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... CURB ON DIVORCES AND BONUSES FOR
LARGE FAMILIES TO INCREASE POPULATION IN 30 YEARS
BY 100
MILLION
Moscow, Sept. 18.
The abolition of ten Moscow waiting lines and the lengthen- ing of ten others provided evidence to-day of a trend in Soviet vital statistics which may influence the history of the world.
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Elimination of 10 queues.
of painicas childbirth and material "ochereds" is important enough to a facilities both for mothers and chil- populace accustomed to standing in dren.
line to buy nearly all necessities, to 112 DAYS LEAVE GRANTED hire a taxi, or buy a glass of soda Each mother receives 56 days leave
water on a hot day, but its
true
signicance was in the fact that the before and 56 days after childbirths lines affected were the divorce and with full pay and casier tasks with- out reducilon of pay. She receives birth registration queues in Moscow's 45 roubles to purchase
for Infant care and 10 month during nursing.
articles roubles a
registered. provided significant To care for the expected increase
10 Zars bureaus. These bureaus,
where all the city's marriages, births and divorces are barometer of the effect of dere signed June 27 curtailing divorces, encouraging large families and out lawing abortions, for as Moscow leuds, the nation follows.
in population the government will spend over and above local budgets during 1930 1,481,300,000 roubles on maternity homes, midwife stations, nurseries, dairies, kitchens, kinder- gortens and
roubles for AFFECTS LIFE AND WEALTH' the
struction and development of The decree formulated by a select-rein the general a
eneral mututions, in- assigned ed. group of
behind men
the In 1936 to 2,174,100,000 roubles DS Kremlin's guarded walls-the Cen-
The
seasonal
tral Executive Committee and the compared with 875,000,000 in 1835. Council at People's Commissars,
programme calls for an in- zuided by Joseph Stalin-potentially children in cities, state farms, work- crease of 800,000 nursery beds for will affect more human lives and eru settlements and on the railways more wealth than the World War. by the end of 1938, and an increase
The war cost 8,535,315 lives di- reetly. Millions more were wounded, the number of beds in permanent
in nurseries by 500,000 and and
billions in wealth destroyed.. The scratching of a pen in
nurseries by 4,000,000 beds. in the
The Kremlin has the
network of kindergartens the possibility of causing
will be directly the
by 1938, bringing ac- creation of 100,000,000
tripled new human lives'in little
commodations for 2,400,000 addition- over
al children. Playgrounds will be quarter of
century, and through use provided for 10,700,000 children, and of this population to develop Russin's vast area and natural resources the midwives and physicians trained.
Thousands of teachers, nurses, production of untold wealth.
Even under the previous birth rate Soviet population would increase
from 170,000,000 to 300,000,000 in BIĆ AIR RACE
1008, the end of the eighth five-year plan. Now it may reach 400,000,- 000--some estimates range' to 500,- 000,000.
DIVORCES DROP SHARPLY
The first tangible result of the decree was a BU per cent reduction of divorces in Moscow during the first 20 days. During the first 20 days of June there were 2,214 divorces in Moscow.
The bureau at No. 1 Khrushovsky Perculok consists of an entrance hall, and two offices on the ground floor.
operates seven days a week and is
It
PARIS TO FAR EAST All-Nations Contest
Paris, Sept. 20. WHAT is described as the perpetually crowded. It is stuffy longest and most ardu-
and hot in summer and stuify in
winter. Lines form before desks at ous race in the history of which marriages and children are re-aviation is to be staged over gistered. Red bunting and window
lower pots mitigate its drabness. a 13,600-miles course from Paris to Saigon, in French
TYPICAL DAY OBSERVED
During one hour in the middle of Indo-China, on October 25. the afternoon at this Zogs. bureauf The Aero Club of France and there were 20 births and 12 marriages the Aero Club of Indo-China are registered as against Lwo divorces.
