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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-02-07
WOMEN
ASK VOTE
At q
Dorothy JeWson, Woman
Member of Parliament, Raps
30 As Legal Majority.

LONDON, Feb. Miss Dorothy
Jewson, one Of the eight women
members Of Parliament, has an
nounced she will attempt to have
the electoral law changed to make
the voting age of women twenty
one instead Of thirty, as it II at
present.
Although the British Parliament
has more women members than
any other national legislative body,
the law win require q great deal
of altering before absolute politl'
cal equality Of the sexes is
achieved, Miss Jewson declares.
Under the present law a woman
must be thirty years old before she
can exercise the voting franchise,
whereas a man may vote at
twenty-one. Miss Jewson declared
the law unfair, showing dlscrlmina.
ton in favor of the males.
During tine whole Of the last
campaign" Miss Jewson said,
there was nothing mora pathetic
than the attitude of the young
women. When canvasserS called at
their homes they often came to Ohe
door with little ones clinginy to
their skirts. Why ls IT, they
asked, that I have no voter They
are old enough to brtng children
into the world and to he responBi-
BILE for them, and their query Is
an unanswerable one.
although the woman Of twenty
one Is as capable Of voting as a
man Of that age, some 5000. 900
women between the ages Of twenty
one and thirty are disfranchiScd.
Among them are not only young
mothers, Dut women cal uin1 their
living in factory and office AMI
bound to obey the laws in which
they have no say.
No Equality.
again, there is no equality in
the present franchise law for men
and women over thirty. Men can
qualify after six months residence,
but women must be the Nrupicrs
Of the premises In which they re-
side--or the wives Of such cccu-
piers. Thus large bodies Of work
Ing women. including those who
occupy furnished rooms, nurses,
domestic amt hotel servants, gov
ernesses and others are altogether
disfranchised, At least 100000
women over thirty are deprived Of
the vote in this way.
1.-THE time has come 20 wipe
away these anomalies. We are
fortunate In having Labor GOV.
ernment, for am convinced that
Premier Macdonald and his col.
leagues will be fully in favor Of
the reforms I shall propose when
Parliament convenes February Ia"
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Tomorrow.

Tomorrow.
Meetinr-Northwes Suburban Citi.
sens Association. Friendship School
0o pSncse-AuSpicSs of the Catholic
women's Service Club. Catholic Com
ynunity House. col . street nOrtnwsst'
HeetinR-Caravan Club. 1880 p. m.
AddreSs-JTribute to woodrow VIII
son, DR.. Abram Simon, washington
Hebrew Congregation; evening: w.
Meeting-American. Association Of
BurrviIls Community centcr-viSual
in Pour:.t cSTsP cg ie0rs
Folks Social Club, Mothers Club. jolly
SIX Club. whiting Club. Boys. Game
Club. Mems Whist 'an cl SI. D %omsT1,C
Club, to 1890 p. m.
Central High Community Center-An--
niversary meeting, Boy scouts OF
AE Hs.t 'waI Si "a; Community Center
Workers, Young women's Art Club,
Boy Scouts. Wonder Boys. Quot Club,
A. {. and Boy Scouts. E:s0 ,. m. =
dren's visual education. dancing in
:truction. dramatic Instruction. 1870 TO
Johnson owell-ClaSs In expression,
s:lt; Boy Scouts. forty. 2 p. m.
Dramatic club rhythmic dancing. $40:
Criterion A. ca Rialto A. c.. Girls A.
c.. whiting Club, Les Bellies Club,
Busy Bee Club. Boy scoutA 1880 to
Miner Normal Community Center
Girls Needlework Club. Boys A. C..
boys basketball teams. Young Peoples
Dramatic Club. women's Needlework,
Mems Current Events, Red Cross class,
1850 to 1880 p. m.
Petworth Community Center-Girl
Scouts. Brownies, Boy Scouts. dramatic
class, 3:16; Avon A. c. business meet
6eanwood Community center-Boys'
Story Club, sewing class. Girls Song
Club, Mems Choral Club, Folk Dancing
Club and Athletic Association, 1880 10
Cleveland Phelps Girls Recreation
Club, 4; basketball practice. q: Mt.
Calvary Commandery drill team. Civic
Center OF Affiliated Associations and
Northwest Citisens Association. 7:30 to
Southeast Community Center -
Rhythm class =: dramatic class. g:
1880: Scouts, Is and 50, 1850 p. M.
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SEN COUZENS SAYS NELL TAX PLAN FAVORS CORPORATE
WHAT'S DOING.
Today and Ton.OrrOsO
To-day.

