MORALS IN AMERICA

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19614, 19 October 1925, Page 8

MORALS IN AMERICA

BIRTH CONTROL AND DIVORCE

EVILS. OUTSPOKEN DENUNCIATION. Afaoelatioa —By Tel»gr»ph —Cepyrigfi* NEW YORK, October 16. (Received Oct. 18, at 5.5 p.m.) A message from New Orleans states that in its denunciation of birth control i,i:d the divorce evil a committee of the Protestant Episcopal Convention declared that family life in America was threatened by divorce, which had grown 500 per cent, in the past 50 years. The report stated: “The nation is lax. Facilities for dissolving marriage abound, inflaming every trifling dispute, inviting discord, encouraging infidelity, and stimulating hasty secret unions by thousands of young i people, who, knowing that the Jaw permits consecutive polygamy, enter into the marriage state with the deliberate purpose of quitting it if the first attempt is unsatisfactory. Allowing for beautiful exceptions the home of America has ceased to function. All this accounts for the increase in lawlessness, immodesty, and juvenile depravity. Education and Prohibition legislation furnishes no check on the crime wave. Our ills grow out of the breakdown of the home.” The convention considers the Brown heresy case closed. The judge dismissed, owing to lack of jurisdiction. Brown’s plea for an injunction restraining the house of bishops from expelling him.—A. and N.Z. Cable.