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The Washington times., 1925-09-16
Git for a Graduate

nEAR. MRS. BEEfskMAN:
IL Would you kindly advise
me what, would be an appropriate
gift for graduation from high
school for a young lady out OF
town, afrelatiVe of my husbands.
whom have never metz Is 1t
proper to send flowers? And
should a note. of congratulation
also be sent, or the announcement
be acknowledged otherwise than
by gift? III. e. +,
TT. is not necessary for you to
acknowledge the commence
ment, announcement by gift.
II. E. F.. unless you. wish TO.
You or your husband could write
a note of congra tuIation to the
young graduate, or you could
send d %ccngratulatory telegram
on the day of commencement, or
you may, If you wish. send a sim
pie gift of some. kinda book,
something for her desk or travel
ing bag or pretty necklace,
DEAR MRS. BEECKMAN:
~ Will you kindly advise me
If wing collar and black bow
tie are proper for the groom and
best man at a morning church
wedding when the bride Is wearing
a dress and hat, and the. groom
and best man business suits.
'.. A.
With d business suit the groom
and best man should wear the
kind of collar and tie that are
usually associated with a business
suit. "A - wing collar is proper.
They may wear bow ties, If they
wish and especially if they are
: becoming to them (they are not,
] think, becoming to all menu
A black bow tie would be proper,
although ! think one Of little
lighter. kind would be better, for
instance, a black and white or a
dark blue and white. But don't
have them choose white bow
t.e!as As the usual thing. think
that a four-stripe (either singly or
in groups) is the most becoming
tie for most men TO wear with a
business suit.
Copyright, 1895 Premier Syndi-
cate, Inc.D~,,t s4
Mrs. Beeckman will be glad
to answer questions on etiquette
submitted by readers)
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IF YOU were that you counting death for your son
90 .vonr daughter YOU would scott at the idea
Your children are the center of your thoughts.
Nothing great too hard for you to do for them
Some Of your friends have suggested that you exact obed
ence instead letting your child do about as pieases
But what they would deny child might no harm
in permitting. <>, ;,
# YOU think obedience continually saying No.
Won have false conception of obedience
Perhaps YOU lot of things other parents would not
hermit and that is strictly your affair.
obedience means that you say NO, it shall
''NO."
if is not teaching individuality permit disobedence
Obedience is vital matter
1t something you child for It's own health and
happiness and prosperity.
The Washington times., 1925-09-16
By FL Sic ROBINSON

; You have to dynamite before that
way is freed.
So Gino dynamited. 1t was
bad business. He lost many fine
young trees. But in the end he
opened up the richness of his
whole orchard tract. Then the
olive roots went down ward
eagerly. seeking new food and
space to grow. Now each yer
they yield Gino and Rosa gallons
of pale amber oil like liquid gold.
What has all this to do with
Jim and Vera? 1t has a lot to
do. They're suffering from hard
pan, too-oniy the hard pan is in
their own characters.
They're both fine on the sur
face, they both seem richly dow
cred. But far underneath there 9
a streak that's cutting off their
full development. In Jim it's a
tricky streak. A layer of dis
honesty-sharp Is flint. He
hardly aware THAI it's there. lie
calls it cleverness. But other
men don't call it that. They
say he can't quite be trusted
that he isn't exactly square-that
II UCIICt " dO 0dS1A1CSS Will a.
duller, more reliable fellow than
with the too clever James T.
Powers. Jim will have to dyna-
mite that streak out of his nature
before he'll ever make good.
Verall have to do little dyna-
hitting, too. Her hard pan is
conceit. She's wonderful girl.
but she knows it. And she let's
everyone else know 1t. too. Be
meath all her charm and talent
lies that disagreeable streak of
vanity, shutting her off from
fuller growth and happiness.
l wonder IL most of us aren't
like that? Is there somewhere
within us a rocky layer of stub
bornness or fear. selfishness or
hate, greed or spite that must be
broken up before our lives can
bear fruit? Must be we dyna-
mited by pity and pain and need
before we can really grow?
Copyright, 1925. by King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1925-09-16
GARRETT P. SERVISS GAUGES
WEALTH OF THE STAR MINES

Tells About Distribution of Stars With Respect
! to Brightness and Distance From Milky Way.
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Too Tough a Job

