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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2nd, 1927.
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WILL THE FLAPPER VOTE BRING FREER DIVORCE?
SOME LESSONS FROM AMERICA;
[BY ROBERT F. HARRIS, B.A., LL.D., OF THE MICHIGAN AND COLORADO STATE BARS.]
A recent articles by Lord Buck- States have added impotency and master on England's divorce laws non-support for a period of one or haa, it seems, awakened general two years as further grounds, and interest and aroused fervid discus- some have expanded cruelty to sion. But no one could be more read, "extreme and repeated acts interested in it than one who, like of cruelty, either physical or the present writer, has lived much mental" (to quote the Colorado of his life under almost the iden- statute). tical laws which Lord Buckmaster now advocates for England, and
upon most of the proposed grounds (though not for himself, he hastens to add).
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MANNERS OF THE MIDSHIPMAN.
"RAG" THAT AMAZED A GERMAN OFFICER.
CAPTAIN IN. A RUGGER. SCRUM.
Once, in my ignorance, I believed that the Gun Room in a battleship was a kind of armoury in which officers drank pink gin against a background of The Gun Room is, of course, the twelve-pounders. mess of the midshipmen, as the Ward Room is the mess of the com- nissioned officers.
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America is, among other things, a vast laboratory for social and middle-aged woman came to me and I recall one early experience. A political experiment. Forty-eight hit-and-miss experiments under said she wished me to secura forty-eight varying sets of condi- divorce for he daughter. Accord. tions are continually seething and ing to their story the young bus bubbling away, producing a multi-band, though but six months mar- tude of bad odours and an occa- ried abused his wife shamefully, sional explosion. Yet the experi- ments go on, yielding strange and varied results, and surely none more various than in domestic matters.
Cash-and-Carry. Divorce
In their enactments on divorce the American States rango all the way, from the Carolinas, which allow no divorce whatever, on any ground through New York State, whose laws are rather similar to England's; and so on out to the breezy State of Nevada, which, with true Western hospitality, offers" cash-and-carry divorces after but three months of residence and upon almost any grounds which one may fancy-except, I believe, those quite important ones some times found in the morning coffee. And doubtless these constitute incompatibility" and "extreme mental cruelty."
In studying this variation be- tween the States, it is interesting to note that almost without excep tion liberal divorce laws have fol- lowed closely upon the granting of complete suffrage to women at twenty-one. In the West we have End Votes for Women" since the early nineties, and liberal divorce for that same period of time. In parts of New England and in the Old South they still rather frown on women at the polls (though the right of suffrage is now universal), and these same, States ätill cling to old and illiberal divorce lawa.
In the West women are the plain tiffa in four out of five of our cases, "and they are, of course, the chief beneficiaries from divorce, not only in the obvious way of alimony, but in the even more precious coia of freedom. Divorce, then, like mar riage, is primarily woman's" busi- ness, and it is interesting to specu- Iste whether or not "Votes for
Flappers" means liberal divorce for England,
even to the extent of beating her head again the wall. Presently stand, "Now tell us." urged the the young wife was on the witness Judge. just why is it your hus- band always seizes you by the hair? The bride looked up at the Judge coyly and shook her short blond locks. "I don't know. Jim says he can't help himself. Some how he just can't keep his fingers out of my hair!" The Judge order- ed him to try hard for another six months,
Such cases, however, are
very much the exception. The vast majority are those in which the plaintiff (usually a woman) is a sober, middle-aged and hard-work- ing person whose spouse, weary of vinculum matrimonii, has gone the way of all flesh and disappeared. Their domestic life is at an end.
A divorce of the most practical sort has long eince occurred; the unhappy plaintiff is merely seeking legal and social recognition of what is already an accomplished fact. This the Western States offer her for as little na twenty-five pounds inclusive (if the case is not contested and no money settlement is involved),.
How
But this sanction and protection England and New York, for illus trațian, deny to this woman; her poly chance is for her spouse to become rich enough and callous enough to return and stage & rather unsavoury farce in a convenient hotel the mouwent must wait upon the guilty. To those who sre poor and, to those who still have, sensibilities even this is denied nothing remains. but a lifetime of lonely sterility or a gradual drift into an illicit union truly an ironic alternative.
Exuberance.
If there is one word which sums
ed through the scuttle (ar port self being armly and expertly push- TJIKEMBANG BEAT, KLUNG. 28th
TJIMANOEK
hole) minus his, trousers.