Address-sHrhe Soldier ana the Rose
Representative Edgar Howard. OF No"
braRka. Anthony League, General FEEDER.
alton Of. Women's Club& l7sA n street
ho Meetins-catiedra r.; Heights citisens
Association. all entertainment post
lad AddressEJuStice MCCOY, District
Supreme Court. Sergeant Jasper Post.
American Legion, CITY Club, S:l5 p. m
Celebfation - Seventy-fifth annixer-
sary Of founding Of University Of Wis-
S ;; tie Dissrict t & e colunSIa. UniysrSity
WOmen's Club. 1884 street northwest.
81 Busines 81 MsetinE-cathedrai Heights
Citisens' Association, St. Adams Kali. 8
Meeting Postpcned---Chevy Chase
Branch W0men'S Democratic Club, OF
Montgomery county. postponed to
Wilson Normal Community Center
Second Year Spanish, 1880; community
sys Fsl: a. E saS
's1 TSomson Continuity mn center-wash.
ington Opera Company, 1880; Gaelic
study class in Spanish. 7:iS; SpaniSh
Lovejoy Community center---cOm-
E Sfso 'lasle1 Hon Hon. Sls sasis esS
Arts and Crafts Club. Lincoln Props
Park View Community Center
Parent Teachers Association, 3:1S p. m
East Washington Community Center
Epworth 4. e., Z; Ethiopia A. c.. $40
Community Orchestra. g.; millinery and
dressmAlging, 1880; Community Scotia.
Club. $3.50 p. m; community concert.
Cleveland Phelps Community center
Band rehearsal. Douglas League
Woman's Exchange, indugtriel class
escr:asiOn class. s:ls: &neTicsnlzssioS
basketball, g.; Arrows basketball Z
Dramatic Club, 1880; South Carolina
State Club and viscount Club. p. m
WOman's City Club-The Rev. JohH
J. Nueally. speaking on Russia, 3; Mrs
Dorothy. Allen. speaking on child vel
Reception and Dance--Alabama Stat,
Society Willard. $3.50 p. m.
Chicken Pie Dinner--LRdleJ' AID As
ISOLATION, Church Of Our Father, Thir
tenth and L streets northwest. p. m
illustrated Lecture--'"Ths Birds o.
Leysan island" Prof. Alexander Wet
more, Cosmos Club, evening.
Meeting-Thirteen Club, City Club
evening.
northwest, p. m.
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Mary Washington Chapter, No.
30, o. e. s.. OF Clarendon, win give
a card party this afternoon ct the
home Of Mrs. Caroline Parkhurst.
on Oak street, Lyon Park.
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The Woman's Civic Club Of Clar.
endon will meet tomorrow afternoon
at o'clock in the Clarendon's Citi.
zen's hall. Harry X. Gree, commits
sioner Of revenue Of Arlington coun.
ty, win speak on taxes.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-02-07

A delegation Of citizens of Pooles.
vile district. this county, appeared
before the county commissioners
here and urged the early improve.
ment of the road leading from
PoOlesville to Whites ferry, a dis.
lance Of about six miles, and in
support Of the proposition pre-
sented lengthy petitions.
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The Cherrydale Lodge, No. e,
A. F. and A. NJ, will meet tonight
In the Cherrydale firemen's hall at
o'clock at which time the master
Mason's degree will be conferred.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-02-07

The Rev. Nolan B. Harmon, jr.,
pastor Of the Methodist Church,
officiated at the marriage here yes.
terday Of Raymond Allnutt and Miss
Bessie N. Evely, both OF Layton.
vile, this county.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-02-07

