Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 295, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 April 1934 — Page 17

APRIL 20.1934

Bill Would Give Study of Divorce Forms Part of Drive to Change One-Ground New York Law. BY OR ETTA PAI.MER 1 linen Special Writer TWJEW YORK. April 20.—One of reasons why we don't have the sort of laws we like is that the list •if measures before the assembly makes -for the layman—such very dull reading. Protests from voters, which might swav the opinion of legislators, are

not sent because no one of us is ever quite sure what measures they arc considering or whether they have been reported out. of committee hearings or who. indeed, the legislators are. Here, then, is a whirlwind picture of the divorce bill situation as it exists in New York.today. ' Earlier in the month the Ross bill was defeat-

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ed in the assembly at Albany after some rather spirited debate. This bill would have amended the present New York laws <which insist on ariultry as the sole grounds! to include desertion for three years as cause. This bill did not have the support of several of the organizations pledged to the liberalizing of the divorce laws, because they considered it just a bit of patchwork. The Brooklyn Bar Association among others, went on record as supporting a far more sweeping and conclusive type of legislation than that oflered bv the defeated bill. Some social agencies feel that the desertion situation is too serious to wait, and they support the bill. Other reform groups are solidly behind the bill, which has been introduced by Senator Julius S. Berg, ‘‘to create a temporary state commission to examine and prepare changes in the laws relating to domestic relations and making an appropriation for the expenses of such commission.” Public Would Have Voice The Berg bill further provides that $25,000 be set aside for the work of the commission and that the public. as well as the assemblymen, be represented among its members. Now, then! Are you in accord with the present divorce laws of the state, which seem, to some liberals, to creak at the joints and cry out for reform? If not, you probably wish to see drastic changes made so that the wife of a maniac, for instance, may be made free or the husband of a convicted felon permitted a divorce. Perhaps you go further and feel that incompatibility alone is quite enough reason for the granting of a full and free divorce. Then this, it seems, is the time for you to say so. For senators vote as they think their constituents want them to, especially if the voters express themselves in overwhelming numbers. The Berg bill seems to offer a fair solution of the New York divorce tangle to any one discontented with the present laws, whatever his shade of opinion may be. It demands nothing but an airing of the whole question by an impartial commission, pledged to no platform or radicalism or conservatism. Out of its findings, we might expect reports which would result in humane and wise laws better, perhaps. than those which now prevail in any other state. Final Lecture Set Mrs. Demarchus Brown will give her closing lecture to the English literature class of the Irvington Union of Clubs at 8 Wednesday night at tlfe Irvington Presbyterian church. Guests will attend.

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