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FESTIVAL is ARRANGED
Fish Fry to Be Held for Benefit of

Elsh Fry 10 be Held Tor Benefit OF
Englewood Christian Church.
Fish fry and summer festival OF
the Englewood Christian church
viii be held Friday and Saturday
afternoons and nights at 1921 East
Washington street.
Luncheon and dinner will be
served each day, the proceeds to be
turned over to the Sunday school
fund Of the church. Z. A. Dosch.
superintendent Of the Su-dav
school. is chairman Of the carnival.
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GFeEENCAsTLE Ind June 25The most beautiful goods will be
university indicate oenz zgfd Foes producer and connoseur
Of feminine pulchritud the final OF his selections three
belonged to the sophomore junior
The six selected were Betty Jane Cox Tulsa Okla Jean aeer
Delphi and Mary Sargent Chatham Betty Swnder
Loganport Marian Ske Frances
Shock Peru Junior Their pictures featured special section
OF the Mirage university published the junior The
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-25
SCHOOL WILLED $500
Friends of Late c. S. Stone Add
$500 for Radium Purchase.

$500 for Radlum Purchase.
Indiana university medical school
has been bequeathed $500 in the
will of the late Charles S. Stone
of this city. The money, together
with an additional $4,000 from
friends of Mr.. Stone, will be used
to purchase radiSm for Robert w.
Long hospital, it was announced by
DR.. William Lowe Bryan, president
OF. the university.
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d Ut all day I was worried in
II school. I wanted to go home,

sOIIOOl. WdHUSu 20 90 nOme,
but I didn't want to tell the teach
er about our troubles. I left as
early as could and ran home
The doors were locked. I went
upstairs and came down the fire
escape and smashed the window.
There was mother on a couch and
the room was full Of gas"
She held her breath while she
opened the windows and then
screamed fer help in the hall. she
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-25

Shickel Jean Kraemer
sponsored the editors of the BOOK Charles Tyer Of
Carthage, Ill. John Pollock South Bend.
the national orories the campus and occupants
their prette
candidates. students voted
prettes twelve zegfed made the final
Of
o Ziegfeld
member Of Kappa Kappa Gamma; Miss Kaenler,
Omega Miss Shckel Rector hall
SWinder Alpha Theta
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raise the question as 10 WIlaI eAIcLIb
the ruling political group in Russia concerns
itself with such intimate personal matters as
feminine attire.
While economic necessity has since the rev.
olution and particularly since the inauguration
of the hve-year plan, forced simplicity and even
poverty of dress upon Russian women, at the
same time Communist principles make of this
necessity a virtue. Communists proclaim that
display in clothes is bourgeois, and that luxuries
which the masses cannot have should not be
permitted to individuals
The incident brings to mind Lenin's comment
in the early years after the revolution when
similar protest arose over the fact that Soviet
representative in Europe was reported to have
worn silk hat. Lenin remarked in effect that
if wearing silk hat would make it easier for
a Soviet representative to perform his duties
then let him wear it.
In spite of this sensible pronouncement four
years after Lenin's death another controversy
over clothes was raging in Communist circles.
The Soviet government, it was said, had been
disgraced before the world. The wife Of Luna
charslSy commissar of education and delegate
to the Disarmament Conference at Geneva had
been called 'the best dressed woman at the
conference"
She was an actress noted for her beauty and
Lunacharsky, belonging to the old intelhgentsia,
was a devotee of the stage. He had already
been criticized on various occasions for his
bourgeois proclivities. His screen play 1.-THE
Bears Wedding" in which his lovely wife
played the heroine, while frankly enjoyed by the
Russian movie public, was denounced by Com
muniSts as disgustingly bourgeois in plot and
ideas.
THE incident at the Geneva Conference came
- as climax to a series of improper mani
festations on the part of the commissar Of edu-
cation. Yaroslavsky, Communist party critic,
wrote a scathing article in the official Soviet
newspaper Pravda on the anonymous Soviet
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The E0e- Year-Pzan Of the So0iets MayNot
Interest You, bit Russian Styles Are an
odd Feature Under Communist Rule No
One Is Supposed to Possess Anyhing Better
Than His Neighbor.

