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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-11-11
Spain's University Project
Attracts New York Society
Benefit Entertainment Proposed at metropolitan
Opera House to Aid Educational Program
Sponsored by King Alfonso.

/ He and Mr.. Bennett took turns driving
on that trip. In compliment to Mr..
Bennett, Mr.. Taller called his coach
| the herald" on public trips, but Light
ming" in private. 1t was then brought
| to New York and has not been out of
Mr.. Tailers stable in Newport for Is
| years.
The understanding is that if Mr..
Loew ever wishes to dispose of the
coach it will go back to the Taller
family.
Society Gets Notice
OF Autumn Betrothals.
Mr.. and Mrs. Christopher B. Wyatt
of 10 Lexington avenue have an
nounced the engagement of their
daughter, Miss Elizabeth Wyatt, to
William A. Russell, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Richard S. Russell, of 1l9 Common
wealth avenue, Boston.
Miss Wyatt was graduated from Miss
Chapin's school and made her debut
the year before last at dance at
the Wyatt residence. Her sister, Miss
Jane Washington Wyatt, will make her
debut at dance Mr.. and Mrs. Wyatt
will give at their home January 2.
Mr.. Russell attended the Middlcsex
School and is now a master In the
Brooks School, North Andover, Mass
He is brother of Mr.. Richard S. Rus
sell, jr.. of Boston, and Of Mrs. Ben
jamin F. r. Bassett, of this city.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry w. de Forest
have announced the engagement of
their daughter, Miss Alice de Forest, to
Francis Minturn Sedgwick, son of Mr..
Henry Dwight Sedgwick and the late
AIRS Sedgwick. Miss de Forest is a
graduate of Miss Nightingale's School
and was introduced to society last sea-
son.
Mr.. Sedgwick was graduated from
Harvard In 1926 and is a member of
the Porcelain Club He passed a year
at Trinity College, Cambridge, and for
eighteen months has been studying
banking in Europe
Miss de Forest is a sister of Mrs Bev-
erley Duer and of Mr.. Charles M. de
Forest. who is at Yale. MI. Sedgwick
is a brother of Mr.. Robert Minturn
Sedgwick, who married Miss Helen Pea
body, daughter of the Rev. Dr. Ebdicott
Peabody. No date has been set for the
wedding.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Small Moore of
East Sixty-siXth street and Ten Ga
D.es, RoSlyn, Long Island, have an
nounced the engagement of their daugh-
ter, Miss Jean Moore, to Oliver Malcolm
Wallop, second son of the Earl and
Countess of Portsmouth, of Barton
House, Morchard Bishop, Devonshire,
England. Miss Moore attended Miss
Walkers School at Simsbury, Conn,
and was presented to society last season.
Mr.. Wallop was graduated from Yale
last June.
Mr.. Wallop's father, Oliver Henry
Wallop, inherited his title on the death
of his elder brother, John Fellowes Wal
lop.. seventh Earl of Portsmouth, who
died in London September Z, 1925. The
present earl'S brother was an American
citizen and resident OF Wyoming,
where he passed many years as cowboy
and ranchman. In assuming the title
he had to relinquish his American citi-
zenShip. In 1897 he married Miss Mar
guerite Walker of Frankfort, KY.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-11-11

their home on the Brookville road,
north Chevy Chase.
Mr.. and Mrs. Raphael Semmes enter
tanned Tuesday night with a bridge
party while listening to the returns.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-05
From Historian to Hysterlan

"thief." | wonder if my critic could
explain what the pleasure or purpose
would be in stealing matter from one
author and giving it to another.
Lincoln and the Civil War.
On this question Mr.. Oneal dis
agrees with me very strongly, as, of
course, he has right to do so. He
thinks that | am too severe on Lin
coins policies during the war. He
says l am wrong in criticizing Lin
coin for not issuing the Emancipa-
ton Proclamation much earlier and
not appealing to the Negro masses to
rise against their masters. Such a
step, in his opinion, would have
brought a calamity to the northern
cause. Therefore, says Oneal, "As be-
tween Bimba and Lincoln one has lit
tie difficulty in choosing"
l do not want to repeat my opinion
on the Civil War. 1 only wish to give
Mr.. Oneal another choice besides
that "between Bimba and Lincoln
For instance, Karl Marx strongly sup
ported the northern cause and helped
it to the best of his ability. But that
did not prevent Marx from criticizing
the north for the conduct of the war
In 1868, in a letter to Engels, Marx
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-05
By A. BIMBA.