General Butler of the United States Marine Corps able
officer gives the attempt to enforce prohibition in Pha
delphia. .*. t.-sa5
The army built the canal Panama after the engineering
genius of France had failed But it would take than
:he United States army beat the army of booeggers
General Eter admitting that his effort to boot
Logging in Philadelphia has been failure looks forward
getting back to the marines.
As long change fifty worth of into
twenty dollars worth Of whkey any city cellar back
woods barn, conquering whskey won't be easy.
The Washington times., 1925-09-16
Welcome, Gorillas

Benjamin Bubrdge American, out of Africa wids
with moving picture machine and two large goras One
Antwerp to America. Fortunately moving
pictures will perpeuate these strange alleged cousins of
Scientists call the gorilla the ancestor of the African
with the chmpazee of the white and the orang
outang the Mongoian ancestor
only Burbridge could bring alive of the
monster goa eight feet high weighing almost 1000 pounds
perhaps he'd set Dempsey a. good example and challenge
Wills
The Washington times., 1925-09-16
CORRECT
MANNERS
by Mrs. C. Beeckman.'
Invitation to Finance
0EAR MRS. BEECkMAN:


~ A, a young man twenty six
years old, is engaged to B. a
young lady, twenty three. They
intend being married in two
months.
AS married sister has a cot
tage for the summer about two
hours ride; from BIS home and
has invited B up for a week of
her vacation during which time
A. his mother and father will also.
be present. Is it proper for B to
accept the Invitation? f.. M. s.. y
YVES. indeed, it is proper for B
TO accept the kind invitation
of her fiance's sister. As long
as the invitation was extended
by. AS, sister and not by A. and
since the cottage seems to be
Overlooking with chaperones,
there is no@reasOn why b should
not go. AZ. ,
The Washington times., 1925-09-16
A Short Inscription
And Read with Joy

E. F. Davis seventy-fve years DID, of the farm
which cabin Of the Shenandoah FELL has offered
the of his land for "a the
disaster. ..s .'..
ought accept and place there bronze
tablet, with words to this effect:
ION this spot occurred needless disaster, which
caused Secretary Of the Navy and several Of his
assistants to be hastily transferred from the Navy to
the outside atmosphere
The Washington times., 1925-09-16

Nov, my daughter, damsel
IN of Babylon came unto me,
The Washington times., 1925-09-16
TIM doesn't know

TIM doesn't know
why ne doesn't
get along. He's
briEhtevery one
acknowledges he's
bright. He has
8 taking line.
Knows his stuff
and knows how
to put it over.
He's also a husts
Ter. No one gets
ahead OF James
T. Powers on a
prospect. An d
yet-for some rea-
son or other, he's
a flivver. Time
after time he
nearly lands q
deal, only to have
some slower, less
brilliant + clio w
snatch 1T from
under his very
The Washington times., 1925-09-16

$ a m pied the
earth. Then he
dug down into
that rich earth.
"A few feet down
he struck hard
pan.
Al queer thing,
hard pan. Every
thing fine on the
surfa c e, but
underneathvery
far down some
tin1es-there's a
layer of rock or
earth as hard AS
rock, that viii
Withstand a n y
root that ever
anne agroping.
There may be,
and usually is,
good earth be-
meath that layer,
but the TO OF $
The Washington times., 1925-09-16
SAP AND SALT
BY Bert Moses

by Bert MOses-A
Birds have their sanctuaries,
and the autos are making it
necessary to provide something
of that sort for people.
What a prize-fighter sees is
per cent glory and 95 per cent
gate receipts
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-07

