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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-28

by captain of the police and squad
of soldiers. | watched many of them
from across the street. When a store
or building was sufficiently smashed
up and robbed.a the captain would
korderar' YGomR-
Now, boys, move on"
They willingly obeyed and moved on
to the next building or store to start
all over again.
Usually they met with no resistance
as most of the Jews had hidden away
in the cellars or garrets, or fed to the
houses of friendly christians.
Holy pictures of saints (ikons) be-
gan to appear in the windows to de-
signate the homes Of the christians,
and thereby protect them from the
rioters. Many christian loaned some
of his ikons to a friend-a Jew, to
protect his home.
IN some instances the rioters met
4 with resistance, with revolver
shots. In such cases the police and
soldiers would reply with their rifles
and guns, as the rioters did not carry
any guns the first day, except the
leaders who in most cases turned out
to be gendarmes. But where the pol
ice and soldiers were absent, two men
with revolvers would drive off a crowd
of hundred rioters, or more. The
rioters did not venture into unknown
streets without the escort of police
or soldiers.
There weren't many casualties the
first day. Only a few were shot by
the police and soldiers, few stabbed
with soldiers bayonets, and many
beaten up by the rioters.
When darkness fell upon the doom
ed city the terror of the day turned
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-28
BY M. A. skRoMNY.
"Reminiscences Of the Revolutionary
Days of 1905, BY an old RebeD.

Editors Note. In connection
with the goth anniversary of the
revolution of 1905 we will publish
series Of word pictures of the
revolution as told by a comrade
who participated in the events Of
that time. We know they will prove
interesting to our reades. This is
the second story.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-12-07

House is putting it's rare appreciation OF Mr..
Mellon in tangible form, form he can hear
jingle the Senate will be engaged in other
business 1t will be considering the World
Court
Over in Europe there recently was war.
We have our dimming memory of several
thousand brave men to remind us OF it. We also
of course, have the tax bill spoken of above
perhaps a sharper reminder for some citizens
than the men who died Since the war Europe
has been struggling desperately with the prob
lem of how to prevent another. Europe never
has been especially intelligent in the matter of
wars. 1t always has had too many of them. But
it seems to have learned its lesson this time
and nobody can mistake the earnestness with
which it is endeavoring to make the business
of going to war very difficult one.
Eprope efforts in this respect concern us.
Another European war and we d be in it, just
as we were dragged into the last one. Another
European war, and, so serious thinkers even
in this country believe, all our present civiliza-
ton might come Gathering down into chaos.
Another European war; in any event, presages
a rotten world, including rotten America for
our children and grandchildren, if not for our
selves
That is the why of the World Court. 1t is
a step toward reason as substitute for war.
But the United States Senate is not prepared
to embrace it without struggle Some mem
bers are ready to fight to the last drop against
the United States having anything to do with
it, WhyY Well, it seems we as a people are
not smart enough to take the risk The same
orators that tell you in breath that we
Americans are the slickest, shrewdest as we'll
as the bravest people that an admiring sun ever
shone upon tell you in another breath that we
are not slick enough or shrewd enough to hold
our own in an organization dedicated to the
purposes of peace Something might be put
over on us.
No, the idea seems to be that we should
stick closely to our own back yard, shaving
the nickels off the taxes caused by the last war,
while waiting for another to occur. If it does
occur we can bury our dead as we did in 1913,
pay the bill and start shaving off the nickels
once moref
So we can't get properly enthusiastic
about Congress on this, it's opening day. Per-
haps a few days of fighting may clear the air,
however, and present different picture.
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Temperance, Not Prohibition

