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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-09
President Of the Moscow ProIetcuIt
and Workers Theater.

is also generously applied and the
titles OF the episodes are cleverly an
nounced by throwing the words along
beam OF light so that they race all
about the walls and ceiling of the
theater, thus distracting the atten-
ton of the audience from the dark
ened stage while the rapid shifting
Of scenes is in progress.
Here is no sentimental idealization
OF the characters, or melodramatic
portrayal Of heroic deeds, but just the
simple, everyday trials of this hetero-
genous little group of workers and in
tellectuals. A wholesome character
istic of the Russians &s their ability
with such insight to stand aside and
make fun Of themselVes-in this play
are humorously portrayed the human
frailties found in Communists as well
as other human beings: there is the
commissar who thought his position
gave him the right to desert his wife,
the girl who thought she wanted to
Join the party, but who ran away
when the secretary assigned her for
party duty to the typhus hospital, the
secretary himself, their leader, one of
those simple, self-effecting men whom
history records as heroes, his right
hand man, a one-legged sailor, the
doctor, the school mistress, the fac
tory girls and young men, and the
girl soldier who overhears a non-party
man in high military post plotting
a counter-revolution The counter
revolution occurs; in the party head
quarters the i'll and exhausted secre.
tary sticks to his post while thru the
window the glow of conflagration can
be seen and the sound of firing can
be heard. Finally, he too joins in the
street fighting, and his body is car
ried in and laid upon the table at
which for months he had worked un.
ceasingly day and night. AS the grief.
stricken sailor stands beside the body,
he hears his comrade call from the
window: I'VE are winning!" Lifting
in his arms the lifeless body, he tries
frantically to rouse him: "Dadushka,
listen-ours have won, ours have
won!" But his leader is at last be.
yond responding TO words of hope or
of despair.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-09
nMEN OF STEEL"

WEN w EEL
AT last 1t is here: the classic OF
"A Glass collaboration. One view OF
this "thunderous drama from the fire
bosom of the steel-mills" and you viii
kiss your boss good morning and
bring flowers for his wife. Here is
the class propaganda picture in all its
glory glorifying the boss, damning
the Reds, preaching to the workers
that their interests are the same as
the bosses.
The story is old-fashioned melo-
drama overloaded with absurd plot,
But it moves swiftly and on this
hook, calculated to catch the interest
of the gullible worker, is hung the
bait of the boss. A poor foreign-born
steel worker thru human heroism, hui
man sacrifice and superhuman
strength" proves by study, devotion
and damnation Of the Reds that one
can rise in America to the very pin
nacle Of success which includes mar
rage to the owners daughter and the
management of the works. 1t takes
the hero all Of six reels to prove to
the men in the mills and to the kind
hearted steel-master that the dirty,
dirty Reds and revolution are I'M
necessary in this land Of glorious OPP
portunity. 1T is not a question of
wages as the Reds would have you be-
lievet" No sir. And no street 1t is
"only a question of share in the
There you are, Moth
ing less will our hero have and he has
it, by George! He wins the daughter,
the men in the mills come to his we'd
ding and receive stock that makes
them partners in the concern (not
wage slaves!) and the violence-advo-
eating Reds are forced to stink off in
disgrace. 1 should add that no union
was necessary. What good is organ
ization of labor when God is good
and sends US good bosses! Is this
vicious boss propaganda? Brother
It has never been equalled in this
country.
The photography is quite splendid.
The majestic steel mills hold spell
over you 1t seems. There is fire and
motion and POWER hard, unbending
The men that make
steel must surely feel 1t in their
bones. What a magnificent theme
this will make soma day for picture
when labor will produce it, The pic
lures were taken in the mills of Ala
bama. A scene OF the burial Of a
steel worker in the cauldron of steel
into which he fell is beautifully Inn
pressive. A battle between two cranes
conveying moulten metal is an un-
usual bit.
Milton Stills remember his "Sea
Hawk"?) gives more evidence Of his
ability. Doris Kenyon and Mae Alli-
son are both beautiful and gifted.
Ability. beauty, time and expenditure
have been layishly given to this vic
ious production. II labor-hating Judge
Gary did not pay for this picture he
surely ought to.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-09

curiosity to be wondered and laugh
ed at in friendly, child-lke way, but
Moscovites are just as charming to
foreigners Of the black as any other
race, being completely free from race
More than that, the Negro
has become the mode of the hour-a
fashionable millinery shop window ON
TVerskaya is displaying IT'S hats on
black model. OF course, the jazz
band is a feature of the performances
and also is beginning to appear at the
moving picture theaters.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-09

however, will reserve space for 1000
words or less (and furnish the price
of admission) to any steel workers of
Gary, Pittsburgh or Birmingham who
VIII tell us what they think of it.
Speak up brother steel workers!
w. C.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-09
A PEEK EACH WEEK
AT MOTION PICTURES