At the suggestion Of Drs. Ernest
L. Billiard. and G. v. Hartley, Of
Rockville. the county commission.
ers have adjudged Julia Williams,
Of this. county, to be Of unsound
mind and have directed that she
be committed to Springfield Asylum,
Sykesville, Nd, for treatment at
the expense Of the county and
State.
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At the annual election Of officers
Of the Rockville circle Of Kings
Daughters, held at the home OF
Mrs. e. Wariog, the following Of
ficers were chosen: Leader, Mrs,
Evans; first vice leader, Mrs. Mary
q. Peter: second vice leader, Mrs.
George II. Lamar; recording secre.
tary, Mrs. George L. Edmondss
corresponding secretary, Mrs. Mary
A.. Green; treasurer, Miss M. ].
Mcdonald.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-29
The Story of Sam Lipn1a1

statuary. In few minutes Mr.
THOMAS came in and l told him nv
mission. He very cheerfully agreeded
to go on bonds for my comrades and
during the course of our conversation
found that he was member of the
socialist party. The object of nv
mission accomplished left the house.
Mr.. Thomas coming to the door with
me.
AS | walked back to the party
rooms | was not thinking about nv
comrades who were in the police sta.
ton. was thinking about the beauti-
full house had just left and comparing
1t with the stuffy tenement that |
lived in. Like flash l remembered
the fight that was going on in the
party between the fright" and the
left" wings. l was 'Ieft" and Com
rade Thomas was right. Comrade
Thomas was playing at socialism.
while really need socialism. l, a fur
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The Pressure From Below

Maxton followed with questions
md then Buchanan. Then Dickson
rose and said: Il want to ask the At
torney General if any members of
this house who will be speaking in
their constituencies next week ex-
press similar opinions to that con-
tanned in the article in the Workers
Weekly does that men that we are
subject to similar prosecution? (Hon.
Members: "Yes"). If so, they will
probably lose half their party
Discussion Got Warm.
The speaker rose and put stop to
the discussion. 1t was getting too
hot. But the row did not stop. The
agitation went on behind the scenes.
The government is in a devil Of
fix. The Communists were winning
hand over fist Even the Parliament
t$ry Labor Party was becoming in
fected. What with the Russians and
the Treaty upr2ar and now their Com
munist colleagues gettids all this pub
licity, and the masses of the workers
feeling that in this appeal to the
forces the Communists were right,
the Labor Government is in guam
dry and looking round for way out.
Instead of extending the prosecutions
they are looking for every possible
loophole thru which they can get to
stop this prosecution.
They know that the Executive of
the Communist Party will not give
way. They know that we are pre-.
pairing to subpoena leading members
Of the Government and the Labor
Party into the witness box and they
will have to face their own state
ments. They know that men like
Lansbury, Wallhead, Purcell, all of
them holding important positions in
the Labor movement will voluntarily
come into the witness box and line
up side by side with Campbell in the
plea of justification. They are feel
ing the pressure from below with
vengeance. They are preparing to
capitulate and to withdraw the charge.
charge.
These events are big victories for
the working class of Britain, evidence
of the fact that the opposition has
underestimate the strength of the
class instincts deeply rooted IN the
British workers. The British Imper-
ialists may make tools of the intel
lectuals, the leaders of the Labor
Party, but the great proIetarian mass
in this country cannot be fooled for
long. These two blunders of the La
Dor Government have done more to
cleanse the labor movement of social
pacifism and stimulate its class con-
seriousness than any victories" they
have won since the Labor Party was
Ian opposition party.
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rendered to the king and queen of Fascist Italy
and pogrom-ridden Roumania.
The much-heralded Snowden budget has turned
out to be only cut in taxes for the capitalist class
1t has been well said that even from the point of
view of the socialism peddled by Sidney Webb and
company, the Snowden budget has been less $50
calistic" than the budget put by Lloyd George
fifteen years ago when he enacted the Workmen's
Insurance Law.
In the realm of foreign policy Macdonald comes
mighty close to the old Lord Palmerston, whose
career was so we'll analysed by Karl Marx. In
fact, Macdonald has been vieing with Lord
Curzon in haughtiness. When an American ex-
ploiter lost his life on the Yangtze River, the
British gunboat Cockchafer threatened to lombard
the defenseless Chinese town unless military
authorities would promise to follow the body with
honor to its grave And the most tangible attempt
made by the Labor cabinet to help the unemployed
was the order to build five new ten thousand ton
cruisers, with which to assure the defense of the
far flung realms of the British imperialists.
OF course one may cite the recognition of the
Soviet government as a sure sign of the socialism
of the British Labor parlamentarans. This is non
sense. The conservatives themselves were planning
to recognize Soviet Russia, according to Sir John
Horne 1t is the Red Army the Indian border
that dictated the recognition treaty and not Ram
say Macdonald.
We do not blame the Labor Party leaders for
their failure to bring the cooperative common
wealth in six months. In fact, we know that thru
the present British parliamentary system, social
ism cannot be realized. But we do blame the Mac
Donalds and the Snowdens for refusing to take
single step to enhance the political power of the
working class and for their continued support and
defense of imperialist policies at home and abroad
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-29