A league Of nations against the
European league may eventually be
formed, but II will not come thru
the Initiative Of the present rulers
Of Turkey or other nations under
domination Of the imperiaIlst pow
ers. II will come when the colonial
peoples rise In their might and
seourge from the face Of the earth
the despotle invaders who are now
holding them In subsection to Inn
periaIistic nations. Then will be
formed a great antI-ImperiaIIst bloc
whose blows will shatter to its very
foundations the European league Of
nations and the governments that
support II, and at the same time
will send American capitalism reel
ing mortaIly wounded out Of the
Near and Far East.
At home the American proIetar-
lat will have to finish the job and
give II proper burial
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OF dead bodies and another of dead
horses going behind the German lines.
The horse caption explained the
bodies were going behind the lines to
be boiled down for fat. Charters
said he switched this caption to the
dead men picture and then sent the
photographs. to China to create anti
German sentiment.
The stories Of the pseudo fat rend-
ering methods OF the Germans were
broadcasted during the war and OBJ
tanned wide circulation in America.
even Billy Sunday shouting them
from his evangelistic pulpits.
"The matter most certainly will be
taken up in parliament" declared two
British labor members OF parliament,
now visiting In America following the
ter-parliamentary union congress
held at Washington d. q. Ne
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In order to Justify the campaign
Of frlghtfuIness being waged against
the colonial peoples in nations bor-
dering the Medlterranea sea, the
propagandists Of the allied butchers
have created the legend Of a new
league Of eastern nations to ehaI-
Ienge the western league Of Eu-
ropean nations. The dark-shaded
nations are supposed to Indicate
the boundaries Of the potential
league, while the light shaded por-
tons represent those nations SYM
pathetic to the scheme.
A fable is current In London to
the effect that DR.. Tewflk Pasha,
Turkish foreign minister, has APP
preached the powerful eastern chief
tains with the proposition and is
sounding out the Asiatlc powers.
Soviet Russia is reported to have ex-
pressed its willingness TO join such
a league.
This propaganda Is for the pur-
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pose Of detraetIng attention from
the maneuvers Of Great Britain in
endeavoring TO create a Sanitary
Gordon" around Russia, with the OBJ
Ject Of IsoIatIng and trying to crush
by force Of arms the proletarIan
revolution. The recent seizure Of
power In Persia by Ria Khan has
baffled Great Britain, as Khan is
known to have been friendly toward
Soviet Russia. II his friendship
continues, and II is reasonable to ex-
peet II will, he may set up repub-
lie and enter into closer relations
with Russia. Britain fears that
Teharan may become a strategic
spot from which Bolshevlst propa-
ganda may more effectively perme-
ate Iraq, Afghanistan and India. II
may also endanger British oil inter
ests In the south, as the Persian gulf
has long been regarded as a British
preserve.
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and will go no farther in its conces-
sions to capitalism. If these capital
istic gentlemen think they can OBJ
tain more by. continuing to squeeze
us, we will reply: 'Enuf. You shall
get nothing"
LenIn Hurts Defy.
T ENIN, who was invited to the
~ meeting at Genoa and would have
gone had his health permitted, said
that he hoped to talk to Lloyd George
personally.
Il shall tell him." he said, that he
can't scare us with trivialities, after
cannon have failed to brighten us. 1t
is no good to threaten us with little
things, because in so doing the threat
eners might lose their prestige. At
tempts to put us in the position of a
conquered country are nonsense. We,
as merchants, know what we owe you
and what you owe us, and also what
should be your lawful profit"
The speech of Lenin cast gloom
over Genoa as the giants of allied inn
perialism opened their conference. It
dispelled any hopes they had enter
tanned of economically enslaving Rus
STA, thereby winning on the economic
field the victory that was snatched
from them by the Red Army on the
sanguinary field of civil war.
Leon Trotsky, at that time war min
lister, in public address asserted that
If any attempt we're made by those
nations represented at Genoa to take
from Russia by force what they could
not achieve thru diplomacy 1T might
be necessary to tip the balance with
blood"
The splendid batallions of the Red
Army that had been built up in four
years time from the shattered and un-
disciplined remnants of the fighters of
the early revolutionary period were a
guarantee against further military
designs that might have been formu-
lated at Genoa.
Treaty Of Rapallo.
AT Genoa the allied statesmen had
"A the audacity during the first week
to propose absurd demands. that, if
accepted, would have reduced Russia
to state of vassalage comparable to
that of China, with all the powers
having free hand to plumber to their
hearts content. To flaunt the open
contempt of the revolution in the
faces Of Lloyd George, Poincare, Bar
thou and company, the Soviet govern
ment met with Germany at Rapallo
and concluded treaty that wiped the
slate of their mutual war obligations
clean, while the allies were striving
to force Russia to recognize the abb
surd debts of the Gear. The treaty of
Brest-Litovsk was officially abrogated
by the two nations involved, though
as gesture the treaty Of Versailles
had already declared for its abroga-
ton.
For more than month at Genoa
the allied powers struggled to create
basis for united action against Rus
STA, but their own irreconcilable con-
tradictions defeated their purpose and
it dissolved with no permanent results
achieved.
The SIR Trials.
A CCoMPANYING the efforts of the
1 \ allies at Genoa the social-demo-
Gratis of the world tried to ALLEVIATE
the class conscious proletariat from
support Of the revolution by publish
ing reams Of hysterical documents ap-
pealing to the civilized world" to
come to the aid of the social-revolu-
tionaries who were then on trial in
Russia, charged with every crime
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ian Revolution and Kautsky the
Renegade.
Arm the Revolution.