We are sure that Gary will pro-
nounce the film Showing at the
Roosevelt Theater) masterpiece. But
we are not interested This column,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-09

TUE Proficient players gave the
= first performance few weeks ago
iof an amusing burlesque on the Day
ton trial, which has aroused great m
terest IN Russia. They have taken
this skit, The Monkey Court" to the
villages. The Judge in the case bears
comical resemblance to an ape. Il
Is the prevailing belief in Moscow
hat Dayton, Tennessee represents
he intellectual viewpoint OF America
md that the teaching OF evolution is
'orbidden thruout the United States.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-09

AT the state circus, q troupe OF
4 \ American Negroes are appearing
in an operetta, "The Chocolate Chill
dren." A Negro In Moscow is still
Evening star., 1926-12-26
MOST PL ANT PESTS OF ALIEN ORIGIN

fcials and some 80 foreign coun
tries cooperate with the board In the
administration of it's quarantine mea-
SureS.
The most innocent looking freight
and postal imports often prove to con
tain extremely harmful insects. ow-
ing to the vigilant surveillance of the
plant inspectors. as is eXemplified by
the recent discovery of bOllWOrmS in
shipment of Japanese base balls.
When the crates were opened for
examination a Government inspector
found that one of the base balls taken
at random from the consignment did
not bounce straight. The removal of
the hide disclosed that the core was
made of infected cotton seed. A
vicious swat of a base ball bat
eventually would have scattered the
pests far beyond the confines of a
base ball park. Cotton seed is some
times present in fireworks of Japanese
manufacture.
Mexico into Texas require special
scrutiny by plant quarantine officials
because Of the danger of Mediter-
ranean fruit flies. and the ingenuity
of the Mexican peon in attempting to
Smuggle the tropical delicacy across
the border. Recently an Indian woman
was frustrated in an effort to elude
the frontier authorities. when they
noticed that the bundle she was
carrying, purporting to contain loaves
of bread, seemed inordinately heavy.
She had cleverly concealed an alliga.
tor pear in the center of each loaf.
Unfortunately for her. the pears were
infested with fruit flies.
Evening star., 1926-12-26

Judge which vegetables may best be
eaten with which meats; what sauces
go on what dishes; what desserts fol-
low the chosen elaborate meal. He
belongs to several societies in France
whose meetings are devoted exclusive
ly to such problems-La Table Fran
caise. he mentioned in particular
and in these circles the word Escof-
fer goes almost unquestioned.
What would you serve to king"
| demanded.
Again Escoffier laughed, his mus
taches bristling like those of a gen
eral asked how he would lead a
charge He seized a pen and began
writing. furiously.
"Voici,-here, l will make you a
royal menu"
M Escoffier is a busy man, and NJ.
Scotto seemed even a buster one. pre-
pairing for the great banquet which
took place on the 25th. So | betook
myself with my menu to Cesare Mo-
meta, a noted New York chef who
worked once with Escoffier in London.
II have Escoffiers royal menu
here" / said. 1T makes my mouth
water. But how do you cook these
things?"
Moneta proved as eager an lnstfuc-
tor as his former master. He began:
THE avant foeuvre is very small,
thin square of toast on which are
spread anchovies or tomato paste or
some other tasty relish. These are
served before entering the dining
room, while the guests are gathering.
Formerly they used to go with the
cocktail.
Caviar needs no explanation.
Evening star., 1926-12-26
Emperor of Chefs Makes Selections
For Imaginary Feast to Suit a King

