MORAL WAVE SWEEPS NEVADA

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13522, 2 November 1911, Page 5

MORAL WAVE SWEEPS NEVADA

DIVORCE NOT TO BE SO EASY. NEW YORK, October 28. Nevada, notorious as ono of the American States in which divorces can be obtained so easily, has been swept by a sort of moral wave. i As a result of the agitation against the ease with which ill-mated couples can get the matrimonial knot untied, the Legislature is now considering a new law which, if passed, will do away with what is known as the divorce colony, and will make a year’s residence in the State compulsory for all those seeking relief from connubial troubles. IMPORTANCE OF RENO. When the Divorce Court Is Sitting. For years past the divorce laws of the State of Nevada have been the subject of a .considerable amount of adverse comment on the part of the leaders and supporters of the churches. It. is, therefore, no surprise that a strong party has been found to approach the Legislature to alter the conditions of the Divorce Act. Reno, a leading town in Nevada, and the scone of the Jeffries-Johnson fight, is the rendezvous of those-, who desire to have the marriage ties unbound. The residential qualification is six months, at the end of which the cases are cited. The Reno newspapers pay special attention to the Divorce Court, and the stories published are generally of an exciting and readable kind. The large eastern papers, such as the New York World. New York American, and the New York Herald, send special correspondents to Reno when the Divorce Court is sitting. The colonv referred to in the foregoing message is a combination of leading hotels in a fashionable part of Reno, where those seeking divorce stay during their temporary residence.