Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 159, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 November 1931 — Page 9

NOV. 12, 1931

—The New Russia. No. 7 SHOPPING FOR RUSSIANS LIKE BIG GAME HUNT One Never Can Tell Just How Much Luck He Will Have. BY JULIA BLANSHARD. Staff Writer for NEA Servtee and The Times, Sent to Soviet Russia Especially for This Series iCopy right, 1931. NEA Service. Inc.l Shopping in Moscow has the same sporting element of chance as big game hunting. If you lived there you never could tell what you were going to bag. What the stores have stocked today may be gone tomorrow and what you have looked for in vain for six months may be in the stores today. If it is books or periodicals you want, almost every other store along Kuznetsky Most and Tverskaya and other main streets is a book shop. Every fifth or sixth corner has a kiosk (stall) selling reading matter. Every phase of the Five-Year Plan is dramatized and available in reading form. If it is lipstick, rouge or other cosmetics, you can probably get whatever you want. You may have an aversion to the inferior Russian brands, but the Soviet trust puts out a full line, and that’s all there is. If it is a pair of A. No. 1 skis and skiing shoes you crave, you can get them or about 20 rubles ($10) in a sport shop, for the Soviet state considers sports essential to young Russia’s health, so sports equipment is rated a necessity. But, should you want a thermometer, a hot water bottle, sheets, a rain coat, a pair of scissors, a cooking stove, a typewriter, a bed or many other fundamental articles, you are out of luck. No store has these to date. The government factories producing them are still supplying institutions. You may borrow them or buy them from an individual, but the chances are you just will do without. Each of Moscow’s ten districts has its blocks of stores. These district stores repeat the „oods on sale on the Tverskaya and Kuznetsky mostly because practically all goods now are produced by the government trusts and the stores are government outlets and uniformly stocked. Prices Are Standardized The same articles cost the same standardized price in every Moscow store. In any shopping center, you will pass about the following kinds of stores: Book shops, sweet shops, a sports good house, an antique shop, an office supply store, a liquor store (only bottled goods sold here), a Chinese laundry (half price for laundry if you bring your own soap), an art store, big department store, dry cleaning establishment, tailor shop, an optician’s office, a radio store, a shop to pleat and hemstitch materials, a toy shop, a photographer’s studio, a peasantware shop, a undertaker’s window displaying a grewsome red coffin. Two Kinds of Stores There are two kinds of department stores, one rather expensive and the other inexpensive where workers buy clothes and other necessities on coupons on their food cards, physical laborers rating more than intellectual workers. There is one huge, handsome department store where rio one can trade but workers of the G. P. U. (the Soviet secret service). In addition, there is a well stocked antique and general store, called Torgsin, where only foreign money is accepted, hence only foreigners trade. The big hotels run branches of Torgsin in their lobbies. Newest are the Udarnik shops. These are fancy goods stores where only those can trade who are members of the shock brigades, as workers are called who volunteer to speed up the work in their factories, mills, farms. Sex Equality Obvious In the first store I entered I ran into a queue at the shoe counter. Fathers and mothers were shopping for their children. Sex equality is obvious in the way Russian fathers or mothers shop, depending on which parent has his day of rest when the occasion arises. In Torgsin, the foreign-money store, I saw antique ikons that any collector would value, t jewels left from czarist days, fine china, old rugs that are priceless, new government produced calico, woolen suits, fine fur coats, fur boots, jackets, table linen, cutlery, all kinds of food, fine wines, fine cigarettes, inlaid and painted boxes, samovars, almost anything tourists would like. The shaved-headed Tovarish (comrade) in charge of the sujre estimated that during the summer tourist season the government sold $25,000 worth daily at Torgsin. NEXT—Health in Soviet Russia. . . . Free government hospitals for everybody, vacation with pay for working mothers both before and after childbirth. . . . Forceful measures to safeguard the health of children, compulsory health education for all. 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BY BEN STERN TENTERS now upon the scene the long-forgotten John A. M. Adair of Portland, whose last appearance in the political arena was in 1916, when, as Democratic nominee for Governor, he lost the contest to James P. Goodrich. Indication that he will seek the nomination for United States senator was made by Adair at the Sixth district rally at Noblesville. Practically unknown to the younger element in the party, Adair was one of the stalwarts more than a decade ago. Nominated for congress in a stanchly Republican district in 1906, he was re-elected time after time, with increasingly large majorities. a a So well known was he over the state that when, in 1916, he became a candidate in the primary for the nomination for Governor, he was accorded the plum by an overwhelming majority. He was defeated in the election, however, by 12,771 votes, and ran 9,003 votes behind Wilson. Sensing the handwriting on the wall for his party that year, Adair went into voluntary retirement from politics. He made his home in Washington for several years. Since his return to Portland he has confined his attentions to banking and business. Adair stands in an advantageous position, as he is, so far, the only candidate for senator not from Marion county. Wits> possibility that the 205 convention votes from Marion county will be split equally between the home boys, he may, if proper organization work is done, come into the convention with a large following. a tt n Tn his address at Noblesville. Adair devoted much time and praise to the League of Nations, always a weak campaign issue in Indiana, Observers remarked that Adair "came back with the same political ideas he carried into retirement.” His age, 68 years, also will count against Adair. Despite all this, the discounting of Adair by any of the other contenders will prove a woeful lack of political sagacity.

RAIL PAY SLICE UP Four Lines Propose Voluntary 10 Per Cent Reduction. By United Press NEW YORK, Nov. 12.—Presidents of the four major railroad systems of the east will meet tonight with representatives of most of the railroad labor organizations to talk over a voluntary 19 per cent reduction in pay. The four lines employ nearly 300,000. The railroads—the New York Central, Baltimore & Ohio, Pennsylvania and Chesapeake & Ohio—have been discussing wage reductions informally, for some time. The conferences, however, are entirely unofficial and wage discussion has not been given an official place on the agenda of the Association of Railway Executives which will meet here Friday. It was considered inevitable, nevertheless, that the subject would be debated informally.

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IRISH GUARDS FINALLY QUELL VIOLENT RIOTS Armistice Day Signal for Fierce Outbreaks in Free State. By United Press DUBLIN, Nov. 12.—Civil guards and police established a firm grip on Irish Free State cities today to end violent republican disorders begun Armistice day by screaming demonstrators. Dublin was in turmoil until late Wednesday night. Mobs tore down and burned British flags, shouted, “Down with the king,” and clashed with heavily armed guard patrols. Government and pro-British buildings w r ere stoned. The disturbances ranged from republican demonstrations to Communist outbursts. Their gravity was increased by the strong protests against the government of

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