Evening Star Newspaper, December 1, 1929, Page 11

SOCALSTS BRD FORBROAD DRV Results in New York Lead Party to Plan Extensive Campaign. BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Encouraged by Norman Thomas’ 200,- 000 votes in the November municipal| election in New York City, the Socialist party is girding itself for an intensive national drive in 1930. Its ledders are roceeding on the theory that what [anhattan Island says today, the coun- try at large may be saying tomorrow. Mr. Thomas got more than twice as many votes in the election for mayor as he recelved in the whole State for President in 1928, when he ran at the head of the Socialist national ticket. The results have fired the party with the belief that, at the next test, there will be just as heavy a proportionate in- crease in the Nation-wide Socialist vote as there was in Greater New York. Meet in Buffalo. Plans for next year's membership campaign, which is to be in the nature of preparation for the 1932 presidential election, will be adopted at a meeting of the national executive committee in Buffalo on December 14 and 15. Clar- ence Senior, Socialist national execu- announces that in addi- dtic effort to secure ad- herents to the party, the Socialists will take an active part in the 1930 congres- sional elections. They are going to make a speclal effort to send to the House of R?resentanve: from Wisconsin the widow of the late Victor L. Berger of Milwaukee. For many years Mr. Berger was the only Socialist in Congress. F. H. La Guardia, recent Republican can- didate for mayor of New York, once listed himself in the Congressional Di- rectory as a semi-Socialist, but Berger ‘was the one outspoken and avowed wearer of that party label. In March, 1930. the national execu- tive committee will meet at Los Al geles. That will be the signal for drive throughout the Western regions of the country. Senior asserts that “there is not a single section of the Unlon from which we do not receive letters asking us to send organizers to take advantage of the growing Social- ist sentiment.” Gains Are Claimed. Returns now available, he says, reveal substantial Socialist gains in all the Fall elections. Twenty populous up- State New York cities showed increases comparable to Thomas' amazing run in Greater New York. Big Soclalist victories were won at Reading, Pa. The Soctalist poll in Ohio cities registered 50 per cent increases. In Cleveland two- Socialist candidates for the city council lost by narrow margins. The Socialist vote in Virginia, aceording to the national committee executive, was doubled. Senior explains that the f!m policy is to co-operate with local abor parties. where these exist, but not to attempt a national coalition at thig time. On January 1 & national membership drive will be launched. At present only 12,000 dues-paying members are on the National Socialist party’s books, but, as the New York election indicates, these figures mean little. At any rate, it is derired to widen the dues-paying ele- ment as extensively as possible. On the way to and from the March ex- e‘?:_:l‘ve wn;x‘niltee dmeetmg‘ in Cali- a speaking and organizing tours will be made. The Northern tier of States will be “worked” by one group: enother will operate along the Pacific Coast; a third will be assigned the Middle West and a fourth will take in the Southwestern and Southern States. Debs Polled Largest Vote. ‘To date the high-wi V. Debs’, poll of 919,799 for President in 1820. On the showing Norman ‘Thomas made in the November New York City election. he probably far outstrip the total should he head the Solialist national ticket a second time in 1932 The Socialists are understood to as- pire eventually to the organization of something approaching the British La- bor party, though they have little hope of bringing the official American labor “movement,” represented by the Federa- tion of Labor, into their scheme. They 2im rather at the malcontent “white collar” element, which, while not con- stituting the basic strength of the British Labor party, is the one from which the bulk of its support now comes. It includes non-labor intellectuals like Ramsay Macdonald and Philip Snow- den. just as the American Soclalist party includes non-labor intellectuals like Norman Thomas. The So- cialist party would presumably, sooner or later, hope to gain the allegience of intellectuals like Prof. John Dewey and is numerous “liberal” following. American Socialists find vast cause for optimism about the party’s future, as they scan the European political horizon, especially in Great Britain and France. They have seen Millerand, Socialist, become president of the French republic, and Briand, Socialist, prime minister of France 11 times. They see Ramsay Macdonald. Socialist, premier of the British empire for the second time within five years. They recall that Fritz Ebert, Socialist, was the first president of the German republic, and that Social Democrats are nowadays members_of successive Berlin govern- ments. Everywhere in the world, the American Socialists point out. old-time parties are being obliterated. Why thould Socialists not believe that their day wi'l coms in the United States, t00? they ask. (Copyrisht, 1929.) tigdde Rubio i}oming to U. S. Hospital. MEXICO CITY, November 30 (#).