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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-05-04

get ready. I'll never forget the
last time / had Edna up. Believe
Me-Ill never do it again. said
to Ma-'Say, Ma, / want to bring
Edna home Friday night for sup
per. We're going to party at
the Wilson's and she doesn't
wanta bother to go home to eat.
So l told her that she could eat
with us. Don't bother getting
anything special, Ma. Edna
won't notice, even IL you do. Jes'
any old thing!'
We'll, honest, youda thought |
had asked the Queen OF England
to eat with us the way Ma took
on. She planned what we'd have
for a couple of days and she got
all fused up because our dishes
don't match. Then she began to
get all smoked up because the
dining room hadn't been spring
cleaned So nothing would do but
she had to take down the curtains
and wash them on Thursday.
Well, of course, she worked so
hard at that she got a touch of
lumbago and Friday she was Grip
ping around, looking like some
thing the cat dragged in.
well. by the time Edna got
there, youda thought an earth
quake had hit the house. Every
thing was changed around and so
clean you wouldn't know 1t. Ma
was so dolled up she looked like a
parade. And the stuff she'd
cooked to eat! ! bet there was
eight courses-all fancy stuff.
And of course as luck would have
it, Edna had new filling in her
tooth and all she could eat was
some bread and gravy. And we
were both in such a hurry to
dress we rushed right through
anyway.
well, believe me, Ma was sore
the next day. She had a sick
headache and her lumbago was
worse and she blamed it all on
me. She said it wasn't any use
for a Mother to work her hands
off for her family because she
never got appreciation. told her
no one had asked her to work her
hands off. All we'd wanted was a
sandwich and a cup OF coffee.
And We didn't care whether the
darned old dining room was spring
cleaned or not. Then Ma burst
out crying and said that was all
the thanks she got.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-05-04

one Of the family suggests Pa,
with that trusting confidence
peculiar to married males. I'VE
always have enough for one ex-
ira and Jim amt one of those
fussy fellows. Why there's moth
ing he'd like better than a plate
of stew and a dish of rice pud-
ding. Fellows like that get sick
of fancy restaurant eating.
Pa knows better now.
when he and Jim want to spend
a social evening together, they
take their bite elsewhere.
And Ma. sits and wonders why
Alice and Pa are so ungrateful.
lot of other mothers are
wandering the same thing. Why
don't Dad and the kids enjoy
4he home? Why don't they
bring their friends around?
That's why, Ma.
Now don't get riled and tell
ma that Ten only newspaper
woman and don't know what
I'm talking about. I'm not only
a newsnaper woman. I'm house
keener. And I know all about
this business of setting an extra
MAZE anu AclLhlS 70 OHO
Of the family" Once I, too,
washed the dining room our
tains and repainted the bath
room every time anyone dropped
in for a. cup of tea. But large
gobs of bitter experience put
me wise to myself.
Now when my folks say that
Jim or Edna Is going to drop
in and take pot luck, I take
them at their word. For I
know that they are telling the
truth. have also found that
such pot luck, even with spots
on the tablecloth and the but
ter short, is worth a dozen of
my old, elaborate, fussy dinners
that ever took a week to prepare.
know now that folks need
laughter and friendliness and
good-natured comforting more
than they need the finest foods
on earth. And / get more re-
suits with one ham sandwich
than 1 used to get with an
eight-course spread.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-05-04
money iu1media tely

Then something happened On September 26, 1929 the
Council of Ambassadors World Court deliver the
money Italy without waiting for any decision The Perma
nent Court Of international Justice fell itself in haste to
comply and within hours had checked the fifty mil
lion out to Italy.
Mussolni spends his time looking after the welfare Of Italy
rot Itching to get into international arrangement for the
benefit of other countries Italy First is his motto little
of his spirit would be helpful in government
American Senators, many seeking reelection, have
voted the United States into the World Court Our official
sentative will now sit the bench Of this puppe organization
the ambitions of the vors The moral sanction
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-05-04
MeditatiOns of a Wife
READ EN- AND GROW WISE.

