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Imperial Valley press., 1926-09-07

but the angered Rain God re-
manned dear.
Finally the local Merchants
Guild organized mass PRAYER meet
iug of farmers and merchants in
front Of the Buddhist temple. At
every shop incense and praEer-can-
dies were burming-all butcher shops
were closed aud a general fast was
ordered until the first rainfall.
Tie religious ceremony was con-
dUrtcd by several Buddhist priests
anal when this WAS ended. all those
present were led by the priests and
representatives of the Merchants =
Guild towards the Russian Ortho-
iuN Church.
Acccding to the Ic,aand Of the
Chinese population, the Russian
priest Lcl4 am impressive church
service, according to Orthodox rites
implorjug God to grant rain.
The church was surrounded by 4
huge crowd of Chinese, bare head
cd and kuvcliug down at the sign
ot the priest. MANY Russians joined
themselves to these prayers. The re-
hgiou> ecstasy was tremendous aud
tine Chinese, although not under
standing the Orthodox rites, fevcr-
entity prayed the Christian God III
their own fashion.
Later the whole procession, head
e3 by the Russian and Buddhist
priests proceeded to the settlement
near Changchm.
Several Young Communists who
We're met ON the way and did not
'akc off their hats were obliged to
do - hv the Chinese police. The
ceremony which started at 10 Il. IN.
lasted until / =. IN.
Three days later the first rain of
the season started the periodical
rainy season Of Manchuria two
weeks ahead Of its usual date.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-09-07
Frances Howard
Becomes Mother

Los ANGELES. Sept. Fran
cos Howard, vautlful w'fa of sam
G,l GoHwEa. motion picture pro
duccr bcramc tlr mother today Of
an eight pound baby boy.
Dr, Titan Coft,y. Attending phr-
>,ciaa announced that both baby
md mother were ''oa.u- uir..r.
Mrs. Goldwyn was formerly q
musical comedy star on'Broa .t.ar.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-09-07
NOTICE OF ESTRAY

one big gray horse, one small sor-
rel. on Lorcuzc Ranch, ) miles south
on Eighth Street road, one mile west
from FL Centre. To be sold Sept.
1lth for damages.
{. BUCIl Err.
a l. = Il : :.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-09-07
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON
HAS NEW PRESIDENT
BN nited Press Leased W ire

UUGENE, Ore, Sept. 7.-Dr Ar
mold Bennett Hall, new president
- the University OF Oregon, will
begin his duties about September
-. Dr. Han spent the summer in
New Hampshire where he led an
international conference on poll
tics. School opens here September
- but he plans to ho here in time
to greet the freshmen who will be
rcuqired to register week in ad-
vance Of the opening.
Dr. Hall Will be officially Install.
ed At the scmi-ccutcnnial celchra
tion here October Is to %.
Nnd. while it doesn't matter tn,
Whole Damn family in New York
Imperial Valley press., 1926-09-07
CHURCHES UNITE
IN MANCHURIA TO
PRAY FOR RAIN
ny United I'rcs~ Leased wI-e

HARDIN, M"uchuria, sept. T..
: practical eu.nu of churches is rr-
r.r'ra from Kuaugcbendzo. >ca-
fiun on the Chinese Eastern Rail
Evening star., 1926-11-26

looking blouse and a pair of extreme
oxford bags which flap gayly In the
evening breeze as they patter blithely
along the street by the side of their
bobbed haired little friend"
Girls Have Modern Slant.
These young women Of Toxic are
entirely new" SO far as the other ma
tives are concerned. They wear
their raven locks in every conceivable
mode, ranging from the "shingle to
the "boyish bob" Sometimes they
wear the garish kimono of the geisha,
and then again they appear in knee.
length skirts. rolled stockings and
saucy little hats perched over one
ear. How they live is a mystery. al
though it is said that many of them
are stenographers or mattresses who
play at art when they are not work
ing.
Not far from the Gina there is g.
little so-called artists colony" where
these ultra-modern Japanese boys and
girls lounge around easels, smoke nu-
merous cigarettes, absorb great guam
titles of tea and otherwise express
their souls"
Evening star., 1926-11-26

