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? I Kathleen Norris Says: The Alimony Racket Bell Syndicate.?WNU Features. She will have her low affairs and her freedom; she will feel herself infinitely superior to the quiet girl who sticks to her bargain. By KATHLEEN NORMS T*HERE was a smartly dressed, beautifully grfeo<$ied young woman on the train with me a few weeks ago; we played gin-rummy to gether. At Reno she was to leave the train. "For the usual reason, 1 sup pose?" I said. "For a divorce," she an swered, with a sudden tighten ing of her lips. - And resentfully she added, "I gave him two of the best years of my life, and now belli pay me (600 a month for the rest of his!" It made me consider afresh what I often have thought of alimony; that alimony is essentially unfair, and that men, who make and change laws so easily, are rather stupid that they don't regularize this one. The childless woman I I quote above was about 28. It is pos sible that "he," whoever he is, will be paying her $0,000 a year for more than 40 years. A quarter of a rtbiwoa dMla'rs for the 24 months she spent in, disillusioning him and hffsjMsg his heart. . SUch a woman, if I judged her rightly, will not re-marry while this golden river is rolling in. She will have tier love affairs and her free dom; she will feel herself infinitely superior to the quiet girl who sticks to her bargain, keeps her man hap py and secure, and raises children. And the tragedy of it is that some- f times she will succeed in making 1 the quiet home woman wonder if perhaps the girl who was going 1 to Reno wasn't the smarter, after i V? . ' * Far Three Tears Only. c Alimony ought to be adjusted 1 first with the safety of the children < in view. If there are no children, it ' should be arranged on a vanishing scale. Five hundred a month for one year, then 300 for perhaps three a years. Then stop. It should not be f left to smart lawyers to arrange, r there should be a special court of , dometic adjustment, in which all the factors are considered. If a j marriage has existed for anything over 20 years, or if the wife is old r and delicate, then certainly there c should hp no question of the man's y duty in supporting 'her with a 1 monthly check, or making a prop- 1 erty settlement that will insure her independence. tl But that these frivolous, shallow girls are able to draw large in- t comes from the men they perhaps 6 neglected, hurt and failed in the i first place, is an element that ii makes for divorce. If she felt that r her fat infonte would only last for r a few years, a worn ah would look v about her for some way of making c herself useful; she would prepare b for the time when she must be self supporting again. s As it is, there is s certain apart- s ment bouse in a California city?and li of course in all our other cities I there are similar ones?that is given i< over to triumphantly divorced o young women. The rents "run from t $2,000 to $4,500 a year. A beauty e parlor and drug-store and a smart ? little restaurant with a bar occupy u the first floor. Upstairs these s pretty, idle, confident creatures flit t; to and fro, entertain men friends, f sleep late in the mornings, make their movie and beauty parlor en- s LIMITED PAYMENTS Mott people agree that a di vorced woman it entitled to tup port from her former husband for a considerable time after the reparation. The quettion of how long and how much it generally left to the ditcretion of the court. There is often a property settle ment agreed upon by the two at torneyt representing the parties. IP here there are children, the ex-wife generally receives an al lowance for their care. If the remarries, the alimony payments terminate. These wise and just laws, how ever, have been made the basis for a well known racket?the ali mony racket. At Miss Norris says in today's article, many women are living on the bounty of their former husbands in lux urious ease. They will not re marry, for that would end the easy money. They form a little colony of drones or leeches, giv ing nothing to anyone, enjoying life scithout work or worries. Some women who spent a trou bled year or two as wives of wealthy men now have incomes of a thousand dollars a month and more, as long as the men live. This, Miss Norris believes, is all wrong. ???? [agements and await the inevita >le alimony every month. Those who have been successful n extorting large alimonies natur tlly pity the less successful, who nust struggle along on a few hun Ired a month. That they are all eeches, fungus growths on the so cial order, never enters their crisp y curled heads. Now Ready to Marry. "Denise will marry Len, now," laid one such woman to me thought ully, in discussing a friend whose nagniflcent alimony had had them ill jealous for a dozen years. "Oh. she's finally decided that she oves him?" "Well, no, she likes it better this vay, just having him take her to tinner and buy her flowers. But 'ou see, Paul is quite sick. He's tad a stroke, and they don't think ie'll live very long." Paul was the man paying the housand-dollar alimony. When a woman makes a man horoughly miserable he wants free lom, and in his eagerness to get 1 be rarely splits hairs when mak ng the financial arrangement She nay have been a cold wife, she nay have flirted with his friends, rasted his money, neglected his omfort and dignity in every possi ile way. Byt with the weapon of her ex, and the claim of her child, he can