Spring Fever-ismS
r oVE:-A little snjourn in Para
IL dise-fotowed by an inter
minable penance in Purgatory.
Most husbands are a "harbor"
but lots Of them look more
like "any port in storm"
The only way to be happy in
this world is to take men as
they come-like luck or holt
day-and to let them GO, as they
go!
The difference between the
dream and the reality of mar
riage Is merely the difference
between the brides little thrill
in laying out her husbands
clean linen" and the daily bore
dom of picking up his soiled
linen
To keep a mans love at just the
right temperature requires all a
woman's tact, charm and ingenu.
ity: but woman's love is supposed
to come in thermos bottle so that
nothing on earth can cool 1t.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-05-04

oh yes. the woman pays! IL
you don't believe 1t. try to get
haircut or a tailored suit like
Fathers for the same price he
does.
When a man 'marries he parks
his conscience with his wife,
shuts off the motor of his emo
tons. throws his feelings into
neutral and locks the door OF his
thoughts-and then wonders why
everything comes to q dead stand
still, and his wife doesn't under
stand" him.
There is something silly about
a French poodle shaver like a
lion, or a trained seal balancing
a ball on its nose; but, nothing
in the whole wide world looks
quite so foolish as a. sugar daddy
on shopping tour.
Spring romance, like spring
tulips and asparagus. comes and
goes so quickly that II II just
a memory before you have half
enough Of it.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-05-04
I'm taking the
j stand for Alice

TN taking the
j stand for Alica
and Pa today.
Alice is 1S and
works in the First
National B a n k .
Pa is So and holds
down q job in
Whites Hardware
Emporium.
And they both
have a growl. This
is the growl:
They'd like to
Bring Company
Home for Dinner
but Ma throws a
fit and they don't
dast.
Not that Ma
dislikes company.
But she has Fixed
Ideas about en-.
tertaining.
Gosh! She =
got to have at
- a..
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-05-04
ONCE-OVERS
ARE YOU rLAYING wITH FIRE2
Is something or someone tempting you9

Is something someone tempting you?
ARE you playing with fire?
Are you induging in something that you know to be
wrong but feel that you will wholly lose your power
70 eRfl halt?
Thousands of others have had the thought
Gradually they kept doing the wrong each repetition
they found easier to do. After time twas common
plaee, but habit kept them going and until
rearsttable condition had about
Why are you following such a course9
Because you think your power of stronger
taan habit.
just how much power your indiscre-
kaans have you try to stop abruptly.
The result may starte In fact, it would be well
e did starte you
xeu need severe jolt
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-05-04
LISTEN WORLD!
By ELSIE ROBINSON

"Well, believe
me, that's the last
time I ask any
one home for din
ner. And then
everyone wonders
why girls don't
bring their friends
home and why
they go out to
cabarets instead.
That's why!"
That's Alice's
growI. Pas Is in
the same kew.
Some of the fell
lows down at the
store are unmar-
RE d. T. o ne ~
chaps. Pa would
like to bring them
home for a bite.
He's tried 1t
once or twice.
Just let him
set an extra plate
=
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-05-04

Of the American Republic given whatever they make
the Court do
The Courts decisions deal solely with European affairs ana
exclusively with questions arising out Of q
the treaties.
When il the Court participating IN its decisions
every verdict will Greek citizens against italian
citizens German citizens against Polish citizens our
Russian citizens against Finnish citizens.
All for whag Heaven knows No has yet told rs what
possible controversy involving US could be settled By the World
just well settled the old permanent court of
years
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-05-04

HIS fanc picture but historical incident It tells
much about the World Court and the League OF Nations
you will learn In dozen campaign speeches .
Musso knew the World Court for what it wasa piece OF
the machinery of the League of Nations used whenever
the advantage great military that
dominate League Why shouldn't Italy get hers toof
September 1923 Greece took 100000 lire, which Is
S00OO the Swiss National Bank and deposited to the
credit of the World Court.
Tt couldn Of the bank until the World Court
ordered great tribunal 1.-THE Permanent Court OF
Justice going look deep into the whole
tangled affair." whether italy had just claim the fifty
Million and render its august decision accordingly
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-05-04
SAYINGS OF WISE MEN

