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Marriage Law Proposals

PLEASED

GRETNA

THAT

GREEN

"SCANDAL” MAY END

Scotland, generally, sems to have received favourably the re- form proposals made by the Departmental Committos, which has just issued its report on the state of the marriage laws in Scotland. Bailie Gilzean, a member of the Socialist group in Edin. burgh Town Council, said he had not considered the report of the Committee in detall, but generally he was altogether op- posed to any legislation that would seek to interfere with the liberty of the people, in the way of tryin to inake marriage a purely ecclesiastical ceremony..!

churches, then that raised an objec- tion.

"I recognise," said Bailie Gilzean, "that the great majority of the people In Scotiand still prefer to be married

The community would want to by a minister of religion, and I am know in

which denomination the inclined to think, on balance, perhaps, banns would be published. Sonic it is as well it should be so. But, at people might be going naturally to the same time, any alteration of the tion of the banns, which might he the parish church to hear the publica- law that might take place should,made in another church. His objec- in my opinion, sul leave the process tion was that it would probably of civil procedure as being a recog-weaken the publicity that ought to ve nised channel by means of which given to the publicallon of the banus. people may be murried if they desire to do so.

PROCEDURE "DEMOCRATISED"

Treasurer P. J. Dollan sold that the

WHAT GRETNA'S" BLACKSMITH SAYS

"I will marry unti the law abolishes i altogether." said Mr. Rennison, of the Gretna Green blackami's shop.

have tried to tighten up ery possible loophole. This Is the text of one of the forms I have introduced and witch has to be signed by the couples. I hereby declare that I am a single person and have resided for 21 days Immediately preceding this date in Scotland, and promiso that the marriage will be re- gistered within three months. I understand it is illegal for me to re-marry so long as both arties to the marriage remain alive."

"A lot of couples como bere because they don't like fun. Others come because of differing religious views."

Mr. Rennison maid that he had Bind many Jellem from couples telling film

Lhele happy married life.

of

RUSSIA'S VAST

POPULATION

BIRTH-RATE DOUBLED

300,000,000

"As regards the Gre!! Green recommendations seemed to be very 'pantomime, they may wish that outsible, and were likely to meet with as soon as they like so far as it is movement.

the general approval of the Socialist) money-making concern. At the same time, I do feel that the old Scots All procedure was being simplified, law that made a marriage a binding democratised, and regularised, and thing, even though it took the form the new regulations, if carried out, of only declaration before witnesses, would put an end to commercial had a great deal to be said for it. fraffle in so-called romantic unions, The marriage system in England It would be cusier for a couple to get seems to have a tendency to give cor- | married under the new procedure tain people a power over the lives than by proceeding to Gretna Green pendous of other individunts that I am not too or to other places. happy about:

"On the other hand, I agree that irregular marriages do lead to queer tangles at times, and if any legislation could be produced that could get rid of the tangle without interfering toonised by the State for that purpose. much with the liberty of individuals, I think that would be desirable.

PREDICTED

IN 25 YEARS

Moscow, Feb. 16. Claims by Professor Burdenko, the famous Moscow physician, at the re- cent Congress of the Soviets, that Russia's population within the next twenty-five years will reach the stu- Bgure of 300,000,000, Bre being substantiated by the birth It would also put a stop to the ob-statistics published here this week.

The professor's estimate, it Jectionable practice of so-called legal firms in the big cities trading n birth rate, which is normally higher was even conservative. Russia's matrimony. Marriage should Le P carried out by those who were recon- and whose natural increase in 1935 than that of any European country, reached the figure of 4,500,000-ex- Compulsory registration would put ceeding the natural increase in the an end to the numerous disputes that whole of Europe-appears to have had arisen following romantic unions almost doubled within recent months. when questions affecling property This huge Increase is the result of The Lord Provost of Glasgow, Mr.arose, and it had also to be re- deliberate Government policy. Last John Stewart, described the proposals embered that now that the State summer the Kremlin tightened its as very sensible. He favoured the was providing pensions to widows, easy divorce laws and announced that procedure of the proposed new civil orphans, and aged persons, there it would pay a bonus of 2,000 roubles marriage, and thought it was a very should be legal evidence good idea. The marriage the ouglit matrimony so that claims could be every child after the seventh, and of a year for five years in respect of to be better authenticated, and he settled welcomed the proposal which would manner.

expeditious 5,000 roubles for a similar period make for informative records being

after the eleventh. kept.

"VERY SENSIBLE"

In the most

"A WORKABLE SCHEME"

It also placed a bar on the hitherto legalised and widespread practice of Councillor Hugh T. MacCalmon, The opinion that the Committee had

abortions. The territory of the solicitor, said that while he had not done its work in the ablest fashion of Europe. Its resources are still

Soviet Union Is

is more

ore than twice that read the report detail, he thought and had presented a workable scheme, the Committee could be congratu-giving a complete vindication of the

largely

gely untapped and under-planned, Inted. It had sounded the death- Church of Scotland's position, was and by economy the Government is knell of the Gretna marriage, and not expressed by the Rev. Dr. J. Ilutch-capable of providing for millions on before. lime. There were few solici- on Cockburn, of Dunblane Cathedral, millions o additional people with no tors who had not had evidence of the an address to members of the fear of unemployment. Such is the irreparable pain and suffering tha: Glasgow Elders' and Office-bearers' official explanation for the policy em-

Union of the Church of Scotland.