wreck all the rest of his ife if he dares to want to get free, n another 10 years he may be leally married, he may have two r three children to support, but hst inexorable check must go ev ry 30 days to pretty carefree Jean, fho is flitting about from one pleas ire resort to another, driving a mart car, playing cards, dancing, aking on such lovers as she ancies. It seems to me men aren't very mart about alimony. Baby Bonuses The French constituent assem ily is considering a bill whereby . lewly married couples could ob ain "marriage loans" of 80,000 or 00,000 francs (roughly 8872 or 8840 it legal rates) repayable in 10 years o help them set up housekeeping. For each child these couples rould receive a repayment credit if one-fifth the borrowed amount, ir 20,000 francs on an original loan if 100,000 francs. With five children, he loan would be considered com iletely repaid. ?? 1 " '? Irniimm m my mm. I I JAILED FOR CALLING STRIKE . . . Preceded by deputies. Sheriff Walter Monoghan, second from left, escorts George L. Mueller, third from left, to connty Jail to serve sentence of one year for contempt of court. Mueller,, president of the independent union of Duquesne Light company employees, Pittsburgh, refused to call off the strike or to apologize for calling court injunction, "scrap of paper." Mueller later was released. WAS BRIDES IN PEACE BONNETS . . . Three of the British war brides who arrived in a contingent aboard the "Henry Gibbons" show varying taste in hats. Left to right are Mrs. William Williams, Sharon, Miss.; Mrs. Everett Cline, Waverly, W. Va., and Mrs. Russell Helton, St. Louis. Their bonnets have bnt one thing in common?all are smart, bnt war brides are anxious to don American-made clothes as soon as they arrive while their American sisters adopt their former stylos. FOEMEN MAI SEE DOUBLE . . . Three sets of twins are on the Beloit cellece, Beloit, Wis., football squad this year. Two pairs are Identical. Here they are: top, left and rifht, John and Panl Kramer, Elfin, 111.; middle, Dick and Cliff Allen, Waneonda, 111., and bottom, Bob and Bill Williams, Arlington Heights, 111. With the football sea son under way, Beloit is makinf excellent use of the twins. ' ? ??- ? I BROTHERS BT BIRTH AND BLACKSTONE . . . Associate Justice Frank Murphy o( the Supreme court si the United States is sboscn. right. with Jndfe George Murphy in recorders court at Detroit. They are sitting in the same court room where Justice Frank presided a few years ago, before be went an to the nation's highest tribunal. The brothers were photographed as they discussed a case now before Judge George, while Justice Frank eras on vacation. SECRETARY OF COMMERCE . . . W. Averell Harriman, former ambassador to the Soviet and un til his appointment, ambassador to England, has been named bp President Truman to replace Hen ry Wallace as secretary of com merce. DIPLOMATIC MANNING . . . Capt. Harry Manning, who argued a Naii U-boat commander not to sink the SS Washington, carrying 1,1104 passengers in 1940, has just been appointed commander of the largest United States owned pas senger liner, SS America. He flew with Amelia Earhart. NOW CAN SEE . . . Totally blind two years ago, Jack Wisnovski, 15, of Verona, Pa., Is making up for lost time by sightseeing. It is believed that he is the first person on record of corneal grafts performed on both eyes success fully. VOWED TO DLL FIFTY . . . Stanislaw (the Sniper) Ballon, Po lish ontlaW, shown after captnre by American troops. Ballon vowed to kill M Nazi followers in ven geance for killinf of his parents and three brothers in Poland by the Nazis. LEADS DUKE ELEVEN . . . Charles Edgar ("Bill) Milner, 24, 204-pound senior from Waynes Till*, N. C., one of greatest guards ever to perform, who is leading the Duke oniTersIly football elev en as captain. 'IT'S 8001 BUSINESS* Observance Sparks Program To Get Jobs for Handicapped WASHINGTON.?'Importance ? to the nation of maintaining em ployment for handicapped work ers is being stressed in the first observance of National Employ the Physically Handicapped Week, being held the week of October 6-12. The observance, authorized by congress and proclaimed by Presi dent Truman, is intended to spark a nationwide drive to provide work for millions of handicapped persons, including thousands of veterans of I two World wars, millions of victims of industrial and other types of ac cidents and those who are handi capped as a result of sickness, dis ease or birth. Join in Promotion. Under leadership of United States Employment service, Veterans' ad ministration and Disabled Ameri can Veterans, governmental and private agencies are promoting the week. Through numerous citizens' committees information concern ing the physically handicapped and their abilities as workers will be - disseminated and public education will be fostered. ' Introduced during the week was the new official "trademark" of the selective placement program for physically handicapped and its slo gan, "Hire the handicapped?it's good business." More than 300,000 disabled work- f ers, including 228,000 disabled vet erans, now are ready for work and j are seeking employment through a the USES, according to Robert C. j, Goodwin, director. Pointing out that v HIRE THE HANDICAPPED ! iKVnjllTllillkililnAl n e many of them are highly skilled s workers, Goodwin says that they C are immediately employable in jobs which emphasize their abili ties rather than their