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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-22

The fabrics Mellow Moon Crepe
and Char Nova Rrocade are as
new and different a. the styles.
\ new combination OF ravon and
wool and the popular Rajah. kaska
and flannel are other materials
that make an unusual collection OF
sport dresses.
Kick pleats. tucks. patterned or
hrocade blouses with plain skirts,
embroidery in wool in contrasting
colors. quilted pockets. Ushaped
hemstitched blouse fronts and bal
loon sleeves are some OF the fash
ion details that make these dresses
smart
In all the lovely new pastel shades.
The model sketchcd is a soft pa stcl,
maize Jersey blouse with striking
striped flannel skirt S3S.
Sportsuear Section. Third hoor.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1926-06-17

town was the one that was hit" sale
one Sank Centre resident. "They had
different characters in Alexandria all
pegged as the ones Lewis wrote about
and they were so sore they barred the
book from the Alexandria public
library"
But that was some years ago that
Alexandria and Sank Centre felt a
mutual concern regarding what resi-
dents of both cities felt had been
the caricature of their inhabitants.
Now Sank Centre admits, albeit with
reservations, that the burden of Sin
clair Lewis and his book is all its own
and claims also as its right such
benefits as accrue.
"Main Street" has a prominent
place in Sank Centres public library,
and the townsmen, smiliingly, admit
that their city, through Lewis and
what they term as his eccentric gem
ius, has received ga million dollars
worth of publicity" and they have
come to the conclusion that it is the
wiser civic policy to utilize that pub
licity as best they may.
Thousands of summer ourists, on
the way to the lake region, make
it a point to drive through Sank
Centre, though the route may be
miles out of their way, to visit Gopher
Prairie, and Sank Centre is willing
at last to accept the coin, is proud in
a way of its own celebrity and even.
yes even of Sinclair Lewis himself,
who is, after all, Sank Centres own
son, the red haired lad they all used
to know, grown up.
And to one man in Sank Centre
there is pride without the reservation
that his townsmen feel in the novel
lists career.
The man is DR.. E. ]. Lewis, the
writer's father.
DR.. Lewis has been practicing
physician in Sank Centre for more
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1926-06-17

from long neglect, bespoke the hard
practice of the country practicitioner,
of night trips to country bedsides
when a physician must be surgeon,
pharmacist and friend. Old works on
medicine filled a corner cupboard of
the office. They, too, showed long
unuse for it has been several years
since DIR. Lewis has practiced active
ly although he still maintains his Of
fee and is called frequently in con-
situations.
It was bitter disappointment to
the physician, his townmen say, that
Harry refused to follow the profess
sion of medicine. But he, with the
others, is willing to admit now that
perhaps it was just as well"
The home of DR.. Lewis is a pleas
ant two-story stucco house that
stands on a shaded street in Sank
Centres residence district. In the
last few years the place has become
almost a shrine of visitation by Sin
clair Lewis admirers. It was in this
house that the author spent his boy
hood days. He was born in home
that stood across the street from the
present residence.
Sinclair Lewis mother died when
he was small boy. He was reared
by stepmother, whom Sank Centre
residents characterize as one of the
finest, most cultured woman who ever
lived in the city. She, too, has been
dead several years now.
DR.. Lewis lives alone in the old
home, but still not quite alone, for he
has his memories and fathers pride
in the achievements of his son, pride
that down in their hearts is shared
by all Sank Centres residents, for the
man who made their city famous. a
little sharply, perhaps, but neyerthe-
less famous, as the Gopher Prairie of
his Main Street tale.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1926-06-17

than 40 years He is growing feeble
now. His eyes are somewhat dim
but not so dim but that they light
with the luster of parental pride when
he speaks about his son.
He has been asked to talk about
Harry" many times in the last few
years. Never day passes, he says,
but some stranger visits his office
over the drug store at Third and
Main streets, to ask about the writ
er's early life.
But the story of his son is one he
never tires of discussing.
"Harry always was bright boy"
he said the other day. "He was very
keen of perception. l could take him
on walk with the other lads. Claude
who's physician now at St. Cloud
and Fred, who's a business man at
Bertha, and Harry would see things
that both the other boys missed.
Sometimes, it would be bird S
nest, sometimes a different kind of
weed or flower, always something that
he saw that the others failed to OBJ
serve. I suppose that's one of the
things that made him a writer, that
faculty of seeing little things that
others never noticed"
Recently, DR.. Lewis was busy with
his plans for a visit with his son.
Never since the writer became of
adult age and left home has he failed,
once year, to return for visit with
his father. Recently, DR.. Lewis re-
ceived a telegram from Sinclair an
nouncing that he would arrive home
in a few days and the old physician
was down at his office supervising
it's "tidying up" in anticipation of the
sons homecoming.
1t is an old fashioned office, access
sible from a covered stairway that
leads up on the outside of the build
ing from Third Street. A battered
physicians case, dust covered now
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1926-06-17
sSauk Centre Has Sheepish
Pride in Sinclair Lewis, Says
St. Paul Dispatch Staff Writer