Continued from Last IsSae.)
l have to touch briefly few minor
points raised by Oneal, such as that
about the number of members OF the
United States Supreme Court at var
ious stages of it's development Il did
not write a complete history Of the
supreme court in which there would
have to be pointed out the number of
it's members at various periods; 1t is
sufficient to state that we have su-
preme court of nine members appoint
ed for life under the constitution
which was adopted in 178O, or his
disagreement about absentee land
lordism, or about democracy, or his
accusation that | am supposed to
have taken passages from his book
and appropriated them for myself, or
quoted his quotations and made ref
erences as if they were taken from
original sources. l can only say that
it seems to me that Mr.. Oneal, after
appropriating for himself the title
of pioneer" historian, worked HIM
sell llltO IlySGClAC 61l10 IiAOWo SAioA SCo
right and left without taking any re-
sponsibility for them. l absolutely
deny that l have appropriated either
Oneals book or his material without
giving him the credit for it. In one
place he condemns me for using some
of the sources which had been used in
his book, and in another place he con-
dennis me still more strongly for not
using some of the sources used by
him, such as Schlesinger.
Among numerous quotations and
references, in several places there is
an error in the assignment of author
ship. For example, a quoting from
Client is assigned to Mclaughlin, and
of lengthy quotation from Oneal
the first two paragraphs are assigned
to McMaster. For these very obvious
technical errors which may happen,
and often do happen, in any book,
Oneal calls me a plain "pilferer" or
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-05
Defense Bulletin Out
For New York District

The New York section of the In
ternational Labor Defense has just
issued its official organization pub
lication-"The Labor Defense Bull
letin," six page mimeographed bull
letin with an illustrated cover design,
edited by Rose Baron, secretary of
the local section.
The Defense Bulletin is to be is
sued monthly, Rose Baron announced,
and is being distributed free of
charge. 1t contains all the news of
the activities of the International La
Dor Defense in New York City.
The January issue of this bulletin
carries news items and reports on the
Greco-Carrillo case, the arrest of
seven workers in Newark on Nov.
10 who were trying to hold meet
ing to celebrate the tenth anniversary
of the Russian Revolution, and the
fight to free four New York workers
who were recently arrested for dis
tributing anti-injunction leaflets.
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commercial world, it could scarcely
be done with more cunning and COM
petence. 1t arouses that odd delight
that is awakened by an expertly con-
Quoted murder
In some respects it is the usual
New York musical comedy with its
rows OF educated legs, it's chorus rep
resenting three or four generations,
its songsters selected for their beauty
and terpiscorean talent, its unosten-
tatlous chorus boys, its expensive and
dazzling stage settings that appear
on the verge of collapse, and its bed
room scene where disaster is immin-
ent but never occurs.
But there is something more. The
line of the plot is taut and the situa-
tions are crisp. The old Broadway
predicaments have a touch of new
life and the comedy appears quite
fresh dolled up with little magma
ton and subtlety.
Edna Leedom, the star, has a suf-
ficiently alert mentality to appreci-
ate and create humor and she works
hard enough to be rewarded with g
steady stream of tumultuous laughs
The Chester Hale chorus girls are
sufficiently smart and wiggly to sat
lsfy the demand. Jules Epailly, the
sardonic dancer, who treats his fe.
male partner with GOODNESS, not tt
say scorn, is fun provoker.
The book was written by GLADYS
Unger and Cyrus Wood from the
French play "Dejeuner de Soleil.'
The lyrics were by Cyrus Wood ane
the music by Dave Stamper and Har.
old Levey.
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wrote: "The Northerners were from
the very beginning dominated by the
representatives of the border slave
states who also pushed Mcclellan,
that old partisan of Breckenridge, to
the top. The South, on the contrary,
acted as one from the very first. The
North itself has transformed slavery
into military force for the South,
instead of turning it against it. The
South leaves the productive labor to
the slaves and could thus lead its
entire fighting force unhindered into
the field. It had a unified military
leaderships. The North did not. That
they had no strategic plan was clear
from all the maneuvers OF the Ken
lucky army after the conquest of Ten
nessee. In my opinion all this will
take another turn. The North will
finally carry on the war seriously and
resort to revolutionary means and
east aside the domination of the peo-
pie of the border slave states. A sin
gle niger regiment will have re.
markable effect on the Southern
nerves.
1.-THE long and the short of the
matter seems to me to be that such
wars must be conducted in revOlu-
tionary manner and that the Yankee
have hitherto tried to carry it on con-
stitutiOnally"
This opinion of Marx is opposed to
the opinion of Oneal. Hence I say:
AS between Oneal and Marx one has
little difficulty in choosing.
ITO Be Continued.)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-05

