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them for Christmas the former g
father and mother. who have come on
TO celebrate the baby's first Christmas.
Among their guests for Christmas
dinner will be Senator and Mrs. Daniel
+. Steck.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry F'itzhugh
were hosts TO a company of 1875 at
dinner last evening for their daughter,
Miss Elizabeth Fit2hugh, entertaining
at the Hotel Mayflower. where addi-
tional guests Joined them for dancing
later in the evening. Mrs. Fitzhugh
wore an ecru lace gown and Miss
Fitzhugh was in a pink chiffon dress.
The dinner was served at small tables.
seating 10. and at midnight buffet
was served for the dancers.
Mr. and Mrs. Absolom Waller will
entertain at dinner Monday in com.
pliment to Miss Barbara Iiite and
Miss Adelaide Douglass. Mr.. Nelson
Waller will later be host to the party
at the Monday Evening Bachelors
Club, at the Carlton Club
Judge and Mrs. Clarence n. Good
win, who have been spending the past
two weeks at the Carlton Hotel, have
left for their home in Chicago. They
will return to Washington the latter
part OF January, when they will again
be at the Carlton.
Former Gov. and Mrs Leslie NJ.
shaw left yesterday for New York to
spend Christmas with their son.in-law
and daughter. Mr.. and Mrs. John Nc
Milan. They will return to their
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governors. Miss Lydia Archbold will
lead the six debutantes of last sea.
son and serving under her will be
Miss Helen Gary. Miss Rosemary
Griffin. Miss Francis Mckee. Miss
Suzette Dewey and Miss Winifred
West. Miss Allison Roebling is chair
man for the debutantes of the pres
ent season and serving with her will
be the Princess Ida Cantacuzene, Miss
Lila Tuckerman, Miss Jane Kendall
Miss Francesca Stewart and Miss
Katharine Amory. Mrs. Henry +.
Dimock, who is chairman of the board
of governors of the Washington AS.
sembly. will give two dinner parties
prior to this ball. one for older people
and another for the young people.
Miss Ruth Gullion, daughter of Mai.
and Mrs. Allen w. Cullion, will enter.
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Hotel.
Patronesses for the ball will in
c1ude Nine. SZechenyi. Mrs. Dwight
F. Davis, Mrs. James w. Wadsworth,
jr. Mrs. James Couzens, Mrs. David
Reed, Mrs. Willard Brownson, Mrs.
Charles 8. Dewey, Mrs. Richard II.
Townsend. Mrs. Charles Boughton
Wood, Mrs. Ogden Mills. Nine Hauge,
Mrs. William Ritter. Mrs. Sherman
Flint. Mrs. Edward II. Everett, Mrs.
Norris Il. Locke. Mrs. Alfred +. Thorn,
Mrs. Harold Walker, Mrs. Arthur
O'Brien, Mrs. Harry Brown. Mrs.
George Mesta, Mrs. George Marye,
Mrs. George Downey. Mrs. Elmer
Schlesinger, Mrs. Cecil Barret. Mrs.
Dudley Morgan and Mrs. d. S. Staple
ton
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E|HE Vice President and Mrs.
Dawes will leave tomorrow
III for their home in Evanston,
ia ILL.,. and will not return until
the Monday after New Year.
! The Ambassador Of Great Britain
and Lady Isabella Howard are expect.
sed to come to Washington this eve
hing from New York, where they ar
rived yesterday from their home in
England.
) The German Ambassador and
Baroness Nathan are the guests in
swhose honor Representative and Mrs.
Sol Bloom will entertain at dinner
Tuesday evening. January IS.
= The Minister of Switzerland and
Nine. Peter were guests at the dinner
given last evening by Mr.. and Mrs,
Harry Norment. The other guests
were the Minister of Guatemala and
Sonora de Sanchez Latour, Maj. Gen.
and Mrs. John A. Hull. the counselor
of the Hungarian legation and Nine
-pelenyi, Mrs Ollie James. Capt. and
Airs. John Parker jackson and Mr..
William Bowie Clarke.
Sonora de Teller, wife of the Ambas
sador of Mexico. and Mime. SEE, wife
of the Minister of China, were the
ranking guests at luncheon today of
Mrs. Davenport White, who enter
tained in her apartment, in the Ores
den
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DR.. and Mime. Won Lewenski were
hosts to 20 guests at dinner last eve
ming, the party being entertained in
honor of the new Commissioner and
Mrs. Sidney F. Taliaferro.
