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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-04

MRS. DONALD'S LUNCHEON
 Mrs D. NC. Donald will entertain at luncheon tomorrow, honoring Miss Louise Heacock, whose marriage to MT, Wrenn will be an event If Thursday afternoon.
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SHOWER FOR TEACHER

SHOWER FOR TEACHER
 The student body of Wheeler Busi- ness college entertained Mrs. W. R. Miller. principal of the stenographic department with a kitchen shower in the school building Friday at noon.
 MT. and Mrs. Miller have just bought new home in West End and the students, desirous of showing their loyalty and appreciation, com pletely furnished the kitchen with every conceivable utensil.
 The presentation was made by Mrs Lloyd Eagle, who, speaking for the students, praised the untiring work and ability of Mrs. Miller and as- sured her of the admiration of the entire student body
 Mrs. Miller's response was delight fui, though short. She thanked the students for the shower, their loyalty and continuous good spirit and prom and eontiuous good spirit, and prom Jed her hearty cooperation. MISS HANDLE CLASS HOSTESS
 Miss Hallie Yandle will entertain the members of the Fidelis Sunday school class of the Woodlawn Pres byterian church at a party at her home on Monday evening, Septem- Der <12.
 ALTAR SOCIETY TO MEET
 St. Clements Altar society will meet Tuesday afternoon, from to , o'clock, with Mrs E. R. Diffly, 51J Wood street.
 FRANCES WILLARD
 UNION MEETING
 The Frances Willard union will meet Wednesday afternoon, at o'clock, at the home of Mrs. w. E.. Nichols, 1909 Sixteenth street south
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-04
DIR. AND MRS. WARDS
 DINNER PARTY

Dr. and Mrs. James A. Ward will entertain on Tuesday evening at the Southern club, having as their hon ored guests their sister, Miss Louise Heacock and MT. Henry Wrenn, Jr.. whose marriage will be lovely event of Thursday afternoon.
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MRS. HAWKINS
 HaNnn NTSTTnR Rg

Mrs Guy Hawkins entertained at a luncheon at her home, compliment ing Mrs. Leonard Chambers of Washington, D. C.; Mrs. R. A. White and Miss Alberta White of New York City and Miss Nat Hawkins.
 The guests were friends of the guest of honor,
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Raleigh, N. C., Miss Lila Dowell; Co., lumba college, N. r., Miss Terrells Moon; Mary Baldwin college, Va, Miss Margaret Builder; Hollins col lege, Miss Edwina Sellers; Farming ton, Conn, Miss Martee Woodward; Carnigie Tech, at Pittsburg. Pa. MT. o. B. Newman, Montevallo,. Ala, Miss Lula Bronson Hawkins; Woman's college, Montgomery, Miss Josephine Pattiilo;
 Guifport Military Academy--Mr, Carl Moore. MT. Eugene Lawiey, MT. Hugh Morgan, Mir. Tom Jones, MT. , Duport Manaseo, Mir. Charles Burk. MT. Langley Sibley.
 Morgan, Tenn.--Mr. Howard Vice Marion institute, Mr Harry Bannis- ter; Hotchkiss, Conn, MT. Pearson Samson.
 RECEPTION ATN
 HOWARD COLLEGE
 A pretty compliment to pr, John Dawson and Mrs. Dawson will be the reception to be given on Friday evening at Howard college when he and the new members of the faculty and student body will be the hopored guests.
 Dr. and Mrs. Dawson have recently returned from years absence and are being cordially received by countless friends throughout the city. pr, Dawson was over sea as dean of one of the largest colleges of France where many of the Amer ieaf boys were sent as students, later he studied at Columbia, N. Y. The guests will be received at Renfro hall on the campus, from to 10 o'clock and anumber of we'll known men and women will be in the receiving party.
 Elaborate arrangements for the entertainment are being made and the college will present gala ap- pearance.
 The general committee of arrange ments is composed of Mrs. N. A. Bar rett. Mrs. T. R. Lea. Mrs James Walker, Mrs. E. G.. Burchfield, Miss Hattie Williams. Publicity committee: Mrs. H. E. Wattiington, Mrs. Scudder Ryai, and Mrs. J. M. Dewberry Invitation committee; Mrs. Y. E.. Huey Mrs. c. P. Underwood Miss Nell Ellis. Miss .Eilee Lampkin, Miss Lois.
 Decoration committee: Mrs. James Walker, Mrs, w. w. Bussey. Mrs. E. J. Robinson, Mrs. F. E. Belcher, Mrs. Fred Williams, Mrs. A. D. Smiti, Mrs. w. P. Brewer, Mrs. w. E. Pres colt. Mrs. Edward Manasco. Mrs. l.. A. Lomgston, Miss Charles Williams.
 Refreshment committee: Mrs. T. R. Lea, Mrs. Sumter Lea, Jr., Mrs. M. l. Harris, Mrs. William Tarrant, Mrs, J. A.. Swanton, Mrs. William Waldrop, Miss Emma Wood
 Entertainment committee: Mrs w. N Griffin. Mrs. J. D. Bancroft. Mrs. Guy Mckinley, Mrs. E. C. Burchfield, Miss Marie Best, Miss Eileen Lamp kin.
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SHOWER FOR BRIDE-ELEcr