354. The next year the average
dropped to below 800, and in 1924
Nhe last year for which there are
official returnsl, the average arrests
dropped to 243
I visited the Recorders Court
where the "drunks" are arraigned
and sat through a morning session.
AS it happened there were none
that day, oct. 10, 1925. I talked to
clerk Of the court, Mr.. @. Lalonde,
and found him enthusiastic over the
results of the law. He called atten-
ton to the figures in the annual
report of the court showing that
since 1921, when the liquor act was
passed, to 1924 the arrests for
lettering or lying drunk" had
dropped from 7.S49 in 1921 to 4,205
in 1922, 3,S29 in 1923 and about the
same) 1854 in 1924.
quite aside from the figures"
said Mr.. Lalonde, zone knows who
sees a court like ours, what are the
results. Days go by when see no
person under the influence of liquor
The saloon has gone. 1t is very diff
ferent for the working man who
now may buy his wine or beer and
consume It In his home The
figures All show 4 and We all know
n ~
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Montreal officials have not yet re-
covered from their feelings Of out
rage at an article published in a
leading female household magazine
(The Ladies Home Journal in which,
as they say, the facts about the
liquor act and it's effect were
flagrantly misrepresented. So
strongly did Recorder Amedee Geof-
frion feel that he wrote a scathing
letter to the Hon. l.. A. Tascherau,
Prime Minister at Quebec. calling
the writer a liar in all the ways
known to the English Of
Canada.
The problem of excessive use Of
drink, say officials here. is not a 10.
cal one. Persons who come into
Quebec from the dry province Of on.
tario, as at Hull, swell the arrest
statistics. Like the people from the
United States. they come TO Stake a
long-felt thirst, and try in the short
period of their visit to drink all the
liquor in the world. Quite especially
they get drunk and have to be taken
n charge by the police.
Meantime. the person who can go
and buy what he wants when he
wants 1t. does not get so ambitious
and Is content to drink moderately
at home, Or even TO leave 1t alone
until he really Wauts Il.
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Campaign Contributions

m HE corrupt practices act makes it unlaw-
full for any corporation to contribute
to political campaign fund. 1t is not unlaw-
full for an individual to contribute.
The distinction is not so important as is
the business in which the corporation or in
dividual is engaged and the return the corpo-
ration or individual expects to receive from
the money which he invests in the campaign
fund.
The report of the observation-disclosures Club
originally listed several corporations said to
have contributed to it's fund. Later the report
was changed to show that these corporations
did not contribute.
But the report still shows that paving in
terests did contribute to the fund. The Demo
cratic report shows that some Of these same
paving interests also contributed to the Dem
ocratic fund.
The unusual interest shown by persons
who undoubtedly expect to be benefciaries of
the next Observation-Disclosures of whom took
no chances and contributed to both Demo
Gratis and Republicans-is the important side
of the present disturbance.
Property owners will have reason to con-
slider when they pay for their streets, alleys,
sidewalks and curbs.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-12-07
P00LR0OMS AS
CRIME BREEDERS

