The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, November 6, 1931, Page 12

Divorce Is Just as Easy as Marriage For Soviet Russia People Who Ask it Matter-of-Factness: Extends to refused the ee Sele shrug- ¥ ; i ged her shoulders and said, “It 1s All Affairs of Sex in Com- | recorded in my union book.” He took ii his receipt and they faced each other. mmunier Flan “Well, it is finished now”—she rel hy tossed her head. “Yes, it’s dead now,” Editor's Note: This is the third | he agreed, smiling teasingly. ‘They pf a series of storieg dealing with | went off arm in arm. Couples still Boviet Russia. |can marry with the old church cere- cena |mony, but in Moscow they rarely do. By JULIA BLANSHARD | naa Staff Writer for NEA Service | at the table just across from them “Copyright, 1931, NEA Service, Inc.) |g young girl in a red dress and stringy Tf you got tired of your wife in jong hair went to the divorce table. Russia— She carried a heavy, dull-looking You could divorce her more easily. paby in her arms, all bundled up in more quickly and more cheaply than! q soiled blanket. you could renew your automobile li-| ” “Haye you any children?” the clerk cense in America. And she could do asked her, after recording her name, the same to you! work, home address. Only this one, You would not need a lawyer OF she told her. witnesses. Nobody would ask yeu for)” “fave you and your husband talked edness over the disposal of it?” He wouldn't No newspaper would even mention want it anyhow, she said. the fact of your separation. Thet?| The clerk wrote out her divorce re- would be no public gossip. ceipt, took eight roubles from her For Russia considers divorce @/and told her the court would inform strictly personal affair. There is not) hor husband of his freedom and ar- even a court procedure for it. You) range alimony. merely step into “Zags” (the bureal) an incapacitated ex-wife 1s en- of vital statistics) and “wrile your-| titled to support for one year, but no self out.” as they call the procecd-|jonger. Should the ex-husband be ings in Russia. .. ,.|incapacitated, and the wife hold This matter-of-factness extends to! gown a good job, she would have to ell affairs of sex. Whereas the Ger-| pay him alimony for one year. mans have made colonies for sun- bathers, in Russia men and women . : bathe nude anywhere they, want to National i “ do so, in the most unselfconscious) Gj © do 0, in the mot peaupaced at Council Is Favor: the idea of having to go to some uct cial place to strip! Soviet Russia has revolutiouzed; Bex standards and legal forms are not, SVE Sr LS uneEPaeee of sus satus teed in relation to Prete Oe ee emeaiel Jove and marriage. SERGE Every child in Russia is legitimate, ye ‘CReRuICrEnGELS ok ite ta pote whether his father and mother are sdibs UIT xOraee up euch & CouBEaIr iS married or not. Adultery is net t/a governmental agency was assured f fons; it sim-| ittee, which has been holding promiscuity in sex relations; it sim- comm! i; ply means that the government te-| hearings on it daily for two weeks. — gards such life as a matter of per- APPEALS 20" FUBLIO sonal concern. 4 An appeal to public employes Peeper ey coos ane Se TER throughout the state to generously the government does csr a ee sappert the Hed Cross drought fund for irresponsible relations. van SU e 8. found this out. Twice last) Oho, et fetes by Governor’ summer Ivan had persuaded ignorant rhe JoneFnor Scisneatennueets young peasants from villages t matty | senerous contributions made to the him and then left them after two) frousht finial by. eeapiegien at ttt riniccotedl tin YY Bi Porte state, the state teachers college at sty ay ee Valley City, and public school teach- Ivan was tracked to his department] ¢S at Bismarck, Mandan, Williston store job. He is now serving time in| @nd Minot. prison. ica | Quarters Bets a sa ranger at. But even if men and women take| Mammoth Springs, Wyo. are sur- ho marriage vows in Russia and are|Tounded by a fence made of elk ant- not asked to promise a single thing,| !€': the institution hasn't gone on the rocks, apparently. Russia has 12.5 5 marriages to every 1,000 people, as| Predicts New Planet against America’s 10.14. In Moscow the Zags bureau head told me there ‘was practically one divorce to every two marriages, which almost dou- bles our Reno. But down in the smaller towns and in the villages there are not more than one in 10. In Rostov the Zags bureau registers 200-250 marriages a month and di- Vorces from 40-50. Tt costs you exactly seven rubles ($3.50) to get a divorce. If you go without your mate to get it, it costs one rouble more. The extra charge is to pay for sending a slip to notify him that he no longer is married to you. There is no ceremony about mar- riage or divorce in Russia. There is nothing about the appearance of a Zags bureau to suggest it. The three I saw were all small office rooms, each with four separte desks, for births, deaths, marriage and divorce. Behind each table sat a clerk, most of them girls of high school age. . * * The first couple who came in to get married the first afternoon I visited ‘were textile workers. The young girl ? wore a shawl over her head. The boy was dressed in “store clotlies’ and a new visored cap which he kept on. the few questions and answers. | astronomer, recently made known “She was 20, he—23. Neither haa| hs prediction of a giant unknown been married before. ‘i Both showed] planet lying far outside the present their union cards which told where! Solr system limits, te estimates they worked, where they lived. She| giemeter ‘would move into his room. Both : Signed on the dotted line three times Washington, Nov. 6.—(?)—Creation of a national economic council to level the violent ups and downs of Assoctated Pr —once for the register book, once for| | Stickler Solution | a @ receipt for her and once for a re- ceipt for him. She took her receipt the clerk handed her and lumbered out, He folowed. Ten minutes from €ingle state to wedded! The next marriage took much Yonger to register. 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