Mrs, R. H. Daniel and Mrs. J. w. Daniel of Fairfield will entertain as a miscellaneous shower on Thursday aitefneon honoring Miss Robbie Champers whose marriage to MT. charles bnsmore will be an event of Wednesday, September 17 taking place at the First Methodist church. of Ensley.
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MISS WEBB HON0RS
 MISS HEACOCK

Miss Gladys Webb entertained Fri day afternoon at miscellaneous shower at her home complimenting Miss Louise Heacock. a lovely bride elect. Miss Webb was assisted in re- eeiylng by Miss Hescock, Mrs. J. A. Ward, Miss Lee Ola Dewberry, Miss Margaret Lewis and Miss Ruth Webb.
 Miss Anne Garrott of Hopkinsville, Ky, and Miss Mary Allen had charge of the punch bowl.
 A programme was rendered in which Miss Marguarite Smith sang a group of songs and Mrs. Clark gave several readings.
 The pretty gifts were placed about a charmlngly arranged miniatur @ bungalow, and were presented to the guest of honor during the singing of eThe Love Nest" by Miss Marguerite Smith.
 An ice course was served to 60 guests.
 n
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 ENC GAGEMENT


 MT. Charles H. McMullan of Green- Vile apneunces the enga cement and approaching marriage of his daueh- ter, Anna Jewell, to Mir. Beatty B. Whiddon of Dothan. The wedding to take place Wednesday. October 5. 1921, at the First Christian church in this city"
 9 The above announcement will be received with keen interest by a large number of friends, due to the prominence of the bride and groom elect. Miss McMullan is of the type of young womanhoods who wins friends by gentleness and sweet dis position, and is beautiful young girl. She is a graduate of the A. c. T. l.. and for the past two years she taught school at Montgomery. where she is also greatly beloved. Mir, Whiddon Is well known young bus mess man of pothan,
 MISS HANDLES PICNIC PARTY
 Miss Hallie Yandie will entertain a number of young people, tomorrow at fishing and swimming party on the Cahaba river. Mrs c. B. Yah- die will be the chaperone for the cay.
The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1921-08-20
THANKS!

Dear Comrade:--
MAY we, through your columns
thank the many sympathizers who
contributed towards the collection Tor
Soviet Russia both at Camp Tamiment
and at the Workers Unity House.
We also wish to thank the manage
ment Of Camp Tamiment for the
courteous reception accorded to our
subcommittee. At the Workers Unity
House our subcommittee was denied
the privilege Of making a public ap'
peal, but through a ruse, and despite
managerial interdiction, our SUD
committee succeeded in collecting al
IIn;tv House s69.S5, which, together
with the sum Of $SO.15, collected a
Camp Tamiment, makes total o.
s1oo collected for stricken Russia
The National Defense Committee II
bending all its efforts, at the presen
time, towards gathering relief 10
our stricken brothers and sisters II
Russia who have, these many year
so valiantly fought, and are now s.
valiantly fighting their arch enemie
counter-revolution and starvation
Fraternally,
National Defense Commute
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BIRDIE PERLsTEIN ','@'''' hamilton