official who had caused the Soviet Union to be
so maligned Abroad representative Of
proletarian government who permitted his wife
to parade like peacock in foreign circles This
article was a forewarning of Lunacharsky's
downfall which occurred the following year.
And now it appears that Madame Kollantay,
the most brilliant figure in the group of Old
bolshevik women, daughter of cZarist general
who from young girlhood devoted her life to
the labor movement and the emancipation of
her sex, for several years ambassador to Norway
and formerly to Mexico, has been censured by
the party because she wore fine clothes in
foreign diplomatic circles.
Three years ago. together with several other
Americans, 1 sat at table with Alexandra Kol-
lantay at reception given by the foreign Office
in Moscow. AS L recall, she was dressed very
simply in a close-fitting black silk gown-but
it was an informal affair
We were discussing the question of how far
the revolution was actually changing the Rus
sian people. She said she believed it was already
changing so-called human nature itself; the
younger generation growing up imbued with
a social rather than individualistic spirit,
and women were to an amazing extent desiring
economic independence and equality with men
in every field, personal as well as political.
Love of personal adornment, coupled with
good taste in dress, is particularly strong in the
Russian women and thus it seems quite un-
likely that the Communist attitude toward this
trait has had any effect on Russian women in
general. Naturally the movement for sex
equality, which has been so vital part of the
Russian revolution, created group who, like
the English and American suffragettes, were
militantly opposed TO any feminine weaknesses.
and went to extremes in carrying out their
principles. Like feministS the world over, their
first desire was to be like men, to cut their
hair smoke, wear mems caps and boots and
assume the masculine indifference to personal
appearance.
The Komsomolka (young Communist GRID
affected costume similar in every detail, with
the exception of the short full skirt, to that of
the young man-back leather jacket, boys cap
with wide visor loose dark blouse, high boots
or heavy shoes The shabbier the jacket the
more ralSishly the cap was pulled down over
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che girls straight, short hair (Some even fol-
lowed the mems custom of shaving their heads,
and the more natural her complexion the better
comrade she was
But this was only pose Of rebellious youth,
already abating as feminine dreams OF equality
are being realized, and now you viii find many
a Jealous Communist trying to make herself
attractive For while the Communist creed
holds plainness and utility in attire, along with
sobriety and self-denial in all things, to be a
duty of members, it Is not so inhexibe an
obligation as is commonly believed.
RUT what has had far more effect on the
dress problem than the preaching Of Com
munist principles is economic conditions
glance of post-revolutionary history indicates
that Russian women have been restricted in
their dress not by any official set of ideas
Communist propaganda, but by grim necessity.
They didn't wear elaborate clothes simply be-
cause there weren't any.
After the revolution there a great
scarcity of manufactured goods and ready
made clothing and for time women were so
preoccupied with the more vital struggle for
bare existence that their personal appearance
became of secondary Importance. But they
recovered quickly enough with the coming of
"NEP" (new economic policy and a general
improvement in material conditions. They
gradually blossomed out, keeping pace with the
increase in the supply of goods.
Even in the remote mining town in Siberia
where lived from 1922 to 1924 it was surpris-
ing how women's dress improved from month
to month While manufacture goods, shipped
from the centers, were high, considering the
lower wage scale in the provinces women man
aged to buy them They eagerly snatched at
American mag aznes and copied the styles and
as eagerly bought all the spare clothes of
American women leaving Russia.
BY the Summer of 1926 beautiful manufac-
tured materials could be bought in Moscow,
and even silks always rare in Russia Except
in the Caucasus), began to be displayed 1
bought in the State Textile Syndicate for a
ruble and half yard of an exquisite piece
of white wolfe stamped in a unique, rich-colored
pattern; it had been made in Moscow textile
factory and to this day is bright and whole,
really excellent piece of goods
The trouble was that I met that material
wherever turned and soon lost my enthusiasm
for my new frock. For even when clothing was
plentiful there was a limited choice of ma
terials and styles. With factories all run by the
government there is a tendency to turn out
great quantities of one product, soon consumed
by long lines of eager women waiting in the
co-operatives While some critics have face
tiously attributed this Standardization of manu-
featured clothing and materials in Soviet Russia
to a purpose on the part of leaders to put the
whole population into identical uniforms, it is
really prompted by material conditions and the
determination to socialize industry.
