Show V DOUBLES IN Government Figures DoNot Do bo Not I Include cl de' de HomeMade HomeMade HomeMade Home Home- Made Liquors MOSCOW rV Apr Apri 16 16 U United Press Press Vodka Vodka drinking has in- in in increased increased creased by per cent in the soviet union the money spent for Lor vodka in the last three months of 1926 b being being be be- ing higher than in the same period a year earlier according according accord accord- ing lag to figures Just published In November and December of 1926 and In January of this year ear earthe the Russians In the villages drank litres lUres of vodka compared red to litres consumed consumed In the same three months a year ago anc ancin and andin andin in the cities and towns the consumption consumption consumption con con- increased in the comparative comparative comparative tive periods from litres in 1926 1925 to litres in th last two months of 1926 and the first month of 1927 The increase in n the villages was wa's 1181 per cent and in the towns It was as nearly 47 per cent The figures are based on government government govern govern govern- ment meat vodka and do not include home brew or as the made home-made vodka is calle alle l l. l Vodka is a highly distilled spirit with an alcoholic strength of 40 per cent authorized but which Is usually greatly exceeded In home brew Itis It ItIs Itis Is clear as water and not unlike the corn liquor of or the the Kentucky Kentucky mountains It costs costs 70 cents a bottie bottle bottle bot bot- tle tie and one bottle bottJe is s more than enough for tor one time The vodka bill in t le last two months of 1926 and the first months of this year year totaled almost exactly practically dou double le the amount expended for foe the drink Inthe in inthe inthe the corresponding months of a year ago The greatest increase increase-In in drinking Is in the towns and cities es where e a population of consumed litres m In n the three months covered in the report while people In the villages drank only ony more litres than thab their city cousins |