TNDIANAPOLIS patrolmen
have been ordered to con-
IL centrate their energies on
cleaning up poolrooms, described
by Prosecutor Remy as crime
breeding places" This followed
revelations made to the prosecutor
by two young brigands who ad-
mitted they graduated into crime
from a course Of poolroom loafng.
Almost year ago, when the
same two youths were arrested in
connection with the hold-up and
murder of a street car conductor,
the police were ordered to clean
up disreputable 7oolrooms. The
result was not visible to the naked
eye.
Probably the present campaign
will be equally effective.
Pool may be a stimulating intel
lectual and physical recreation.
But not in a hole-in-the-walls place
of which indianapolis has many
with a couple of NANCY pool
tables and an atmosphere thick
enough to cut, where youthful
loafers hang out,
Such places graduate more out
laws than moral leaders. There
boys sprout their criminal pin.
feathers.
The unsavory poolrooms and tie
joints with fiy-specked cartons of
cigarets in the front rooms and
crowded card tables behind the
screen must be disinfected before
there can he any real cleanup Of
youthful lawlessness and crime I'm
the city. The police know the To-
cations OF these plague spots. Why
do they have to be prodded into
warfare against them?
But the police are not solely to
blame for the conditions. Lax
parental authority that permits
15-year-old boys to loaf around and
acquire a poolroom. smoke shop
education is also guilty.
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Keeper of the Bees to the screen,
the director did not attempt to film
the complete story. Some of the
scenes 1 enjoyed most in the story
were not included in the movie YER
sion. If the dramatic sequence OF
events were filmed as recorded in the
novel, it is probable that the movie
would have been confusing.
AS 1.-THE Keeper of the Bees" now
stands as a movie, IL makes com
plete story, but it doesn't cover the
entire story as written by Gene
Stratton Porter.
And yet this opinion, or rather,
statement of n fact, does not mean
that 1.-THE Keeper of the Bees is
not good entertainment. Mrs. Por-
ter knew her busy out-of-doors She
knew bee life and she knew humans.
The little Scout and the girl who
makes a vital mistake in love are the
two characters that really stand out
in the movies. The girl playing the
role Of the Little Scout is a wonder.
While she is masquerading as boy
she is splendid and she is an awk'
ward delight when she decides to
wear skirts and become lady"
The acting honors go to Robert
Frazier as the wounded soldier hero
Clara Bow as the girl who sins for
love and Alyce Mills as the girl who
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could have carried the hole of a
doughnut and stood up under the
load The son Of a family Of the
best people had his idea about q
wife. So he decided to marry one
of those good Sally types to be found
in the chorus. This chorus girl
didn't drink and didn't smoke, and
she wouldn't marry the son of one
Of the best families until his allow
ance was cut off. Modern play
wrights certainly do make heroines
out of the chorus ladies'.
1t seems to me that the modern
playwright is giving some of 1.-THE
best families" a deal these days. I
can't see how they ever became
best people" with so many old
skeletons in the closet. Some times
feel sorry for members of the best
families as they are exposed upon
the stage and the screen.
In the cast Of 1.-THE Best People"
as a movie version, are Warner
Baxter, Esther Ralston and Kathlyn
Williams. Also on the bill is a Harold
Lloyd reissue, Never Weaken"
Charlie Davis and his orchestra
have novelty song in Costume and
disguise" this week. They are sing
ing something about everybody go.
ing to Florida, but the singers as.
sure us that they will ali come back.
AT the Ohio all week.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-12-07
SCHOOL BOARD
AND SHORTRIDGE

"7HE State tax commission
Saturday held the well ad-
- vertised hearing on the re-
monstrance against the proposed
S1.200.00O bond issue for the new
Shortridge High School in Indian
apolis. The commission indicated
and immediate favorable decision
on the bond issue by authorizing
the board to receive bids for bonds
and construction of the new
school.
Apparently the Shortridge prof.
ect cleared the last hurdle. But
when, following the hearing. the
school board met to fix a day for
receiving bids internecine strife
broke out all over the members
and the board split wide open.
Plans and specifications for the
new building are not yet COM
pleted or approved, so why ad.
vertise for bids now, contended one
faction.
Nine months ago controversy
over the architects to be employed
for the new high school. which
had languished in court for many
months, was settled. The archi-
tects were instructed to submit
plans June Is.
Six months have passed since
the designated date. Instead OF
fragrant June it is chill and wintry
December. And the plans are still
unfinished and have yet to be APP
proved. The school board is no
more ready for heaven than it
was last spring.
Who is to blame for that delay?
The eleventh-hour remonstrants
against the bond issue?
When the remonstrance was
filed members of the school board
rent their garments and publicly
paraded their anguish over the
delay to which it would subject
the building program. They pinned
bouquets on themselves for their
superhuman efforts TO expedite the
project. But they have let nine
months drift past without secur-
ing completed plans for the new
building.
Complaints Of the school board
that others seek to delay the
building program sound like the
pot calling the kettle black. To
date whatever r1rooresS the short.
ridge project has made has been
under its own power apparently.
1t hasn't been pushed.
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RIGHT HERE
IN INDIANA
BY GAYLORD NELSON

OF local butcher shops. One would
break more than tooth on a
steak carved from him.
Is any meat worth such price?
To an unlettered cannibal the
Queen Of Sheba would probably
not prove a more sl,cculent morsel
than some unknown damsel And
quite likely n mouthful Of Jock
would not contain more proteins,
carbohydrates and vitamines than
a mouthful of some plain steer.
A French cook can take a chunk
OF super-annuated horse a handful
Of herbs, vegetables and genius
and produce dish that will make
ones appetite rise on it's toes ana
dance. Nothing more can be done
with $7-apound beef.
The old, luxury-loving Roman
emperors served humming-b birds
tongues and such extravagant
delicacies at their feasts. Lucullus,
Vitellus ct al. are dead. But there
is a good deal Of the thinning
bird-tongue spirit in our pure bred
livestock industry. 1t Is more
concerned with raising record
price champions than meat
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Congress Convenes

