Y——— 400,000 DIVORCES IN PRESENT YEAR m——————————_ Something Must Be Done Says Justice Hoffman a——— HE WANTS FAMILY COURT Marriage As An Institution, He De- clares, Is Endangered In America Critizes Certain Young Lawyers. Boston, Mass.—The establishment of “family courts” to meet the menace to the marriage relation presented by the divorce evil was recommended by Ohlef Justice Charlies W. Hoffman. of the Court of Domestic Relations, at Cincinnati, O., in address before the American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology, in session here in connection with the annual meeting of the American Bar Association. “Marriage institution is dangered in America today the divorce evil, and the only save it is by th ily an 48 an en idence will be social ev om legal, ill Hoffman said. courts in which as distinguished eonsidered,” Judge “There will be more than 400,000 divorce filed before the of land this year and something must ba done save our family the Ereatest civillzing force we continued Do an extension which juver “It will be tem Juvenile court data the family the fa know! for the } a vyorce i equired No sci if law ha i ie on the suble of divore are granted for gartain uses, but no a to cla * cause Elin former state, speaking before the section t Bar Associat he favored wiping out “business of to bring about by statute “and that he believed best “to leave it to the judge Justice fr CASCSs to life, ourt should | principle are founded under this sys work of “The family up lL to divisions e:lania final urpose ha the De tar secretary judi fon, the attempting justice meager rules embodying the ntal principles are all that is he added. “One of ths with legislation today not permit the judges to do justice Young and in the legisla did not like Justice because a turn out Way should, proceed as soon as they get a chance bring about ought be made’ inexperienced lawye who, Views “because they of a certain matter did not they thought it tures the n or to the legislature » they think were largely responaible for the condition, he thought “The real reason for crit eourts is not that the people have lost faith the courts and in our judges, that they have come to where they want less and be bound by FOCH FIXES OCCUPIED AREA. in the chs to | fam of the vevifi don in confiaence but law Again Assigns Americans To Coblenz | Bridgehead. % pute 't awe dp AF ow var 3s 2 3 Coblen: i $00 Foch, the eammander-in<chiel, has dec upon the extent the territory in the Rhineland to be held permanently by American for 3 A will be twice az large as h has been under American jurisdiction since last combat division left for home By Marshal Foch's decision, whic was reached in Paris, the Americans Allied ided that whic the bridgehead proper, or exactly the same as the Americans have occupied since December last R. R. POSTAL CLERKS DEFIANT. $500 Bonus Or Resignations, Ultima- tum From Chicago. Chicago. Chicago postal clerks sent word to E. J. Ryan, national president of the Terminal Railway Clerks’ Asso. elation, at Washington, that unless they were granted a $500 bonus for this year wholesale “resignations” would become effective October 1. The local branch of the Rallway Clerks’ Association is composed of 350 members, and it was said the walkouts would not be confined to Chicago, but would interrupt service in the entire sixth division of the association, com prising lllinols and Iowa. CAPITAL cops TO FIGHT ORDER. Will insist On Right To Membership in Union. , Washington, ~ Washington police men declared they will fight the order of the District of Columbia Commis sloners, that officers must resigh from # union afMilated with the American Federation of Labor or leave the force. Court action may be started to prevent the commissioners putting their order into effect. {ARMY OF 1,250,000 Never Again Be Caught Unpre- pared, The General Declares. Washington.-——Germany never would have provoked the United States Into entering the world war if the interest on the war expenditures of the War Department alone had been used for preparedness in time of peace, the House Military Committee was told by General March, Chief of Staff. The General appeared at hearings on the War Department plans for a perman- ent military policy, The interest on the $14,000,000,000 spent by the War Department. the General said, would finance the future military program advocated by the Department, which calls for a system of universal military training and a regular army of 576,000 men. World-wide unrest prompted the General March said, explaining that the regular army would be the skele ton organization for a field army 1,250,000 men, “It would practical-sized force for invasion in a moderate-sized war,” declared General March. It provide a first line of and which we train in a bi In in be a also would defense behind gE War. fortunate our Allies my, and bshind The War De. wants to be caught the last war we were to have a ring of iron that around the e could never ne which partment wo train again To plans owt the nditure Ty carry £X Pe would be necess he maximum i gaOG 0H d 3 CONFERENCE DATE IS SELECTED. Labor And Capital Will Meet In Wash ington Octobe United State leading agri to Gompers Pederation 0 they submit no: senting list, list of h Samuel American that minat