PROCLAIMING-BANNS---

The Very Rev. Dr. John White said these marriages involved.

that when he was convener of the Church and Nation Committee of the General Assembly, that. Committee raised the matter before the Govein

time and time again, and en- deavoured to get the Scottish Once in make a move to bar what was simply a scandal, unredeemed by even one particle of romance, unless what was imported into it for commercial pur

poses.

barked 87,000,000 FUND:

The Government had. he said, taken up the matter very largely on the the law

Simultaneously with the passage of representations of the Church and Government increased its appropria- prohibiting abortion, the

Assembly, which had presented a from 875 million roubles, which, Nation Committee of the General tion for maternity and child welfare memorial on the subject. The main the offelal rate of exchange, amounts lines laid before the Government in to £35,000,000 to that memorial had been granted, but

two billion million roubles, there were two points sull remaining. This fund was to be placed

or £87,000,000.

at

at the The word "Irregular" as applied disposal of health authorities for the to marriage had to be abolished, but immediate construction of hundreds the Church had no real concern with of additional maternity hornes and that, and if the word "civil" were nurseries, and the training of addi- substituted. the Church could

raise

midwives isc tional physiclans,

a

The

und

no objection. The other point was chief complaint of elty folk. He thought that the proposal to pro-that the proclamation of banns was claim marriage and issue banns in no longer to be confined to the Church that larger families would add to their other Churches might teed to defeat of Scotland, but were to be called or hardships because of their already the purpose of those who proposed cried in practically every church of overcrowded living quarters, was the new laws. He did not wish to any size in Scotland. reduce the publicity that should be

countered with a promise to expedite given to the proclamation of banns.

The Church of Scotland had no im-

tremendous building programme. mediate interest in that matter, as now born monthly in Moscow, as Approximately 10,000 infants are The purpose of proclamation was banns were not a religious function, to give the widest possible publicity but were proclaimed as the best the present rate among people, and he feared that if means of oblubing publicity. If the estimated that approximately 9,000,-

with 6,000 last compared

year, At of increase it is there was not going to be a clear State thought that better publicity 000 infants will be born in the Soviet knowledge on the part of the com- could be obtained by proclaiming Union in the course of the year with munity as to where the banns were banns in other churches, it did not prospects of the natural increase to be published, in one or in all of seem as if the Church of Scotland reaching almost seven million.

churches, or in any of the could oppose the proposal.

the

the great Stalin." This provoked an.

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HOMAGE TO

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After saluting the Spanish people, Sletzki added: "This day we declare that Lenin's cause shall conquer tho The majority of the ships of the whole world und that this victory China Station are at present at Sin- shall be attained

gapore. Movements of ships before 13TH ANNIVERSARY leadership."

their arrival here are as follows:

H.M.S. Cumberland, flagship of This is the first time that such Charles Little, left.Singapore on

the C.-in-C., Vice-Admiral OF HIS DEATH

direct homage tas been paid to February Stalin at these annual meetings to She will return Moscow, Feb. 15.

uary 17 for a cruise to Penang. to Singapore on honour Lenin. All Russia is decked out with

March 3 and leave for Hongkong on March 10, binckedged red flags to-day in hon- Yesterday's 'Pravda, the oMelal our of Lenin, who died 13 years ago. party organ, significantly unearthed

H.M.S. Falmouth is accompanying H.M.S. Cumberland until March 0 At the anniversary of the precise a short note from Lenin himself to

when

she leaves for Hongkong and arrives here the same day as tho moment of his passing at 0.50 last the supreme "Politbureau"

of the Cumberland, March 15, night Stalin. with his

Bolshevik party, dated as far back ar personal

H.M.S. Dornetshire left Singapore n February 11 for Plymouth. emphasising the urgent Bolshevik society, held a commemo. Stalin and

of the 8th. Destroyer Flotilin raion in the Grand Opera House,

need of appointing a Georgian or an

and 4th. Submarines Flotilla left Ukrainian instead of only Russians to cruise along the West Coast of Singapore on February 11 for a When President Kalinin had ac-

the Presidency, claimed Stalin as the "great inheritor

The present

Malaya. They returned on February President, Kalinin, 20. H.M.S. Midway, H.M.S. West- of Lenin's cause," the entire vast who is pure Russian, has now been in cott and the submarines Olympus, audience of Stalinites sprang to their office for nearly 13 years, and is age- Oswald, Parthian, Proteus, Phoenix, feet and gave the "great Red Leader" | Ing-very noticeably.

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