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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-10-20

pecially the peasants, contrived to make sort
of 'moonshine" called samogcn both stronger
and more injurious than pre-war vodka
Health Commissar Semasho, who is
strongly opposed to vodka on health
grounds" declares the Monitor, nevertheless
had this to say in explanation of the resun.p-
ton of legal liquor selling in Russia:
1t is estimated that 100000 stills
operate illegally in the soviet union and
per cent of the peasant families are engaged
in making samogon. IT is necessary to break
the samogon habit among the peasants, even
at the cost of restoring vodka. Samogon,
compared with vodka, has two disadvan-
tages: 1t is physically more injurious and
its preparation wastes much more grain
We must regard the return to vodka as
strategic retreat, and fight, as far as posi-.
BILE, against its excessive USE
In short, Russia seems earnestly striving
for temperance. Prohibition having failed to
give it to her, she now falls back on what
she believes will be more practicable plan.
AS an incident to the new scheme, Russia S
finances will be benefited. Under prohibition
the profit from the sale of the poisonous samo-
gon enriched the bootleggers. Understhe new
plan the profit from the sale of the less injuri-
Gus vodka goes into the public treasury.
Scott if you will, but there is striking re-
semblance between the Russian experiment in
prohibition and ours. Prohibition enforcement
over here has also failed and most dismaly
And while runners do not seem to en-
counter much difficulty bringing in booze. the
real weak spot seems to be in the constantly
increasing food of fmoonShine," the Amer-
can samogon. h.
The Department Of Commerce estimates
that $40000,000 worth of booze is smugglcd
into this country annually, while the prohibi-
ton unit declares less than / per cent of the
stuff we drink comes from abroad This would
indicate that more than $4,000 100000 is spent
for illicit liquor in the United States every
twelve months. Small wonder that the Fed
eral council of churches reports deaths from
drinking are on the increase; for no one can
doubt that the stuff now flooding the Nation
is far more injurious than pre-war brands.
Inevitably, therefore, one is led to ask
himself the question: Is the prohibition road
the right road to Temperament Or will we like
Russia, ultimately be forced to beat 'strate-
gic retreat" and begin our fight along brand
new lines9
The question of money should not and
probably will not, influence our ultimate deci-
sion. Nevertheless Treasury officials have es-
timated that the legalzed sale Of the less in
furious liquors would pay half the, expenses of
government, completely do away with all in
come taxes and wipe out army of boot
leggers and other crooks at one swoop
This is not an argument for or against pro-
hibitionl 1t is merely statement of fact
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-10-20

to push an active
campaign for
the candidates
endorsed by the
committee -
what is desig-
mated as the
Citizens ticket.
Meanwhile the
Federation Of
Community Civ.
ic Clubs has
picked a school
board slate and
is backing the
candidates so
endorsed. Also
1.-The United
p r o t e S t a n I
School Board
Ticket" has ap-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-10-20
1t Sounds Sensible

E=z ERBERT HOOVER uttered lot of sound
IF-1I sense in Washington the other day. Ills
subject was: "Why the Public Interest he
quires Local Rather than Federal Regulation
Of Electric Public Utilities"
Since few people have thus far shown any
desire for national regulation of light and
power concerns, Hoover may have Deen en-
gagged in shadow boxing, but it gave him an
opportunity to say several things worth saying
He did suggest that national electric trust IS
too remote for anybody to worry about and he
might have hard time sustaining that belief
now that It has proved possible to monopollze
the making of bread. But that was only an in
cident in his speech and not particularly I'M
portant.
He declared the State utility commissions
can protect the public against unjust rates if
thew will allow rates based only on the, true
value of plants and equipment or upon actual
investment In Intelligent State regulation
neither watered capital nor speculation can ell
feet the rates paid by the consumer, he said.
And that is true. 1t is something for citizens
never to let their State utility commissions for
get.
But the best part Of his speech was the
finish Herbert Hoover, model OF efficiency IN
the present Administration accused sometimes
Of seeking control over all the bureaus IN
Washington, had this to say on the need for
more local and less Federal regulation of our
affairs:
"I have said in another connection that,
after ALL the object Of our whole social and
economic system is the family and the home
with it's independence, it's freedom, and its
comfort, and if we are to set up more systems
of alien regulation and bureaucratic domino
tion we shall inevitably undermine all OF these
treasured essentials of life.
''There is, indeed, limit to theoretical eff
ficiency which destroys more precious posses
sion l want to kick to local authority when
the power rates are unjust; I want to kick
where the searehlight of public opinion and
local knowledge can be brought to bear. |
don It want to deliver myself over to address
ing the interstate power commission at Wash
ington, D. c., thousand miles away, and have
the letter referred to the assistant director in
the bureau of house rates, and be told that [
should communicate in duplicate on form Blk
to the division Of rate complaints of the West
ern district and be prepared to bring lawyer
and five expert witnesses to town thou
sand miles away to preliminary hearing set
eleven months hence, when their report has
been received
"But far more than all this l want to live
in a community that governs itself, that neither
wishes it's responsibilities on to centralized
bureaucracy nor allows centralized bureau
cracy to dictate to that local government. Nor
dol believe the people Of our communities have
yet become so supine or so careless of the fun
damental advantages Of elf-government that
they are ready to surrender control of their
most intimate concerns to a paternal govern
ment at Washington, however wise or however
powerful. -
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A Bid for Temperance

