the time for the contest, and who thought the day was Monday, can enter the contest yet tty calling at the Y. C. A. Monday morning at 10:30. when the contest will be continued.

ATTORNEY FILES THREE SUITS AGAINST EL PASO PHYSICIANS Three suits were filed in the 34th district court Friday afternoon by the district attorney against physicians who recently wTere convicted eh irges of selling narcotics in violation of the Harrison narcotic law, for a cancelation of their medical licenses. The suits were filed on re- of the state medical board. Tha physicians named in the suits are Charles G. Reum, M. C.

Melanson an.l W. Q. Ellsworth, alia3 Guillarmo Ellsworth, alias G. i- worth. According to the petitions the men were convicted in federal court here dur- the past term.

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