READING FORMS
UNIT OF PARTY

READING, Pa, Jan. A unit of
the Workers (Communist) Party has
just been formed here by Pat Devine,
national organizer now on a tour.
About Is joined as charter members.
The organization of the unit at this
time is considered significant es-
pecially in view of the recent election
of socialists here on platform of
Honesty and lower taxes"
Good Prospects.
Commenting on the formation of
the Workers Party organization here,
Devine said:
There are great prospects in
Reading, as well as in the rest of
Pennsylvania, for real labor party
campaign for the 1929 elections"
The new unit formed here consists
of important trade unionists and
others active in the labor movement
in Reading. At the first meeting
plans were paid for real activity.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-05
gmgg1pl AMSENENgH gMgg g1ul

Chanin's w. A. ST. Royale - Last Week
GILBERT AND SULLIVAN OPERAS
Mon. Matinee, Wed. & Sat. Nights
"MIK DO"
Mon. & Fri Ewes, Wed. MatineD
"PIRATES OF PENZANCE"
Tues, Thurs. Ewes, Sat. Matinee
81 o l. A THEo
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The statement was interesting, SO
we waited for the tenor to proceed.
"You see," explained Althouse, "the
advantage of speech rests with the
human singing voice. Does that sug-
gest something to you? Yes? Well,
because of that fact the singer can do
more than give his hearers a melody;
he can tell them story, and the story
is always the life of the song.
Don't forget that" warned Alt
house, and peered carefully into the
face of his interviewer to be certain
that his warning was understood.
"Just think of the advantage the
musician has who can enunciate a
beautiful poem, while at the same
time lovely melody is being sung.
Singers who strive to give the
public all they can are mindful of
the advantage they possess in having
the capacity to link speech to their
music. And the people are coming
more and more to demand enunciation
which can be clearly and easily
caught, and pronunciation which is
correct.
That is why the violin--king of
musical instruments in some i'm
portant respects-has to play second
fiddle to the singing voice."
Mr.. Althouse will appear in joint re-
cital with Doris Niles, Nina Tarasova
and Sasha Jacobsen at The DAILY
WORKER Fourth Anniversary cele-
bration on January Is at Mecca
Temple.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-05
YOUNG WORKERS
CLASSES PROVE
GREAT SUCCESS

Covering every field of Young Com
munist activity, the Aglt-Prop
department of the Young Workers
(Communist) League, District 2, New
York, concluded on Friday night it's
intensive training course for League
functionaries. Organizational prob
lens, literature work, factory work,
general industrial work, sports work,
-militarist activity, agitation and
propaganda, children's work and ac-
tivity among opponent organizations
were thoroughly covered and dis
cussed, many new suggestions and
methods coming up in the course of
the discussion by the members of the
class.
The class in organizational prob
lens, led by John Williamson, district
organizer of the YWL, centred its at
tention on the work in which the
YWL is. the driving force, and the in
ternal life of the League. Under the
latter subject there were many sug-
gestions to brighten the internal life
of the League in order to decrease
the tremendous turnover in member
ship.
The class, led by Comrade Dublin
sky, district literature agent, then dis
cussed literature work. The young
Worker" had to be distributed to the
youth by new ways, it was decided.
Factory Activity"
Discussing the industrial work of
the League, Comrades Miller and
Frankfeld both stressed the necessity
of slow patient building of shop nu-
clei. Factory activity" instead of
the old slogan of factory campaign
| is the correct line.
! Rubinstein showed the necessity OF
building youth workers sports
movement in this country and pointed
out how necessary it was for each
section of the League to. send a few
comrades into some of the neighbor.
hood sports clubs. Comrade Winter
in the class on anti-militarist activ.
ity, stressed the necessity for inten-
sification of League work in this fielc
at this time when the conflicts of the
various imperialisms and their atti
tude towards the USSR make for Sc
rious war danger Methods of extend
ing the work were discussed by the
comrades.
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+ a u Althouse.
tenor of Metro
politan o p e r a
holds a contrary
view.
Mr.. Althouse
defers to the vio-
lin, and declares
that from great
fiddlers he h a S
learned m u C h
a b o u t singing.
"Po hear a fine
violinist is to
learn how a le-
cato may be &C
quired," declared
the broad Shout
dered t e n or
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-05