T1 SPECIAL cable from Moscow to the
IAI Christian Science Monitor says the re-
peal of prohibition after an eleven-year trial
is attributed by the governments spokes-
men to the failure of enforcement
Russia could not cope with her "home-
brew problem. In the country districts es-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-10-20
Stage Verdict

English 's-"No. No, Nanette'
is the perfect musical comedy.
Ona Munson is the real star Of
many stars present.
Lyric-The observer finds a
bill that is sure TO please.
Keith's - With everybody
helping Olsen and Johnson in
a fun act, nothing else Is de-
sired. Fine comedy show.
Palace-For some real enter
tainment the Palace can hardly
be beaten this week. Liked
Harvey Tillis and Arlen
especially we'll.
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No, No, Nanette' Is the Perfect Show;
Now We Know Why Paul Revere Rode

audience in the least Duncan leads
the orchestra through some very
good melody. In these days Of many
jazz orchestras 1t is a pleasurable
feeling to listen to an orchestra like
this one.
Being late, I missed the opening
act. Judging from the rest of the
show / am sorry for this.
At the Palace today and tomorrow.
-(By the Observer
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-10-20

US they looked down instead of up.
Trouble with being rich man is
when the phone rings you think
your son has been jailed for speed
ing.
In Germany, they are using coal
as a substitute for jet. But, who
wants substitute for jet? We want
one for coal.
About the most dangerous thought
in the whole wsrld is thinking you
lean whip a han You can t.
Copyright, 1925. NEA Service. Inc)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-10-20

F all Indianapolis isn't in love
with Ona Munson by the end
49, Of this weekwell, there is
something the matter with Indian
apolis. Miss Munson is young and
beautiful, and she can sing and
dance, and she is charming-and she
hasn't bobbed her hair!
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paper and mail it to The Indian
apolis Times Pony Express Contest
Editor.
The first prize will be $40; second
prize $40; third prize SIS, and the
next ten best compositions received
will be awarded two tickets each to
the Apollo good for admission to
see 1.-THE Pony Express"
The judges who will be appointed
in naming the winners, will be an
nounced in The Times.
Mail your composition now.
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IL JOn NAAi
think Of any
more nice things,
just add 'em on
to the foregoing
sentence. They
all belong there.
Oh, yes. Miss
Munson is in a
show. It's called
mo, No, Nan
ette," and its a
bully show. just
about the best
musical comedy
that has APP
peared in these
parts in a long,
long time. It's
at English's all
this week.
Nouy ~ 0ef
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-10-20

Who wrote the first encyclo-
pedia?
The first encyclopedia Is said to
have been compiled by Speusippus
died 500 B. CO. a disciple Of Plato.
Among the Romans, Marcus Ter
entius Vraro died about q b. CO
was the first Of the encyclopedlsts.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-10-20
Tom Sims Saws

Most of us are mad at the world
just because there aren't enough
first prizes for all of us to have
one.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-10-20
A Thought

Watch we and pray. lest we enter
into temptation.-Mark 14:18.
m ATAN trembles when he sees
~ the weakest man upon his
IL knees.--Cowper.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-10-20
SCHOOL BOARD
81 ATES

rs THE day for election of
IA new Indianapolis, school
Ez board approaches plans are
being perfected by the self-consti-
tuted, so-called Citizens Committee
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Ask The Times

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ton of fact or information by writing
TO The Indianapolis Times Washington
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All other questions will receive a per-
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One cent for each two ounces.
How is the clerk of the House of
Representatives and of the Senate
chosen?
Election of the clerk of the House
of Representatives is by viva voce
vote at the beginning of each Con
sress. The .sane method is used il
Ahe Senate.
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SAFETY IN
TIE AIR

ElAGMAR STEGMAN, 21-
I'D year-old aviatrix, plunged
TO her death near South
Begi. SUNDAY. when her para
chute became entangled in the plane
from Which she had jumped and
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-10-20

In looking into
t h is rpl a n e
trouble in Wash
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-10-20
B i g t o b a C C o
warehouse col.
lapsed in Danville,
Va, the tobacco
not being strong
enough to hold it
up. ]

Women wear
smart clothes. Fall
hats are smart.
Takes a smart
man to make
enough money to
buy one.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-09-12

EU1 len Glory returned to the
IWI house she found Mother Greg
l---I Dry in charge. She had tied
white apron, cracking with starchi-
ness, over her black silk dress, and
she was tenderly bathing Dicks face.
These colds of his come from his
stomach. I'm sure of it," she said
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-09-12

talk PROBLEMS
District Federation to Elect
Officers.