If the Gua Room wishes to pay a tribute to one whom it loves, it, de-bags. the adored after dinner; if the Gun Room wishes to hurt the feelings of one it hates; it de-bags the hated one after dinner; in firmation of the suspicion that love which the philosopher may find con- and hate are akin in their ultimate manifestations.
The Gun Room of H.M.S. - penetrable is a small room the size of a suburban drawing-room, but there the resemblance ceases with startling auddenness.
One's first impression is that, in order to make it fit for future Admirals to live in, violent, but battles have entirely successful, been fought with cloakroom attend- ants in every part of the British Isles. Wash and Brush Up, 3d.,' and other signs hang proudly on the walks in wrought copper, card- board, and plain enamel.
Three young midshipmen were sitting in the Gun Room-one' at a table writing, one full length on an experienced looking Bettre, and the third beside an ancient and alcoho fic piano which, like all Gun Room pianos, is now and then given a glass of beer just to encourage the poor blighter. -
A Guaroom " Moan."""
They had, I gathered, just con-
** moan.
moan" of a Gran. Room is the cluded
Now the naval version of an Army "grouse," only it is organised better, and is more comprehensive.
ful forms into chairs, and one The midshipmen fling their moan-
says:--
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Come on, you chaps, let's have a. moan !"
the first, and so they go on in great Well; my moan is..." begins detail. It is good for the soul: a kind of spiritas! emetic.
The unofficial description of a midshipman is: "A method of con voying abuse from one naval officer to another naval officer of senior
"Well, you see, sir, it's like this," explained a midekipman, The captain calls me and be says, Go and a Lieutenant Brown what he imagine's he's doing with that boat! I go and say, 'Please, sir, the captain wants to know what you are doing with that boat! Oh,' says Lieutenant Brown with unsecufly anger, the aaswer is go to hell! Then I go back and say, Mr. Brown says that it's all right, sir, and he'll be of in a second, "eir ! You see the idea.
up America it is the word exuber-rank ance. It seems that we can hardly I don't understand that," The Great Open Spaces.
do a thing without overdoing it, zaid.. As in all other matters, easy and doubtless we in the Western generalisations and statistical States have gone too far in this "averages" cancerning divorce are matter-eo far, indeed, that with us of dubious worth. One can say, one marriage out of every seyen: however, that the old South is still now enda in divorce (a figure which strongly opposed to divorce and ever Japan sanat equal). It is still regards the divorcee as rather not a record "to be proad of, a social parish; that New England and it is one of which we may be is op the whole conservative; but | sure that Enginod, with her that the great open spaces of steadier poise and truer sense of the Middle West and the Pacife ultimate values, will never deprive Coast, comprising the larger part us. both of the area and the population Perhaps the best summary of the of America, have now had liberal entire situation is in the words of divorce for a generation and seem a certain Episcopal minister in the ingly have adopted it is a fixed States who audaciously defends policy.
divorce, to the scandal of his By liberal divorce I mean exactly | bishop. "No, I do Dot like means: divorce," he saye, but I prefer it what Lord Buckmaster Divorce for "desertion, cruelty, in to progressive polygamy." curable insanity, drunkenness and England has very little divorce life imprisonment," to quote his to-day, but she maintains a large words. These are the exact colony on the Riviers, and there grounds for absolute, divorce in a is even one at Brighton, so I am number of Western States; some told.-Evening Standard.
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SYDNEY, N.S.W. Australia's net gain of popula tion from immigration during the first seven months of this year was almost 5,000 greater than in the same period last year.
According to the Commonwealth Statistician (Mr. Wickens), British people comprised 80 per cent of the Europeans arriving during July last and 87-per cat of those departing.
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FINES FOR STRIKE AGITATORS:
PRIMO DE RIVERA'S ORDER.
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A striking example of Spanish Government methods is, to be found in the following communication by General Primo de Rivera to the Civil Governor at Ovido:
As a consequence of your tele phone message, be good enough to adopt measures conducing to im- pede all oral and written pro- paganda, tending to advocate or.. prepare a strike or its generali- sation, ordering arrests or banish- ments from Asturias as you may think necessary to assure order and liberty to work, principles the defence of which well merit the adoption of decisions, which the auspansion of renders legal.
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In the case of the promoters, apart from Governmental mea sure, you are to impose fines of & special character and not per mit either the Press or the clubs to collaborate in complicating state of things which, for the moment, interests more than any- one - the workmen themselves, whose economical situation, un- fortunately, does not permit them to suffer the results of a stop. page.