fI1ONGRESS is converting today with it's
N usual solemn fuss, but somehow we can
not find much that is thrilling in the spectacle.
AT the moment it presents only an encroach-
ment on newspaper space that might better
be given to the interesting events Of our own
town.
III What is Congress particularly concerned
about as it opens it deliberationsY Why, the
niggling of the Federal tax total down from
So, 736, 100000 to $3,436,0 100000 You have to
read those figures over twice to see the reduc-
ton, don't youY 1t doesn't seem to justify all
the extravagant enthusiasm that party propa-
gandists have been broadcasting on the subject
\ of economy. Of course the tax bill should be
smaller. The war has been over seven years
now.
And how are they going to reduce taxes;
whose are they gong to reduce9 Well chilly
! little Mr.. Mellon, real author of the bill about
which you we been reading so much will have
his personal tax reduced about 81, 100000 a
year. Others in Mr.. Melons limited class will
benefit similar extent. The reduction you,
personally, will obtain is somewhat less How
ever, remember at what terrific sacrifice Mr.
Mellon left his bank in Pittsburgh to become
Secretary of the Treasury and perhops your
enthusiasm for the Congressional spectacle will
rekindle A generous open-handed republic
rewarding an unselfsh servant! That sort Of
thing
Hang on to that mental picture if you want
to retain your thrill for there are not many
othersGn sight at the moment. WhSe the
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picture. This is Miss Kenyon's
picture and nobody was able to take
it away from her 1t is her picture,
because the author centers all of his
fat comedy stuff upon the
character played by Miss Kenyon.
About all Stills has to do is to jump
into the ocean twice and get his
clothes all wet. AS a starring
vehicle for Stills, 1t is all wet. As
a starring vehicle for Doris Kenyon,
1t is mighty fine.
1.-THE Unguarded Hour" gets off to
n bad start. The director wanted to
start off differently and he sure did.
The American girl heroine is shown
giving a smart society ball to which
she has invited through the news
paper a gang OF real thieves and
yeggmen. This might be a novelty
in fact, but upon the screen it
registers as a silly idea.
Stills does not get into the picture
until the story is well under way.
Again, say that it is Doris Kenyon
who walks away with this picture.
Soothing melody is found In Vic
tor Herbert's score of 1.-THE Girl in
the Spotlight" as played by the
Circle Orchestra with Bakaleinikoff
conducting. The orchestra has a.
other chance to furnish soothiIN1
melody because they play Hymn to
the Sun" while THE River Nile"
a little journey movie, is being
shown -on the screen. I have the
greatest admiration for the way Ace
Berry is presenting these little travel
movies. They are worth while and
corking good entertainment.
Miguel Calvin plays the banjo and
at times is able to convince one that
in his hands the banjo can be
wicked instrument. His melody reg
listers with ease, but he should study
stage appearance iand showmanshtp.
A. Farb sings "Save Your Sorrow"
as the movie story is flashed upon
the screen.
At the Circle all week.
80
Ed Wynn opens n weeks engage
ment at English's tonight in THE
Grab Bag"
Joyce Lando and company is the
readline attraction at the Lyric.
Singers Midgets hold first place on
the bill at Keiths. The Four Toys
are present at the Palace.
The feature at the Isis for the
first half Of the week is Fred Thomp-
son and his horse In "All Around
Frying Pan"
Burlesque is on view at the Broad
way.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-12-07
DISPOSAL OF
.C0UNTYS INSANE