not contribute to the stability Of the
government.
However. the scene enacted dur
ing the hours he was supposed to be
peacefully sleeping in his home is a
familiar picture. Around / o'clock in
the morning a chugging motor truck
has stopped in front of the building
where he. and possibly his family.
have a room. Other tenants may
have been awakened, but they do not
open doors or stick their heads out
of windows when a motor chuss in
front at that hour of the morning.
Their curiosity is bridled until the
truck is gone and the building has a
tenant less
THE detail, usually two agents and
two ppOlicemen, enters VANS apart
memnt. There is no rough work un-
less the host starts it. The visitors
are polite, but firm and thorough.
In fact, they are so meticulOus that
usually they express regret to other
members of the family for the
necessity of disturbing them, and pre-
sent a paper for their signature to
prove that the proceedings have been
conducted courteously.
Few Questions Asked.
Few questions are asked, but the
books are ruffied. clothes are exam
ined, as are carpets, furniture, pic
lures on the wall, even the heating
ducts. Such documents as are peril
nent or which they do not have time
to read are taken along. Ivan goes
with them.
"The news of the arrest is not in
the newspapers the following day, and
no explanation is asked from the G..
p. u, nor would one be given if it
were.
I'm few days Ivan may be back
among his friends, possibly having
been merely suspected Of something
serious because he was too garrulous.
More likely he will sit in silence in
Lubianka, and the first word to the
outside will be that he has been
transferred to Butyrki, prison where
relatives can call and exchange a few
words with him through an iron
grille"
Evening star., 1926-11-26
TOXIC MODERNS
HAVE VARIED GARB
FMen Let Hair Grow, But
Women Are Bobbed Among
Bohemian Colony.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
TOXIC, November 26.-Long- haired
men and short-haired women are one
of the latest phases of Japan's CROP
ings toward modernism
The police, always on the hunt for
those with dangerous thoughts" >"
are watching these young imitation
Greenwich Villagers with more or
less suspicion, although the only
thing they have found on them" up
to the present is that they seem to
be jobless and to have a distinct lean
ing toward art.
Young men, with lengthy black hair
obScuring the place where their
collars should be, garbed in extremely
nondescript costumes, promenade up
and down the Ginza--Tokio's Broad
way-and loaf around the tiny hole
in-the-wall cafes. Most of them go
bare headed.
They usually wear a disreputable-
Evening star., 1926-11-26
RUSSIA GOVERNED
BYPOWERO OF G.P. j.
mysterious Long Arm
Reaches Out Over People of
"Government by Initials"

To the casual reader Russia seems
a government by initials There is the
Tz. l. X, the NJ. o. p. r. and, most
potent of all to the average Russian
citizen, the mysterious long arm OF
the G. p. L.
Junius B. Wood. in communica.
tion 10 the National Geographic So.
ciety describing Russia Of the Hour,
writes:
The G. p. L.. a name formed
from the first letters Of it's long Rus.
sian title, is not a new institution
merely a new name. in Russia. It is
the successor Of the Okhrana under
the Tsar. with its 10000 to $4,000 in.
formers and a smaller number OF paid
agents. permeating every class Of So
ciety The Cheka of the Revolution
was a transition between the two.
The scope has been enlarged by
uniformed ranks Of police and sol
diers. Such a surveillance. with its
absolute power. is system with
which the Russian has long been
familiar.
Answers i'm Whisper.
Where's Ivan IvanOvitch? I saw
him last night" may be a question al
the afternoon tea.
. Lubianka," is the owed whisper.
The answer is perfectly clear. Ivan
sits the vernacular for being in jail.
I'm Lubianka. the imposing Moscow
building which formerly was an in
surance company's office, the red
clock of which now glowS through the
night over Luhianka Square. the
dreaded preliminary Jail and head
quarters of the G. +. u.
just what Ivan has done to get
himself within the clutches of the
law is usually a Surmise, even among
his closest friends. However, 1t is
quite certain that the G.. =. u. has
some information. The arrest is not
a haphazard happening.
"Te may have been REGULATING with
government or cooperative funds in
his charge. smuggling in violation OF
the foreign trade monopoly, leading
private life which Was not exemplary
or indulging in activities which uId
Evening star., 1926-11-26
Zebra-Horse Good Worker.

