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Deliver Booze i'm Winnipeg

65 o. p. gallon, $26; grain alcohol, 65
o. P. 40 ounces. 81; Bass Ale, per
dozen pints, $4.20.
Up to 1923 this province enjoyed
wartime prohibition" This meant
the kind of prohibition that does not
prohibit. There were all the evils
of the corner saloon. and of legal
and illegal sale of drink.
In a province-wide vote held two
years ago the present state Con.
troll was authorized by a majority
Of $1,000. At first the saloon did not
yield. But when the morality squad
began arresting patrons as well as
vendors they gave up. Then a vote
was demanded on the sale Of beer
by the glass" This was beaten by
the same margin, $1,000.
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By BISHOP FREDERICK DELAND LEETE
Head of Indianapolis Area of the Methodist
Episcopal Church
frTs7 HE very purpose Of Christianity IS
!l "Peace on earth among men of good
Will" If any form of idealism should tend to
make peace, it is that Of religion which pre-
sents to the world the conception of a God
of love, the norm of life Of love, and the
eyangel of brotherhood of love-
g Today we see the picture and we acutely
sense the problem of human jealousies, preju-
dices, divisions and animosities. Is religion
responsible for this2 Certainly not the religion
Of Jesus! He who taught kindness, mercy and
affection for enemies who sought to find and
help the lost sheep of the House OF Israel, who
died with and for transgressors is not to be
accused Of responsibility for the unhallowed
arrangement of nations, races, classes and in
dividuals.
d Whence, then, come the evils which en-
bitter and impair the sweetness and strength
of human relationships Out of the unregen-
crate thinking and conduct of men. Out OF
hearts which are unsanctifed and ungodly.
Out Of disobedience and disloyalty to Jesus
Christ, and to all true leaders and teachers OF
history. Out of unjust purposes and unfair
methods of competitions and rivalries.
The fault is not in one group or party only.
Those who maintain unjust and unnecessary
Eexclusiveness will produce in some quarters
suspicious and dislikes, which may become ha-
freds. Those who form restricted solidarity
of interests and ambitious efforts will arouse
Sepposition and i'll will. Those who seek to
take advantage of others or to control them
land their governments are makers OF war
Social, religious or military.
81 Is it too much to hope and pray that soon
perhaps at the present sacred season-the
world will look into it's spirit, and that each of
Jus will examine his own mind and heart to see
what ideas, motives, attitudes are unworthy Of
four religious faith and ought to be overcome
and expelledq In our own. community and
State may all causes of unnecessary differences
*be removed, may our churches and other insti-
Buttons seek the common good, and may fellow
Ncitizens respect each others convictions aid
each others wise undertakings and preserve
Fin power all kindly and fraternal feelings.
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man, who is to speak, is one of the great ora
tors of the country. Aside from the message
Of good viii he is to give, he is well worth
hearing, And it will be ga sight for to see, >"
near the eve of Christmas, the season Of good
will, to look upon great audience Of men and
women, differing in faith and racial origin, but
united as citizens of the republic and of our
great State. This sight ought to convince
every one that, after all, there s nothing the
matter with Indiana.
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Religion and Goodwill

rs By RABBI MORRIS M. FEUERLICHT
sof the Indianapolis Hebrew Congregation,
f Tenth and Delaware Streets
1 that some people have just enough re-
.ligion to hate their fellowmen, but not enough
Ito love them The distinction he had in mind
rs quite plain
Some men are in the habit Of confusing
Etheology and the organized church with re-
hgion, just as they are wont to interchange uni
sssformity with unity. They forget that theolo
Sgies are many, whereas religion is one. The
NYology may separate men; but it is the primary
Function Of religion to unite them.
N However varied the labels whereby it is
known, therefore, the basis of all enlightened
Nand genuine religion is good will. This is
Ewhat constitutes, after all, the real problem of
9Iundamentalism in the churches today.
~ We may dispute and argue our questions
Tof fundamentalism and modernism, or ortho-
Stloxy and heterodoxy, of this doctrine or that
but unless a church postulates good will
aiamong men, whether within or without its fold,
lit may claim to be good church, but it is not
x yet representative of the highest and truest
form of religion.
ss Some one has casually, but cleverly, said
/ that to be able to quarrel amiably is one of
Rgthe exquisite delights of civilization. =
When savages quarrel, they use the toma-
hawk and battleax one another. When
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Mr.. FIXIT
City Promises to Repair
Hole at Fay and
Harding SITS.

