Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 121, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1920 — MOVIES BLAMED IN DIVORCE EVIL [ARTICLE]

MOVIES BLAMED IN DIVORCE EVIL

Washington, May 17.—An attack on the national board of censore of motion pictures contained in the report of the committee on temperance and social service of the Southern Baptist convention was eliminated today when the report came up for adoption. Washington, •D. C., May 17.— Moving pictures, lax laws and intemperance are blamed for the numerous divorces in the United States by the committee of ’temperance and social service in its report to. the Southern Baptist convention today. Quoting from government statistics on the number of divorces obtained annually in the country, - the report shows that in 1916, whOn the last figures were gathered, them; were 112,036 divorces. The report recommends among other things the publishing of the marriage bans for at least thirty days before the rite can be celebrated; physical examination of each party by a physician and the establishment of a uniform code which as nearly as possible, should dome to the basis of Bible teaching concerning the ground of divorce with the right of marriage and that in all other cases when divorces be granted it be without the right of remarriage. *. *