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4
Miss Elizabeth Shaw, daughter of
Lieut.. Col. and Mrs. George G.. Shaw,
was hostess at luncheon today. enter
| tanning at tBe Club st. Marks in com
pliment to Miss Georgiana Joyes, de-
butante daughter Of Brig. Gen. and
| Mrs. J. w. .Ioyes. Miss Shaw was as
sisted by her sister. Mrs. Warwick
, Perkins of Vienna. Austria. and her
guests were Miss Dorothy Grier, Miss
Mary Conley, Miss Alyce McDonough.
Miss Betty Moody, Miss Katharine
Martin and. Miss Betty McAlister.
Mrs. Byron S. Adams was hostess to
company of 60 at luncheon today.
her guests being seated at large ia
BILE shaped like a horseshoe and 81
aumber DC smaller tables in an adjoin.
ing room. The company is remain
ing through the afternoon to play
bridge.
Mr.. and Mrs. Glenn Stewart. who
have been spending the past few
weeks at the Carlton Hotel, left yes
terday by motor for their home, Cape
Centaur House, on Chesapeake Bay.
They will return to Washington in
january. when they will again be at
the Carlton. =
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Capt. and Mrs. Hayne Ellis, with
their children, left yesterday to spend
the Christmas holidays with Mrs.
Ellis parents. They expect to return
to the city on the 31st.
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tain at tea Sunday afternoon, after
4:30 o'clock, at her home. 410e Leea-
ton street. She will have assisting her
her cousin. Miss Frances Matthews
daughter OF Col. and Mrs. Matthew
Of Philadelphia.
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SOCIETY
Vice President and Mrs. Dawes Leave
|. Capital Tomorrow for Evanston
/ to Spend the Holidays

residence at 1909 sixteenth street for
| the Winter. They have already been
Joined by their youngest son, MIR.
francis keyes, and their elder sons,
| Mr.. Henry Wilder Reyes, jr., and Mr..
John +. Reyes, student at Harvard
University, will arrive in Washington
tomorrow morning.
Mr.. and Mrs. James NJ. Green will
be hosts to IA company at dinner this
evening.
Judge and Mrs. Clarence n. Good
win of Chicago were the guests in
whose honor Maj and Mrs. George
Oakley Totten, jr.. entertained n COM
panv of IL at dinner last evening. Ad-
ditional guests joined them later for
dancing.
Miss Ada Totem. sister of Maj. Tot
ten. and Miss Edith Morgan. VIII
come from their homes in Brooklyn,
y. Y. to spend Christmas with Maj.
and Mrs. Totten.
Capt. and Mrs. Emory Scott Land
have with them for the holidays the
formers nephew, Midshipman Gordon
De Kay.
Mrs. Blaine Lipscomb will give a
dance this evening for her daughter
Miss Rebekah Lipscomb. who mace
her debut earlier this season. Mrs
Lipscomh, who is entertaining at the
Carlton Hotel, and her daughter Will
he assisted in receiving by Miss Helen
Thomas of Plainfield, n. j.. who is
their house guest. The company,
numbering about ESQ. will include
only debutantes of this season ana
last, and a. buffet supper will be served
about midnight.
Col. and Mrs. Edward Clifford will
entertain a large company at dinner
before the dance for their debutante
daughter, Miss Helen Clifford, in COM
pliment to Miss Lipscomb and Miss
Thomas.
Miss I.ipscomb and Miss Thomas
were entertained at dinner last eve
ming by Mr.. and Mrs. Blaine Mallan,
who were hosts in their apartment. in
the Woodward. to a company of 10.
Miss Helen Cannon and Mrs. Ernest
X. lie Seure are spending the holidays
with the latter's son-in-law and daugh-
ter, Mr.. and Mrs. Dorsey Richardson.
They will leave for the West Coast
shortly after the holidays.
Representative and Mrs. Robert L.
Bacon and their three children have
left for New York and Westbury,
Long Island, for Christmas. They
will return to their Washington home,
1901 + street. December q.
Mrs. William Fitch Kelly has as
her guest Miss Martha Mcclure of
Iowa.
Mrs. Kelly will entertain at tea Sat.
urday afternoon for the Iowa delega-
ton in Congress.
DR.. and Mime. Won Lewenski were
hosts to 20 guests at dinner last eve
ming, the party being entertained in
honor of the new Commissioner and
Mrs. Sidney +. Taliaferro.
