family desertion a crime thereunder.

At present the law provides deportation only within five years after
entry, and for "persons who have been convicted of or admit having
committed a felony or other crime or misdemeanor involving moral
turpitude," or who are sentenced to a term of one year or more in this
country, within five years of entry, for such crime (or who may suffer a
second conviction at any time after entry). This would clearly cover
bigamy committed within five years after entry; whether it could be
stretched to cover lesser forms of marital irresponsibility remains to
be determined. (It should be remembered that a man who brings in as his
wife, or later sends for, a woman to whom he is not married, can be
deported under quite other sections of the immigration law.)

2. Improvements in Court Procedure.--A sore point with the social
worker is the often ridiculously inadequate amounts that unwilling
husbands are put under court order to pay. They accuse the courts,
whether rightly or wrongly, of considering first what part of the man's
alleged earnings will be needed for him to live upon comfortably, and
then of making the order for whatever may be left over.

Onofrio Mancini was under court order to stay away from home and pay
his wife $6.00 a week for the support of their two children, He
drove a two-horse truck, and, at that time, must have been earning
not less than $16.00 a week. Mrs. Mancini fell ill, whereupon
Onofrio promptly ceased all payments. The social agency interested
was permitted to make a complaint on producing a doctors certificate
that Mrs. Mancini could not appear in court; but Onofrio, when he
appeared, put up such a hard luck tale of earning only $8.00 a week
that the judge, without investigation, cut the order down to $4.00 a