It is not what we take up, but
what We give up that makes us
rich.-Beecher.
Mind is the great lever of all
things, human thought II the
process by which human ends are
alternately ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-05-04

NOBODY is truly unassailable
IN until his character is gone
Butler.
To most men experience is like
the stern lights OF ship which
illunnine only the track it has
nasSed.-Coleridge.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-28
Stain Sums Up Discussion of Situation
Within Soviet Union Communist Party

impossible under any condition of the
development of capitalism? No, It
does not follow. From Marx it fol-
lows only that the victory of socialism
in separate countries is impossible
only If bourgeois society is stir NOV
ing upwards in an ascending line,
"Zinovieff forgets that Marx quo
tations refer to the period of pre-
monopohstic capitalism. when CAPT
talism as a whole developed in an as
cending line. The analysis of the
economic essence of Imperialism as
given by Lenin lays 1t down that in
the period OF Imperialism bourgeois
society as a whole is on descending
line. Zinovieff quoted passage from
Lenin's pamphlet on co-operatives
saying that we insthe U. S. S. r. have
everything necessary and adequate for
the building up Of complete So
cialist society, but he made no eff
fort to put the question in whose
favor this quotation was, whether it
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-28

it appear as If the question is not
about Lenin's theory of the possibility
of building socialism in our country
but about certain Italian theory un-
known to anybody.
From LenlnIsm TO Trotskylsm.
I'm Lenins works it is said that the
victory of socialism in separate coun-
tries under the conditions of imperial
ism is possible and the victory Of the
proletarian dictatorship in solving the
problems Of such dictatorship in the
U. S. S. r.. is certain. The party at
firms that the theses of Trotsky and
the opposition bloc about the i'm
possibility Of building socialism in the
limits of our state is fundamentally
contradictory to the above theses.
''In our party there are already de-
cisions upon the question of building
socialism in our country, decisions
adopted by the 14th party conference.
Kameneff and zinoviev are afraid to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-28
U. S. Miners Are Warned BY British Leader

working day and national agree
ment have been the vital issues. We
have not won, but we have done
everything humanity possible. We are
still powerful and still united, in spite
of hunger, calumniation and the i'm
prisoning of hundreds of our stall
warts under the L. P. A. Emergency
Powers Act.)
"You in America are facing similar
difficulties. when you will find out
where your leadership lies and what
kind of fighting material you have.
The working class must use both its
political and Industrial arms, with the
political strictly under the domination
and control Of the economic. A labor
movement is in the making in Great
Britain, with the miners as it's center,
that has a much stricter moral code
for its leaders and membership than
the older one. And America needs
such labor movement more than we
do In Britain"
fs Cook ls Tired.
Today, after 20 weeks struggle,
Cook Is nervous; his face is flushed;
his voice is hoarse; he Is very, very
tired. His face is stronger than six
years ago when | first met him in q
working class club In the east end OF
London. The sandy haired Welsh
men Is an unmistakable leader once
he begins TO talk. And because he "a
80 sure Of HIS ground, he stands after
the long Industrial 6ght stronger and
more popular with his fighting mem
bership than ever before
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-28
Katayama

