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The Washington times., 1925-04-03
JEAN ELIOT'S1 GOSSIP OF SOCIETY
AIR MAN WILL
SAYADIEUAT
HORSE SHOW
BILLY" Mitchell Will Elk
hibit Horses for Last
Time in Washington

At the National Capital Horse
Show next month horse show fans
of washington will bid farewell to
their old favorite Brigadier General
william Mitchell. now Colonel
Mitchell.
Leaving shortly for his new post
in Texas Colonel Mitchell is plan
ming to make his exit from the Ma
tional Capital at the horse show.
Unless the War Department has a
change Of heart or the gallant
colonel decides to turn in his uni
form and don "cits'' it is hardly
likely that either he or his mag
nificent string Of hunters and sad
die horses will be seen at q local
show for some years.
For years Colonel Mitchell has
been the darling Of the Washing
ton horse show crowd. His match
less horsemanship and beautiful
trained entries have invariably been
one Of the sensations Of each years
show. During his absence from
Washington during the war he was
sadly missed and his admirers were
delighted when upon his return his
beautiful hunter "Homeagain" car
ried off the honors in the 1919
show.
This year Colonel Mitchell has en-
tered seven horses, several of item
new in his stables. His wife, the
former Miss Elizabeth Miller, Of De-
troit, is q skilled horsewoman and
will, in all probability, show a mum
Der OF the entries herself.
The show is scheduled for May
1923 and will be held at Arlington
Park, Va, as usual.
Mrs. James r.. Mann entertained
company of fourteen at luncheon
today at the Mayflower Hotel in
compliment to Mrs. Clifford Copley,
of Aurora, Illinois.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Fitzhugh, of
1000 Massachusetts, avenue, were
called to New York yesterday by the
illness Of relative and have can
celled all engagements.
\
Commander and Mrs. Robert
Henderson were dinner hosts last
evening in compliment to Mr. and
Mrs. Ira Copley, Of Aurora, Ill.
Mr. and Mrs. Hal Smith will leave
Washington tomorrow and will sail
for Honolulu to remain until the
first of June.
The Washington times., 1925-04-03
WIDOW OF WILLARD STRAIGHT
WEEDS ENGLISHMAN.

OF much interest to Washington
society was the wedding, OF Mrs.
Dorothy Payne Whitney Straight,
widow of Willard Straight and
Leonard X. Elmhirst, ssson of an
English clergyman, which took
place this morning in the brides
old home at Old Westbury, Long
Island Only relatives and a few
intimate friends witnessed the
ceremony.
The bride is the daughter of
was Secretary of the Navy in the
She had three children by her first
marriage, Whitney Willard, Beatrice
and Michael.
Mrs. Straight and her first hus-
band were married in Geneva,
Switzerland, in 1911. Mr.. Straight,
after graduation from Cornell, be-
came actively interested in Far
Eastern matters. In 1908-9 he was
acting chief Of the division Of Far
Eastern affairs OF the State De-
partment, and he had also been
American consul general in Seoul
and Mukden. During the war he
organized the war risk insurance
work among the overseas forces
He died Of pneumonia on December
1, 1918, weakened by overwork, just
as he was beginning to help
Colonel House in the organization.
Mr.. Elmhirst, who was graduated
with the degree Of NJ. A. from
Trinity College, Cambridge, was in
India and Mesopotania during the
early years of the war. He came
to this country in 1919 after the
Rehabilitation Of the British army
and worked his way through the
Agricultural School at Cornell by
The Washington times., 1925-04-03
mILLIANT NEW ATTACHE
AT RUMANIAN LEGATION.