each the After n dent will gales repre group Toi Presi 8 Own red eiving select a ind com the two £5 del THE OIL LEASING BILL PASSED. $45 5 egates w Senate Finally Acts After Days Of Debate. igton, —W passed the bill t of put its of oll, coal, ord v make § ands hay phosphate Washir the Senate the posit tnout a red bik gas, sible leasin ing de and sodium. in ng the approved amendmen ator Harris, Democrat, provide that under act oil companies in var Senate Sen the ts offered by Georgia, which measure pass] the Clayton may not ie would Anti charge different pr of the trust ieee aris We pars country PAN-GERMANS FOR MONARCHY, Says Austria Would Welcome Hohenzollern. The League at Amsterdam leaders of Pan man Berlin Sunday for a ret of ing to capital M. Bozin, a lawyer of V that the a gathering In ire {307 expressed their de 3 % 4 a wer} > Et ir: the monarchy, ace ard. : i the German jenna, de Haps He desire clared in his ape burgs had disappeared forever tri Austr ns asserted that the rule by a Hohenzollern and that a revoiution ca they support when Le would IMPORT OF DYES PERMITTED. U. 8. Manufacturers May Get Month Supply From Germany. Washington. ~<Importation of a six months’ supply of dyes from Germany for American manufacturers will be sllowed under a ruling announced by the War Trade Board. Manufacturers have been requested to file statements with the board showing the total gquan- titles of dyes needed for the six months’ period beginning October 1. PACKER PLEADS GUILTY. Cuhahy Brother Company Pays A Heavy Fine. Milwaukee. ~~Cudahy Brothers Com: pany, packers, pleaded guilty in the District Court to 23 viclations of the cold-storage law and was fined {ie maximum amount on each charge, t taling $2,300. THE SUGAR SHORTAGE TO LAST. Equalization Board Sees Little Hope Of Ending It. Washington.—There ia little hope of relieving the sugar shortage for some time, officials of the Sugar Equaliza- tion Board notified Senator Hitchcock in response to a request for informa. tion, CARRANZISTAS FIRED ON FLIERS Mexican Consul Takes Steps for Punishment of Guilty NO IMMEDIATE REPRISALS Asserts Purpose Was Merely To Cause Americans To Fly Higher And Cease Frightening Horses, Laredo, mediate States with the Texas. Possibility of an im- retaliatory action by United military forces in conection attack on an American Army has been eliminated, it was here by t admission of authorities that attack was made by Carranza soldiers. Capt. David W, McNabb was 1, but Lieut. Von De P. he slightly Johnson, EMBRACES WIFE AND BOTH ARE KILLED, Chicago.~-"1'1] stay Mary.” With theses words Wil- Ham F. Tanner, a cashier in the offices of the Baltimore and Ohio Rallroad here, closed his eyes, embraced his wife, whose fool was caught in a rallroad frog and was killed with her when a limited train on the Chicago and North. western Railroad crashed into them. John Miller, a fiagman, in tempting to rescue the couple lost his left leg and sustained a frac ture of the right arm. Three little children are orphans today because of the fateful dec! sicn of Tanmer to die with his wife, GERMANY GETS AN ULTIMATUM with you, ui» jury. While official ing, Army 1 was lack ssion gained in this admission has hands information the Impre WAS tion from the far ncerned and placed in di removed the of the military so #48 emergency action is co rectly up to Washington for diplomu To Punish Those Guilty, Mexican ( ann Garcia is t Mexi na Mexican H troog Scared orees. the statement ators were times except thes pass sudds¢ KILLS EMPLOYER AND HERSELF. And Manufactur Die In Chicago. Stenographer er AR Breaking thr woman's apartment police found sted she had yinmnitted st SQUADRON MOVES ON REDS. British Ships On Way To Approaches To Petrograd. nhagen A large British =q passed Koenigsburg, bound eastward, the nad Be at Berlin local newspaper Berlingske Tidende reports. The war. ships were believed to be reinforce. ments for an approaching general of- fenseive against the Bolsheviki In Northern Russia, OD ron has HOUSE TO RETURN TO PARIS, Will Resume Piace In American Peace Delegation, Washington.—Col. E. M. House whn fs in London conferring with officials i | i i i i ! i tution is Not Changed | It Provides For Austrian Dr. Merger Renner Takes Aus trian Treaty To Vienna. Treaty Explicit On Point Article £ the Versailles BCRDOW i¢ dre $ the indenand tae Inge px i of Au the frontiers which that Bt: ea within be fixed in a treaty between and the prin and aseocia this ipal allied powers; she agrees inde be with the nsent © League © { Natior n The text 3 German Constitution 5 4 except of the pendence shall the paragraph in the referred to hae n this it of not been received | country bowever, that the ¢l of in Earope and Austria, with ding that Austria number of rej 2 ] EATS, AUR ap German a wy "nil plied to all territorios peaking peoples there German the of gry ¥ mig presenta German Parliament to the Austrian poj Austria Gets Treaty. Chancellor Kar head of the Austrian peace left trots treaty, Paris delegation here for Vienna with the peace Just fo the He indicated that he would which was handed Austrians, rob ask for an extension of time Austrian on Bat ably the General Assembly would meet urday and Sunday to discuss ihe iria 80 requests The Austrian eral treaty was presented to the Paul Dutasta, the Peace C also handed them delegates by secretary of He on Counie posals and a covering letter r ing that Austria had precipitate an ultimatum it was get forth. however lies were willing to unacceptable Serbia Aus tria 10 adapt herself to her new situa the fa ansiat near The treaty was presented in French, and Italian texts. The Supreme Council discussed the of nations, will return to Parizs to re sume his work as a niember American peace delegation as scon as his present mission is completed, a« cording to an announcemcit by the State Department. ULSTERITES WANT HEARING. of Loyal Orangemen Write Senate Com. mittes For Chance. New York..