The wounds of the last war are not
l yet healed, and already the next
war is at the gates of the sham peace
erected by the world bourgeoisie. AL.
ready our contention that there can
be no peace as long as capitalism en-
dures is made clear and evident even
to the many whose faith in the impe-
rialist governments of the world has
not been shaken in the last episode
of international murder caused by the
natural workings of the capitalist sys.
tenn.
The world over the race for arma.
ments goes on--in spite of the ges.
lures Of peace made at the Washing.
ton disarmament conference. Coun.
try after country is rehearsing the
military demonstrations OF 1913-1914.
showing its military strength to the
enemy in an effort to brighten it's ri.
walls and thereby receive a greater
share OF the booty. In our own coun.
try the president has proclaimed Sept
IL as Mobilization Day. This, in ad.
dition to parading the military
strength Of the United States before
the eyes OF the world powers, has as
its object the Strengthening of the
lingo spirit among the youth OF the
country, thus preparing them ideolog.
ically for the next war.
1t is for this reason that Interna-
tional Youth Day this year is OF
greater Significance than heretofore
In 1915, in the midst OF the roaring
OF cannon, the revolutionary working
class youth held their first Interna.
tional Youth Day on the first Sunday
OF September In this they demon.
strated that they we're thru with the
betrayers OF the Second and Second
and One-half Internationals and were
lager and ready to follow their
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worker, with work only during certain
season of the year, living in small
rooms in a crowded tenement, need
socialism. That is why am left
winger". l want economic security
and l want it now. Comrade Thomas
can afford to wait for evolution. I
can't. / want to help put the r. in
front of evolution.
Lipman was deported to Russia and
| may never see him again. But / am
wondering what Sam Lipman would
say If he knew that Norman Thomas
was running on the same ticket with
LaFollette.
Sam Lipman reasoned out so clearly
the need of clear line of demarka-
ton between those who need social
ism and those who only wish for it,
that 1 feel certain he would be in the
ranks Of the Workers Party and fight
ing for Foster and Gitlow.
Nobody ever got anything simply
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Reporting the Prince

Complete perversion could hardly express itself
more cynically than that of our capitalistic
papers in their elaborate handling of the Prince
of Wales trip to the United States. The various
large newspapers and agencies have counted so
strongly upon the servility, stupidity, and idle
curiosity of the American middle-cass elements
who determine the public" taste, that they estab-
lsh news bureaus" on the steamship, and organize
relays of reporters to write up in the minutest de-
tail the daily life of this aristocratic vagabond.
The young idler, spendthrift, and generally all
around parasite, who nonchalantly CANDLES away
thousand-dollar bills furnished to him by the ia
Dor" government of Britain, will be the object of
all the admiring attention of the American middle
class thru the newspapers especially. There could
be no more perfect illustration of the spiritual
degradation of this middle class of than this
very phenomenon. At time when it is supposed
to be getting into politics upon its own hook in
the LaFolette movement it grows suspicious of its
own powers and with servile slobberings, it fawns
upon this prince in order to demonstrate to it.
self and to the world that it is not revolutionary
that there is nothing to fear if it is just given
place in the servants quarters, and allowed to look
upon the dance and sports of its "betters."
The middle class is essentially servant class
1t is not happy except when it is worshipping some
hero from the aristocracy. 1t is incapable of pro
ducing its own heros and developing policy of its
own. 1t respects nothing but power and firm
hand, to which it submits itself with joyous pro
testations of loyalty, matter how worthless and
despicable the upper class wieders of power may
be. Such class can never be anything but the
hand-servants of big capital, and it will continue
in that role until, in the process of the capitalist
breakdown, they are starved into some sense OF
dependence upon the workers as now occurs in
Germany.
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World War Visions