Crossbreeding Of the zebra and the
horse has produced the "zebroid."
hybrid said to be a better work animal
than the mule: also a hybrid from
cross breeding the horse and jackass.
The zebroid can exist on less food. do
harder work and stand heat better
than a mule, according to DR.. w. E.
Hastings of Mount Vernon, Ind. Vic
tor Green, using the experiments OF
DR.. Hastings, crossed the zebra with
Arabian horses and PercherOns.
Evening star., 1926-11-26

Though it is alleged that Kensing-
ton Palace in London is haunted, it
did not deter Queen Victoria of Spain
from observing her thirty ninth birth
day in the palace.
Evening star., 1926-11-26

Knit Doll Wear
Bocties, 19c to soc. Caps. 4oc
to 69c. Sacques, 49c to $1z9.
Knitted Sets, S1-29 to $3.50. Car
riage Covers. S1.95.
To keep dolls warm during the
coolest weather. Pink or blue
and made just like the garments
mother buys for you.
Laundry Sets
SOC to S3.25
Wash day-what fun it will be
to get everything your doll owns
all spick and span! Tub wash
board. clothes rack, basket, pins,
a wringer that really works,
ironing stand and iron, all in
cluded in the largest set.
Evening star., 1926-11-26

Toy Town is going to be land of dolls and things for dolls
tomorrow Such wonderful variety OF doll types-such
special prices that surely every little girl in Washington will
find one on the tree Christmas morning
Baby dolls that cry to be hedoft cuddesome dolls you
for pareand everything that makes dolls life carefree
and happy
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Recipes BY
Readers

NOTE-The Times will give a re-
cipe filing cabinet for recipe submit
ted by a reader and printed in this
column. One recipe is printed daily
except Friday. when twenty are
given. Address Recipe Editor of The
Times. Cabinets will be mailed, to
winners.
Chocolate Pie
One tablespoon butter; one table
spoon flour; two tablespoons grated
chocolate; yolk of one egg and two
whole eggs; one-half cup sugar;
one and one-haif cups sweet milk;
one spoonful vanilla. Mix all to-
gether, cool in double boiler. Have
crust baked. put in cooked filling
and owe with remaining egg
white beaten stiff with a tablespoon
of sugar. Returnto oven and bake
until egg white is golden brown.
Mrs. J. A. McMahan, II. /, Writ,
Ind.
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WOMEN TO
BLAME FOR
K
Now Everybody Is Doing 1t
Plea Made for
Tolerance.
b. Mrs. Walter Ferguson

Our own n. d. Cochran breaches
an excellent doctrine Of tolerance.
His idea of letting other folks pretty
well alone is a mighty good working
theory.
A sentence in Julian Streets new
book. Tides" carries this Coch-
ranesque sentence, Il have noticed
that II you want to make people
happy, you must let them be happy
in their own way"
Pie passion for reforming folks
certainly must nave started with the
women. Eve had an idea that she
could improve Paradise. you will re-
member. From hat simple episode,
we have arrived at the place where
we arc all busily occupied in looking
after somebody else's business.
The average woman is possessed
by a perfect devil for making over
folks. If she is married she often
takes it out on the family. II not.
she may try to do the earth over.
But, at any rate, she believes pa
sionately in her own theories of liv-
ing.
She is sure that she was born TO
make the world better and this idea
which so many good women have
carried to the grave with them, has
probably caused more human misery
than war. Converting somebody to
something is our idea of a good time.
We r always looking after their
diet. or their pleasures, or their
souls. Y~egetarians. prohibitionists,
Lucy Stone Leaguers, anarchists.
bobbed hair enthusiasts are the same
the country over They want every
body to be just like they are.
And not only the women, but ev-
erybody's doing It. The world has
become a vast battle-ground with
shouting reformers fitting at each
others windmills. And v a one
of them seems to sense the idea that
he himself might be improved.
What a blessed relief ii would be
If everybody would sit back and let
the other fellow just go to the devil
for a while. This thing Of being
your brothers. keeper sounds all
right, but it's sometimes darned
rough if you happen to be the
brother.
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Box Parties at Murat
Tonight Announced