Renegade.
Arm the Revolution.
THE first task of any revolution is
L to disarm the former ruling class
and its supporters and arm the revo-
luton. At the time Of Brest-Litovsk
the workers had not recovered from
the shock of the war sufficiently to
engage in a further struggle. When
the question Of defiance to the de-
mands of the German imperialists
came up, those who favored a con-
tinued struggle said to Lenin who ia
vored making a strategic retreat to
gain time: How do you know the
workers will not rally to a further
struggle? Can you answer that?"
Lenin replied that he did not need to
answer, that the peasants in the army
had already answered with their
feet" as they ran away from the front.
So at Brest-Litovsk the proletariat
of the world learned from the Bolshe-
viks that there are many sides to a
revolutionary struggle. In this con-
crete instance they learned that not
only is a determined offensive neces-
sary, but that it is, equally important
to understand just when it is neces-
sary to make strategic retreat.
They learned that retreat, no less
than the offensive, is part of the
science Of revolution.
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Lenin's Strategy Wins.

A FTER Brest it was much easier to
a convince the workers of Germany
and Austria-Hungary that they were
fighting war of imperialist conquest.
A terrific propaganda of exposure, lay
ing bare the designs of the central
powers flooded the armies of Germany
and her allies, causing disintegration
in the ranks, and doing far more to de-
feat Germany than would have been
possible even tho Russia could have
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-07
BRITISH INTELLIGENCE CHIEF '.s'
BOASTS HOW GERMAN ATROCITY
STORIES WERE MANUFACTURED

NEW YORK, Nov 6Genera " Charter
banquet that chief Of intelligence British
Official propgandst he manufactured
the Indignation his listeners
charte photographs one
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to make a futile but heroic gesture
and shatter the revolution.
Eight years pass and we consider
Locarno, when the revolution had be-
come so powerful as a world force
that the European capitalist nations,
both victors and vanquished, who par
ticipated in the world war had come
together for the purpose of trying to
create a security pact" against Boil
shevism conquering the world.
What happened in the interim to
produce this transformation? Hun
dreds Of volumes have already been
written describing certain events of
these eight years, and thousands
more will be written before it is all
recorded. Within the confines of one
article it is quite impossible to give
but the most fragmentary outline of
the events.
First and foremost we must deal
with the organized power of the So
Wet government. The victory goes
to those who have the power to take
and hold It.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-07