even touch slightly upon this resolu-
ton because while in 1925 at the 14th
conference they were for this resolu-
ton, afterwards they repudiated it and
passed from Leninism to Trotskyism.
Already Conquered Politically.
I'm his speech" Stain continued,
'Trotsky afiirms that when Stain
spoke of defeating the bourgeoisie Of
the U. S. S. R. ne meant conquering
it politically. This. Of course, is in
correct. When Stain spoke of con-
quering the bourgeoisie of the U. s.
S. R. he meant conquering economi-
cally, because politically the bour-
geoiusie is conquered already.
ITO create the economic basis for
socialism in the U. S. S. R. means to
unite rural economy with the social
ist industry into one united whole, to
put the rural economy under the lead
ership of socialist industry and to ad-
just the relations between town and
country. This is my definition and
it is exactly the definition of the econ
omic essence of the basis of socialism
that Lenin gave in his well-known
pamphlet on the food tax. Trotsky
has not even approached this question.
As for our being able to build and as
to the fact that we are building the
economic basis of socialism, this is
evident from the fact that our social
lied production is big united produc-
ton whereas unnationalized produc-
ton is small disconnected production.
Specialized production is already direct
ing and beginning to dominate small
production.
Speaking of the dependence of our
national economy on world capitalism
Trotsky urged that from our isolated
condition under war Communism we
are getting ever nearer towards merg.
ing with world economy. This is I'M
true. This is Trotsky's factional exag-
geration. Nobody denies the existence
of a dependence Of our national econ
omy upon the world capitalist econ
omy. But this interdependence is mu-
tual. Not only does our economy de-
pend upon the capitalist countries, but
the capitalist countries depend upon
our economy, upon our oil and grain
apd timber, upon our vast market.
Socialist Economy Has Big Advantage.
However Trotsky transforms such
interdependence into a merging of our
economy into a capitalist world
economy; he contends that our econ
omy is accessory to world capitalism.
II that were true we would already be
on the way, towards a degeneration of
our socialist industry into ordinary
capitalist Industry. If that were true
we would have no prospect OF success
in the struggle of the socialist ele-
ments Of ouT economy against the cap
italist elements. Trotsky's assertion
about fifty or a hundred years being
necessary for the building of social
list economic system and for the de-
monstratioh Of it's superiority over
capitalism from the point of view of
the development of the productive
forces is incorrect. Does not the fact
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-28
Milwaukee Passaic
Relief Conference
Appeals for Hell

MILWAUKEE,, Wis, Dec. 2s.-T.
Milwaukee Relief Conference for t
Textile Strikers urged workers he
to remember that thousands of text
strikers in Passaic are still out and
need Of relief to prevent starvatie
and being forced to go back to sla
conditions. Food and clothing a
still needed by these workers.
Workers are urged to send surpl-
clothing and money donations to Il
relief conference at the Office of Il
Amalgamated Clothing Workers. 8
Third street, where headquarters Ia.
been established Checks and mone
orders should be made payable TO !
Mankof, secretary-treasurre. TW
large shipments of clothing have E
ready been sent from Milwaukee, b
more is needed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-28
(Contlnued from page b

Continued from page j
had nothing in. common with Trot-
sky's, which try to jump over the peas
ant movement and the agrarian revo-
luton. The opposition called atten.
ton to several mistakes of individual
members Of the central committee.
TWO kins of Mistakes.
However, there are two kinds of
mistakes: Some are quickly corrected
and forgotten, and others remain be-
cause the authors insist on them and
consequently from such mistakes
there grow factions, factional plat
forms, and struggles against the party.
Both Trotsky and Kameneff made
numerous manifest, individual mis-
takes, upon which they did not insist,
so that the party forgot these mis-
takes. For instance, in 1921 Trotsky
asserted that the Soviet power had
only few months more to live. The
central committee made a laughing
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-28
WRITE AS you FIGHT
CONTINUED from maze IL

Continued from page u
dustry. With this comes an intense
mechanization, the introduction Of
two or three shifts where one is
worked now Gas machinery must be
kept at work., the elimination of the
older and more unproductive mines,
etc.
Face Starvation.
"Once these changes become effec-
tive, hardly less than 100000 of the
members of our Federation will have
no more work in and around the
mines. When a man has been mining
for 20 years, he cannot turn to cleri-
cal work or bricklaying or carpentry
or other specialized Industrial work.
So what is there for him? Nothing
but hunger and starvation In one OF
the richest countries in the world.
"The fight Just ending, the solidar-
ity displayed shows how much our
workers know their position. Our
younger men are busy with their
classes on economics and industrial
history. We are now In danger Of
losing our Labor College in London
thru lack of funds and cooperation on
the part OF other unions. While this
is serious, yet instead Of bringing the
promising men from the pits to Lon
don, we will take the education to
the mining town itself
Still Strong.
dustry is going, and we are instruct
ing our men accordingly. In this dis
puts, the maintenance Of the shorter
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-28
DIPLOMACY OF
BRITISH HITS
Chinese SNAG
English Follow Shaky
Course in China