— President-elect Pascual Ortiz Rubio to- day said his essential purpose in going to the United States next Monday was to see a medical specialist in the hope of euring a long-standing malady. He said that his plans for the forthcoming trip were incomplete, and that the dura- tion of his visit was uncertain. He is expected to enter Johns Hop- l‘;lfls Hospital in Baltimore next Satur- ay. While riding in a taxicab bstween Bochum and Werne, Germany. a man was suddenly jolted so violently that he sustained d died on_his BECAUSE < WE SATISFY Our_business is good—because ) our 27 years of experience, our reliability and conscientious work _satisfies hundreds of patients, who, in turn, send their friends. Let us convince you. FREIOT Phone National 0019 407 7th St. N.W, Entrance Next to Kay's Jowelry r mark for the | Socialist vote, nationally, was Eugene | dence in Washington.” book stalls. The book’s cover is merely paper. equalitarian democracy The lesscns to be learned from the book are of the most detailed value. The author states with unreserved surance that the director of the Pan- American Union, who is Dr. Leo S. Rowe, ranks below—though only just below—the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, who i Dr. Charles G. Abbot. ‘The instructed and no longer perplexed hostess according will place Dr. Abbot jat her right and Dr. Rowe, though in & way he represents the majesty of a score of American repubilcs, at her left, in case, of course. no member of the Interstate Commerce Commission is present. L C. C. Member Precedes Either, A member of the Interstate Commerce Rowe and Dr. Abbott. He himself, ho ever, would be retired to a sacondary member of the Federal Reserve Board. This last decision seems a bit unfair, m view of the fact that the Interstate Commerce Commissicn was in existence lgng before the Federal Reserve Board and might be supposed to have acquired some rights of social seniority, but the author of the book is a lady of great experience and of great firmness of character, and it is thought that the members 'of the Interstate Commerce Commission will find themselves unabie —often—to evade her ruling. ‘The author seems lacking in courage, however, when she comes to discuss the relative ranks of a Chief Justice in comparison with an Ambassador and of the Speaker of the House in comparison with the President pro tempore of the Senate. She states. boldly enough, that a Chief Justice ranks abcve an Ambas- sador and that the Soeaker of the House ranks above—quite far above— the President bro tempore of the Sen- ! ate. but she then proceeds to give her hostess readers the following timorous advice: “Don’t Ask Both to Dinner.” “Do not ask the Chief Justice and an Ambassador to the same dinner.” And: “Do not ask the Speaker of the House and the President pro tempore of the Senate to the same dinner.” This would seem to indicate. and it does in truth indicate, the unfortunate fact that our arbifers and arbitresses of social elegence and propriety in Washington may lead statesmen to their dinner table but sometimes can- not make them sit down. Decrees may be printed regarding the priority of a Chief Justice to an Ambassador: but there are few Washington hostesses who, even in & dream. would care to see themselves accomplishing that pri- ority in practice. The consequence of their indecisiveness is that the oppor- tunity of a Chief Justice to meet Am- bassadors is considerably narrowed. ‘The detailec precedence set down in the book here discussed is, in its first 14 , as follows: - President. the Vice President, the Chief Justice, Ambassadors, the Speak- er of the House, Justices of the Su- nreme Court, foreign Ministers, the Secretary of State, the cabinet, the Jpresident tempore of the Senal lj F Street at Eleventh Radis Section, Lower Floor—Direct Entrance at 11th Street v A Truly Phenomenal VALUE! THE NEW 1930 PARTON Radios Richest Voice. S TN the marvelous Voice of the new Sparton truments there is a glorious “something’ vou FEEL rather than hear There is the warm glow of PERSONALITY . . . a delight- ful sensation of NEARNESS to your entertainers. They seem to appear before you in person, thrillis th a feeling of intimacy. Don't miss this en- tirely new radio sensation. Visit our store. Now Only 179 BY WILLIAM HARD. There has appeared in the National Capital, a book entitled “Social Prece- ‘This book contains m\lyd ZI? plle; of text and yet it is of such imporiance to the city that it sells for a dollar and a quarer. ably .the n?:n expensive new book, per page, ever exhibited upon Washington For $1.25 the purchaser does not even get a stiff cloth cover to the book. In fact, the book is nothing but a tiny pa: phlet, and its price of $1.25 is a solemn and sublime manifestation of the im- portance of precedence as a towering daily problem in the capital of this great Commission would outrank both Dr.| seat if he should be confronted with a | the 80 years to clear up the account. W, B. 