Let Mr. Fixit solve your troubles with
city officials. He Is The Times repre-
tentative at the city hall. Write him at
The Times.
The concrete domes Of some truck
drivers. If removed. would repair
a pavement at Fay and Harding SITS,
is the opinion of a correspondent Of
Mr.. Fixit today.
DEAR MR.. FIXIT: There is
hole in the concrete pavement at
Fay and Harding SITS. ard from the
way some OF these trucks run. into
1t, you would think there was enough
concrete on the seat to repair the
hole. But perhaps that is not the
right kind OF material.
1892 S. HARDING ST.
Harry Stevens of the improved
streets department prefers his own
brand of concrete. He has or
dered an immediate investigation.
DEAR MIR. FIXIT: thereby give
you the name of the contractor
whose worlmen broke my step,while
paving the alley at SOC r. Sixteenth
st. I certainly appreciate your eff
fort to help. as I am an elderly
widow, and that house is my only
source of income.
EMILY S. BARBER,
1895 Central Ave.
Mr.. Fixit will start the campaign
at once. so hope for the best
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all around and-I was going to say "toler-
ance, but don't like the word-let's say
helpfulness as members of the big family Of
Indiana. Let us get back to the Indiana Of old.
The civic meeting Of next Tuesday to be
addressed by DR.. Cadman is to restore the for
mer good will between all elements of the pop
ulation. The movement came from the FEEDER
alton of Churches of this city They invited
Catholics and Jews to join with them and they
readily clasped hands in friendship. DR.. Cad
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series Of articles by Mr. Gardner re,
porting the operation Of rnauor laws In
BY ellison Gardner
WINNIPEG, Manitoba, Canada
This province, Manitoba, is wet, too;
but on a home delivery" instead Of
the "cash and carry" plan Of Que
bee
1t has a liquor commission to
operate a state liquor monopoly. 1t
has stores" like Quebec, where
wines and liquors are retailed 1t
has abolished the corner saloon, and
has not even the tavern" for the
exclusive consumption of beer. Nor
can beer or wine be bought for con-
sumption with meals.
But all drink can be bought, in as
large quantities as any human could
possibly consume it, on the basis of
a personal license and the written
signature of the license holder; but
it must be delivered by the COM
mission to a "home address"
This province places the accent on
delivery. 1t is moro generous than
Quebec in the amount the individual
may purchase, "a case week. Of
liquors or two cases a week of beer.
In Quebec it is bottle a day to a
person" theoretically Of hard
drinks, with no limit on wine.
But the purchaser here must have
a name and an address. and he must
pay two dollars for a permit good
for a year, or fifty cents for a
permit good for a single order. If
he is transient passing through,
or a dollar for permit good for
thirty days; and he is not permitted
to take the bottle and slip it into
his pocket, or to take the case and
put 1t in his auto.
No, he pays his money, leaves his
order and waits for the commits
sion's delivery truck to come.
Or he may save himself time and
trouble by sending in a mail order,
which is the only way for the man
in the remote sections of the prov
ince.
The obvious intent Of the law is
not to limit the amount of drink con-
sumed, but to send it to the home.
The transient? Arrived at the ho-
tel he looks about for bar. Is
none. Asks about a little drink in
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What Gal That Royle Girl Turned Out
to Be When Griffith Landed on the Lot