A New York dispatch tells of a series of articles
by Comrade Trotzky now appearing in the Soviet
press and dealing with the outlook for the coming
world war. The tried and true mouthpiece of our
biggest exploiters says: "Trotzky has vison of
world civil war"
The next world war is no longer in the realm of
visions A new capitalist world carnage is an i'm
pending, dangerous reality. 1t is highly objective
fact, growing out of the conditions to which the
capitalist system of production and exchange has
condemned the laboring and farming of
the world.
The American imperialists today dominate the
economy of more than dozen countries. Peru
Panama, Hungary, Bolivia, Honduras, Persia, and
Salvador only few of the victims whose finan-
cial resources are in the grip of Wall Streets
mightiest men. The Dawes plan will very likely
mean a substantial increase in the number of vas
sal states in the American imperialist empire.
France and Great Britain are already talking of
the possible results intensified trade competition
between the two may bring The spectre of re-
yived German industry haunts the European and
American captains of finance and manufacture.
A new capitalist confagration is being prepared.
Europe, Latin America, the Far and Near East,
and the Balkans are veritable powder magazines,
which only spark is needed to explode. Under
these conditions new world is a menacing
reality.
And Comrade Trotzky is correct when he de-
cares that: Soviet Russia is still faced by world
of enemies. But let them be careful for when they
force struggle upon Russia, will not fight
alone. In each of their countries there will be a
party favorable to us and the time has come to
organize it," This is very true. The imperialist
war has taught the world working class that there
is only way to abolish the Internal capitalist
slaughter That way is to turn the imperialist
into civil wars in which the workers of every coun-
try unite to turn the cannons and machine guns
on their exploiters. In these wars, the class
wars the workers of the various countries unite
to wage war; upon the international capitalist war
makers.
Thus only will the system that breeds imperalist
wars be abolished. The likelihood of the next world
imperialist being turned into a world civil
war, is not vision but reality, with flesh and
blood, and with promise for successful decisive
ton. In every country of the world the number
of workers and exploited farmers prepared to enter
war to end war forever is steadily and rapidly
increasing.
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BY J. I. MURPHY.

Communist Party Of Great Britain.
TWO events of this week serve to
| show that the working class
movement of this country will not toll
crate for long the position of accept
ing things only by the kind permits
sion. of the enemy. These two Incl
dents will also make it perfectly clear
that the Labor Government of His
Majesty George V. is something dis
tinct from the Labor Party.
First, there is the sequel to the
famous twenty hours discussion on
the Anglo-Russian Treaty. The
lengthy discussion itself was an in
novation. Poor Mr.. Ponsonby Poor
Foreign Office of1cialsl The hours
rolled on. There was not the slight
est sign that these %e/lned Russians
would ever get tired. Sweat began
to roll down Mr.. Ponsonbys face. He
flung in an ultimatum, but it was
no use. Rakovsky side-stepped and
plunged him into further discussion
The officials were getting irritable
1t was annoying that they should be
kept out of bed so long Would the
Russians never stop debating.
A Working Glass ISSUE.
Point after point had been conced-
ed. Heaven only knows how many
amendments had been made to the
original draft. And then came the
famous clause fourteen, the last
stumbling block at this stage of the
negotiations. The Russians would
not give way. Impossible, says Mr.
Ponsonby. We cannot give way any
further. He was physically beaten.
The Russian delegation seemed Just
as fresh as when they began, smiling,
arguing, giving nothing away. They
were used to it. What is a twenty
hour session to Russians, anyway?
But for Britishers, it is just awful.
The stiff collars began to soften.
Tempers began to deveiop. Nerves
were on edge. And bangl The CON
ference broke up on the question of
compensation for confscated proper
ty What an issue with which to face
working audience!
Then the sequel. Some foreign Of
flee idiot rushed into print with the
statement that the conference had
broken down and negotiations were
ended. But the last word does not.
and did not lay with the Foreign Of
fice. The Labor Party Executive n, {
with number of the labor members
OF Parliament Prominent among
them were George Lansbury, Dick
Wallhead, and Purcell, the chairman
of the General Council of the Trades