~The Loyal Orange In. stitution announced that Inasmuch as the Senate Foreign Relations Com mittee had heard the “Friends of Irish Freedom” MW its eonsideration of the peace treaty an early hearing has been asked for the “Friends of Ulster's Self-Determination and Asso clated Organizations.” in the near future with an emphatic note demanding an immediate reo sponse by Roumania to the cotncil’s commiinications, The peace treaty to be offered Bul garia, says the Temps, contains an ar ticle by which Bulgaria will bind itself to accept future decision by the pow ers with regard to Thrace and the Aegean Sea. The Aegean seaport, access to which the Allles have decided to give Bul garia under the peace treaty, is Dedea gatch, together with the railway lead: ing to that port. Floating mooring buoys have been made of concrete by an English In ventor, PENNSYLVANIA STATE ITEMS ee ——— Harrisburg —State struction the malin here and Bunbury has ed through requisit ernment of cars of xi » consi to the contrac Harrisburg, compensation tdeeigions ; fehren final receipt American ter; Cannello ve, Rice & Sons, delphja, Wetition dismissed: vi, Belfi Brothers, Philadelphia; Pha- ro vs. Just company, Chester Springs Harrisburg. New rates and regula. tion of the Lewistown-Reedville Wat. er «ou were attacked In a com- piaint 1! by the public xervice IMEsiOn by Jd. Shrcfller, or and Miller, iy FO TE i Wiklows i y | | > Con Bighway on route been interrm ipt- loning by the gov. Or, The state workmen's board announced these receipt disapproved, & Co., Philadelphia; aside, Mechan vs ve {hes Phila Croco Final Gill 2 Ad VE, Locomotl cOpany, mpany ed com- Ins Mon 1h Butler here baru farm rem ready Uniontow: they heavy wer McCullough who thei them Nave bring 1 1 x pres ent to va who came free of char Whi oven at the Connellsville sleeping Davids Clayton Bowman, aged thirty ses of Charleroi, was iy Injured that he died within =a time, Both legs were severed Hollidayebur James A. DB, vin, president the Altoona company, di his home city He was gixty-niine Mr. Melvin was of bankers in this section, Mansfield. Virgil and Elmer Stout, song of Mr. and Mrs John Stout, al the risk of thelr lives, saved thelr five-yearold sister, Myrtle, drowning when the little girl fell Into f/f well Summit Hilk-~Council has provided for a bond lsene for the installation of a modern fire alarm system. Allentown.~-Mre. Robert Detweller, of this place, was thrown thirty feet to the sidewalk in her home when the balustrade at the porch broke, but was not seriously injured. Altoona. Employes of the Schwan senbach-Huber company's silk mille, here and in Hellidaysburg and Juni fata, have been given a 3 per cent In crease in the wage bonus, Bethlehem ~The Prohibition party will have no candidates at the coming “ty election here. on fn i vk ©” on works, 80 Dal short Mel Trust in this years old the foremosl one haw county. usual, In Hunna hegan : Ares, Mayes and H, Ee, are kis be ohare @iready sinr which Is a Haid and Eagle son William also busy on th fob VOar's aCCO Crop to eparied up fo the lLehightor The yokinflice tandard ib very wap epart finite from the highion {air grounds, { where it was prog f that un stat ment i rial has removed all airplane wed to erect han for mail York depart t gars and make carrying non planes between New The postoffice expects to close all airplane sta- state believing the entire crossed without making and Ch {| ment CAago. tions in the i state can he stops, ie | sent | leson make needs of this city in Pending his have A posinl by Postn adding inspector eH ifs of Was Bur- the veries ge de yiga- here » {Jene to igation dell an 1 ! nai recommenda been re §8 It i heen Anna fur he lighted pire furnace the latter effort teaching high renin ns during French was substituted will be of Ger school N 5 ive the New riculum will in the Castle The cur ! the last year { for German Malden Creek Taxpayers of this township have petitioned the conrt ie remove the school directors, alleging that they refuse bv maintain the | school gt Schlemsville in a sanitary condition, York Jesse 8. Siambaugh, whe has served the borough of Spring Grove as postmaster for the last four Years, has been reappointed, Mountain—~Two large deer have been noticed grazing In the fields near the foothills of the Blue mountaine Allentown, « Stephen Steak, four years old, of this city, vas probably fatally hurt when a pile of heavy tim- bers on which he was playing rolled on him, Hazleton, ~ The annual summer meeting of the Lower Anthracite , Bankers’ sssociation was held at i Hazle Park,
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