Androi Popovici, who has recently
been assigned as attache to the
Rumanian legation here. has taken
an apartment at 1874 Twenty-first
street. For several years Mr.. Po-
povici has been resident OF Cleve-
land, Ohio, where he was editor-in-
chief of America" q Rumanian
daily. While in Cleveland he took
courses in diplomatic history at the
Western Reserve University from
which he received an M. A. de-
gree. He is a graduate OF the
Academy of Law, Oradea Mare, Ru.
mania, and studied at the SchooI
of Political Science in Paris.
kk
Miss Ruth tombstone, professor OF
Chemistry at Wellesley College, is
o guest at the Grace Dodge Hotel
during the Easter holidays.
The Washington times., 1925-04-03
MEXICAN ENVOY
FETED LAST NIGHT

The Mexican Ambassador and
Sonora de Teller were guests OF
honor last night of Doctor and
Mrs. J. C.. Merriam, who entertained
at dinner inN their apartment in
Meridian Mansions. The company
included the Assistant Secretary OF
State and Mrs. Wilbur J. Carr, Doc
tor and Mrs. Charles Wardell Stiles
Mr.. and Mrs. Theodore w. Noyes
and Doctor and Mrs. Harold G
Moulton.
The Secretary of State and Mrs.
Kellogg were the guests Of honor
at dinner last evening Of Mrs.
Henry Dimock, who entertained a
company OF thirty-eight. Among
the guests, were the Postmaster
General and Mrs. New, Hungarian
Minister and Countess Szechenyi,
the Polish Minister and Nine. Wro-
blewska, the Colombian Minister
and Nine. Olaya, the Undersecretary
OF State and Mrs Joseph Grew, the
Assistant Secretary Of the Navy
and Mrs. Theodore Douglas Robin
son, Baroness Bliss and Mrs. Strong
who are Mrs. Dimock's guests over
the week end, enroute to New York
from Nassau, and Mrs. Dimock s
son-in-law and daughter, Signor and
Signora Catalani.
X r. n
Mrs. Weeks, wife Of the Secretary
of War, has Cancelled invitations
for the tea she was to have given
this afternoon in honor Of Mrs.
Alvin T. Hert, vice chairman of the
Republican national committee.
X y \
The Minister of the Serbs, Croats
and Slovenes, Doctor Pavichich,
who has been in New York for a
brief visit, has returned to the lega-
ton.
y X X
Associate Justice and Mrs. Willis
van Devanter will entertain at
The Washington times., 1925-04-03

teaching in the department Of Eng.
lish. After he was graduated from
that school in 1921 he went to In
dia to organize and carry out ex-
periments in rural reconstruction
and education in Bengal.
The future plans OF Mr.. Elmhirst
and his bride have not yet been
made known.
The Washington times., 1925-04-03

lery is undergoing a re-Easter
period of specialAactivity. Not only
the number but the wide variety of
these displays are unusual. There
Is a special exhibition OF forty-seven
fine paintings by the late famous
Anders Zorn in one Of the galleries,
while in the cases in the upper hall
Is a second display Of twenty-sevefl
etchings by the same artist. Maui
rice FrOmkes. of New York, is hold
Ing an exhibit of forty-seven paint
ings, depicting Spanish life, scenery,
etc. All were done in Spain. There
Is an exhibition of delicate little
gtlhouettes by Baroness Aveline Won
fMaydell, Of New York, whose sub
jects include Mrs. Coolidge, Mrs.
Theodore Roosevelt, jr., the Roose-
welt children, Mr., and Mrs. Henry
BuSh.BTown and the celebrated
Italian actress, Mme.i Duse.
Baroness Mayden, who is q
refugee from the Soviet regime,
has established quite a vogue
among fashionable people for group
portraiture in silhouettes, an art
which she originated and which
she practices with surprising skill
and fidelity to life.
Perhaps the most striking feature
Of the baroness work, is its deli
cacy and wealth Of intricate de-
tails, unusual in such medium.
The transparent drapery Of a
lady's sleeve, the ripping lace that
falls from her dress, the fluffy
hair Of flapper, are not too dainty
or exacting for this clever artists
shears,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-10
LABOR THRONGS
PARTICIPATE IN
NOV. I MEETINGS
CONTINUED from page ~