was such person living here. She
was just plain nut that Red (they
call Sinclair Lewis Red, or by his
given name Harry" in his own home
town. manufacture" they insist.
There are other reservations, too,
in the admission Sank Centre resi-
dents make of their towns identity
as Gopher Prairie. Among themselves
they have talked over the novels
characters and have spotted many of
the towns jewellers as the originals
from which they were drawn. But to
outsiders they insist that such iden-
tifcation of character is only coin
cidence.
"They could have lived in any town
in Minnesota or of any other state in
the country" they say. "They were
only types" And then the common
tator will grin, half shamedly, half
proud and add, "But gosh, that boy
can write. Those Gopher Prairie
characters were sure true to life"
AS further proof of the fact that
Gopher Prairie characters were only
types, that Lewis in his writing had
not singled out particular individuals
as his originals, Sank Centre towns
folk point to the rage that Alexan-
dria residents felt, few miles up the
road, when s'Main Street" first ap-
peared.
"They thought up there that their
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1926-06-17

Sinclair Lewis is the most talked of
private individual in the United
States today. Incidentally Sank
Centre, as the former home of the dis
tinguished author is kept in the lime
light. Hundreds of people each year
visit Sank Centre to get glimpse
of the "Original Main Street."
The st. Paul Dispatch and Pioneer
Press are running series of articles
entitled Gopher Trails" About three
weeks ago the correspondent visited
Sank Centre. He called at the Her.
aid to get the '1ivest" topic for a
story, and he was directed to see DIR.
E. J. Lewis and write his narrative
around Sank Centres famous author.
The story appeared in the st. Paul
Dispatch Friday. The Herald believes
it is of sufficient interest to the peo-
lie of this community to be pub
lished in full herewith:
r.
IBy a Staff Correspondent, st. Paul
.... Dispatch.)
Sank Centre, June 10.-Even
though it be for purposes of publicity
only, Sank Centre admits at last that
it is Gopher Prairie.
Main Street fiaunts today the de-
signation made famous by the town.
red-headed, though Grant son, Sim
clair Lewis. On one side of its
thoroughfare an eating house pro-
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1926-06-17

claims it's name, "The Main Street
Cafe," and facing on the other side
its rival boasts the cognomen of
ssGopher Prairie Inn
Inside the corner drug store be-
hind the counter, of which one is
, almost disappointed not to see Dave
oyer simpering in the flesh is post
card rack filled with Main Street
views and pictures of the residence of
DR.. E.. J. Lewis, the house that was
the novelist's boyhood home.
Recently, in view of its reserved
admission of identity, Sank Centre
prepared to welcome its son. 1t was
a greeting, shame faced, somewhat
restrained, for Sank Centre only re-
Gently was very wroth, but proud for
all of that for Sank Centre feels that
Sinclair Lewis is its very own prod
ICY, grown great, and is willing to
forgive the fact that greatness was
achieved somewhat at the towns own
expense.
Also, Sank Centre has basked now
for years in the reflected light of Sim
clair Lewis fame and, taking the mat
ter by and large, the basking has not
been unpleasant. 1t has been profit
able, measured by the cold. hard
standard Of dollars and cents.
For in the years since the puhlica-
ton of 'sMain Street." there scarce
" has been a day, residents of the
town assert, that there have not been
visitors attracted to the city solely
because it is the birthplace OF Sim
clair Lewis and because they wish to
see for themselves the persons and
the places portrayed so vividly in the
tale he told of Gopher Prairie folks.
There were some characters in the
~ to whom Sank Centre will not
re reconciled, notably Carol Kenni-
colt, herself, the heroine of the tale.
<tShe was fictitious. Sank Centre
residents still declare. "There never
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1926-06-17

In the picture at the top is shown
Main Street, Sank Centre, Mimi, the
most advertised municipal thorough
fare in America outside of Broadway,
due to Sinclair Lewis famous novel.
The author was born and reared in
Sank Centre. Below is the house III
which the author of the widely-reai
Gopher Prairie" novel spent the
greater part of his boyhood and early
manhood. The inset picture is DR..
E. j. Lewis, his father.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-04
In the Wake of the News