Maj. and Mrs. D. /. Sultan enter.
tanned at dinner last evening at the
Army and Navy Club, in compliment
to Maj. Gen. and Mrs. Edgar Jadwin.
The guests were Lieut.. Col. and Mrs.
John M. Dunn. Col. Lyle Brown, Mrs.
Armstead Davis, Maj. and Mrs. Max
G.. Tyler, Maj. and Mrs. j. NJ. OCon-
nor, Maj. and Mrs. Richard Park,
Maj and Mrs. Francis e. Wildly,
Maj. and Mrs. p. NJ. Robbins and Mai.
and Mrs. Frederick Downing.
Assistant Secretary of War
Entertaining His Parents.
The Assistant Secretary of War and
Mrs. Hanford MacNider have with
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Mr.. and Mrs. Charles M. Campbell
OF New York are spending the Winter
in Washington at the George Wash
ington Inn.
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Miss Helen Christy Thompson leaves
Continued on Nineteenth Page.J
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ChiIdren's Country Home
Ball to Engage Society.
Mrs. Stanley Rinehart has been
added to the list of boxholders for the
Children's country home ball on
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Mrs. r. s. Bogert will entertain at
the tendance in the patio of the Carl
ton Hotel tomorrow for Mr.. Bowman
Macarthur, who attends Harvard Uni
versity, and Mr.. Douglas Macarthur,
who is student at the Milton
Academy. sons of the late Capt. Ar.
thur Macarthur, u. s. N, and Mrs.
Macarthur. There will be about 20
guests.
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apartment at the Wardman Park Ho
tel the middle1 of next week.
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The girls committee for the Wash
ington Assembly ball to be given at the
Mayfower Thursday, January 6, has
just been announced by the board of
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Representative and Mrs. Robert l..
Bacon and their three children have
left for New York and Westbury,
Long Island, for Christmas. They
will return to their Washington home,
1901 F street, December 81.
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Mrs. William Fitch Kelly has as
her guest Miss Martha Mcclure of
Iowa.
Mrs. Kelly will entertain at tea Sat.
urday afternoon for the Iowa delega-
ton in Congress.
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Assistant Secretary of War
Entertaining His Parents.
The Assistant Secretary of War and
Mrs. Hanford MacNider have with
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Miss Ruth Gullion. daughter of Mai.
and Mrs. Allen w. Gullion, will enter.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-31
CHICAGO LABOR
TO HONOR DEbS
AT MEET TONITE
Workers VIII Pledge
Carrying On"

Eugene v. Debs, the great American
rebel and labor leader, will be hon
ored tonight by the workers OF Chi
cago in mass meeting at Temple Hall,
Marshfield and Van Buren,. Chicago
labor will gather not only to mourn
The loss of the old warrior but to
pledge themselves TO carry on. The
meeting is being held under the aus
piees of International Labor Defense.
Cannon to Speak.
James P. Cannon, secretary Of the
international Labor Defense, upon
the national committee Of which Debs
served since its inception, is one Of
the speakers. Debs was q ready and
enthusiastic supporter Of the work of
I. L. d. Himself former class war
prisoner, the heart Of Debs was con
stantly with the cause Of united
working class defense. The last pub
Ito document Of Debs was his appeal
to American labor for Sacco and Van
zetl which was spread broadcast
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-31
Labor in Europe Speaks
Up in Fight for Lives
of Sacco and Vanzetti
BY j. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

T ABOR in Europe is speaking UP
Lin the fight for the lives Of Nj
cola Sacco and Bartolomeo Van
zetti.
Laurence Todd writes for the Fed
Grated Press from Washington that
the ''state department officials are
visibly worried at the storm Of pro-
test" which has greeted ''the re-
fusal Of Judge Thayer Of Massa-
chusetts to grant q new trial to
Sacoo and Vanzetd."
The workers OF the United States
must Join in this effort, so that not
only the state department, nor the
White House alone, but the whole
capitalist dictatorship in this coun-
try will become seriously worried.
The realization that European
workers are bearing the brunt of
the fight for the class war prisoners
in this country, should spur Amer
lean workers to increased activity.