In 1929 the masses of women were dress
ing perhaps better than before the revolution,
the striking difference being that except for the
small NEP class (wives and daughters OF private
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merchants) and the "artistka' (actress, dancer.
etc. there was no social group INDUCING in
fine clothes in sharp contrast to the mass Of
the people
WHEN the five-year plan was launched in
w 1929, it soon began to exact its merciless
toll from the town workers in all but the bareSt
necessities. The women were forced to give up
their dreams of pretty clothes, and see their
scant stocks wear out. But after all a human
being can get along with astonishingly little
wearing apparel and it is some comfort to
know that every one is in the same boat-which
is one of the secrets of the success of the new
social system in Russia the levelng down proc
ess eliminates sharp social contrasts and the
resulting envy and heartache they cause the
great mass of people.
Ignoring here the abnormal lack Of clothing
prevailing under the temporary emergency or
rapid industrialization now going on In Russia
it is true that the costumes of the average work.
ing and peasant woman have always been gray
and drab-for there have never been nearly
enough pretty things to go around
Shoes and stockings appear to be the greatest
problem. At varying stages of NEP good shoes
cost from 10 to 20 rubles, half months pay
of the average woman worker in the provinces,
and now much higher.
Stockings even in the heydey of NEP, were
coarse and of poor quality, costing from ruble
up, and silk stockings were practically unknown
except when some one was able to beg or buy
from American.
This problem of boots is solved by the villager
and city worker during the five or six Winter
months in Siberia and Northern Russia by felt
boots, worn without stockings, or in Central ana
South Russia by woven slippers with thongs
firmly bound around the heavy knitted stock
ings In Summer they go barefooted or wear
sandals without stockings. But on the cobbled
streets Of Moscow found such back-to-nature
footwear ruinous to feet.
THE usual village girls costume is a baggy
white blouse and full skirt of homespun
which after many washings without soap be-
comes grayish in color; knitted underwear is
practically unknown. She invariably wears a
kerchief on her hair in Summer, and brighter
colors. In Winter she wraps knitted gray
wooden shawl tightly about her head, puts her
bare feet into clumsy felt boots slips into her
worn sheepskin shuba or cotton padded coat,
and she is prepared for arctic weather. On
hand-embroidered costume with elaborate head
dress familiar on the stage.
There is fear that as manufactured goods
reach farther into the villages, peasant women
will more and more adopt the city styles and
their picturesque native costumes will disappear.
Hence, there is conscious effort to encourage
delegates from the various faraway provinces to
attend Moscow congresses in full native cos
tune.
Both woman and man factory workers usually
wear dark blue Snock. Young Communist
girls often wear red kerchiefs on their heads.
It would be mistake to give the impression
that the leveling down has made all women
equal in dress.
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BY RUTH KENNEL.

- UMORS that Madame Alexandra Kol-
1antay, Soviet ambassador to Sweden,
had been recalled because among
N other things she dressed too well,
- IL. 70 lnnt nNztaf
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Nothing stirring" he said briefly.
Come on, let's dance"
Millicent raised The heavy eyelids,
looked at him with superb insolence.
who's the other woman, Joe?" she
drawled theatrically. God, you are a
brute!"
There isn't any other woman| He
believed it. Yet, even now, when his
face was close to Millicents curled,
perfumed bobbed head, he had sud-
den memory of Maggie, childlike and
eager, in sleazy little faded white
dress, with mop of living gold tun-
bling upon her small shoulders.
Sunday night. 1t was an actual re-
lief to think that tomorrow would be
Monday, and he would be back i'll the
clean busy stir of the Mack again.