The complete list Of boxholders
and their guests for Front Page
Stuff" at the University Of Michigan
opera at the Murat Saturday night
follows:
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur L. Gilliom and
guests. Mrs. Grace Urbhans, Mr.. and Mrs.
NJ. King. Miss Dorothy Cunningham, Ebert
Gilliom; Mr., and Mrs. Eli Schloss and
guests; william Villa vv; SMfihlo@ Marion SGrDnr Ley.
lard Kahn, Jeanette Rosenthal, Mary
Levy, Caroline Kiser. Mr.. and Mrs.
2Sl1I Rittie apd gnedstM Mr.. and Mrs
Miss Betty Brown, Miss Rosalind Kittle;
and Mrs. E. B. Raub. Mr.. and Mrs. J. R.
Rarba Mr.; and Mrs. John Gould; Or. How
Fletcher, Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Hoke. Mr.
and Mrs. Alexander Blanton DR.. and Mrs.
John Oliyer and guests. Miss Mary Margaret
John B. LITTLE, Lieut.. Joseph Daugherty and
Hugh Carpenter: Mr.. and Mrs. Ludus B.
SSwift and guests MRS. Charles Marti1dsle'
Mrs. Julius G Thavis and guests, Mrs.
Louise Closer Hale. Mrs. Wood Levett
Wilson. Mrs. Malcolm F.. MCGOWAN and
fHIios = and dns GUESTS Mr. Mr. and Mrs Mrs. f (. z
Elliott and Edward J. Elliott.
Among the out-of-town theater
parties are those of Mr.. and Mrs.
Fred Petty Of Muncie. and guests.
j. H. Broderick. Mr.. and Mrs. G. A.
Taylor. Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Bernard
and Mr.. and Mrs. G. o Thomas, all
Of Munci4
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Nativity Pageants to Be Given by Club Women and Y. w.
CA. College Folk Return Home to Greet Friends
at TeaS-Many Holiday Dances Scheduled.
BY Dorothy Stephenson
Indianapolis social activities point toward a week of Christ
poo lohro+;
mas celebration.

Beginning tonight the curtain will
rise on the elaborate Christmas
pageant Christmas In Many Lands"
which will be given at the Cadle
Tabernacle by the Seventh District
Federation of Clubs, the Woman's
City Club. the International Study
and Travel Clubs and city churches.
Students from eastern and Indiana
colleges have showed their bags away
on the home shelf for two weeks,
and are appearing in afternoon teas
to welcome their local friends.
Sunday the Y. w. C. A. will give
their annual Nativity pageant at
Hollenbeck Hall. Monday the Mon
day guild Of the Woman's Depart
ment Club in cooperation with the
community welfare department. will
give a Christmas party for children
and adults at the chapter house. The
Indiana League Of Women Voters
will hear DR.. Arnold Bennett Hall.
president Of the University Of ore
gon, at a luncheon at the Columbia
Club.
Various literary and social clubs
meeting throughout the week are
not recording the minutes of a bust
ness session.. but are devoting their
time to carol singing and Christmas
talks. =
Butler fraternities and %sororities
will celebrate the holidays with
dances. The Sigma CHS will have
their Christmas formal at the Marott
Hotel this evening and the Alpha
Delta Thetas in the chapter house.
Monday evening the Delta Gammas
will dance at the Lincoln Hotel and
the Pi Phis at the Marott.
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Frock With Pressed-in Plat at
Sides