Another Federated Press cores
pondent, this time In Boston, de-
clares that public opinion Seems to
be shifting somewhat from its hos.
tile attitude toward Saceo and Van
zetti toward the position that there
must be something in these work.
ers' claims Of innocence after all"
This is an inevitable result Of
Judge Thayer's course handling Of
the case, his light disposal of the
confessions Of the two ex-agents Of
the department of justice, his slight
ing references to defense counsel,
his zealousness in seeking to belittle
the testimony Of Celestino Madeiros,
and especially his reference to "the
verdict of jury approved by the
supreme court of this common
wealth" In fact, the supreme court
never proved the guilty verdict
against Sacco and Vanzetti. All
that the supreme court did, In its
own words, was to examine care
fully all the exceptions in so far as
argued, and finding no error the
verdicts are to stand" The high
court merely went thru the tech
nical procedure Of the trial. 1t had
nothing to do with the question of
whether the testimony presented
justified the verdict. That is all that
it can do when the present appeal
from the decision of Judge Thayer
denying the new trial demanded
comes before it.
If some capitalist were on trial,
OF course, the court would quickly
find an endless procession of err
rors on which to free him. But it
is different when a worker faces
the court. Then the judges of the
high court blink themselves blind
ignoring the fraudulent manner in
which labor is declared guilty be-
fore the bar Of the lower capitalist
tribunals.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-31
ITALIANS IN
u. S. TURNING
ANTI-MUSSOLINI

NEW YORK, Oct. 2s.-Italians liv-
ing in the United States that had pre-
viously supported the fascist regime
or remained neutral are now going
over to the opposition as a result of
their conviction that Mussolini intends
to fasten a permanent dictatorship on
Italy with himself as uncrowned mon
arch.
This Is the declaration of Luigi Girls
cuolo, an Italian leader of New York,
IN statement calling attention to the
growth Of pro-fascist organizations
among Italian people in America.
Instead of restoring Italy to the
Italian people, says Criscuolo, "wc
find Mussolini and fascism firmly en-.
.renehed. with no evidence of any de.
sire or plan to relinquish any powers
to the king, to parliament or to the
people. Mussolini is the supreme lord
Of all Italy and no greater despot has
ever existed in Italian history"
Many former admirers of Mussolini
carried away by the glamour Of his
movements, are now seeing that he
has destroyed whatever liberties the
Italian people had already enjoyed in
the interests of big capital.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-31
CRAFT DODGES
FOOTSTEPS OF
RUM SHOPPERS

Ralph W. stone, who succeeded
Major Percy owen as prohibitson ad.
ministrator in Chicago. today was &C.
cused in federal court Of continuing
the graft Of sacramental wine permits
which Owen is charged with sharing
and for which he and state Senator
Lowell B. Mason are now on trial
Stones name was brought into the
testimony by Irving Friedman, for
mer wine salesman, who swore that
Stone had raised the price of illegal
wine permits from $500 to $500 and
granted them when the money was
forthcoming.
Arguments over the admissibIlity
as evidence OF lists of spurious cod
gregations" to which the permits os-
tensibly were issued resulted in an
adjournment of the trial until tomor.
row, after Friedman had left the
stand.
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In they most bitterly criticized the
party, the opposition only confirm
their bankruptcy.
AS the economic difficulties that
arose in the autumn of 1925 are being
outlined, the attention at first attracted
by the opposition has gradually
waned. The statements of the oppo.
sltion have proved to be mistaken
because they failed to take into con.
slderation the rapid development OF
small and big industry. In the next
period the attention OF the party must
center on questions of economic re-
construction, the development OF local
industry, the consolidation of local
finance.
In characterizing the progress Of in
dustrial development Of the U. s. s.
K, the speakers pointed out that the
development followed the line of con.
solidating the union of the proletariat
and peasantry and stated that il will
be possible to attain the tasks Of in.
dustrialization only IL such a union
is maintained and secured.
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Instead of dissolution Of the middle
layer we have in the country rise
in the general welfare of all groups
Of peasants including the consolida-
ton of middle peasant masses. The
percentage of peasant economy with
out sowing has fallen from 6.99o in
1922 to 4.2% in 1925. Farming econo-
mics up to two dessiatins constituted
46%o in 1922 while in 1925-26 they
constituted 1870. Over the same
period economies over ten dessiatins
have increased from 1920 to $3.50.
Well-to-do and employing peasants
constitute 1879 of all peasant farms
and pay 4796 of the whole agricultural
tax, while from $50 to 300 OF the
peasant economies are altogether
exempted from the tax.
Data Bellies Private Capital Legend.