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Can it be that the leaders of our hired professional military and naval forces are supposed actually to precede, in public processions and at dinner tables the biennially elected spokesmen of our citizenry? The answer is yes. Besides settling precedence, this book also helpfully settles many other things, such as, for instance: ‘When you send out invitations for a | tea, if the invitations are hand-written, | you omit from them the words “at| home.” If, however, the invitations are | engraved, the words “at home” must ! be included. It is manifest that no| amount of native natural good taste | would in itself enable a hostess to divine and discern the existence oll such rules. i The defects of this book, if they may | be properly mentioned in the midst of | its useful excellence, are three. | ‘There seems to be ™ it only a hun-‘ dred or so of such arbitrary canons of | conduct as the one relating to the words ' “At home" on tea invitations. These should be multiplied, and could easily be multiplied to thousands; and then | the lady who comes to Washington as | the wife of a statesman and starts in to | learn the rules of litical hostessing | c;)uld give her whole time to nothing | clse. Many Boards Overlooked. In the second place, the author's en- | ergy fails after she has added 10 items to the 14 items of social precedence | above reproduced. She accordingly gives to Washington no guidance what- | ever as to pr lence for members of the Federal Trade Commission, the United States Tariff Commission, the United States Shipping Board, the United States Veterans' Bureau, the | Federal Radio Commission, the Federal Farm Board and the National Screw ‘Thread Commission. These gentlemen | are left in a promiscuous huddle at the | foot of the table. : Nor, finally is a word said about “offi- | | cial hostesses.” Mrs. Gann is left un- rescued and unfixed. This reviewer hopes that these defects presently will be remedied in a new edition which will put everybody in Washington in his right place and which will contain at least 10,000 intricate rules for getting him there and which | will provide Washington hostesses with the:r“;ole reading and which will | cos . 4 \(Copsrizht. 1920.) i . An order was made recently at Black- | England, for the payment of a of $60.30 at the rate of 6 cents a | month. which will require more than pool, debt 9 AM. to 6 P.M. Charge Accounts Invited—No Interest or Extras—We Do Not Penalize Our Friends sl 7 1 Bank, suddenly was removed from the BANGSTER'S OFFER OF BRIBE BARED Lamar Killer Suspect’s| Transfer From Jail Explained. By the Associated Press. DENVER, November 30— Ralph Fleagle, gray-haired reputed leader of the Lamar bandit gang, condemned to die on_the gallows for the murder of A. N. Parrish, president of the Lamar county jail here because he had offered a bribe of $10,000 for his freedom, it was learned today. Fleagle was tricked by Warden ‘Thomas Clennan of the Denver County Jail, but the ruse developed little valuable information to the officials. A jail chef, Orville Newman, noticed, on November 12, a note between two dirty dishes he had removed from Fleagle's cell. Without reading the note, he turned it over to Warden Clennan. Clennan then carried on a correspondence with Fleagle, who be« lieved the notes were coming from Newman, Plan for Escape. Another note, expressing irritation at the delay in forming any plan for escape, suggested one of the guards be bought 50 an escape could be made about 9 p.m. some night regarded by Fleagle as the most logical time. In this note, Fleagle made a flat offer of $10,000 for his freedom. At this june- ture Sheriff L. E. Alderman removed the ner, under heavy guard, to the wers County at Lamar, ostensibly to have Fleagle there to appear when his motion for a new trial was heard, but in reality to frus- trate any possibility of his escaping. Mystery attaching to Fleagle's re- moval Friday, when his appearance had been delayed to December 18, was cleared with the announcement of the escape plot today. Attitude is Recalled. Reflection of Fleagle's attitude to- ward the State was shown in one note. Fleagle's counsel said he had been promised life imprisonment for his part in confession and bringing about arrest and conviction of two partners in the murders and robbery, Howard L. Royston and George J. Abshier. In- stead a jury found Fleagle guilty and as in the cases of the other two, brought in a verdict demanding the death penalty. In the note Fleagle commented: “I would not do this if I had got life imprisonment.” Fleagle is said by authorities to be well off financially, being reputed to have a quarter of a million dollars in his name. Plans Desperate Fight. His action, officers said, have shown repeatedly he intends to lavish this en- tire fund in every effort to escape the death penalty imposed on him. A brother, Jake Fleagle, the fourth member of the gang that swept into Lamar in May, 1928, and killed two men and robbed the First National Bank there, is still the object of a Nation-wide search by officers. The gang, after killing Parrish, killed his son and abducted a teller, later killing him. Kansas doctor was called to treat one of the wounded ban- dits, and he, too, was killed by the gang. & 1929—PART ONE. ADOPT PLEDGING RULE. Fraternities Agree to Discontinue Delayed Rushing Practice. NEW YORK, November 30 (#).— Resolutions calling for. discontinuance of delayed pledging by college fraterni- ties were adopted today at the closing session of the interfraternity conference. “Those colleges seem best satisfled which get rushing out of the way before the opening of college or during the first week,” the report of the committee on pledging read. ‘“Pledging should he permitted at the end of the second week of college with this proviso, that the student pledged must have passed 12 credit hours of work before initiation.” As to the house mother system, it was resolved that a woman of ‘“breed- ing” would make the best manager of existed. DULUTH PAPER SOLD. | Paul Block and M. F. Hanson As- sume Control of News-Tribune. DULUTH, Minn,, November 30 (#).— Announcement was made today that Paul Block and M. F. Hanson, owners and publishers of the Duluth Herald, have assumed control of the Morning Duluth News-Tribune. 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