Afternoon frock with slenderizing
neckline, eminently suited to large
women. IT has a perfectly straight
back with plated side sections. See
small Views. 1t can also be made
with flared side sections, provided
In pattern. 1t is smart for street
wear, made of navy blue flat crepe,
black crepe satin or jungle green
light weight broadcloth. Design
No. 2G90 cuts in sizes SO, 28, 40, AZ.
a. and 46 inches bust measures.
Sizes 36 requires 3 IL yards OF 40
inch material with SIS yard of 81
inch contrasting. Price Is cents In
stamps or coins (coin preferred
Our patterns are made by the lead
ing Fashion Designers OF New York
City and are guaranteed to lit per
fectly.
Every day The Times will print
on this page pictures showing the
latest up-to-date fashions.
This is a practical service for
readers who wish to make their own
clothes.
You may obtain this pattern by
filing out the accompanying cou.
pom. enclosing Is cents tcoin pre-.
ferred) and mailing it to the pat.
tern department Of The Times. De-
livery is made in about one week.
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Asthma Disappeared,
Had. 1t IS Years
Mrs. Woodward, IS Years Old
Says, Cough, Wheeling and Y
Asthma Gone.
Beauty of Sacrifice

Elderly people who suffer with
asthma and bronchial coughs will
find particular interest in a let
ter writer by Mrs. Elizabeth
Woodward, 60 years old, who
lives at 3460 West Michigan St.
indianapolis. She writes:
81 had asthma in severe form for Is
years. ] ~coughed hard, wheezed and
was very short Of breath. and in Rddi-
ton my stomach caused me a lot Of
trouble. For one year | bad been un.
able to do any work. not even to wash
Ing the dishes. On Feb. 7, 1925, I
started taking Nacor. The wheeling
and cough have left entirely, and l do
not have the slightest sign Of asthma
now. My stomach condition has i'm
proved. I am feeling fine, able to
wash and iron and do the homework,
and am gaining steadily In every
way"
If you suffer from asthma. bronchitis
or severe chronic cough, you should
read the vital information about these
diseases in r booklet which will be
sent free by Nacor Medicine Co, 413
state Life Bldg, Indianapolis. Ind.
They will also send you the letters Of
people whose trouble disappeared years
ago and never returned. No matter
how serious your case seems, call or
write for this fr e information. It has
led thousands back to health and
observation-disclosures.
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Among the Indianapolis young
women of De Paw University home
for the Christmas holidays are Miss
Virginia Cottingham. daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. j. o. Cottingham. 1850
Broadway; Miss Elizabeth Clark,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. John C.
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Ri TnftcG Preaa

Bu United Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo, Dec. 1S.-
A kindly word and a gift for the
porter. the milkman and the news
boy is one Of the ter Christmas
commandments issued here by the
Rev. w. L. Stidger. pastor OF Lin
wood Boulevard Methodist Church,
who has written decalogues on
youth, marriage and the church. He
calls his newest decalogue n set of
'Ten Commandments for Christmas
Living and Giving
In it he asserts the story of Santa
Claus, while a beautiful thing
should not be told children to the ex-
clusion Of the story OF the Christ
Child.
The decalogue protests against the
abbreviation Xmas" which is
termed an ''abominable. mechanical
contraction OF that beautiful word.
Christmas" '"Thou shall not use
Xmas" This is the first command
ment
The second urges remembrance
and consideration OF those who
serve Thee at Christmas time"
Thou shalt not make the burdens
of shop girls. mail carriers.
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PROGRAM FOR CHILDREN
Monday Guild to Give Christmas
Party.