The legend OF the opposition about
private capital is belied by the data
showing the part played by private
capital in commerce: 1923-24, the
gross trade in the hands Of private
capital amounted to 229s, in 1886
this percentage has fallen to 80. A
corresponding fall of from 57%
(1923-2D to S9% (1925-26) has been
observed in the retail trade. The
part played by private capital in other
parts Of the national economy are at
a minimum point. The policy Of
lowering prices must be continued.
The demand of the opposition for high
industrial prices means the alliance
Of the rich peasants with the town
bourgeoisie and the disrupture of the
alliance of the workers and peasants,
the destruction of the basis of indus.
trialization and the defeat OF the rev.
olution.
The party will not permit a defeat
list policy. Trotsky, the leader OF the
opposition. has forgotten that It is a
good thing TO be a defeatist during
imperialist wars but bad thing to
be a defeatist when the proletariat is
engaged in a war for the consolidation
of It's dictatorship.
Defeat Opposition on An Fronts.
In the course OF the debate the
speakers, mostly provincial workers,
emphasized the correctness OF the
theses on Rykoff's report pointing out
that the party and the Soviet power
have, in the work of industrial con-
structlon achieved perfect unity OF
the workers, fact which is keenly
felt locally where industrial construc-
ton is proceeding at rapid pace.
The opposition suffered defeat on
all fronts. Keeping silent at the con
ference on economic questions where.
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dependability" Of her working class.
For these very same reasons, she
cannot chance a war against e large
power even tho the conquest Of which
may mean q new lease on life fol-
British capitalism, or at least may
temporarily save it from its present
speedy and unmistakable deteriora
ton.
Saw Labor Opportunity.
MINDFUL of those difficulties sur
4VA rounding her without, Britain has
set out to stabilize herself on the bas
Is OF lower wages and longer hours
Of her own working class. She rea
sons that cheapened labor would pro
duce commodities at cost low emu
as to allowunder selling other nations
on the world market, and thus re
capture her former influence. And
again, the British lion would roar as
OF old. But to bring this about the
trade union movement had to be shat
tered. Such an undertaking is prov
ing infinitely more difficult than the
British sbourgeoisie supposed. While
it correctly appraised the dependa,
bility Of the officials of the labor
movement feeling that this element
could be counted upon in an emergen-
cy, it utterly moderated the agrees
siveness and consciousness Of a pro-
yoked rank and file, who could force
: general strike, contrary to the
wishes of its official leaders. It ap-
pears that the British bourgeoisie did
not anticipate the general strike.
Even the labor leaders, both within
and without the It. q. c., who are
supposed to know the temper of the
rank and file, did not suspect that
The general strike would occur. l am
persuaded to credit this point of view
on the ground that, had those labor
leaders who were opposed to the gen.
aral strike sensed the probability OF
it, they would have actively engaged
in campaign beforehand to prevent
the occurrence of a situation that was
most distasteful to them.
ITO be continued.)
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thruout the country by international
Labor Defense.
|. w. w. Poet Talks.
Ralph Chaplin, another speaker, is
the famous l. w. w. poet, and was
one of Gene Debs' good friends. Chap
lin was prosecuted in the Chicago l.
w. w. cases and served his term in
Leavenworth penitentiary with scores
of others. A
Carl Haessler, who viii also talk.
was a militant objector to the imper
ialist war and served his term in
Leavenworth for it. He was one, OF
the leaders Of the famous Leaven-
worth penitentiary strike, in which
the prisoners presented united front
to the prison officials and won their
demands for better conditions in the
"pen."
Lyman Schneid, general organizer
of the Amalgamated Clothing Work
ers of America, a member of organ.
lied labor for many years, will also
speak.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-31
Federation of Labor
Endorsing 200 Boss
Aspirants for Office

WASHINGTON. d. G., Oct. 2s.-rho
the A. F. of L. has conducted not cam.
paign in behalf of its favorite CAPT.
tadst candidates William Green an.
nounced that it has 200 friends of
labor" among them David l. Walsh OF
Massachusetts,, who opposed the anti
child labor bill which was endorsed
by the federation.
II considerable number OF those
endorsed win, the federation chiefs
will calm the credit.
In Ohio the federation pronounces
Senator Willis, republican, unfavor-
able, while the railroad brotherhoods
favor him. Win Is a member Of the
Ohio gang" that fed at the pubic
crib during the Harding regime.