Speakers at today's program of
the annual convention of the
Seventh District Typothetae Fedora
ton. in session at the Lincoln, were
to discuss problems of the printing
industry. The organization also will
elect officers.
Leaders of discussion were to be:
George f. Buehler, of Cleveland; DIR.
F.. II. Bird of Chicago, and George
w. Voorhees,, of Chicago.
Delegates inspected the Typothetae
school of printing at Arsenal Tech
nical High School Friday afternoon.
Despite the handicap of cheap
coupes and roadsters, the youth to-
day is worthy Of carrying on trad.-
ton of the craft" It. G. McGrew,
U. T. A. School of Printing superin-
tendent, asserted.
Ability to carry six buckets Of beer
on a notched broomstick, a former
requirement of a printers devil, is
gone forever" he said.
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SEVEN DEAD IN
ACCIDENTS over
INDIANA FRIDAY
Five Deaths Result of Auto
MiShapS-Painter Is
EIeCtroCuted.

Seven persons are dead in Indiana
today from accidents Friday and dur.
ing the night. Five of the deaths
were caused by auto mishaps.
Owen Foust, So, Of Montpelier, was
struck by an auto near South Chi
,cago and died from a fractured
skull.
Charles Collins, So, died at Sey.
mour from injuries received when
his auto overturned.
Deafness was held responsible for
the death OF Joseph Miller, 81,
Adams County farmer, killed as his
auto was struck by passenger
train at Berne.
Charles Euston, 3s, was fatally
hurt in a crossing accident at South
Bend His auto was hit by an in.
terurban car.
Grace Kramer, 25, Lansing, H.,
died in a hospital at Gary after her
auto had plunged over a twenty-foot
embankment.
While wrestling with a cousin at
Bedford. Edgar Davis. Is, broke his
neck
Francis Momahan. IS, a painter.
was electrocuted while working at
power substation of the Indiana
Service Corporation at FIT. Wayne.
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on the grounds must first pass a
stringent test of mediumship before
the board of directors.
]. p. Clark, Harris assistant, told
me when he was tested" DR.. Post,
DR.. Butte and a third fat man sat on
his arms anG legs to make sure that
he did not move during the NANTES
tations. He was quite lame from
the effects for days, he said.
But a former member OF the asso.
citation, who will testify at the Octo-
Der trials of the fourteen mediums
indicted, has explained to Assistant
Prosecuting Attorney Clarence Da-
visson that the tests are simply an
agreement to stick to the crowd.
betray no secrets and turn in all in
formation about clients to the gen.
eral clearing house, maintained by
Mrs. Sarah Pierce, for the use Of the
other mediums at camp.
Next: The wages of medium
ship.
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Dick Asks Gloria if She Loves
Stanley Wayburn- She
Evades.

Glory, you took your things into
the guest-room," he said.
Yes. I'm going to sleep there to-
night" Glory answered. IT think
you'll sleep more comfortably if
you're in here alone"
But they both knew that was not
her reason for going into the guest
room. The thought Of Wayburn rose
between them like an insurmount1
able wall.
GLORY, tell me one thing" Dick
said surprisingly. And think be-
for you give me an answer
you're not in love with this Way
burn fellow, are your" His anger
was entirely gone.
That's not the point" Glory said
coldly. THE point is that you've
shamed and Inundated me before
my friends. And I'll never forgive
you for it. 1 don't know how 1 can
ever face any of them again.
lick sat up in bed.
h II wish you never would
see any of them again" he
said vehemently. They're not the
kind of people l want you to have
for friends. I wonder If you know
the things people are saying about
May and Jim. beastly things?"
"Oh, people. People make me
tired the way they gossip about
everybody Glory said contemptu.
ously. She went out and closed the
door loudly.
Mother Gregory had a cold supper
laid on the kitchen table. She was
drinking tea and reading the evening
paper.
Have you been asked to join the
new Home Womens Club?" she
asked Glory, without raising her eyes
from the paper. II put your name
up for it, / want my sons wife to
belong to it."
Yes, I've been asked. and have
sent in my first dues Glory an
swered as she took her place at the
table. Thanks for putting me up
for It, l guess most of the women in
town are going to be members.
aren't they? Id hate to be left out. f"
Mother Gregory pursed up her
lips.
"Oh, there are "A few women who
aren't getting In she remarked
.acidly. Your friend. Mrs. Seymour.
for instance! She'll never be asked
to join. II she lives to be a hundred
Glory was silent. She knew now
what Dick meant by the "beastly
things" people were saying about
May. and Jim Carewe!
That night Glory was brushing her
hair before the guest-room dresser
when she heard a board creak in the
hall outside her door.
Was it Dick? She stood there
listening. She was sure that she
saw the handle Of her locked door
turn slowly. Then, few minutes
afterward she was sure she heard
the stealthy closing of the door Of
Dicks room. . l.. Evidently he had
gone back to bed.
TO BE Continued
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By Beatrice Burton
CHAPTER XXI