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MORRIS

"I've no doubt you do! An I've
no doubt it's a real nice place an all
that" conceded Ma loftily. "But it
isn't Maggie's sort of place. To put
the whole thing into nutshell"
Mrs. Johnson was resuming briskly,
when Joe's opportunity to discover
whether she was really capable of this
elision was destroyed by Maggie's
abrupt reentrance into the kitchen, and
in another minute they were out in the
dull, cold, wintry Sunday street, and
she was dancing along at his side
"Want to go to movie, Maggie?"
"Oh, I'd love it!
"How about The HighUayman?"
ooh, Joe, no! That's a sixty-cent
show. There are lots of nice little ones
over on Chelsea Avenue here for
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Kiirno Memorial
(Cont1nued from page -


made the first map (1705) of North
ern Sonora and Southern Arizona.
BY his explorations he discovered
that California could be reached
overland from Northern Mexico. He
was good, great and humble man,
and is now a world-honOred figure.
For more than two years a COM
mittee of representative men and
women of all SectS and no sect have
been making efforts to erect a
worthy statue in Tucson to the
memory of this great character.
About 100000 have been Subscrib-
ed but the amount should be made
$4,000, and it is hoped that hun
dreds of ArizonianS will SEND
amounts, whether great or small,
to the executive Committee, con-
sisting of Frank G. Lockwood,
Chairman, Mrs. Geo. F. Kilt, Sec
retary, and Mr.. Nose Drachman,
Treasurer.
The Commemorative exercises at
Phoenix will be held Saturday night
March IA, and will be in charge OF
Father Geo. G. Fox, S. j. of Brophy
College. DIR. Chas. w. Suit will pre-
side at this meeting, and addresses
will be made by Hon. Franklin D..
Lane, Mayor of Phoenix, Gov. Geo.
w. P. Hunt and DR.. VIM. John
Tucker of the University. DR.. Frank
C. Lockwood will have charge OF
the program in Tucson, which Will
be held in the Congregational
Church, Sunday evening March 10,
the exact anniversary of Father
Kino's death. Addresses will be de-
livered by DR.. Geo. a. Andrews and
Mr.. James D. Barry, and the music
for the occasion will be under the
direction of Prof. William Vogal.
Frank c. Lockwood, Tucson
Chairman
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He told himself, when Monday ar
rived, and he reached the store to find
a demurely radiant Maggie prettier
and more endearingly proprietary in
her manner toward him than ever, that
this nonsense must stop. Therefore, it
was with real surprise that he heard
himself saying to her, late on Tues
day afternoon:
"What you doing tonight, Mag
gie?"
might school," she answered, col
our and breath beginning their usual
acceleration instantly.
might schooll I didn't knc''' you
went to night SCHOOL," =
"Why-why, but you told me tor
she accused him, reproachfully.
I T-when did l.? How do YOU
mean?"
Before Christmas. Just after we
first began to talk. You said, Maggie,
you ought to go to night SCHOOL, 7"
Did II" He was stricken. What
do you study?" he asked.
Political economy and French"
she answered bravely.
That's a darn good choice!" Joe
assured her. IF ever you go abroad,
you don't want to be embarrassed
about pronouncing words"
"Maggie!" came harsh voice from
upstairs at this point. Maggie John
son! What's happened you down there
in the stockroom? Start your trotters
up here with them felay medallions r
"Oh, holy Nellyl" Maggie ejacu-
lated, seizing the green cards upon
which the medallions were stitched,
and fleeing wildly from Joe's too Sc
ductive neighbourhood. "She sent me
down for them fifteen minutes ago."
She left Joe very thoughtful. He
took an opportunity, when they
chanced to be entering the automat to-
gether for a late luncheon, to say de-
liberately:
Look here, Maggie. I've got some
thing on my mind to say to you, and
by George, I'm going to say it. | want
to warn you. Don't waste time, at
seventeen, taking any crush too seri-
ously."
"Who do you think I've got crush
on, Joc?'
Il know damn zvcH whom you've
got crush onL" Joe growled.
rs zat so?" Maggie asked, flushing.
Suppose the person l had crush
on had crush on me?" she asked.
"a person might like you lot,
Maggie, and wish for all sorts of good
things for you," Joe said rather slow
ly "Without-z0Ithont, | say, having
crush OH you! !"