Not everybody who rejects Marx
can have fuil-pags write-up n maga-
zines Of Big Business-my wash
woman, for example.
What Birdie says in "Finance and
Industry" about Marx isn't worth
noticing. 1t is only puppy barking
at an express train. But you'llfunder-
stand more clearly what a bundle Of
sickening self-conceit Perlstein is
when you read the following:
ut was not long, USING MY
BRAINS Cha, ha, ha. y and drawing
my own conclusions, before came to
disagree with the basic principles Of
Marx theories"
1t was cinch for the Cleveland
cloak manufacturers to "get 'pur!
chase on the willP' Of fop like PERL
stein by giving him publicity that
would coust thousands of dollars to
buy.
We need not bother with the rest
of the trash that fills the article. It
is only self-worship, snug, STACEY,
foppish. The reporter who wrote it
must have shaken his ribs loose laugh
ing.
The object of this article is to show
that, while Birdie Perlstein didn't sell
himself for money, the cloak manu-
facturers got a purchase" on him.
Let's recall the quotation from William
James:
| "Neither threats nor pleadings can
move a man unless they touch some
one of his potential or. actual selves
Only thus can we, as rule, get a
purchase on another's will. The first
care of diplomatists and monarchs and
all those who wish to rule or influence
is, accordingly, to find out their
victims strongest principle Of self
} regardl so as to make that the
| fulcrun Of all appeal.
After reading these selections from
! Perlstein's song Of self-praise, dc
you think is was hard for the cloacl
manufacturers ito find out their vic
Tins strongest principle Of self-re
gard?"
/. They found 1t out in jiffy, and
2 made 1t 'the fulcrun Of all appeal
! And that's how they "got a 'pur
chase on him."
5 Birdie Perlstein IS a symbol O
bought.and-paid-for union officialdom
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AASsvEf-'1~1,M
a@gDANN 20
Youth SECTION Of 4 The Toiler

young girl. 1t didn't sound like the
voice Of one person. 1t was q mighty
voice that seemed to come from every
where, filling all the world with
COMMUNICATION!
Then came a soft appeal There pas
sed before Rebecca's eyes the millions
who toll and toll and get nothing but
insecure bread, wretched shelter and
threadbare clothes. No comfort, no
peace Of mind, no ease of heart. No
chance to develop--no chance to live.
Merely existing, occupying shack
in the slums instead of grave in the
cemetery.
Then command again: "Action!
"In you burns the flame of youth
the flame of life. You have vision,
you have courage, you can endure
hardships; will you waste it all on
tears and sighs, or will you. -"
"Act!" cried Rebecca, awakened,
II WILL act!"
But the next moment she wondered
how she was to act. The voice, which
came-she understood now-from her
own heart, said: "Join the Party Of
Action"
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1ARoR UNIONS UNITE RELIEF
WORK.