F~ lLORY was certain that the
z minute the door had closed
- upon Stanley Wayburn, Dick
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she stepped out into the blue-gray
dusk Of early evening.
=. What a mess life was, Glory
thought. I
1t made you care for the people
you ought not to care for. 1t made
the people who meant nothing to you
at all, fall in love with you.
There was no more plan or pattern
to life than there was 10 a crazy
quilt. Not as much 1t was thrown
together, so far as she could see.
How much more simple every
thing would be all the way around,
for instance. If Stan Wayburn had
been in love with her year ago as
she had been with him and
had married her!
Then she would never have seen
Dick. And he would probably have
married some nice home-making girl
who would have kept all his socks
mended and given him a houseful ~
children to make him proud and
happy.
WV HILE the clerk at the drug
NV store was filling DIR. Johns
- prescriptions, Glory went into
the telephone booth and called Stan
Wayburn at his hotel.
r ooh, Stan, I'm so terribly sorry
about this afternoon. I wouldn't
have had things happen the way
they did for anything in the world, ="
she told him when she heard his
voice.
Stan laughed carelessly.
Don't you bother your cute head
about me, Russet, for a single sec
ond," he said. Just forget it, 1
told your husband where to head in,
though, by the way"
you did," Glory's surprise was in
her voice. She was sure that it had
been Dick who had told Stan where
to head in" Moreover, she re-
membered how meekly Stan had
obeyed when Dick had told him to
get out OF the house.
II certainly told him nothing else
butt" Wayburn went on. "You
didn't suppose l was going to lie
down like a rug and take all his in
suits. did you? Not on your gay
young life, I wasn't. And what s
more, I'm going to see you wher-
ever and whenever I want to
If you want me to. You do, don't
your"
'Of course, I want to . but
did you really tell all that to Dick?"
Glory asked incredulously.
"N-no, not exactly that way"
Stan admitted.
We'll, | must ring off, now"
Glory said. "Goodby, Stan"
She was vaguely disappointed in
Wayburn, She would have liked him
to stand up to Dick that afternoon
She wanted to be proud of him,
somehow.
EU1 len Glory returned to the
IWI house she found Mother Greg
l----1 DRY in charge. She had tied a
white apron. cracking with starchi-
ness, over her black silk dress, and
she was tenderly bathing Dicks face.
These colds of his come from his
stomach. I'm sure of it," she said
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Mr. Hoover was asked by an in
quisitive questioner how many prob
lens he had under investigation in
the Department of Commerce, at
the present time. He told her that
if she added as many more, and one
half as many more, and one-third as
many more problems, to those now
under consideration, there would be
four more than 200
How many problems are under
consideration?
net rNru1Io onc.uar.
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GLORIA,
THE STORY so FAR

GLORIA. GORDON. beautiful flapper.
young lawyer Glorv's idea of ideal
marriage is fun and fine clothes. {.
but no work or children
When Dick suggests that she do her
own houseworll. she has mysteries. Dick
horrows his mothers maid. MAGGIE to
teach Gloria TO cook. But she refuses
to learn. Gloria gives a housc-warm-
iLg STANLEY WAY BURN. an actor,
guests. Ct.ci1 is instently Jealous Of him,
not OF Gloria, but to MYRA GAIL.
The party breaks up when LOLA
HOPGH scolds BILL. her husband, for
petit ign NAY SEYMOUR, wife of DR..
JOHN SEYMOUR. Maggie disguised,
Gioria then hires RANGHILD SWAN
SON. a high -salaried housemaid. She
buys hundreds of dollars worth of new
clothes and insists upon new auto-
About this time Gloria. begins to be
vaguely Jealous of Dicks secretary.
MISS BRIGGS. She. herself. goes Joy
riding, with Vayburn and is seen by
MOTHER GkLGoRY. who begs her to
Next. aftcrloon Gloria invites Way
burn Nav Seymour and Mays admirer.
JIM CAREWE. to the house. A wild
party is in progress when Dick returns.
He puts the guests out Of TIE house,