aration as against theoretically we'll
prepared comrades who have not done
the requisite amount of activity and
who have not the requisite experience.
Districts should keep this in mind
in making their choice.
Further information on any of the
matters involved can be gotten by
writing to Jack Stachel, national or
ganization secretary, or Bertram d..
Wolfe, national Agitprop director. In
quiries concerning funds, fare, main
tenance, and the duties of the districts
and the individual in this connection,
should be addressed to Comrade
Stachel. Inquiries concerning prepa-
ration, courses, photography, etc.,
should be addressed to Comrade
Wolfe.
Study Time.
The students afternoons will be left
free for study in the library of the
Workers School and the evenings
with the exception of Tuesday and
Thursday are free for attending meet
ings Of committees, OF units, mass
meetings, etc.
Certain recreational activities are
also planned in connection with the
school, such as seeing the environs Of
New York, visiting factories, mu-
seums and other places of interest,
and one or two affairs.
Any comrade interested should APP
ply to his district organizer and
should send duplicate of his appli-
cation with statement as to his ac-
tivities, previous training, and his
reason for desiring to take the course,
TO the National Agitprop Director Of
the Workers Party, AZ East 125th
St.. New York Citt...
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title suggests.
AS it proceeds one
does have the feeling
that it is not the sort
of activity a civilized
society should see
carried on without
reprimand. Yet if it
must be done, to pro-
vide relaxation to the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-05
" DRAMA ~
lovely Lady"
New Municipal Show
Opens at the Sam H.
Harris Theatre

tI OVELY LADY," the new Shubert
Ia musical comedy at the Sam H.
Harris Theatre is a pleasant surprise
in that it is not nearly as maudlin
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-05
M ct ropolitan Opera
Tenor Says Voice Sur
passes the Violin

THERE is a saying that the violin is
: the king of musical instruments.
and in way perhaps this is sos But
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-05

"But', he added, "the voice as a must
cal instrument has advantages over
the violin"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-27

ards cannot be gotten through the traitorous
Schlesingers, Matthew VOLS and McGradys.
That is definite For, will the union that
is built by the bosses, their money and their
police ever make unpleasant demands from
their godfathers? No! And those workers
who do not know it as yet will know it soon;
then they, too, will join for the fight to re-
establish unionism in the industry.
1t is the duty of the militant workers who
are active in this big event to cast aside the
narrow traditions of the past which, if they
are not discarded, can only cripple and de-
stroy the thing which they are here to build,
Pedantic craft-union pref JUDGES have
throughout the struggle been handicap to
the progress of the needle trades workers.
Craft union ideology must and will be thrown
aside in this present action, if success for the
workers is to be attained.
Nor is it possible for conscious and sin
cere workers to be content with an attitude
bounded by national boundaries. The most
urgent need-for successful struggle in this
and all other countries-is to weave the un-
breakable bond of solidarity between the
workers of all countries of the world If the
needle trades union delegates are to accom-
plish their duty they must face with fearless
class-conscious eyes, the question of interna-
tional relations. On the one hand is interna-
tional class loyalty crystallized in the Red
International of Labor Unions; on the other
hand is international manipulation of the la
Dor unions by the bosses and the imperialist
governments through the yellow organization
of treachery, the Amsterdam International.
The workers who assemble for this event
in New York cannot evade the fact that they
face period of rapid preparation for i'm
perialist world war. Their actions cannot
but be influenced by, and in turn exert an in
fluence upon, such situation. These are not
static times. One sixth of the world is in the
possession of the working class, and the
Union of Soviet Socialist Repubics-the So
cialst Fatherland of all cass-conscious work
ers of all countries is beacon light for all
workers who have eyes to see.
We are confident that the delegates as
sembed will have the courage and inteh-
gence to serve the interests of the workers
whom they represent. And if they have, they
will make history-they will blaze a trail
which many tens of thousands will follow.
We have presented some of the reasons for
the inevitable growth to control of the new
national needle trades union. The merging
of strength in the common fight will soon
prove this.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-27
New Needle Trades Industrial
Union Will Make History