New York.--A $25,ooo,ooo relief
fund for famine sufferers in Russia
is proposed by labor organizations .,
New York City, including the centrs'
Trades and Labor Council the Ama', !.
0amated Clothing Workers, the on,.eo
Hebrew Trades and the Clotn ha,
and Cap Makers unions. ways sh'
means to start such a fund were o's,
cussed AZ an open meeting ADDRESSED
by representatives Of these orsan,1a
tions at which It was decided to under
take meetings and other ways an'
means to raise the fund
The Russian famine situation als'
will be taken up at the regular meet
ings Of the respective organisation
and united and immediate act'o'
urged. 80 - ...-is,
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chill Of the evening, ] started a little
fire for the benefit of little group
of kindred spirits who had discovered
each other en- clklte. Two of us were
delegates, two fohe political refugees,
and one was EeG.irl from the soviet
bureau in New York going to join the
rest of Martens staff in Moscow. We
were just getting comfortable when
soldier came and drove us away.
It was time of rather tense ap-
prehension for sohe of the members
of the group. We were all glad when
the last of us had answered to our
names after standing for two hours in
the gathering darkness while the pass
ports were called off. In country
where there are 50 many spies it was
not difficult to imagine some apparent
comrade turning dut to be the agent
of some foreign government.
Meets eootlegger.
I had little at take and therefore
was not bothered W nerves, but when
one of my friend5 called me aside to
tell me of suspicious things that he
had noticed, the plot did indeed ap-
pear to thicken. AS / stumbled along
in the dark to find my car, l started,
when a Latvian gsard grabbed me by
the arm and talked to me in an
urgent manner. But after calling an
interpreter discovered him to be an
innocent bootleggsr who desired me
to make proper provision before
entering dry Russia.
The train started at last, and moth
ing had happened. Fifteen minutes
later it stopped. All Of my companions
had disappeared except the girl. We
wondered what was up. Then my
! name was called and ! slid out OF the
door and found my three friends and
the committee.
"Come along" they said.
"Where?" / asked.
"To Russia" they answered.
ooh, please don't leave me-" pleaded
the girl, running after us without he'
hat. So we took her along. We plod
ded along the side Of an embarrassment
feeling our way in the dark. Then W.
crept across trestle that spanned {
little stream. And here was en- officia
car, and hearty handclasps an'
hospitable greetings from fine youni
comrades in the uniform Of the Re'
Army, ard clean beds into which w
| tumbled for needed sleep-and w
were in Red Russia
j Seattle Union Record.
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/ ished by shell fire were to be seen
frequently.
The landscape consists of well-kept
farms, broken by stretches OF small
timber. The fields were green with
winter rye, and here and there small
orchards were in bloom. ! was told
that the peasants do not plow the soil
deeply enough and the crops often
suffer from drouth later in the season.
| saw windmills exactly like those OF
Holland and wellsweeps like old New
England.
Many of the women here were bare
foot, in some cases very pretty girls,
otherwise quite well dressed. The more
well-to-do among the city women are
extremely we'll shod. They wear shoes
with a round toe and high heel that
make their feet look very small. Inc
| poorer women in the cities were bare
foot and dressed in wretched rags
Our baggage, which filled nine cars
| was loaded by old women and young
girls. either barefooted or their feet
tied up in rags.
Rationing System Essential.
The extreme poverty and wretch
edness of the lower class in Latvia
we'll illustrates the distress that must
result in social class system IN a
time of national extremity. The only
alternative in such circumstances Is
a rationing system such as that Oh
soviet Russia.
AS soon as we got to Riga, we De-
| gan To see the famous Russian msti-
tuition Of the samovar. 1t is a not
water receptacle built around little
stove which is fed with chips or
charcoal. For outdoor use 1t mas d
length of stovepipe. The peasants
tried to sell us everything in the way
| of food, such as bread, cake, milk ana
| eggs, as we'll as tea from the samo-
| vars. Wherever we stopped at a large
station, however, the railroad sup
| piled us with boiling water.
At one of the stations there was
| quite a fraternal demonstration Inc
townspeople crowded around the cars
and talked to the immigrants IN 1faehd,
" fashion. Then after the singing OF
songs and display Of red flags the
Russians furnished music for an I'M.
promptu dance between the railroad
tracks, the Russian men dancing WIFI
the Latvian girls. This was at the
| last station before we reached Aiupe
which | have already described
Here, as we were shivering in thf
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Third Article.