disabilities. Perform Skilled Jobs. Disable^ workers, for the most part, are veterans who came home from the war with amputations or other permanent injuries and civil- C >ian war workers involved in in dustrial and other accidents, ac- b cording to the director. The handi- 0 |caps sustained by these workers v have not impaired their capacities ft to perform skilled jobs, he empha- ti sizes. a In referring to the wartime em- p ployment record of the physically e: handicapped, Goodwin reports that P 83 per cent of the nation's indus- 1) tries employed more 'than a million a handicapped workers. These men, he adds, "frequently excelled the C output of non-disabled employees." Earn Own Way. w "Veterans and other workers who si were victims of circumstances be- b 'yond their control want to keep n their self-respect and earn their lc own way. They are capable of do- cl ing if- and certainly they deserve t? the opportunity," Goodwin insists, w Discussing the problem of the a handicapped veteran, Maj. Gen. n Graves B. Erskine of the retrain- a ing and re-employment administra- g tion says: "The disabled veteran is ti a vitally important man in our post- ir war economy. If the nation, the tl state a'od the community fail to make suitable provisions for dis abled veterans, the loss will be I great. For wounds and injuries so frequently are the result of leader- ? ship anil bravery that we dare not d ? lose the services of the disabled vet- 1 eran." I Pigs 'Hit the Battle' As Makeshift Mather ARLINGTON, WASH. - When a mother sow refused to raise her nine little pigs, A. R. Leaquee didn't worry ? he just devised a , new "mo'jher." The ingenious farm er taught the pigs to drink from a bottle and then built a rack with nine bottles suspended from it. The 1 pigs got the idea quickly and are ' growing rapidly. 1 Village 6ets Huge " Gib as Meaerial j). FLORDELL HILLS, MO. - In o response to Mayor Walter Zieger's P> request to President Truman for a ci World War II memorial trophy, di this village recently received a five iz and one-half ton howitzer. The huge n< gun was shipped from the Rock Is- st land. 111., arsenal at a cost to the n. village of $86 in freight charges, pi Twenty citizens pushed the gun to t the city park. w ADOPTS AMERICAN WAT ... American habits apparently are contagions. At any rate, Norway's , Tryjve Lie, secretary feneral of United Nations, is shown in his Forest Hills, N. T., home in a typ ical pose of an American on a Sun day. The shirt-sleeved official is enjoyiny the Sunday comics. ? j Dim >WIATION NOTES URPORT CHATTER William Naff is new manager of ilontrose, Colo., municipal airport nd representative of Monarch am ines. A 6,000-foot runway recently iras completed at the airport and Monarch is expected to schedule egular flights, commencing this nonth. . . . Oshkosh, Wis., will dedi ate its new airport October 13, with t. W. Havemann, president of the outh Side Businessmen's club, in harge of arrangements. . . . Ogle ounty, 111., has its first airport fol Dwing dedication of the new pri ately-owned Hamilton airport at 'olo. The field, which already has rawn state and national attention s a farm project, is owned and perated by Arch M. Hamilton, Polo armer and lawyer. It was built rimarily to serve farmers and busi ess men owning aircraft in the sur ounding agricultural community. . . At Eldorado, Tex., E. H. Top He, Joe Wagley, Carol Sproul and till Edmiston have purchased five l T training planes, which they are ismantling for parts. . . . Develop ment of a long-range planning rogram for airports has been giv n the "green light" signal in Jefler on, Arapahoe and Adams counties, lolo. ? ? ? Unlike the city pilot, who has to leave town to find an air port, most farmers have suffi cient level land to provide their own landing strips. ? ? * ONCLUDE BREAKFASTS Idaho pilots will hold their last reakfast of the year at Challis ictober 13. The menu will feature enison steaks, according to Chet loulton, state director of aeronau cs. Recently the Idaho pilots held breakfast at Gooding, with 125 ilots and friends attending. Old st pilot registered was Christopher '. Scott, 63, of Boise, who recent r learned to fly and has purchased plane. ? ? ? LOUDHOPPERS REVIVED Grounded since beginning of the ar, the cloudhoppers of Univer ity of Akron at Akron, Ohio, have ecome airborne again. Revived by lany former army ^nd navy pi its, the Cloudhopper club has pur hased an army BT-15, the "hot ;st" ship with which the group ever orked. The club also plans to buy Cub plane for students who do ot want to learn to fly in so fast ship. For ground training, the or anization has been using the Link ainer at Guggenheim Aeronautical istitute, which is connected with le university. ? ? ? ntAVELS IN IGLOO ... The 'human icicle," 48-year-old Bob by Jones, scaled inside a 588 iwund cake of ice and dressed inly in a bathing suit, is shoved iboard a plane. ? ? ? IILITARY PLANES CP American military plane produc on increased in August to 130 lanes, compared to 67 in July, Air raft Industries association re arts. Bulk of the increase was ac aunted for in fighter planes, pro uction totaling 105 compared to 58 i July. This increase reflected re ewed output of jet engines and epped up production of a new avy carrier fighter. Total military lane production for the eight lonths of 1946 is 834, compared ith 45,338 in eight months of 194S.
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