Golfer take one chicken to four peo-
pie, place in a gallon of water, with
celery and parsley, salt and pepper to
taste. boil for three-quarters of an
hour. Then drop in several large
pieces of beef marrow, allowing them
to remain for only a second or two be-
fore you take the whole concoction
off the fire. Strain and serve hot.
Cheese paillettes are made of
thick paste, which is mostly Parmesan
cheese, with a little egg and flour
added. This is rolled into long, thin
sticks and baked until crisp.
"Salmoned trout (truite saumonee)
is delicious. 1t is ordinary brook
ficient vinegar to turn it red. or sal
mon color. at boiling. Escoffier rec
ommends champagne instead of water
but that is dish for a king, not
for a prohibition American.
''Nonat. next on the bill of fare, are
small fish. minnows. a little larger
than white bait. Fried in oil, they
are a favorite dish of the French.
The venison is to he baked in a
hot oven until almost done. Then it
is sprinkled with sherry or port and
allowed to simmer a few moments
longer. A handful of cherries, to give
that delightfully."- different flavor, is
added at the last minute before the
meat is finished. With this goes the
chestnut puree-the meat of the chest
nut boiled. strained and mixed with
cream, butter. salt and pepper to-
make a heavy paste.
Supreme de foie gras is an inter
esting dish to make. In one pan mix
and beat your foie gras goose livers).
cream and white of eggs until you
have a creamy substance Season to
taste. Then cook by placing this pan
in another of water. which must boil
until the paste becomes solid Cover
pieces of this solid with jelly, and see
if you don't like it.
"Capon of Man corresponds in
France to our Philadelphia capon and
needs no explanation to any house
wife, nor does heart of lettuce. As
paragus may be made to look more
green and fresh by the introduction
of a little soda in the water. although
| myself heartily disapprove of fore
ing vegetables in this way. The
mousSeline sauce is n half-and half
mixture of hOllandaise and whipped
cream.
Sarah Bernhardt Strawberries are
new invention of Escoffier. [ only
know that they would be some com.
bination of ice cream and strawber-
ries served in a tall tumbler. the ice
cream not being frozen hard. With
this sort of dessert royal biscuit
small, thin chocolate cake baked in
the shape of leaves, macaroons or
other ornamental designs-is particu-
larly appropriate.
So this is what Escoffier would
serve to king. 1t is what he recon-
mends to average folk only for Sun
day dinner. IL you can get the veni-
son. the sherry and the champagne.
heres luck to you. But I'll not be
responsible if you do 1t more than
once a week.
Evening star., 1926-12-26
COlorS That Protect.

MANY curious facts about the eff.
fects Of particular colors and
markings of birds, insects and other
creatures in concealing them from
their enemies have been collected by
naturalists, and the theory of pro
tective mimicry' has been pushed far
in some cases.
An interesting observation bearing
on this subject is recorded by an of
fcer of the Carnegie Institution.
About 300 chicks of various colors and
patterns were allowed to run at large
In pasture. In less than two hours
crows had killed "A. The officer in
spected the slaughtered chicks and
found that they included 10 whites.
IL blacks, l coarsely notified gray and
bun, but not a single chick with "pen.
ciled" markings more or less like
those of ordinary jungle-fowl or game.
Ihis, 1t is thought, was due to the
relative inconspicuousness of the pen
ciled birds and indicated that the
colors arising under domestication in.
creased the danger to the others.
Evening star., 1926-12-26
Globular Lightning.

a n eminent scientist says of this
rare phenomenon, the reality of
which has frequently been called into
question, that after having been for
long time in doubt about it, his
doubts have been dispelled The near
est he has ever come to observing a
lightning bali" was the hearing of
its explosion. The ball itself was seen
by q friend who happened to be
looking in the right direction when
the investigator himself was looking
another way. No rational hypothesis,
it is said, exists to explain such a
phenomenon, as there is nothing in
the laboratory which closely resem-
bles IT. From descriptions, the balls
appear to vary from one inch to one
foot in diameter. When they disap-
pear there is usually an explosion,
generally with slight damage. Some
have been described as entering build
ings and going out of Il door or win
dow
Evening star., 1926-12-26

there was a girl mixed up in it. With
little more difficulty she got that
out of him, too. They had been en-
gagged back at home in the South,
he said. He had come to New York
to look for newspaper job. and had
SO far failed to find one. Then she
had written to him, urging him to
come home; her father would give him
a job as salesman. she wrote, and
they could be married. That was
what hurt-that she didn't believe in
him. -.
Don't you care"' said Barbara
softly.
And meeting some look of tender
ness in her eyes, the boy melted and
flung himself at her feet, with his
head in her lap, crying.
Barbara caressed the soft black hair
of his head and felt a fierce contempt
for that girl. He lifted his face
and looked at her, hungry for woman's S
devotion. And she stopped and kissed
him-a fierce. tender, shy. passionate,
impersonal iss-womankind's tribute
to the mankind that needs it and will
stumble and fail in a dark world with
out 1t.
And holding him in her arms. she
talked to him. Don't you care" she
whiSpered 'She isn't worth it. You
Evening star., 1926-12-26

