Show GIN GI MARRIAGE LAW DEFENDED Cali fornias gin marriage law which requires three days delay before a marriage license can be used is defended as one of the most ost valuable safeguards to matrimony in a statement issued by the human betterment foundation last year licenses applied for in los angeles county were ere unclaimed while were similarly cancelled in san francisco the foundation declares that a large part ot these abandoned romances represented freak marriages m r fraudulent marriages runaway marriages drunken in mar ar biages and others whose abandonment was a gain to all concerned laws similarly to that of california are now in effect in 22 states and the foundation predicts that annulment of this delay which the california legislature is now contemplating will result in nn an increase in the number of divorce and annulment cases in the courts blurts 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 I 1 by unwise marriages three days to think it over in advance is not too much for people who are planning a lifelong life long union |