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Show : -1 tils QUICKLY CURED Bolshevists Cut Wedding Knot Without Pain Or Expense MOSCOW, Feb. 11. (By The Associated Asso-ciated Press.) Political Illiteracy Is a worse crime than bigamy In soviet litis-la "lipid : -Trors ar- painlessly. Instantaneously and Inexpensively cured hv liolshevist courts, but Ignorance Ignor-ance of Bolshevist laws Is punished by senl n to courses In Communlct schools organized to enlighten those untaught In the ways of the soviet republic. Ivan Ivanovlch IJnsky was recently faced In a Moscow court by two wives and fivrT children. "I didn't know that It was necessary to get a divorce and thought my living apart from my wife whom I didn't ; love any longer wa proof that I didn't want her." was Rlnsky's defense. One woman was granted a divorce, and Rlnsky was Instructed to enter the school for the liquidation of political poli-tical Illiteracy at the government printing office, v. here he will be taught that wives may be disposed of only by making declaration before a soviet court that one does not want 'hem and paying a fine of 10.000 rubles. It's much easier thn the Reno treatment ami Moscow should become a popular resort for mlsmatcd for- ' el"n'Tn after soviet Russia gets the rei i I r 1 n rv -war) to make Russian divorcee water-proof abroad. There are no residence requirements and ! "dlff'-rence of political views" Is tho ground on which many divorces are i granted. Alimony has not ye come Into fashion In Russia. Under the old Communl't Ideal nobody h-d anything teoretlcnllv. and everybody worked . and was supported by the state. With the reversion to capitalists ways and the recogn tlon of the rights of per- , sonal property, divorce proceedings may soon be tinge 1 by Mammon. oo |