Locke story to the screen in half as
good shape as this director has done,
then l have no complaint.
Amos Is one Of those back-to-na-
ture boobs Of whom authors are so.
fond. Generally when such char-l
acters reach the screen in their
primitive stage, before the boiled
shirt stage is reached, they are so
darned silly that the movie becomes
a stupid farce.
Rod LaRocque as Amos does not
go to the extreme. He first makes
Amos just a green" man from Aus
tralia who thought all women were
good and all men were fighters. La
ROGUE is clever enough to pilot
Amos through this silly period OF
an authors fancy
But the second that Amos sees the
Russian lady OF quality, strange
something happens and he becomes
a man." the breed that exists In a
famous watering" place in southern
France.
Jetta Goudal is the famous Russian
lady who knows how TO make warm
love. Noah Berry is the bad papa"
who sees TO 1t that the Russian lady
reserves her warm kisses for him.
Richard Carrie and our good friend,
Trixie Frfganza, are present.
1.-THE Coming Of Amos" approaches
the Locke standard Of characterize
ton a little nearer than previous
screen stories Of this noted writer.
The bill includes Joe Murphy In
"Andy's Lion Tale" a news reel. the
American Harmonists and Julia Me
bergall in pianologues.
AT the Colonial all week.
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the grill. Can't be had. Wants to
buy a little. All right. Your hotel
is your residence. You pay so cents
for a permit. You send to the liquor
store for a quart or a case. In the
course of four or five hours 1t is de-
livered and you drink it in your
room
But suppose you arrive on Sunday
or after 5 o'clock. That's where the
bootlegger comes in. You pay some
body dollar or so above the regu-
lar price for stock that has been
providentially put aside for this
emergency.
Yes. There is some bootlegging.
Every difficulty or inconvenience put
in the way of the reasonable con-
sumption of drink results, it would
seem from the Canadian experiment,
in greater or less evasion Of the law.
So because there Is no convenient
place to drink beer, as at the 'tav-
ern" or restaurant in Quebec, there
are several hundred "blind pigs" in
Winnipeg, apartments, rooms or
soft drink" resorts, where beer or
other drinks are dispensed contrary
to law.
In Winnipeg there are six stores
run by the government liquor con-
troll commission as It is called. For
the rest of the province there are
four district branch stores located at
Brandon, Dauphin, lie Pas and Por-
tage la Prairie.
The prices of the Manitoba COM
mission are a trifle higher than those
of the Quebec commission. But they
are lower than states" bootleg
prices. Haig's Dimple, Scotch whis-
ky, is $5.45 a quart (26 ounces).
Sandy Mcdonald. $4.75; Grannie Tay-
lor (25 years old, SEAS; Dewars Spe-
cial, Imperial quart (40 ounces)
1925. Ontario native port wine, So
a gallon; Sherry Bertola'se Solera,
quart (26 ounces), 50; Port Offley For
roster, $1.75 quart. Claret st. Emil
lion, gallon $3.50; st. julien, quart,
30 cents; Sauterne. quarts, $1.40 to
$2.65; Champagne Imported Moet ct
Chandon Brut., Imperial 1s14 quart,
$500; Mumm's extra dry, quart,
$4.10. Cocktails: Congress Manhat-
tan 25-ounce quart, 1925; Silk Hat
Martini. $3.50; pure grain alcohol,
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APPETITE FOR
PATRONAGE

m 1ALPH UPDIKE. Congress-
Tx man from Indianapolis,
IL threatens to go to the
President unless the Postmaster
General accedes instanter to his
request to order civil service ex-
animation to qualify candidates
for postmaster in indianapolis.
or course. the Hoosier metropo-
lis has a postmaster, apparently
in an excellent state OF health. But
his term expires next month-and
tho postmastership, says the Con-
gresham, is the Congressman
patronage.
II insisted on my right" he said,
referring to his demand for a
qualifying examination.
Whether the present incumbent
is an efficient postmaster or an
incompetent blunderer is not at
issue. Nor is any question of i'm
provement of the postal service
In Indianapolis even remotely IN
vo1ved. The city's Congressman
is merely fighting for his pound
of flesh-his choice bit OF patron
age.
That's characteristic of the at
titude OF Senators and Represent
atives toward public service. On
the stump they weep scalding tears
over the high cost Of government
and loudly proclaim economy and
efficiency as their watchwords. But
how they love their patronage.
Try to take the appointment of
a prohibition director or a post
master away from a Senator or a
Representative and the so-called
statesman begins to fight with
tooth and claw. He is mad from
stem to stern at any attempt to
curtail his customary perquisites.
No wonder the Postoffice Depart
rnent accumulates a $4,000, 900
deficit annually-and all the busi-
ness functions of the Government
limp.
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SHE is ONLY A cow,
BUT WHAT A FINE cow.

