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Show THE GIN-MARRIAGE LAW California's gin-mariage law, which requires three days' delay de-lay before a marriage license can be used, is defended as one of the most valuable safeguards to matrimony, in a statement issued recently by the Human Betterment Foundation. Last year, 5G9 licenses applied for in Los Angeles County, were unclaimed; while 402 were similarly cancelled in San Francisco. Fran-cisco. The Foundation declares that a large part of these abandoned aban-doned romances represent freak marriages, fraudulent marriages, drunken marriages, runaway marriages, and others whose abandonment aban-donment was a gain to all concerned. Laws similar to that of California are now in effect in 22 states, stat-es, and the Foundation predicts that annulment of this delay, which the California legislature is now contemplating, will result in an increase in the number of divorce and annulment cases in the courts, and a heavy and unnecessary expense to the counties for that reason. "But much more important than the question of dollars," the report declares, "is the question of the human misery that is entailed en-tailed by unwise marriages. Three days to think it over in advance, ad-vance, is not too much for people who are planning a life-long union." n |