security pact which has been drawn
up by the capitalist nations as a new
weapon to be used in their war
against the Soviets of Russia, which
have resisted the blockades, and the
invasions of the capitalist class and to
prepare ourselves for these new at
lacks that the capitalists would make
on the workers and peasants gov
eminent of Russia.
During these eight years we have
heard the prophets of the capitalist
class say the downfall of Soviet pow
er was only matter of minutes.
"The capitalist prophets thot that
the workers were fools and that by
continually predicting the downfall
and suggesting the weakness OF the
Soviet power, 1t would cause them to
give up hope and abandon the strug-
gle.
eve have found that even many
friends of Soviet Russia have given
up hope and began to believe that
capitalism is firmly intrenched."
He then decried the tendency as
represented by Lore in America, Fros-
sard In France and the recent rene
gades Of the Communist movement
in England who believe that capital
ism is more firmly entrenched than
ever.
Capitalism Growing Weaker.
lis capitalism really the giant that
IL was before the WARP asked Be.
dacht, and then went on to show that
tho American capitalism had become
stronger, international capitalism had
become weaker.
From the body of international
capitalism an arm has been cut on.
That arm Ia Soviet Russia, That arm
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-10
ATTEND PURCELL
MEETINGS, SAYS
CAP union HEAD
Continued from page u

thus revealing that grasping greed is
their only real aim in the "open shop"
campaign.
In the face of these aggressive at
tacks Of capital, labor must unite its
ranks both nationally and interna-
tionally to protect its positions and
make possible the further improve
emnt Of its conditions; not to speak
of gaining an ever increasing control
in industry.
A. A. Purcell, the chosen spokesman
Of the British Trade Union Congress
brings here a ringing message from
our fellow workers in Great Britain
for the world unity of labor. was
privileged to hear his appeal delivered
at the forty-fourth annual convention
of the American Federation Of Labor.
and it struck me as if it was forged
by the century-long experience Of the
British labor movement. / do not
know of any better way Of promoting
the great cause of the world unity Of
abor than by bringing the appeal and
message of Brother A. A. Purcell and
he British Trade Union Congress
which he represents. to every working
man and woman Of this country. l
do not think there is a working man
or woman here who can afford to miss
the opportunity to listen to and bene-
fit by Brother Purcells great and con-
vincing appeal on behalf of labor
unity.
There are signs indicating that the
working people in every industrial
country are beginning to realize how
indispensable the unity of labor is.
The splendid victory of the British
miners which was gained as result
Of the united support of the entire
labor movement Of Great Britain and
the International Federation of Min
ers was striking example of what
can be accomplished by the unity of
labor in the field of economic action.
The splendid victory just gained by
the working people of Germany dur
ing the recent elections in Berlin, is
another striking exampl4of what can
be accomplished by unity Of labor
within the field of political action.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-10
HUMAN BUTCHER SHOPS IN MINES
OF ANTHRACITE REGION KILL AND
CRIPPLE 10000 MINERS YEARLY

CONTINUED from page u
is increasing today with leaps
and bounds.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-10
Fred Merrick Goes
to Trial Nov. 3Oth
At Pittsburgh, Pa.
Continued from page 1,

drew Mellon, secretary OF the treas
ury and prohibition enforcement chief
who is also heavy owner Of distil-
leries; Ebert Gary, one OF the chief
owners Of Pittsburgh, tho he lives in
New York City, and the big coal oper-
ators. As Merrick and his associates
were active in lighting for the work
ers, exploited by those capitalist bar.
ons, they were slated for the prison
and the charge OF distributing a leaf
let, was as good as any other TO hold
them on.
The capitalists of Pittsburgh would
give their right eyes to get Fred Mer-
rich behind the bars. They railroad.
ed him once before and want 10 40 n
again. They have spent a lot of time
ana much money building an iron
bound "frame-up". They have everv-
tning on their side, except the work.
ers. They have money, and the gov.
eminent. es'
The battle line, in this case 10 as
IN all cases OF its kind: Fred Mer.
TICK and his comrades, supported bv
the class conscious workers aeains,
the masters of coal and iron, support.
cd by all the powers Of government
from Coolidge down to the most CON.
temptibie local flunkey in Pittsburgh
Inc International Labor Defense e.
conducting the legal defense Of Mar.
rick and the other defendsass.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-10


