Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 86, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1912 — To Teach Domestic Peace [ARTICLE]

To Teach Domestic Peace

Social Worker Makes a Recommendation to Court of New Way to Fight the Divorce Evil. Indianapolis.—A school of domestic relations in which men and women would be taught the essentials of domestic harmony will be recommended to Judge Collins by Dr. Hannah M. Graham, president of the Equal Suffrage association, as an aid in decreasing the number of police court cases growing out of domestic difficulties. T ~, Dr. Grahdm attended the woman’s session of police court, sitting on the bench with Judge Collins. She heard several cases that were almost entirely the outgrowth of domestic trouble that could have been avoided easily, and at the conclusion of court expressed the opinion that men and women need more education In domestic harmony, and less punishment The school, according to Dr. Graham’s idea, would be conducted by a

board five or six public-spirited citizens, both men and women. Lectures would be given once a week for police court “habituals,” and for other persons. “There is such a lot of good to be seen in the faces of many of those people who appear in police court,” said Dr. Graham, “that I feel something should be done for them.”