TN7R. BENJAMIN POTTER,
superintendent OF the JUL
IL eta County Hospital for
the Insane. has in the past two
weeks made disposition of fifty-six
inmates of the institution, it is re-
ported. He hopes to dispose Of the
remaining inmates. so that the
hospital can be closed Jan. 1, as
county authorities contemplate.
Some Of the patients removed
have been transferred to the State
epileptic village at Newcastle;
some have been discharged; the
rest have been sent home to the
care Of relatives.
If some Julietta inmates should
properly be transferred to the in
stitution for epileptics what were
they doing in Marion County's in
sane hospital in the first place?
Likewise, If some of the patients
can now be safely discharged why
have they been kept in the insti.
tuition for incurable insane up to
this time?
BY sucn transfers, discharges
and turning patients over to their
families Julietta can no doubt be
emptied by Jan. or any other
designated date. That will rid the
county of Julietta but doesn't solve
the problem of Julietta's inmates.
To scatter the unfortunates in
private homes, where at best they
can only be inadequately guarded
and cared for by their families.
may give opportunity for some
appalling tragedy. A handy AK
and an unexpected outburst of the
homicidal frenzy that is frequently
marks mental arrangement might
turn a neighborhood into a sham
bles.
It is worth while to incur such
endanger families and per-
haps subject unfortunate insane to
improper treatment and abuse
just to save the county few dol
lars?
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"A Sermon for Today

Other things we specially and def
nitely purpose to do. But here, too.
is a service of sufficient Importance
and of sufficient promise in results
to be included as distinct and vital
part of our life purpose.
We often dream of what we could
do. If only we had the opportunity
Opportunities for words to be spoken
In due season abound every day and
everywhere.
We have no idea how many peo-
pie there are all about us in need
of encouragement. Many times they
almost give up in despair when a
simple word of encouragement would
give them new heart and courage.
Truly the great sage of old was
right when he said Of such a word,
How good it is" Doubly good 1t Is
good because it does us good to
speak it and because it does so much
good to the one to whom spoken.
Copyright, 1925. by John R. Gunn)
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partment created and who was the
first secretary?
The Department Of the Navy was
created by an Act. Of Congress APP
proved April, 1898. Benjamin Stod-
dart was the first secretary and en-
tered upon his duties June IS, 1898.
What is the name of the poem
in which the following lines recur
in each stanza:
For men must work and women
must weep,
And the sooner its over the soon
err to sleep,
And goodbye to the bar and it's
moaning"
''Three Fishers" by Charles
Kingsley.
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Even Best People Like Little Lovin';
Tom Meighan Taxes Journey to Ireland

understands what it means TO sin for
love.
The cast Is more than adequate:
Am not forgetting the bees, they are
wonderful too.
Boy Scouts and girl scouts will en-
joy 1.-THE Keeper of the Bees"
Here is a movie Of sentiment which
is as sweet at times as the honey
the bees make.
The bill includes the American
Harmonists, Busters Bust Up" a
Buster Brown comedy; a news reel,
Aesop Fables and Julia Niebergall
in pianologues.
At the Colonial all week.
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Movie Verdict

Circle-Doris Kenyon walks
away with the comedy honors
in 1.-THE Unguarded Hour" al
though Milton Sills is an
nounced as the star. The must
cal features are splendid this
week.
Apollo-Thomas Meighan
plays a dual role to aSyantage
In melodramatic surroundings
in Irish Luck"
Colonial - At times Tho
Keeper of the Bees" is as
sweet as the hoeny the bees
make. Not all the story Of
Gene Stratton Porter has been
filmed.
Ohio-"The Best People is
another movie attempt to show
that some Of the best people
are wrong, while the poor are
always right.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-12-07

Editors Note-This is the third of a
series OF articles by Mr.. Gardner report
ing the operation Of laqaor laws in the
By ellison Gardner
|" ONTREAL Cby mail)-The
lM people of Quebec resent Wig
IL orously any suggestion that
they have Elapsed into the evils Of
intemperance" as a result of adopt
ing the Quebec liquor law, now in
the fifth year Of it's operation.
They say they are the real ITEM
perance" people and that their plan
is the only temperance" plan that
really works.
And to the stranger within their
gates they seem to make out a
pretty good case.
OF course all statistics are de-
ceitful, but some statistics seem less
deceitful than others. Take, for in
stance. the official figures on drunk
enness in Montreal. Population in
1921. 61S,50 In 1920 the monthly
average Of arrests for drunkenness
was above 600. In May, 1921 the
present liquor act went into effect.
In 1921 the monthly average of ar
rests for drunkenness was a little
less than $50. During the text year
1.-The first Of. the liquor act's adj
ministlation, the average dropped TO