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FRIDAY, MAY 25, 1928.

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MARRIAGE TO-DAY.

UNIQUE SOVIET LAW LETS PARTY REGISTER WEDLOCK.

DIVORCE FREES UNHAPPY.

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Yet the same Pravda most ve hemently assalla a 'citizen of the Ural region named Starkoff, member of the local Executive Committee, chief of the local police and a Communiat—of purest | proletarian origin-of twenty-five years' standing who, wishing to convince new acquaintances with hb importance, struck himself on the chest, crying:

alder that the divorce' law filled a longfelt want. New and Old Russia Still at Odds. Thus, while the Ukraine allows the marriage law whereby one may become a spouse unawares, the |R.S.F.S.R. hua just promulgated a decreo prescribing the prosecution [By Walter Duranty.]

of persons applying for a divorce The Ukraine is the centre of within a fortnight after their mar- Soviet attention these days, with rage. This law is evidently de- the triumphant Soviet grain col-vised to give fourteen days of pro- "You don't know who I am? lection campaign so swelled by the table repentance to those who Well, I am Governor of this Sfate." rich black folds that the year's wed in haste and to act as a deter- The Pravda adds with satisfac- total by the end of March will rent to any deliberately making tin that the misguided claimant equal that of past years despite the both marriage and divorce plans into the outworn gubernatorial dign- disnetrous results of early Winter, Fadvance.

ity was punished, by a "sharp re- and with the great "echnicians'

In point of fact, new Russia is primand" from the local Com- sabotage, plot" just discovered by a bizarre mixture of the most ad-munist Contrel Committee. the vigilant Ogpa after six years vunced thought and old-fashioned of nefarious, activities in the Don conservatism. The satirical press fron region.

pokes fun at the Soviet Minister of The Ukraine, besides being the Education, Anatole Vladimir Lun- Soviet Union's grandry and Pitts-archarsky, because he repiled to a burgh and the home of 30,000,000 deputation of Soviet elders gloom- inhabitants, with a language of ing about the shortness of women's their own, who more than once skirts that "statistics show women have shown inconvenient acces- koalthier than when skirts were xionist tendencies, has another call|long."

Vast Clean-Up of Bootleggers. But this is not the only respect in which the Soviet Union seems determined to outstrip the enpital- lat United States. A little more than a month ago a nation-wide campaign began against bootleg- gers, who arose in Russia the very day that the Czar forbade Vodka and had flourished so exceedingly to fame. To the best of your cor And the Pravda's theatrical cri- when the high-minded Bolshevikl respondent's knowledge it is the tie bitterly attack Russia's fore- decreed total prohibition that now only place in the world where a most producer, Meyerhuld, for they quite decline to abandon com- man and woman can be married modernising one of Griboyedoff's petition with the fiery but relative- without knowing about it till after-classics and thus repeating the ly cool vodka, wine, beer, etc.. ward.

"outrage" he committed when he which provide a handsome part of modernised Gogol's masterpiece the Soviet budget revenues. "The Revisor."

Marriage Behind One's Back. The Ukraine has a law, doubtless devised for the protection of poor girls against gay Lotharios who decline to make honest women of them," permitting a man or a wo- man to go to a marriage bureau and register a union with the other party unless the latter is already married, with the sole proviso that said party be subsequently inform ed by the bureau.

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To stimulate the energy of the Soviet police, it was ordained that. they should reecivo 25 per cent, of the fines paid by the bootleggers. So the Police Chief of the RS.F.S.R. (Russian Socialist Fed- eration of Soviet Republics, mean- ing Russia proper and not includ- ing the Federations of the Ukraine, BABY'S OWN TABLES.

White Russin, Caucasia, and Cen- In three words 'delicate from tral Asia) proudly announces in the birth-is axpressed a world of an "avestia" that his forces in one That is the law as it stands, xieties suffered by mothers when month have had convicted and fin which sounds alarming. In prac- children have had a hard start in e 60,000 persons nearly 1,100,000 tice doubtless it is mitigated by life. For infants who are alling, rubles; have destroyed 22,000 two factors: First, to register may peevish, sleepless at night, fickle stills, and have seized 2,000,000 require some confirmation of the of appetite and unable to digest quarts of. Illicit vodka. Sole Agents: W. R. LOXLEY & CO., Hong Kong. reasons given, and, second, divorce food, Baby's Own Tablets have

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