PEKING, Dec. 26-British diplo.
macy In China is pursuing an uncer-
tain and shaky path. The reason for
this is the split in the British cabinet
itself between those tories who desire
to patch up difficulties with Canton to
allow British business to proceed and
those who are holding out for a mill
tant attitude towards the new power
represented by the Kuomintang.
Tries to StraddIe.
The British minister in China ap-
pears to be doing his best to stfaddle
these two viewpoints. A little more
than a week ago the minister, Miles
Lampson, was in Canton negotiating
with Eugene Chen, Kuominchang for.
eign minister. These negotiations
were broken off because Britain would
not demand de jure recognition to
Canton.
Now again the Picking diplomatic
corps has been told by the British le-
CATION that changes of a liberal and
far-fung kind will soon be announced
with regard to the British policy. This
is thought to involve recognition of
the fact that customs are being col
lected by the new Canton government
and a more or less tentative sanction
ing Of these collections is given. :
United Front Falls.
Britain is attempting to get some
sort of united front with other powers
in her predicament in China, but has
so far met with no success. The extra
import duties being collected by Can
ton in violation Of the treaties will
probably be winked at by Britain. The
situation for the diplomats is compli-
Gated by the demands Of British mer-
chants here for pacilcation of Can
ton to permit better flow of business.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-28
euehaas

stock Of Trotsky, but did not press his
mistake.
again, in 1922 the central commit
tee rejected Trotsky's proposal to al
low the Soviet trusts to pawn the
state property, including their basis
capital, to private. capitalism for the
purpose of receiving credits.
Another example; Kameneff and
Zinovieff insisted On the acceptance of
conditions of virtual bondage in the
matter Of the Urquhart concession.
This the central committee rejected.
But the party must fight such mis-
takes as grow out of factional plat
form, such as, for example, Trotsky's
mistakes in the period Of the Brest-
Ltovsk peace and the trade unions,
Zinovien's. and Kameneff's mistakes
prior to the October Instruction and
the present mistakes of the opposi-
ton bloc" 'as n@
Trotsky's Past.
Stain continued: ITO the question
Of how Trotsky looked upon his Men,
shevist past, Trotsky replied with a
certain pose: The very fact that
joined the Bolshevist party proved
that 1 left on the threshold of the
party everything separating me hith-
erto from Bolshevist' This looks as
If Trotsky left behind his old Men
shevist heritage on the party's thresh-
old in order to keep it in store for
new fights against the party. How
otherwise can we explain the perma-
nent Emergencies of Trotsky from the
party, Emergencies which started
some time after his joining the party
and continued up to the present mo-
ment.
"Trotsky," Stain maintained, did
not give clear answer about his atti-
tude toward his theory of permanent
revolution.
Zinovleff's ouotings.
1.-THE typical feature of Zinovieff's
manner of quoting MARKHAM classics
consists in mixing up all periods and
all dates and throwing them into one
kettle, in tearing separate theses and
formulas of Marx and Engels from
their live connection with the actual
facts and changing them into outworn
dogmas, thus violating the funda-
mental postulate Of Marx and Engels
that Marxism is not a dogma but a
manual of action.
Does 1t follow from Marx quota
tions," Stain asks, that the victory
of socialism in separate countries is
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-28
Minister Criticizes
Our Mexican Policy

III any nation had interferred in
our domestic affairs as we have done
IN Mexico, we would have declared
war long ago." DR.. King D. James,
pastor Of st. James Methodist church
told a group of clergymen.
He pointed out that this country
had In four years spent three times
as much money as France on an army
and navy, while denouncing that coun-
try for spending on military prepare
lions without paying her debt to us.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-28
GARY BIDS COOLIDGE
TO CELEBRATE STEEL,
WHY OVERLOOK TAFT?

Especial TO The Daily worksr)
WASHINGTON, Dec. 2e.-ear
Indiana, has invited President Co
ldse to attend celebration Of Il
city's industrial development, to
staged next May. The president hi
promised to consider the matte
His interest is personal as we'll !;
official, since he holds stock, said i
amount to fifty shares, in the Uni
ed States Steel Corporation.
1t has not yet been learned whet
err Chief Justice Taft has also bee
invited. He is interested by reaso
of the pension he draws from tn
Carnegie Fund.