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MARRIAGE LAW CHANGES,
THE NEW ACT.
BY ARTHUR S. MAY, Author of Marriage in Church, Chapel and Register Office," etc.)
BOURGEOISIE WANTED.
SOVIET CONFESSES FAILURE.
The hated intelligentsia are to be forgiven their possession of superior braina! The tortured bourgeois clauses in Soviet Russia to be received back inta) the bosoax of the proletariat:
The rising generation takes hittle in terest, as a rule, in Acts of Parliamentable announcement, published in the but one caine into force on October 1st, which will affect in considerably.
In Victorian days it was customary in polite society for the eligible suitor formally to request the lady's father for permission to propose for his daughter's hand. Es is doubtful if he does that to day, but it she is under age he still has to ask her father for his consent before he can marry her properly. Under the new law he will have to ask her mother as well. The careful father always did talk it over with his better half, pro bably months before the crisis came upon him, but he had, as it were, the casting Henceforward, both parents of n vote.. daughter under age will have an equal voice in determining the future of their child.
IF DAD SAID "NO"
Such, in effect, is the gist of a remark Ircestia, that, according to a decision passed by the Central Committee of the Communiat Farty, all fully qualified engineers, professors, and savanta with University education will no longer be persecuted. Indeed, they are even to be granted the inestimable privilege of leading a more human form of life. will be granted numerous privileges. to admit their children to the Sariet Among these privileges are: The right schools; the right to serve on juries, in the Soviet Courts when one of their own class is on trial; special facilities for housing themales more comfortably; and certain relief in the matter of taxes.. This decision has been made mainly be calm the Bolsheviks have discovered that, owing to the lack of proficient engineers and efficiens managers, the task of attemuting restore Bassin's indus tries to pre-war prosperity has been a lamentable failure.
If the father refused it used to be"
The Communist Party, according to the fatal; young people had to wait until Inventio, hopes that the hand of the they attained their majority, unless proletariat now out-stretched will be they ran off to Scotland or get margrasped with enthusiasm "not only by ried in some underhand Way. Now, those few scientißc experts who survived. if harmony vanishes and father and the terror and have been leading the life mother came to a dead-lock-or even,
of parishs, oven since, but also by tha it would neem, if they are both set thousands of highly-trained Russian against the marriage-bope need notariles in foreign countries. be Inst. From the domestic forum an appeal may be made almost anywhere to the police-court, the county-court registrar, or the High Court itself; and so far as the wording of the Act is con- cerned, it seems open to go to all of them one after another, and worry a
father to death!
RED TRAINING FAILS After eight years of a deliberate policy of extermination, in the course of which over a million representatives of the bavo either bees intelligentsia " massacred or driven out of the country, this sudden manifestation of affection la only understandable on the assumption that the transformation of grown-up but practically illiterate mannal worken into a new proletarian intelligentsia through the agency of that educational hothouse, the "Workers' University," has been an utter fiasco.
It is reported that the Soviet Govern
During the war this necessity of the father's consent if, he was alive, led to no end of trouble. If the father were mentally incapable of giving consent at all, those who could afford it could apply to the Chancery Division, but then they never had the time for that. Often the soldier was home on a few days leasement intends to make the celebrations for the purpose of his marriage, and of the 200th anniversary of the Russian was held up by the necessity of finding Academy of Scienco next September the the bride's father. He might have gone about a reconciliation" between Bo
occasion for another attempt to bring to Australia. Even if the had never shevism and the remnants of the Russian seen her father in her life, he had still
intelligentsia-Observer, to be found. Sometimes the search failed and she marriage fell through, if it could have been postponed for three week, the parties could have put up the banns and got married without difficulty.
Even where father and mother had been divorced, the father must be found and the mother disregarded.
With few exceptions", another youth protests we are greatly misunderstood. But among those exceptions we have one great champion of whom we are very proud. lived. And who could call Sir James The greatest youth that ever Barrie anything but a youth Sir James Barrie did not creste Peter Pan. God created Sir James, and Sir James drew
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A DIFFICULTY REMOVED. This is remedied by the new Act: which provides that where any consent Ours is rough and difficult road, which is required by law cannot be yet our elders could make it a little obtained because the person entitled toedier for us if, instead of pointing ont give it is aberat, inaccessible, or under our faults and limitations, there were any disability, the marriage, is not few more who, like Sir James Barrie, necessarily prevented. If there is an would say Courage, my children, and other person whose consent is also re-greet the unseen with a cheer." quired, that may be accepted as sufficient. If there is no one else, then the Master of the Faculties or the Registrar-General may allow the marriage, or one of the Courts can be applied to.
Where there has been a divorce, both the parents will lose their rights as such, and the person to consent will be the custodian of the children appointed by the Court.
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THE REAL BOUNDERS. · Another correspondent, and Oxford undergraduate, writes bitterly:
The paracas call us wastrels and libertines, while Carlton Club colonels damn as as milkeops and complain of our lemonade and our Socialism." He
is sure, he says, that drankenrices is rarer than it was. and that there have never before been so many tectotallers in the University of Oxford,
THE UNMARRIED MOTHER.
We must, however, confess that the Another remarkable innovation is the circle of dissipation has been enlarged, recognition of a right in the unmarried and that clerks and shopkeepers indulge mother to consent to the marriage of in aristocratic pleasures which would ber child under age. This is absolutely have shocked, the middle-class puritanism new law, for an illegitimats child used of their predecessors."
to be said to have neither father nor The same writer insists that the mother. At one period an illegitimate people who have gone most seriously minor had to go to Chancery to get a wrong are the older folk-not youth' at guardian there to consent to the mar-all. It is folk in the thirties and forties. riage, but for many years no consent who fill the law Courts and the night | whatever has been required.
clabs, he writes..
There are a number of new rules re garding the appointment by parents of guardians to act after their deaths" One cannot go into them here, except to sny that where no such guardian "bas been appointed, the surviving parent has the sole right of consent..
What is more important is that the clergy need not trouble themselves over- much over this Act. A year or so back there was a movement, among them to require written consents before they mar ried minors, but they will hardly think of it now. Their difficulties will only arise when someone, förbids the banna, and then indeed they will be forced to go into the matter and read up the Act. That will be once in a blue moon,
It will be otherwise with civil regis trars Minors who go to a register office will find themselves compelled to produce, the necessary consents in writing, and the forms for that purpose are now is the hards of the printers.*
YOUTH'S TASK.
PRESENT GENERATION'S TOUGH PROPOSITION..
·Bpirited defence has been made by young men of England against the alle. gations of a series of articles in one of the London papers.
"Our generation is up against a tougher proposition than any preceding generation," writes one, who says he is 23. Jobs are few, money is scarce, and competition is greater to-day than it has ever been And in spite of all this, I don't think we are doing so badly. Wa don't grouse and grumble much, nor, de we ding abuse at the generation that fanded us all in this delightful mem We haven't the time. Wo have to get on with the job or go under.".
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