WELL" she thought to herself. I'D
call 1t something else. But IL | just
can't help being wonderful
Laughing softly, she packed up and
went home and sewed the button on
Henry's shirt.
X X \
CHE had just finished with the but
~ ton when Henry came in. He was
contrite and she forgave him,
But what's that" he asked. seeing
a pink-covered book on her work
table.
"Oh, just a dictionary" she told
him.
That night before she went TO bed
she turned the leaves of the diCtion-
ary and said to it:
Little book, YOU belong to me now
All your silly. lovely words are mine.
And they will help me to remember
all the silly. lovely thought I had be-
fore / became just a woman. For
hours at time I shall be my old.
free self. Between times 1 shall he
my woman-self again for a mans
sake. He shall have his wife to love
him and comfort him, and even per-
haps sew his buttons on. But there
shall be Barbara Locke, too, by
Heaven she added fiercely.
(Copyright. 1926)
Evening star., 1926-12-26

The more important pests of agri-
culture and forestry in the United
States are of foreign origin, according
to the Federal Horticulture Board,
which acts as the police authority OF
the Department of Agriculture In
carrying out the provisions of the
plant quarantine act. by regulating
the entry of foreign plants and plant
products into this country.
Prior to 1912 there was no Federal
law which gave authority to restrict
or safeguard in any way the entry of
plants or plant products for the pur-
pose of excluding such pests. There
are many hundreds of minor imported
pests and at least a hundred major
plant pests. 1t Is ,conservatively esti-
mated that such imported farm and
forest pests now cause crop losses of
upward of a billion dollars year.
The first and unsuccessful attempt
to secure national plant quarantine
legislation followed the San Joe scale
scare in the early nineties. The sec
ond and ultimately successful effort to
enact domestic crop, protection was
occasioned by the risk which became
very apparent in the years 1908 and
1909 of the entry and wide distri-
button throughout the United States
of the gypsy and brown-tail moths
through importationS> of uninspected
nursery stock, Other dreaded enemies
of agriculture were the potato wart
disease and Mediterranean fruit fly.
The membership of the Federal
Horticulture Board is composed of
representatives of the Bureau of Plant
Industry, Forestry and Entomology,
appointed by the Secretary of Agricul.
ture. The board, under the provisions
of the plant quarantine act, not only
regulates the entry of foreign plants
and their products, but supervises do
mestic plant quarantines, to pre-
vent the spread within the United
States of such pests as the pink boil
worm, Japanese beetle. European corn
borer, citrus canker. white pine blis-
ter rust, black stem rust, flag smut,
take-all diseases of wheat and thur
IBERIA weevil.
For the enforcement of it's various
quarantine and regulatory orders, the
board maintains an Inspection serv-
ice at the principal ports of entry of
the United States and along the Mexi-
can border and in Porto Rico. The
board also provides for the disin-
fection at specified ports of entry of
all imported lint cotton. involving the
control of about half million bales
annually. oyer--a hundred State Of
Evening star., 1926-12-26

will show her. And she will be sorry.
And you'll find plenty of nicer girls
who will believe in you"
DO you believe in me?" he asked.
Yes she said and kissed him
again.
He stood up, ashamed of his child
ishness. II don't know what's been
the matter with me-" he said.
She knew; the matter with him was
that he was man. But she didn' t
tell him so.
You're all right now. aren't your"
Yes he said.
And she knew he was.
He looked around for his hat.
You were going to let me buy your
dictionary" she reminded him.
He flushed. "Oh, | couldn't let you
buy it," he said.
She knew that it was useless to
argue the matter. Besides, what was
a little money to him now? He had
what was really necessary-the re-
newed belief in himself that only a
woman can give.
Wont you take it-for remem.
brance?" he said.
For remembrance; yes"
They shook hands. and he strode
out. At the door he turned and said:
You've been wonderful
Evening star., 1926-12-26

