FI~DAY, DEMBEI-2if, 1!251 THE MICHIGAN DAi3, No .40004mm" HOLBROOK &DVOCATES Gas Mains Explode In London Streets; EDUCATION1 NOT LAW 'Twelve Are Injured3 Pavements Ripped Up; Taxi-cab: TO [NO DIYORCE [ IL1 Turned Over; Shop Fronts Are Caved In FRENCH COMMANDER OF TRAINING RUMANIAN RAILROAD CRUISE DOFFS HAT TO OUR NAVY SAID TO BE STOLEN Prime Minister Finds Previous Administration Absconded With Tracks And All ( \By Associated Press) BUCHAREST, Rumania, Dec. 19 SAYS CAUSE OF MOUNTING DIVORCES LIES DEEPER THAN LAWS LEGISLATIONNOT LOOSE Divorce Problem Does Not Prove Marriage Failure; Proves Failures Marry (Continued From Page 1) law in the past fifty years have all been in the direction of making it harder, instead of easier, to get a divorce. But in spite of this tight- ening up of legislation, the rate of divorce has continued to mount. This leads s to look, outside the divorce laws, for changes which may bring people to ask for jidi- cial dissolutions of marriages more frequently than they did forty or fifty years ago. Wives Sue First "Since about two-thirds of all di- vorces are obtained by wives, it is evident that we should inquire into the changes that have taken place which would tend to increase the number of applications by women. Here we find -several tendencies which all lead in the same direc- tion, and all seem likely to en- courage women to seek relief from unpleasant marriage ties. The emancipation of women in regard to their property rights, the eco- nomic and industrial emancipa- tion ,of women, the political eman- cipation of women, and the changed social attitude toward di- vorce which has encouraged both husbands and wives to seek to escape from an unhappy union, all have tended to bring about a feel- ing of discontent with the former status of inferiority and have been a considerable factor in encourag- ing unhappy wives to take steps which will enable themr to "live their own lives" by dissolving the marriage tie. Increase World Wide "Here e have four forward movements, each of which is com- mendable; yet they have tended to produce another movement which is widely considered to be danger- ous to society. And this apparent paradox is not peculiar to this country; the same tendencies are observable in other countries, and with the same result. All over the world there has been a marked increase in the divorce rate. In some countries this rate has in- creased three-fold, even four-fold, in the past quarter-century. "What are we going to do about it? Here again we are met with the typically American reaction: if there be an evil, cure it by pass- ing a law. And several suggestions have been made looking toward the solution of the problem in this way. Some extremists would pro- hibit divorce. Some others would permit divorce but prohibit the re- marriage of the divorced spouses. Go Nearer Source "A third suggestion as to remedy 1 by change of law is to go nearer the source of the trouble, and to provide, as has recently been done in this and other states, that a period of time elapse between an application for a marriage license and the issuing of the license. This suggestion abased of course on the ancient ecclesiastical practice of publishing the banns) seems the most hopeful of any remedy based on a change of law. We have al- ready seen that divorces have con- tinued to increase in spite of strict- er laws, which would lead us to believe that the problem is more a social one than a legal one. But at least this last suggestion attacks the problem at the right point, and seeks to prevent the evil rather than to cure it. Examine Marriage Prospects "It may reasonably be urged, however, that even this suggestion does not go far enough, and that society might well go much furth- er in insisting that prospective husbands and wives be adequately prepared to enter into that im- portant relationship. Our schools and colleges ?pretend to prepare their students for life, but they fall far short of giving a proper prep- aration for one of the most impor- tant relationships .of life. Until society sets out properly to pre- pare its boys and girls for this fundamental part of life, and to acquaint them with at least the economic and ethical problems in- volved, it can hardly expect that they will be able successfully to cope with the difficulties which surround that relationship. These difficulties arise often from defects in training and character. Train- ing and character cannot be sup- plied by law. The problem is therefore not one of law, but one of education. As somebody put it epigrammatically, the existence of the divorce problem does not prove that marriage is a failure, but that too.many failures get married. So- eietv's tak is tn lessen the number In perusing his national house- (Hy Associated Press) cleaning campaign, Juliu Maniu, I LONDON, Dec. 20.