Constantine Stepanov, 40-year-old combining in organising the race. construction foreman, come in to
It is hoped that British, register his seventh child. He was clean
Kirdled
with his
white blouse, American, French, German, and
a leather belt, was dusty Italian pilots will take part.
and wrinkled from work. He wiped An official in connection with
the perspiration from his face as he
waited in line.
the organisation of the flight said: "Our plans
are пой yet com. pleted, but at present the prize
"Comrade," he said when the registration had been completed, "what is this 1 hear about being money may be put at between £16,- paid 2,000 roubles for the seventh 000 and £16,000.
"The route will be Paris, Bag
child
"Yes, that is right," answered dad, Allahabad, Saigon, returning the clerk, "I was waiting to tell via Allahabad, Bagdnd, Cairo, and you about it. Bring in the cer- Paris. tificates for the other children."
MOTHER OF SEVEN AT 42
His lips opened in ** delighted Bmile.
"Good Masha!" he cried as he turn
CONTROL POINTS
"The first hop of the flight and the most gruelling will be 2,400 miles from Paris to Bagdad. The second from Bagdad to Allahabad, is an- other 2,300 miles, and the third is
2,000 miles,
ed to elbow his way out. Masho, the nearly the return trip the flyers wil
records showed, was 42 years old
und the mother of the soven.
hop the nearly 800 miles from Bogdad to Cairo, and then another 2,000 from Cairo to Paris.
This premium feature for large families alone is expected to result In a considerable increase in births,
"The pilots will have to stop at particularly in the rural districts, pre-arranged control points. Petrol where large families are common. tanks will be scaled at Paris, Bagdad, Even In metropolitan Moscow and Allahabad by representatives of aumerous applications have been the Acro Club of France, made.
ofcials will be stationed along the route as observers.
Parents will receive an
annual premium of 2,000 roubles each fot
and
"Each plane will carry recording
the seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth, apparatus which will be checked children until each child is 5 years over by offlelois after the contest. old.
An cleventh child and sub- Not more than two flyers will be sequent offspring each will be worth allowed in each plane, but solo en- 3,000 roubles at birth and 3,000 trants will be permitted." roubles yearly for four more years This will provide a large income for peasant familles who seldom see as much as 2,000 roubles cash' in a year.
The Church
DIVORCES MORE EXPENSIVE In The
The most potent factors in re- ducing divorce were the require-']
ment that both parties must appear Philippines.
gr
Manila, Sept. 20.
church and state must be a basic principle in the foundations of the
in the proceedings and an increase in cost ranging as high as 3,000 per cent. Previously either busband Continued complete separation of wife could obtain a divorce by pay ing three roubles and malling a post- card to the other spouse. Now both new Philippines government. Presi must appear and the cost has been a public utterance on the subject since dent Manuel Quezon said in his first creased to 50 roubles for the first divorce, 150 for the second and 300 his inauguration as head of the Com for the third and subsequent.
monwealth, November 18, 1935. The divorce now must be entered Christian nation in the Far East, re- Quezon, president of the only In the passports of the parties, and minded that he was a Catholic and where there are children hoava
avformer-33rd degree Mason and addxl alimony obligations are placed upon that "no authority of any Church has husband. He must pay one any right to Interfere with the af- fourth of his income for the support fairs of the government. of one child, one-third for two and. 30 per cent for three or mord, with n penalty of two years in prison for evasion.
the b
"As head of the state, I can have no more to do with the Cathelle. Church than, I can with the pro- testont denomination, the Aglipayan Great social pressure has been (Philippine Independent Church), brought to bear in education, the the Mohammedan, or any other re- press, radio, social organizations and Uzious organization or sect in the trade unions to discourage divorce, Philippines." encourage marriage and large fami❤ Quezon defined his policy during a les.
banquet at Malacanang Palace,
the Factors intended to raise the birth presidential residence, in honour of rato. In addition to premium offers His Grace, Michael J. O'Doherty, are stress on medical care of mothers, Archbishop of Manila.-United Preis:
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