Go West, young man, go West"
But did Horace Greedy, as he ut
tered those famous words, intend for
fellow to go out on the prairie
with jersey COW as a lone com.
panion?
Any way, that is what happened
to Buster Keaton when he left his
little Indiana home, in the picture
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to roof stunt.
1.-THE Man on The Box" moves
rapidly and gives Chaplin lot Of
opportunity to pull individual bust
ness. His Quilting" stunt shows
that he can develop along severa
comedy lines. especially when n
makes up like famous men by usinN
cakes and other pastry.
But it is when Chaplin gets on
skirts that he seems to land most
solidly. The audience gets the
burlesque standpoint, because the
Actors in most OF the impersonation
scenes are not in on the joke. The
bedroom scene is nifty and sporty,
all rather well done.
1.-THE Man on the Box" is rapid.
moving hokum with about every.
thing in 1t known to the movies ex-
cept a lion and a cyclone.
Bakaleinikoff is proving this week
that even Russian music yields to
syncopation. The orchestra is play
ing as an overture. Russian Glass
ics," syncopated. Mighty interesting.
Egbert Van Alstyne. song writer.
IS presenting his regular vaudeville
act as stage presentation this
week. He is assisted by two singers.
The bill includes a comedyS Bach
elor's Babies"
At the Circle all week.
+ 4 +
Blossom Time" opens a weeks en-.
gagement at English's tonight.
Rae Samuels is the headline offer
ing at b. f. Keith's. Charles Alt
hoff and his fiddle are present at the
Lyric. Mae Swift and Muriel Gibson
Revue IS the chief event at the Pal
ace Happy Hours" q burlesque
show, is on view at the Broadway.
Tom Mix in 1.-THE Everlasting
Whisper" is the movie feature at the
Isis for the first half of the week.
Tonight the Indianapolis OratorifE
Society will present the Messiah" AZ
Cadle Tabernacle.
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DAYS IN
SCHOOL

H. DIRKS, assistant princi-
III pal at Shortridge High
IL School, told an Indianapolis
civic club recently that in 1910 the
average schooling of a person con-
sisted Of about 200 days in his en-
tire lifetime. The average person
spent less than a year at school.
Under the Indiana compulsory
school attendance law now Hoosier
children between the ages of Z and
16 have to go to school. So on the
average they get eight times as
much schooling as the children
three or four generations ago.
But are they eight times as we'll
educated when they step out to
wrestle livelihood from a reluct-
ant world?
Rapid as have been the strides in
popular education the require
ments and complexities Of life have
increased faster. The present long
siege of school doesn't fit child
any better for this automobile,
airplane, radio age than the
sketchy schooling Of the past pre-
pared children for life in a more
simple age.
Many men without undergoing
any formal schooling whatever
have risen to distinction in after
life. Others with long records of
school attendance have failed to do
anything later:
So the actual number Of days
spent in school is not important
except for statistical purposes. At
best formal education whether It
consists Of two hundred days or a
dozen years is just training in
fundamentals. What is built on
that foundation depends on the in
dividual-now as heretofore.
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RIGHT HERE
IN INDIANA
BY GAYLORD NELSON

plane piloted by local police Off
Ger. who is also reserve officer
in the aviation corps.
Fortunately the missile struck no
one and caused no damage.
But what would have happened
had the extinguiSher landed on
some inoffensive citizen is unpleas-
ant to contemplate. BY the time
It reached the earth it was zip
ping at a velocity of several. hun
dred miles an hour. If it had fal
len on some persons heads per-
haps only the extinguisher would
have been dented. More likely the
person who stopped it would have
been. completely obliterated.
At any rate it would have inter
fered with that persons Christmas
shopping.
Any junk from a monkey wrench
to a light remark dropped from a
plane soaring over the heart Of
the city is dangerous to those be-
low. Consequently unnecessary
flying over congested areas is dis
couraged by War Department reg
ulations and civil authorities, and
aerial stunning over cities is pro-
hibited.
Despite municipal ordinances
and Army regulations downtown
Indianapolis is frequently RECALLED
with flying stunts in the air above
1t. So far no fiier has been slapped
on the wrist or disciplined for the
performance.
Why wait until some gay aviator
in attempting to suspend the law
of gravitation merely pushes it in
the face of a downtown shopper
before putting a stop to such fly
ing?
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sgd CHAPLIN AGAIN
PUTS ON NIFTY SKIRTS

