IN RUSSIA
The cabled message published in j*ur paper on the subject of religion and the Soviet’s attitude toward it, prompts me to send these few notes. Speaking to a huge gathering in Russia on the anniversary of Tolstoy’s death, a wellknown educationalist said: “To discard religion will be the undoing of any good that the Soviet rule has brought about. Even to have the ter. commandments taught and explained to our children in the schools would be of great benefit.” He was loudly applauded. Now just a few figures from a journal published in February. In Moscow, in the year 1928, 26,906 boys and 24,264 girls were born. In the same period 28,000 persons died, 28,012 marriages were celebrated and 21,34* divorces were granted. The civil laws make divorce so easy that thousands of children are left with no one to cart for them. They wander from place to place seeking food and shelter. Diseas* is rampant and thousands of doctors are now to be engaged and hospitac built in hundreds to cope with the desperate increase in the incidence oi virulent diseases. B. KING.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 626, 1 April 1929, Page 8
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