Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 269, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 March 1934 — Page 5

MARCH 21, 1934.

Wives’ Aid Required to End Alimony Law Penn its Divorcee to Prey Upon Man Indefinitely. BY GRETTA PALMER, limn Special Writer NEW YORK. March 21.—A woman has joined the Alimony Club. She is Mrs. Rose Fox of the Bronx, and her initiation fees were accepted at the first dinner meeting of that association last week, although she is a woman, has never

paid alimony and says she is happily married. There should certainly be some organization, I believe, through which women can protest against the laws which make the alimony racket possible in New •York. This question of alimony abuses is very much a woman's battle. Only

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a few men suffer from the archaic condition of our laws. Only a few, comparatively, get divorced from women willing to take advantage of their power to plunder. But all women suffer because these abuses still exist. We are as a sex constantly and concertedly asking for equality in industry, politics and before the law. And to every well-marshaled argument we can present the opposition can always answer, “Yes, but you’re willing to forget about equality when it comes to alimony law’s. - ’ We accept special privileges as women at the moment when we protest against special privileges for men. The alimony laws are of assistance to only a few women, some of whom obviously fall into the classification “gold-digger.” These laws permit a childless wife j who has lived with her husband a week or a year, to claim a fat portion of his income for the rest of his life and to throw him into jail if he does not pay. They permit a woman who has remarried and is well taken care of to continue to collect alimony from the first husband. k Malice a Weapon They permit a woman, out of sheer malice, to keep a man in jail, where he obviously can not earn a living, if slie can convince the judge that he has concealed assets. These things are obvious matters of social injustice. Common sympathy maxes one want to get the poor devil on the right side of the bars. But there is more to it than that. It is a problem which women, out; of simple self-respect, seem appointed to solve. And of this you may be sure—the legislature will listen to ouch a plea coming from women with a great deal more attention chan if it comes fiom anyj other group. Legislators are, on the whole, a pretty tirmd lot. You might be, too, if your career depended on a re-election and if re-election depended on not offending anybody. The legislature is pretty apt to stop and wonder whether it is alienating the woman's vote. If the demand for change comes from women themselves tney can proceed to vote on the amendments I on their merits and possibly destroy! yrhe only debtor prisons left in this j country. Childless Wives Should Work What kind of alimony laws should women fight to have enacted? The answer hinges in large part ! on the question of whether childless women ought to work. Ideally. I believe, alimony should be awarded as the father’s contribution toward the support of his children —and for nothing else. The wife who has no children and who worked before her marriage should get herself a job and not penalize her husband for having lived with her. But where the wife has helped the husband in building up a nest egg of a fortune everything each • took into marriage should revert, i with divorce, to the original owner; ; everything assembled since they | should divide. And the father should support or help support the children. This is an extreme point of view : —far more extreme than the de- j mands of the Alimony Club.

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A Womans Viewpoint BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

THE violent earth tremor you felt the other day was William Blackstone turning over in his grave. That most famous of English jurists, who once held that woman had no legal entity, must have been greatly perturbed if the news reached him that Judge Florence Allen of Ohio is a member of the United States circuit court of appeals. Apoplexy, no less, would have been the result of any such information when Mr. Blackstone resided in the flesh. For more than a hundred years after he left it, other men would have been affected in the same manner. Even today the news is revolutionary except that we now are so accustomed to minor revolutions in the social order that we pay no attention to them. It is needless to say anything about Judge Allen's fitness for her new position. The truly significant fact of her appointment is not that a woman is qualified to fill such an office but that a man now sits in the White House with enough intelligence to utilize feminine talent. Heavens knows the legal profession needs some kind of a jolt. The swish of petticoats may be a rather strange sound within the sacred portals of the legal temple, but it will be a pleasant one to the ears of listening laymen on the outside. I believe we might safely permit men to make all our laws if only we were given an opportunity to help in their interpretation and application. The judicial part of our government has grown implacably masculine in its nature, and for this reason is. hard, cold, remote and technical in all its aspects. It has become a mere instrument in the hands of jousting lawyers instead of a means of procuring justice for the afflicted. There is a grave need for feminine influence in all professions, and none suffers its lack so much as the legal profession. Women are more straightforward in their approach to problems, more scornful of technicalities, and therefore much more likely to feel that codes should be made to serve the neeejs of individuals. If it is to be preserved in anything like its present form, American law must be feminized. We

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Club to Be Setting for Style Show Women Golfers Sponsor Appearance of Ayres Models. Spring fashions in sportswear will be shown by models of L. S. Ayres & Cos. at the annual buffet luncheon and card party of the Indianapolis Women's Golf Association Monday, April 9, at Highland Golf and Country Club. Mrs. George O. Stewart, president, has appointed a special committee for the party. The members are: Mrs. Robert Craig, Highland Club; Mrs. John Spiegel, Meridian Hills; Mrs. E. M. Chamberlin, Indianapolis; Mrs. David Lurvey, Broadmoor; Mrs. Vance Oathout, Hillcrest; Mrs. Harry Mountain, Pleasant Run, and Mrs. Earl Moorman, Riverside. Mrs. Melville Cohn is vice-presi-dent of the association and Mrs. Ben Olsen, secretary-treasurer. The standing golf committee is composed of Mrs. J. J. Lange, Highland; Mrs. George M. Weaver, Meridian Hills; Mrs. E. P. Dean, Indianapolis; Mrs. Sam Goldstein, Broadmoor; Mrs. William Hutchinson, Hillcreast; Mrs. Frank Jones, Pleas- I ant Run; Mrs. Scott Legge, Riverside, and Mrs. Charles Bush, South Grove. Both contract and auction bridge will be played. Players will not progress, but all will play the same number of rounds. Rush Tea Arranged Mary Elizabeth Karstadt will dance at the rush tea to be held by Delta Sigma Kappa sorority Sunday afternoon at the home of Miss Mildred Weber, 3233 North Meridian street. Mrs. Arthur Brumfield, sorority mother, will attend. | A Day’s Menu j | Breakfast — Oranges, cereal, cream, j | scrambled eggs, whole j wheat muffins, milk, cos- ! fee. | Luncheon — Cream of salsify soup, ! ‘ corn sticks, cress and ap- j { pie salad, rice souffle, | i milk, tea. ! I | Dinner—j Fruit cocktail, roast pork, j I browned potatoes, creamed ' s green beans, apple and j celery salad, cranberry j . frappe, milk, coffee.

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