The Monday Guild, in cooperation
with the Community Welfare depart
ment of the Woman's Department
Club. will give a Christmas party
Monday at the clubhouse at 2 q. m.
The. program will be for children and
adults.
Members from the general club
have ar organized motor corps to
take members of the guild to and
from the clubhouse. They are Mrs.
Ralph Goldrick. chairman. Mrs. How
ard Lacey. Mrs. Horace G.. Cassidy.
Mrs. Othniel Hitch. Mrs. Frederick
Terry. Mrs. r. F. Bigger. Mrs. w.
]. Slate. Mrs. Scott Deming, Mrs.
f. c. Wacker. Mrs. ]. l.. Smith, Mrs.
George A. Van Dyke. Mrs. p. A.
Keller, Mrs. Ira Holmes, Mrs. Boyd
Templeton, Mrs. Clarence Weaver,
Mrs. w. c. Smith. Mrs. William Dob
son, Mrs. Mcclellan Coppock and
Mrs. w. A. Eschbach.
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CHURCH CRUSADE
E~piscopaIians Worldwide Evangel-
istic Services Jan. o.

Episcopal churches of Indianapolis
are planning to participate in the
worldwide evangelistic crusade of
their church which opens Sunda-.
Jan. Q, 1t was announced by the
Rev. Floyd Van Keuren, rector Of
Christ Church. chairman of the city
committee. The Rev. William r.
Burrows is chairman of arrange
ments for the Indianapolis diocese.
A week of mass meetings. special
noon and evening conferences will fol
low the first day of quiet prayer. On
Epiphany, Jan. 6. local Episcopal
churches together with others all
over the world will be open for a
quiet day Of in%tercession for the
ucc of the crusade.
Bishop Arthur c. Thomson OF
Virginia and the Rev. George TT.
Thomas of Chicago will assist Bishop
Joseph M. Francis of Indianapolis In
opening the crusade. Jan. Q. with an
inter-parochial service at St. Paul's
Church. New York and Illinois SITS.
Bishop Thomson will be the speaker.
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Club Calendar

Monday
Mr.. E. Fl. Jenne will give quota
tons from English essays at the
meeting of the Vincent G. l.. S. G..
at the Fletcher American Bank at
? p. m.
Tuesday
The Irvington Tuesday Club will
meet with Mrs. S. B. Walker. Chile
Desert, Forest and Lagoon will
be discussed by Mrs. C. D. Ross.
Mrs. II. L. Scott will talk on "As
Latin America Sees Us"
Mrs. Otto N. Moore viii give THE
Sketch Book at the meeting of the
HIeyl Study Club at the Y. w. c. A.
Wednesday
The Irvington Quest Club will
meet with Mrs. David Smith. Christ
mas quotations will be given as re
sponses to the roll call. Mrs. Wal
ter Ginger will read THE Gift of
the Magi," by O. Henry. Mrs. ]. H.
Dunno will give Something Of
Christmas"
Mrs. r. F. Nichols and Mrs. H. w.
Britain will he hcstesses for the
Wednesday Afternoon Reading Club.
Responses to the roll call will be on
Christmas. A Federation report and
a Bible lesson will be given. A talk
illustrated by costume viii be given
by Mrs. j. F. Engelke on Christ
mas Costumes in Other Lands"
The Zetathea Club will meet with
Mrs. Russell Sigler, 1884 Ashland
Ave. Assisting hostesses will be
Mrs. A. C. Bennett and Mrs. c. A
Sammis. Response to the roll call
will be christmas"
Thursday
The Hoosier Tourist Club Christ
mas party will be held at the home
Of Mrs. Ebert Storer. Assisting
h~ostesses will he Mrs. F. c. Rob
inson, Mrs. Sherman Mott and Mrs.
c. M. Finney.
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TO ATTEND CONFERENCE
De Paw Professors viii Be Busy
During Vacation.

BIZ Times Special
GREENCASTLE, Ind, Dec. 49,
Several De Paw University mem
bers will attend conferences during
the Christmas recess
Dean w. w. Sweet will attend the
History Association convention in
New York. Prof. A. Il. Caldwell will
go to the Delta Kappa Epsilon Fra
ternity gathering there.
Drs. Walter Hess, Thurman G..
Yuncker and Grace Barley will at.
tend a meeting of the American As
ISOLATION Of Science at Philadelphia.
National Association of Teachers
of Speech meeting in Chicago will
be attended by Prof. II. b. Cough.
Dean r. G. McCutchan Of the Music
School will go to New York to the
music teachers association session.