polisher. Prim. school; self-edu-
Gated. Formerly a French poIlsher.
Joined trade union 1889. General
secretary AmaIgamated French
Polishers, 19oo-1o, which combined
with Furnishing Trades Assn. Or
uanizer for new organization, 1910
10; conducted furniture workers
strikes in England and northern
Ireland, 1e97-1923; negotiated work.
ing conditions in almost every fur
niture manufacturing center since
1900. President Manchester and
Stafford Trades Council, 1929.
Member General Council Of British
Trades Union Congress, 1924.
Member labor delegation to Rus
STA, 192o-24. Parliamentary Commit
tee, 1921. Labor member Munich
pal Town Council, 19o4-1o. Member
Labor Party.
From american Labor Who's Who"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-10

that the betterment of these condi-
tons was not only the duty Of the
workers in India and China and the
other colonial territories, but that it
was the duty of the international
working class.
Big Army Of Unemployed.
In his speech, he brot out that in
England at the present time there
were at least, 100000 workers I'M
employed, of which 100000 were
drawing unemployment benefits from
the government, commonly called
"doles" by the capitalist press which
was the most insulting term that the
capitalist class could invent to libel
the working class, he declared. He
showed that these workers were en-
titled to the benefits they received for
they had paid the entire sum that was
now being used by the government to
pay them. He showed that the gov
eminent quota had come out of their
pockets in taxation and that the en-
ployers' quota had come out Of the
products they had produced.
He denounced the campaign of vii
LITIGATION which the capitalist press
has entered into against the unem-
ployed workers of England terming
them paupers, ETC., forgetting that
there was an army of 100000 Of the
most highly skilled workers produc-
ed in England regularly unemployed,
due to the economic condition Of
Great Britain.
He then spoke of the steps being
taken to bring the 100000 workers
of Russia into closer union with the
workers of all other lands. He show
ed that in Russia the trade unions
run all the economic institutions of
the country and that they are part
OF the directives as well as the pro-
ductive forces of the nation.
Want the Russian Workers.
Purcell declared that it was no con.
Germ of the British workers, that are
now trying to bring the Russian work
ers and the International Federation
OF Trade Unions closer together, as to
the political opinions held by the Rus
sian workers, but what concerned
them was that the Russians had sue
ceeded in organizing 100000 work
ers and that 1t was necessary to have
these. unionists in the international
drive against internationally organic.
ed capitalism. He showed that with
this tremendous power behind them
they could much more easily organize
the workers of India, China and other
colonial possessions to wiring from
the capitalist class better working
and living conditions. He urged the
/ American Federation of Labor to
adopt the attitude of the British
workers and to push unity of all
workers in order to more effectively
carry on the struggle against capital.
list encroachments.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-10

In 1924, 10000 non-fatal accidents
were reported. For every man killed
there were sixty toilers injured in the
hell holes. over 100 nhen are killed
and injured per day. For every man
killed there is another totally incapac-
itated-will never again be able to do
any able bodied toll. Go into the hos
pitfalls situated in the heart of the an
thracite region when the mines are
in operation, and you will find con-
dition beyond Imagination. You will
see victims by the dozen in untold ag-
ony.
Like a Battlefield.
Men with their eyes blown out by
coal shots at the working place in
the mine, their heads and bodies pow
der burned and the flesh taken OFF to
the bone, others gas burned with the
skin completely ripped from their
bodies. Others who have been caught
in falls have their legs or arms ampu-
tated while the suffering of those with
internal injuries is beyond descrip-
ton.
In commenting on this awful car
mage, John L. Lewis in q speech at
Hazelton, in the Altomont Hotel, Au-
gust rs, 1925. said "they paid the
price. II some had to die, they died
like men. If some had to be injured,
they took the chance. In return for
all that, they ask the anthracite op-
orators, and they ask the public of our
country for proper consideration and
the payment of wage that will JUS
tify them in dying"
Killed Like Rats-Witbout a Chance.
Here is the Lewis value of life, the
price Of dying. Toilers who did n.
die like men, but were killed like rats
without fighting chance. Blown and
burned by shots and gas, or buried
by thousands of tons Of treacherous
roof, and to compensate them for that,
they ask for consideration and an in
creased wage scale. And what is
that particular demand?
Ready to Die for so Cents.
They are demanding a considera-
tion Of ten per cent increase in wages.
Approximately fifty cents per day.
No one knows better, than Lewis that
the demand is pitiably inadequate and
ridiculous.
Fifty cents per day to workers
whose wage is far below the average
standard of living, and to men whose
life and limbs are continuously In
jeopardy. Such demand is an in
suit to the workers intelligence.
Small as this demand is, the an
thracite barons are seeking to have
1t arbitrated. Seeking to arbitrate
the price for which over 500 men shall
give up their lives, or how much a
man may earn before HIS back is bro
ken OF his limbs amputated, how
much he may secure to his loved ones
before his eyes are shot out, or the
hesh ripped of his bones.
The mine workers must never arbi-
trate this battle, small as their de-
mands may be. Spurn arbitration as
you would poisonous reptile. We
have been the victims OF arbitration
awards before and not once have we
ever been the benehciaries of capital
ist arbitration -|-. -
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-10
Another Hearst Marn.r.