-West and new prime minister, has, accor- central London were given a start- lng to the newspaper Adevarul, ling reminder of war-time air raids discovered that an entire railroad, today when exploding gas mains "+including tracks, rolling stock and caused a miniature earthquake signal system, has been stolen The that heaved up long stretches of , newspaper said railroad inspectors streets and caved in shop fronts. ,'_. . .of the old administration were The explosion started. when a blamed for the disappearance of workman entered a manhole with the road. an electric blower used to remove The road was constructed by foul air from passages leading into Austro-Hungarian engineers in a large inspection chamber below wartime from Cluj, Transylvania, the roadway outside the postoffice to Jacobeni, Rumania. It was said depot in Broad St. to have cost almost $4,000,000. Ap- The first explosion was followed j parently it was dismantled piece- by a series of shocks along the fi- meal and the parts sold secretly. street, flinging curbstones into the ---- air, knocking down pedestrians and Crossing Of Wires shattering shop windows. One man-Ofrle hole lid was hurled high into the Brings Damage Suit air and crashed onto a motorbus. ------ Cracks appeared in the road, wood- ,.(y Associated Press> en blocks were heaped up and the MILWAUKEE, Dec. 20.-Because streets along which the explosions Capt de Vaisseau Darlan, French naval hero, shown paying his her beauty shop was given the took place looked like a jagged same telephone number as an old tren ac loke ik ajggdrespects to the American navy by calling on the U. S. S. West Virginia, same hoe Mae Lson trench. ladies home, Miss Marie Livmgston 12 Sent To Hospitals soon after anchoring off Los Angeles. He is in command of the 111 has filed suit for $10,000 damages Twelve persons were injured se- midshipmen from the Ecole Navale, the French Annapolis, making a against the Wisconsin Telephone riously enough to be sent to hos- world cruise aboard the French cruiser Edgar Quniet, for final training Co. pitals, while many suffered minor before being commissioned as officers of the French navy. ( Miss Livingston, in her com- hurts, being treated at the scene or _plaint, said that as a result of dup- returning to their homes. -_lication of the numbers in the Shaftsbury Avenue, New Oxford: /telephone book, her shop was re- Street, and streets in Bloomsbury ceiving calls asking about the con- were the principal ones affected dition of Mrs. So and so, or inquir- and the damage extended over ing whether her crutches arrived more than a mile of pavement. ! safely. The crash of the explosion was_ __-- worse than bombs during air raids, Pianos,,Raios, said the occupant of a flat nearby, who was blown off his feet. Victrolas Smoke rose to a height of 30 or and Everything Musical 40 feet after the first explosion, and residents of nearby dwellings i Make Your House a Home dashed into the streets and fireMH engines appeared from every di- This Christmas rection. Their services were not Pay next year. greatly needed and they soon de- parted. Schaeberle & Son There was much confusion as toW it the best of Holiday usic House exactly what had happened whenWt 110S. Main St. the workman entered the manholea where the original explosion took Greetings and wishing you&II,,, ,,,, ,,, ,uuu, place. There was a sudden scream,O TC a spurt of flame and a terrific ex- OPTICAL plosion. The workman' struggled* from te manhole with his cloth- DEPARTMENT ing afire but he was, quickly res-, k4I Lenses and Frames made cued and taken to a hospital. L To Orderd Horse Is Only Fatality A horse was killed and a taxi- Optical Prescriptions cab turned over, its driver being Filled taken from the shattered vehicle 7t 4f~tfli +t u1 to a hospital. H Fire brigades played their hoses! HA on flames shooting from one spot Nrteg cmt State St. Jewelers pany's emergency crew, wearing masks, worked vigorously on the mains. Eye-witnesses expressed aston- ishment that the casualties had not been worse. The fumes of gas still were drifting through the districtj- this afternoon and traffic was G" diverted from the affected area. iom p ny .. I > ir{, CHICAGO-The North Dakota basketball five is making a 5,500!- mile trip before returning to "The 14 om e. o f E rie rg;n.e Grand Forks. 209 South Fourth Ave. Subscribe to the Michigan Daily, $4.00 a year. -~~ Z a ~ J ~ ~~ U . r 'f .i i ii { I: r i I I ri I To All0 Our Friends )* l rrj ~lris~tna )A Jinnun WraTe Ilear uI PpTHAT'S the telephone "Hello" in Madrid. In London, it's"Are you there?" But in many foreign countries, Americans find a universal language in the telephone salutations. It's good old "Hello"-a subtle tribute to the fact that the telephone is an American invention. And so it is with elevator service. Even though they say "Diga" in Spain, the architects of the magnificent new Madrid Telephone Building unhesitatingly said "Otis" because Spain demanded the last word in elevators. You will find in Madrid the same type of Sig- nal Control Elevators that are now installed in those monumental telephone buildings in America, in New York, Cleveland, St. Louis and San Francisco. I ;