TWO treaties, Brest-Litovsk and Lo-
carno, depict the advance Of the
proletarian revolution the past eight
years. The first, in the early days Of
the revolution, found the Soviet gov
eminent at a disadvantage, compelled
to make a retreat and yield to the hui
initiating demands of General Won
Hoffman,, representing the imperial
government Of Germany. At that
time Russia was unable to fight any
country, even tho that country itself
were in the midst of an imperialist
war that finally eliminated in defeat.
The second treaty, that Of Locarno,
was called at time when for nearly
eight years Soviet Russia had defed
the whole world of the bourgeoisie.
From weak nation, scarcely able to
maintain itself against one European
nation it had grown to be the most
formidable and most feared power the
world has ever seen.
At Brest-Litovsk Russia was a ma
ton embracing millions Of disillusion-
ed and undisciplined workers, soldiers
and peasants, whose one impelling mo-
tive was peace, bread and land, who
had been cemented together in one
common mass of misery to make an
end Of czarist despotism and who
later rallied to the leadership Of the
Bolsheviks and crushed the bourgeois
aftermath of czarism.
After the desolating years of war
exhaustion and after fighting thru two
revolutions in eight months the Rus
sian masses could not fight longer,
There had to be a respite from the
agony and bloodshed. A party that
could not understand that fact could
not consolidate the revolution.
The First Step.
THE car Of all the Russians, dur
l. ing the tempest of war, had boast
ed that he would sacrifice every man
and every ruble in order to win the
war. Twelve million Russians were
hurled into the abbatoir of the world
war; sacrificed for the car and the
imperialist butchers who backed him.
In the spring of 1917 the workers at
the front and at home decided that
they had been sacrificed long enuf
instead of being sacrificed by the
car they proclaimed that the time
had come to sacrifice the car. And
they did so. When the various gov
ernments under the leadership of the
bourgeoisie elements, eliminating in
the rule Of Kerensky, endeavored to
continue the war on the side of the
entente, the workers, rallying to the
clarion call Of the Bolsheviks, deter
mined to sacrifice Kerensky.
Brest-Litovsk came soon after the
triumph of the Bolsheviks. It was i'm
possible to drive the Russian masses
into further warfare, even to resist
the imperious demands of the German
general staff. At Brest-Litovsk was
revealed on a broad scale the prac-
teal application of the MARKHAM form
ula that the Communist Party is the
vanguard of the working class; that
it does not merely defend the immedi- |
ate interests, but the historical inter-
ests Of that class. The interests Of
the working class as a whole come
first. And, altho some contended that
it was an act Of reimbursement to
yield to the arrogance of Won Hoff-
man, the old Bolshevik guard of the
party considered that it was far bet
ter to accept temporary defeat and
humiliation and misunderstanding on
the part Of the rest of the world, than
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remained in the war. When the i'm
perialist war came to close the Red
Army of the revolution was being
formed, preparatory to defending the
triumph of the Russian proletariat
against the world. No sonner had
the echoes of the last guns died on
the imperialist front than the hire
ling of entente imperialism, Admiral
Kolchak, with a bandit gang, armed
by France and Britain, started a drive
against the revolution and boastfully
announced that he would wear the
crown of the czars of Russia in few
weeks.
The first recruiting day for the Red
Army was called and the streets of
Moscow and Petrograd (now Lenin-
grad) swarmed with workers and
peasants anxious to defend the revo-
luton. When Leon Trotsky looked
upon the masses in the streets strug-
Cling to enter the ranks in defense Of
their revolution he said IF Kolchak
ever wears the crown of the cars he
will wear it in Siberian forest, but
not in Moscow"
These raw troops after hasty pre-
liminary training wore attached to the
army, the nucleus 81 which was the
old revolutionary fighters of the Red
Guard. Into the Urals marched a
large part of the new army and, un-
der the command OF Comrade Frunze,
after months of bitter fighting, Kol-
chak's forces were cut to pieces, and
Kolchak himself shot by one of his
own men.
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Red Army triumphant.

A FTER Kolchak came Deniken.
\ after Deniken came Yudenich.
Wave after wave Of invading hordes
we're beaten back and the Red Army
was becoming ever more powerful.
Then came the French-inspired drive
of Poland against the revolution, and
the troops of the Red Army Numbered
toward Warsaw and were only stop
ped by the throwing of French re-
cruits onto Polish soil. The Polish
white guards under Pilsudsky had in
vaded Russian territory, but this time,
instead of Brest peace, the Bolshe-
viks retaliated by hurting them back
across the border and driving them
into their own capital city with such
terrific force that their sympathizers
thruout the world held demonstrations
against the "savagery" of the revolu-
tionary forces.
All the counter-revolutionary ven
lures were financed by France,
England and the United States. Even
after these lessons the imperialists
were not convinced that the revolu-
ton was impregnable. They secured
another white hope" in the person
Of General Wrangel, who from the
Crimea, in 1920, began operations
against the revolution. He was soon
removed from the scene Of activity.
The whole force of the victorious Red
Army was hurled against his mercen-
aries with such fury that after two
weeks steady retreating he found him
self bottled up near Sebastapol and
in order to save his own neck ran
away on French warship under
cover of darkness, where he found
refuge in Constantinople.
American and Japanese troops that
had been harassing the revolution in
the east, aiding every adventurer
from Kolchak to the ataman, Semi
non, were finally forced to evacuate.
The First on Earth.
| E,oRGED in the fire Of civil war and
revolution the Red Army had be-
come powerful, disciplined force,
capable of defending its victory
against the world. It was new army,
representing a new victorious class,
iully conscious OF its mission. For
the first time in the history Of the
modern world the class that made up
the army realized the fruits of vic
tory 1t was the armed force upon
which rested the authority Of the rev.
olution.
not merely was this army trained
10 nght, but an. intensive educational
campaign was carried on until on
May J. 1922. tfere was not a single