lis how / came to he in your room. "
She suddenly realized that this boy,
who might be Henry's younger
brother, was by no means so we'll
nourished as Henry; in fact, he looked
as though he were starving.
Il do need dictionary" she said.
Wen talk about it in just moment.
I'm making myself some lunch now.
Won't you join me? Please do. My
name is Barbara Locke. What 8
yours?" She smiled and held out her
hand.
Hugh Lorimer,"- he said. II don't
think that / can-"
"Sit down." she said firmly.
He sat down.
You're a writer?" she asked. pres
emily, as she put the coffee on.
"Yes-sort Of"
WHAT"
"Well-a poet" he admitted un-
comfortably.
Here" she said. giving him plate
with big sandwich and pickle,
start in on this. The coffee will be
ready in minute"
He was hungry. But it was the
coffee that thawed him out. He began
to talk, and without much difficulty
she had his whole story. 1t was
simple enough He had told 1t all when
he said he was poet. :. But
Evening star., 1926-12-26
Accuracy of Science.

FOR most of us the knowledge that
a meter is 3.37 inches longer. than
yard Is quite sufficient. We must
know as much as that. because the
metric system of measures is so
widely employed that one constantly
finds 1t necessary to turn meters into
feet or yards. But the refinements of
modern science demand a far higher
degree OF accuracy in measurement
than is perhaps ever dreamed OF in
the ordinary walks of life. The pains
taken to obtain precise standards of
measure are almost beyond belief of
one who is not familiar with scientific
methods.
Every one knows that so-called
standard bars, on which the exact
length of the yard and the meter are
marked. are in the possession of the
governments of the United States.
Great Britain. France and other coun-
tries, but every one does not know
with what care these standards have
been compared and with what pa
tience they have been minutely meas"
ured again and again.
Evening star., 1926-12-26
Curious Fossil Find.

IRON the clay of a railway cut
ting near Spokane, in the State
of Washington, there was found a
tiny bit of vegetable fiber. the leaf
of gingko-tree which must have
fiourished something like 100, 900
years ago. There are fossils of even
greater age. of course, but this leaf
IS still leaf, not a mere imprint in
stone; and ii is beyond question the
oldest known bit of vegetable matter
in the world. The particular species
10 which it belonged became extinct
long ago: its only surviving relative
IS the gingkO-tree of Japan. It's ap-
pearance at the point where il was
found proves to geologists that il
grew and fell when the Cascade and
Coast Range Mountains had not yet
been formed. and the RocNles them
AelvesAvere young.
Evening star., 1926-12-26
Tailless Airplane.

~ vented an airplane that is
claimed to be the safest and most
flexible ever built has succeeded in
turning out a machine that can be
operated at speeds varying from 10
to 200 miles an hour.
According to the designer. no ad
ditional or violent stresses can take
place even when the aviator is
f1attening out after volplane; and
the machine has no tail to be broken
in climbing. He says that 1t is abso-
lutely impossible for his machine to
corkscrew. overturn or 'loop-the-
loop" Ills model is said to be radi-
cally different from that of any other
airplane, but nevertheless capable of
using any of the usual airplane en-
gines and propellers.
Evening star., 1926-12-26

her wisdom already; for the rest of
her stay she was vague and repeti-
tious. and when she found that Mr..
Riggs neither got drunk and beat her,
nor gambled away all his money, nor
ran after other women, she was in
clined to be indignant at Barbara.
You don't know what a prince among
men you've got.' she said. That's
the trouble with women--when they're
lucky, they don't know itp'
X X
GO Barbara, left at last alone, had
- to think things for herself. She
was little shaken by the memory of
Mrs. Casey's reproaches. For Mrs.
Evening star., 1926-12-26

oh" she said. clinging tight to the
big bag Of food she had almost drop
ped.
He turned from where he was sit
ting at the table. thumbing the leaves
OF the little dictionary-and then
| jumped UP. I'm sorry!'
And then, as he said nothing else,
| she told him severely, This is my
ROOM"
/ II suppose so.'' he said. you see
it was mine"
She again said OH And she
added, Then that is your dictionary.
| His presence thus satisfactorily ac
counted for. she put down her bundle
of food
Yes" he said, II thought"
"Well?"
II saw somebody had been using
my dictionary"
"YeS-I was"
II didn't know, of course. And !
thought was waiting here for
| that person to come back | thought
| he might possibly need dictionary
| And | was hoping / could sell it to-
! him. That" he concluded painfully,