"Well, that'd be enough for me-"
she answered still in the same auda-
cious. high-spirited key. Il don't want
any kissin', an as for pettin' parties"
"Now, look here, you little idiot"
he said, half angry and half laughing,
don't you think you can get away
with that sort of thing When your
hour strikes, my dear, you won't be
50 sure you can get what you want
You'll be sick for more than kisses,
then, Maggie, and afraid to take them.
The whole world will turn itself into
a sort of blur, with man in the CEN
ire, and when he speaks you'll an
swer, and you'll say what he wants
you TO say, too. Don't fool yourself.
You and I are friends-triendS-
fricnds-I was down and out when
we first began to talk together, and
you gave me a right steer and it kind
of made YOU like me- like you-I love
yott-T think you're perfectly keen
kid But that kind of loves different
You're too you@g to know anything
about i. Believe me, it's got lot or
! pain ii it, and it leaves a scar-you
don't get over tt"
CONTINUED NEAl WEEA
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twenty-five"
They were at the window, he put
down his money. But there were
nothing left on this Sunday afternoon
lbut 1oges, at a dollar chair. Mag
gie's face fell, and Immediately her
eyes widened and she caught at his
|arm.
"Joe, don't re fool! Two dollars
It isn't worth it!
! But he saw her give little bounce
of sheer excitement and felicity as
they went in past the mirrors and
marble columns and red boundary
ropes, and he thought it was. Their
seats were in the very front OF the
lbalcony-deep, comfortable seats, with
wide arms.
It was pleasant, somehow, to have
that earnest little fragrant baby face
come close to his in the dark, and
that fuzzy aureole of gold brush
his cheek, and that eager little whisper
reach his ears.
Joe kept his handsome head bent
close to hers, and leaned his shoulder
even closer.
Her face was beamirg with satlSfac-
ton and wet with tears when they
came out into the chilly dusk.
In parting he presented her with an
enormous box of sweets.
ooh, Joe Grant! Oh, Joe-two
pounds Oh, thank you-thank you"
ooh, hush," he said. "Now you run
in and I'll watch you until you're in
side the door"
She fled up the path, tried the knob
of the porch door, called joyous
Goodnight and thank your into the
dark, was silhouetted against gush Of
red light, and then was gone.
Joe walked two blocks to his car,
raging at himself.
Gosh, what a fool l am! What on
Garth did | do that for"
Millicent Russell, sitting next to
him at dinner, was pretty girl. From
point an inch or two below her arm
pits, to point an inch or two above,
her knees, she was packed into tube
of spanglcd satin. Her arms were
heavy with links of gold and platinum,
her legs looked bare, if they were not
actually bare, her feet were elevated
dizzily upon pinnacles Of gold leather.
Her cheeks were smoothly and bril-
liantly rouged, her lips stiff with
grease, her eyebrows shaved into two
startling, inl1y arcs. Miliicent's breath
was thick of alcohol and nicotine, her
eyelids, coloured with blue oil, we're
lowered with fatigue and boredom,
and she had no more hair than her
brother had.
Il thought you had to go to prison
to get clip like that" said Joe.
isn't it adorable? They call it the
cocotte," Millicent told him enthusias-
tically.
ITS crown of glory. If I were
girl" Joe said, with sudden fire, I'D
! have hair. Beautiful braids and curls
and masses-of kciy It's pretty''
"Say the word, Joe, and I'll be your
| little covered wagon" suggested Mil
licent, in ali odd tone, and with a dar-
ing little laugh.
Nothing doing. I'm in COIL" Joe
answered
you're not in coll You're work
ing. I like you an awful lot, Joe
You think I'm crazy, saying this Per-
haps I am But"-her voice was husky
-'b,:t I like you an awful lot, Joe"
Girls always said that to him, and
presumably to all the other fellows,
when an evening had reached about
his point, Joe reflected. That was the
way persons got engaged, nowadays.
Millicent was trying it now Right
here, at the Carriers hot, crowded,
stupid party Millicent Russell was
| irvine 10 land him