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The Government is determined. not to cease in the adoption of measures which shall restore equilibrium in the coal dispute to avoid the ruin, of the district and the spectacle of its workers and their families deprived of their salaries, and for that reason will not hesitate to employ any means of avoiding captious diff- culties, cellen NA
A midshipman receives £7 108. month, and his average mees bil is Of course, I don't cane one £4 10. If he is under eighteen, his month," said this young demi-god wine bill for the month is limited to mac," but now and then, don't to s., over eighteen, he can apend find themselves, wearing a jacket you know, one simply has to pre-154. on drink. If he exceeds this of the same pattern as that which vent them making foole of them he goes before the captain, and i the Queen made for the layette of selves. Then they get six of the
knows all about it, frequently her granddaughter the little Prin best."
The midshipmen sleep amidships beerless weeks.
taking the water cure for long, cess Elizabeth.
in hammocks, or on the floor, Some of Princesas Mary's earliest
Pre-War Reminiscence. sewing, done in her school-room, wrapped in blankets. One of the
Before the war the officers of a was for the Needlework Guild great arts in moving about a battle- There were stitches which had to ship at night is not to walk on
German battleship dined aboard a the sleeping anotties.
British battleship, Things became be taken out sad put in again
Early in the morning, a midship-bright, even brilliant. The German many times. Now the Princess is one of the presidents of the guild, known as the Duty Spotty, awakens willing, to join in the furs. The cite of the workers in Asturias, but man detailed day by day, and officers stood apart, unable, or un-
The proposal for renewing work. Some of the Christmas gifts and head of an important group his messmates by the simple act sight of midshipmen waltzing with was rejected by the owners. Cer
was approved by a general plebis- mado by the Queen and Princess of workers for it. Her stall Mary are ready for distribution always one of the largest at the of either kicking them or prodding senior officers offended their sense tain elements are endeavouring to. They were made by their own exhibition, which is held at the flock of starlings, chattering as only the murky end of the evening, the to make fresh trouble by organising them. They then awaken like a of propriety. Somehow, towards take advantage of this circumstance hands during Queen Mary's holi- Imperial Institute at South Ken day at Balmoral and the Princess's sington before the garments are dis- the very young can chatter at 8.30 captain of the British ship emerged a general strike which the great. in Yorkshire.
tributed among the sick and poor, and disappear on deck to be from the undergrowth of & Rugger majority wish to avoid Nearly all of them are knitted, in hospitals, nursing institutions, drilled by a master-gunner or to scrum wearing the jacket of 20 and, although the Royal workers missions, and refuges, and to poor try out their nascent authority on shipman, and declaring that never may have had some help to the parishes in London
all they can. squads of seamen, who help them had a better "rag been staged by the Navy since Britannia ruled the itself is so smooth and even that Gifts From The King
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The King, the Prince of Wales, They dress for dinner, whistling
"And you," said the senior. Ger made by our pair of handa. Prince Henry, and Prince George popular toxtrots, and at this time man offer to the British, captain,
The Queen kuite more especially have their share the guild. you can often hear the name of command this ship for the babies. Princess Mary's There is always a display of men's some actress mentioned with devo 20TH DECEMBER, 1927.
Ito," said the British captain, knitting is for older children garments bought with subscription, for the Gun Room is subject straightening his midshipman'a
A discovery that prehistoric men For BRISBANE, SYDNEY, MELBOURNE & ADELAIDE those of the age of her own two tione from the men of the Royal to pashes Some Gun Rooms jacket; and, what's more, I'll rere in all probability cannibals
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My have. I believe, push for Tel race you round the man's jacket has been made by scientists ia benefit the queen, who had over 13,000 have. I believe, push for Tal- For the hospitals which under the Queen's Guild there are garments on last year's lists, ap- pash" for Gertrude Lawrence,They damned well do" said Four skulls of the neolithic age
"And they obey you-after this 7 Central Russia. often dainty cat covers of wool in proved, a rule for workers which and come are even sufficiently the British captain. a pattern which the Queen finde requested them to age that but enterprising to write to the object
have been found; An examination soothing to do Little matinét tons and strings are on all gar of the current "pash" and request mused the German, who departed thropologists who have examined "I don't understand it at all of them proves, according to an- coats are favourite examples, too, ments requiring them, and that a signed photograph. This is never wrapped in a perfect fog of misthem, that neolithic men were of her work, and babies in the everything is properly finished refused. KE East End of London may easily off."
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