The rule again holds true-as a
comedian starts out so will he finish.
Leon Enrol started with the give
away" legs and he has to fail every
so often when he is on public view.
sgd Chaplin made his first popular
hit by wearing skirts in "Charleys
Aunt"
The formula for Chaplin reaped a
rich harvest once. Why not again?
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ARREST SPOILED
THEIR PLANS

f~7HREE Indianapolis youths
the oldest 1S-who staged
- a series Of $6.9S hold-ups
during the past month. freely adj
mitted their depredations after
their capture by the police few
days ago,
Did they regret their criminal
escapades? They did not. They
said they were sorry to be arrested
just at this time, because they had
planned q busy week or two and
several important "jobs"-includ-
ing stick-ups, hi-jacking, and an
attempt to rob an Indianapolis
bank.
Their lament is that they were
knocked off blythe law and their
plans spoiled. AS for the future
well, one Of the trio ventured the
opinion that the State Reformatory
at Pendleton wouldn't be such
bad place. He said fourteen of his
old companions are there.
Nice boys. aren't they2
But they are typical specimens
of the young bandits who are
giving our social fabric such ir-
tensive busting at the present
moment. Crime with them is not
accidental, the slipping Of the
moral foundation due to the
sudden pressure OF circumstances
To them it is an easy and logical
vocation-money without work.
In dealing with this younger
generation of criminals our modern
penology, that restraints tenderly'
for a few months and tries to re-
form the wrongdoers. is just about
as futile as trying to sweep back
the ocean with a broom.
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WHEN AMOS LANDED
THERE WAS MUCH DOING

1t is nearly impossible to success
fully film a novel Of William j..
Locke.
Locke takes a lot Of time and
space to develop the characters in
his stories.
The screen, at the present time, is
not able to do that. Characters
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lOt. II. w. GrlIIlth
has it in great
gobs." tons of it.
Griffith is to the
screen what David
Belasco is to the
stage. When Crit
fifth produces a cy-
clone, he has a cy-
clone, not a rain.
S orm. And ID. w.
put a cyclone in
THAT Royle Girl.
AS a m a g All n e
story, the girl" at
tracted lots Of at
tention because 1t
was concerned with
political graft and
jazz excitement in
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lluSI DO llLlIO-
duced on the
screen so that the
public may know
all about 'em on a
seconds notice.
That is Just the
reason that Locke
IS so difficult to
adapt to the
screen A director
Is forced to make
many changes In a
Locke novel before
it can see the light
Of day on the
movie screen. This
is true with 1.-THE
Coming of Amos"
which is being
prNSaptad undpr
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90 ne wears SklIlB
during part OF the
action Of THE Man
on The Box" There
is lot Of rough and
tumble work In this
picture. 1t might
be called the "stone
age" period Of Syd's
development as q
comedian, because
he takes so many
h a r d falls and
knocks in the first
part Of this comedy.
He gets one sock"
On the jaw after
another. He does a
regular II a r o / d
Lloyd window to
window, and roof
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go West" and
set out for the
uncharted wilds
of western Texas.
AS the picture
opens, the young
fellow, played by
Keaton, is just
removing his
furniture from
his last resting
place in q little
Indiana village.
He takes II all
down to the gen
eral store and
gets the magnih-
cent sum of $1.60
for the lot. He
sets out for New
York and Snends
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BY Walter ID. Hickman

m URNING water into wine was
a miracle, but the placing of
1 a magazine story on the
movie screen so as to make it big
success is just plain artistry.
There is no hit and miss about
artistry. A director either has it or
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JUNK FROM
THE SKY

TuIHILE flying over downtown
IWI Indianapolis the other day
9 at an altitude of approx
mately $500 feet a four-pound fire
extinguisher dropped from the air
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the banner of Cecil B. De Mile.
When a director is able to bring a
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Editors Note: This is the ninth Of
a series OF articles by Mr.. Gardner re-
porting the operation OF LIQUOR laws IN
Nv ellison Gardner
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Peace on Earth

By BISHOP FREDERICK DELAND LEETE
Head of Indianapolis Area of the Methodist
Episcopal Church