At the end of this week will occur in the
trade union movement an event of nation
wide-even worldwide importance. The
simultaneous conventions of the Cloak and
Dressmakers and the Fur Workers Unions,
called in New York City, will at the same
time make their decision on the question on
immediate amalgamation of these two great
unions.
But it is more than the amalgamation of
two unions. 1t is the laying of the corner
stone of the new great industrial union OF
the Needle Trades.
The Cloak and Dressmakers Union and
the Fur Workers Union, now entering the
third year of titanic struggle against the
combined forces of their boss eXploiters,
their police oppressors and their A. F. of L.
and socialist betrayers, now stand on the
threshold of combining their power organ
nationally by laying foundation which
WILL with correct policies, support the still
greater structure of mighty amalgamated
needle trades industrial union of all workers
in every branch.
We know that even after amalgamation
land that amalgamation will be decided upon
is quite certainty the struggle to build the
union uIlGl IL COuIEOlS IIlG luuuSIIy VIII UC
a gigantic one. We are convinced, however,
that nothing can stop these determined fight
ers from doing just that.
Our certainty is rock-founded by the fact
that despite all the predictions of the enc
mics of the left wing, and the pessimistic
and cynical forecasts of immediate destruc-
ton made by certain cowardly progress
sives," who stood by in awestricken dismay at
the array of forces against the needle trades
unions-these left wing unions have not only
refused to be destroyed but have maintained
themselves in the center and have gained
adhering locals who will launch an amalga-
mated organization this week.
Another reason for our great confidence
in the success of the new union is the unde-
niable fact that the A. F. of l.. craft union
ism and its helplessness before growing cap
italist classification (even- in the hitherto
'impregnable" needle Industry, has out
lived its time.
And yet another reason is the knowledge
that the needle trades workers have too in
spring a tradition of struggle to endure for
long total humiliation of union conditions in
their industry. And decent working stand
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-27
Teaching Communism in Central Asia

Iatre goes travelling even to the
darkest villages, in spite of all the
cursings of the mu!lahs, the whole
population turns out to see it. Also
there is flood e new M ;ora' IT.
erature, dramas, poems, - rc!s,-
some of The las: IF which haze been
translated into russian AMI even
German.
At the other extreme of the scale
from these primary schools may be
taken the Communist University
that I visited the same day. Here
also the method is that of self
teaching" Seventeen nationalities
are taught here. For those who
can read Russian fluently there is
no lecture system at all; the teacher
meets the class, outlines the subject,
the varying points of view, gives
lists of reading. Thereafter there is
the reading hour" in which the
pupils read the required reading in
the same room with the teacher,
going up to him with questions.
After ten days comes the "con-
sultation," in which groups of five
at time meet the teacher for an
hour each for general discussion.
Following this the whole class, of
not. more than twenty five, meets
with the teacher, and each group of
five chooses speaker, who gives a
talk of twenty minutes on the sub
ject. Discussion follows, summed up
after two or three days of this. by
a thirty minute talk from the
teacher.
Lest these methods seem too re-
markable for application in Central
Asia, let it be added that here are
serious evils noted also in the uni
versity, and mentioned to me by the
rector. Chief among these is "dog-
matism." How can you teach Com
munism which demands the whole
Of natural science plus the social
sciences, to people in whose langu-
ages there has not been published
single book on evolution. To peo-
pie into whose minds the scientific
conception of life has never entered.
Who belong to the same Central
Asia in which ruler once said,
when asked for vital statistics:
"Allah knows who is born, and Al
lab knows when each dies; and how
should man pry into the secrets of
Allahw