SYRACUSE. N. Y. Nov. s. Pur-
chase of the Syracuse Journal, one Of
the Oldest newspapers in the state,
by William Rudolph Hearst, was an.
nounced here today. The Journal will
be consolidated with the Syracuse
Telegram, which Mr.. Hearst establish
ed in Syracuse three years ago, and
the combined papers will appear to.
day as the Journal-T elegram.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-10
DATES GIVEN PURCELL
ON TOUR THRU THE U. S.
AND CANADIAN CITIES

The trade union committee ar
ranging the Purcell tour has announ-
ced the following dates for his
speeches in several cities of the
United States and Canada:
Cleveland, Ohio, Nov. 10, at 8
p. M, at the Engineers Auditorium,
corner Ontario and ST. Clair.
Toronto, Canada, Nov. II, at p.
m. at Central Labor Union.
Montreal, Canada, Nov. 10, at 8
p. m. at Central Labor Union.
New York City, Nov. II, evening,
at the New Star Casino.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-10
Lewis Fails to Reply to
the Open Letter Sent Him
by the Progressive Miners
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

TODAY President Coolidge writing his message for the
session Of congress that convenes next month declares
will have nothing to say demanding action IN the anthra
strike situation. No recommendations are needed
he says. 49, - -.
with developments in the Pennsylvania strike field
On the one hand:
The miners funds are running low.
The bitter cold of winter is already here.
New YORK rO ctv The New England states and other
anthracite consuming districts, beginning to freeze
especially the workers who unable to put in an advance
That results in demands for the ending Of the strike
Time presses against the strikers.
On the other hand:
The price of the dwindIng anthracite stocks hand
mounts higher.
This means greater profits for the mine and
their agents. the wholesalers and retailers Of anthracite
The profit press the side of the coal barons and
helps place the blame for the continuance OF the strike on
the miners.
Since "strikebreaker" Coolidge administration is the
ally mine barons therefore joins in the waiting game
1t does nothing All that be done for the mine owners
has been DONE
The mitancy of the coal miners has been neutralized
extent thru capitalist influence their leaders,
especially the miners president John Lewis who refuses
ito fight the government"
jaiIs ready awaiting left wing spokesmen who urge
class fight by the mine vol against their exploters
the state militia the infamous pennsylvania cossaoks the
federal troops all their waiting the that
they NAV be needed to crush the least display of active dis
There laws galore upon the statute books to keep
the coal miners in submission These ready for use But
when laws stand in the way of the mine profits like
the ant-smoke ordinances of New York and other Cities
these set aside and made imperative Coolidge doesn't
meet to act.
The coal barons stand ready smash the strike any
The mine workers cannot afford to
Of strength the struggle for their victory President Lewis
has yet the open letter of the Progressive Min
ers Committee that said: .s
ave demand Mr. Lewis that
and make real strike force the yield
1--WE against which
that is important
families better standard Of life.
1--WE that executive steps
astrke relief
this support to win this strike WE ARE DETERMINED TO WIN
ASK the rs million Of this
Mr. Lewis by sending for strike relief
I'VE ask Mr. Lewis to demand Of the railroad
they refuse to haul coal while the strike lasts"
President Lewis has answered those demands ex-
cept OF to make attacks the left wing of the
miners union Thus he plays into the hands of the mine
The mine workers call upon Mr.. Lewis help them win
the strike. But with his help without it, they will win.