Third Article.
On the boat coming over to this
country, Meyer Perlstein kept think
ing:
"If ! do something new; if / try
to do something that no one ever did
before; if / can do what people say
is impossible-then III succeed in
America" "Finance and Industry"
June II, 1921.
In other words, Perlstein has a
weakness for the sensational. He ad-
mits having no social conscience. His
dream was-just look again at his
own picture of his soul, and you'll un-
derstand why it was so easy for the
cloak manufacturers to "get 'pur-
chase on his will"
All the articles about Pexlstein have
his picture, and that is worth to him
thousands of dollars. No cash is need
ed to buy men like Perlstein. He is
100 per cents vanity. A few articles
year in magazines of Big Bushes:
will keep him purchased for a whole
year.
/ Perlstein stands out in tina
article in "Finance and Industry
king of prigs, prince Of boosters. Jus
listen to this:
~ began to study English in tn,
!, New York Public Libraries" See hov
he loves to magnify things. He doesn'
say "library.' 1t is libraries" HI
? learned how to spell cat in the Asto
Library; rat, in the Lennox Library
I'll And all you have to do to get
purchase" on man who likes t
a magnify things is to magnify hi
{ quarter-ounce ability to pound talen,
r That's what the cloak manufacturer
n have done. That's how they got tn
q bird.
a an a few months I mastered tn
9 language so / could write we'll"
know graduates Of European univers
tiles who came here with comman
q Of three languages; II took them muc
longer than "a few months" to maste
= English enough to write well.
That shows what self-admirin
bundle Of conceit Meyer Perlstein i
All you have to do with a fellow lik
that is to slap him on the back an
. say, "Oh, you know better than that
!, y and you have "a purchase on h
: will".
:. That is, II you are Of the class
y looks up to. A priggish, self-applau'
7" ing, puffed-up boaster Is Of necessi'
ID snob. The cloak manufacturers g
>, Perlstein's number. They never offe
- ed him money. He wouldn't take
y II they did; but they never offered
ri A write-up in a magazine costs the
10 nothing, and to Perlstein--
How much Is Il worth to him
30 have splashed across page
T. "Finance and Industry" the followil
ms subheading: "Mr. Perlstein, Uni'
'n Leader, Rejects socialistic Principl
- M.~xv7 f.
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Moscow.-The Russian trade union
movement is based upon the industrial
principle. That is, all the workers
engaged in given enterprise (from
the highest officials to the laborers)
belong to one organization. There are
no craft unions consisting Of certain
trades working in many industries.
For example, the steam engineers
working in the metal industries, in
stead of belonging to a craft union
as is the case in the United States,
are part Of the industrial union OF
metal workers. The electrical workers
in the textile industry do not belong
to a craft union of electrical workers,
but to the industrial union of textile
workers. This principle holds through
out the entire trade union structure.
Craft unionism, which American lead
ers boast so much Of, is looked upon
| by the Russians Tin common with all
E progressive unionists) as a very
!. primitive type of organization unfit
y ted for modern industrial conditions
e At present the labor movement con-
nj sists Of 23 industrial unions, as fol-
e lows: Medical and sanitary workers;
transport workers (railroad men
: sailors, longshoremen, etc., miners
n carpenters and joiners; agricultural
h and forest workers; theatrical EN-
d ployes; provisioning and housing
D workers; leather workers; meta
N workers; municipal employees; teach
ers; communication workers (tele
rel phone, post, telegraph); printers
at paper makers; food workers; building
Mt trades; sugar workers; employees o
ce co-operatives; tobacco workers; textil
lis workers; chemical workers; clothin
tn trades, and employees in taxation
Of finance and central departments.
es Compare these 23 closely-kni
ol- homogeneous Russian industrial union
= with the t20 disjointed criss-crossin
y American craft unions and you wi
\ get an inkling Of the degree {
structural development achieved b
y the movements in the two countrie
As for the comparative understandir
Of the two movements concerning II
problems they are confronted wit
perhaps the less said the better {,
! our conceit--so far does the Americi
"A labor movement stand behind that
J Russia in this respect.
The industrial unionism prevailir
in the Russian movement Is not d,
to the sudden realization Of beau,
ful scheme worked out in some int,
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Rv WILLIAM z. FOSTER Federated Press stair Wrl'er
D' Copyright 1921, by The Federated PresS)

lectuaPs study chamber. On the con-
trary, it is the result of the every day
experiences Of the movement, the cul-
mination of constant structural evo-
luton to meet the needs of the work.
ers.
To begin with the Russian trade
union movement developed many craft
union characteristics, although Of
course these were not SO marked as in
the labor movements Of western coun-
tries. Much of the usual craft pride
and narrowness had to be broken
down. This was done by the idealists,
who, intensely active in the unions, set
about systematically eradicating
abuses and introducing betterments
They brought about many amalgama'
tions of craft organizations into in
dustrial unions-during the congres:
of 1920 nine such fusions were com
4
pleted. Those reactionary officials
who stood in the way of the move
ment's betterment were swept aside
and "sent down the road talking tt
themselves" Nor is the evolution We
complete. Still other amalgamation
are contemplated to reduce the mum
ber of industrial unions to Id or Il
and thus to bring about greater unit
Of the workers.
How different it all is in the Unite
States. With us the industrial union
lists, instead of sticking in the basl
organization and fighting for tn
gradual realization Of the new typ'
pull out of them, and, setting up som
fine-spun industrial Utopia, vast
their efforts vainly to attract tn
, masses to it. The industrial union ide
, will make no substantial headway
America until its advocates give U
their present nonsensical separati'
tactics and adopt the horse-seni
:, :. methods Of the Russians (which al
. also those of the English, French ar
j, Germany, by staying with the maj
!, organizations Of the workers al
. inducing them to adopt the new.
forms Of organization through u
. remodelling Of the old ones.
. CONTINUED next week.
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Butte, Mont.-Thomas e. Baber, or
ganizer Of the Ku Klux Klan, has
departed from this city though his
work was not completed.
Larry Duggan, sheriff Of this coun-
ty, elected by labor last fall, read an
adv. calling for 400 per cent Amer
icans," published in the Butte Miner
and new story describing the OBJ
jects Of the organization. Duggau
publicly stated that II the Ku Klux
attempted any Of It's customary tao
Tics in this community "they would
be shot down like wolves"