thru the organization OF Labor Party. Brophy has
the right idea and we hope that the miners will
to it that his slate is not counted out.
TT Is rather instructive also amusing to watch the
diplomatic contest now being waged between the
governments of the United States and Mexico. 1t
appears that the American note writer's have more
rifles In the corner, but the Mexicans have more
brains under their fedOras rather cute q
Gales to remind Wall Street that No less person
than woodrow Wilson was responsible for Article n
OF the Mexican constitution, the very article thst
our good man Kellogg and Charlie Hughes before
him. berated the Mexicans TOR having formulated,
the argument being that only in the minds Of Do
PRAYED revolutionary Latins could such subversivs
ideas be conceived Our readers ara urged to watcA
the comedy.
THE ruling classes OF Massachusetts have worked
their bones thru the skins of their elbows trying
to bring about the assassination OF Tacco and Van
zetti in the electric chair on a frameu-up charge Of
having murdered shoe factory paymaster Both
men as innocent of the crime as Socrates They
were framed because they were labor organizers Of
the kind that less for per capita tax than for
labor solidarity and results in terms Of better living
for the workers. 1t is a significant commentary
on the growth OF class consciousness among
the workers, despite labor banking and COM
pany unionism. that American labor and world labor
succeeded in prevep'iTc III boodthrsty capitalist
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-04
By T. J. OFlaherty

cannibals Of Massachusetts from taking the lives
of Sacco and Vanzettf. Now, American labor is
asked to make supreme effort to save those men
and we believe the job win be done. With the l. l.
D. on the job and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn in active
charge Of the campaign to organize national con
ference to Sacco and Vanzetl there is reason to
believe that the effort win be successful
least onehalf Of the foreign news page OF tia
Chicago Daily News OF last Monday was devoted
10 Chinese news. The Cantonese armies wers going
ahead as Il they we're hiking to picnic. Chang Tso
Ln Of Manchuria. who would make an admirable
acquisition to the Al Capons bootleggins gang Of
Cicero. declared that the why the Cantonese
were winning was not due to superior vslor on the
part Of the Cantonese troops but fact that the
opposition would not fight. II the Cantonese feel
the same way about it do the answer to Chang
win be Ishkabibble' What Of itf The fact is that
the Cantonese represent the only organized force
for hundreds Of years in China with program for
the benefit Of the Chinese masses an organization TO
put life into the program and enough dynamite to
take life out OF those who opposed it. This is both
q lively and deadly combination 1t all depends
on the angle from which you view the situation
WHEN Martin Luther nailed his thesis on the door
W Of a little church and impolitey told the pope
to go and take bath, Martin nttle knew that he
Continued page 2)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-04

THE hungry unemployed who enjoyed a thanks
giving dinner at the hands Of some charitable"
organization should have the sumptuous meal digest
ed by now. Where are they going to get the next
meal? Oh yes, the Salvation Army will feed them
Christmas Eve and then all is slack until next
Thanksgiving was John Boyle oRefly, editor of
paper that ia now the Official organ of Cardinal
oConnell of Boston, who tore the fgleaf of charity
when he said: Organized charity, scrimped and
iced, in the pay Of cautious statistical Christ"
something to that effect Charity is capitalist
buner like religion. 1t does not remedy. It merely
creates the Illusion that capitalism takes Of its
victims
TT,TIE campaign to elect the Brophy ticket in the
- United Mine Workers Union seemss to be NAH
ing the greatest progress in the anthracite coal
region. stronghold OF the Lewis machine. 1t is no
exaggeration to say that on the election of the
Brophy slate depends the existence OF the miners
union. II John l.. Lewis is elected, or should say
II he succeeds in counting out Brophy, the union
"a doomed. Lewis stands for collaboration with the
coal operators. This is a fatal pocy-to the coal
diggers On the other hand Brophys policy is to
organize the coal miners one hundred per cent ma
tonalizs the coal industry and Link up the coal
mining army with all the rest OF abors forces, with
the object OF fighting the entire capitalist class OF
the United States, the industrial field, thru mill
tant industrial unionsm and the political field
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-21
The Daily Worker Must Be Saved

There only working class daily published the
English in the United States and that The DAILY
WORKER This may contested by those who
of the existence of the MGWkee Leader and the Seattle Union
Record but peual of those sheets will the
reader that they prOearan character than the
Hearst press.
The IGl0Gukee depends advertising for
existence therefore it the interests that provide the
and its dOcOred appeal the type of mind that de
mands nsatonasm Intimate stories of human rates rather
than constructive of working efforts is the that the
Milwaukee Leader lays before its clients 1t is socialist
but in only.
The Seattle has the press looking
competitor in the business serving aaciy the public
1t has lost vtgae its original labor character
tain labor that the capitalist newspaper
THE DAILY WORKER must be admitted by friend foe has
other except the working While
aims interest the of workers the
levels of developed by the sensation mongerng capitalist press
Neither does THE DAILY WORKER depend advertising
The business elements that paper enemy
everything they stand for Even had circulation
where considerations of profits might outweigh
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servatve labor paper the London Daily Herald practically
coed by the big advertisers outside of nationally known
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Daily Herald is half Million which that it
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to papers that stand for the capitalist system
THE DAILY depends for support ENTIRELY on
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the American workers have daily
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-21

They must see to it that the general
council does not dare to break up
the Anglo-Russian Committee which
has been formed as a result of the
determination of the workers Of Great
Britain and the Soviet Union to or
ganize the struggle for trade union
unity and against the offensive of
capital. The committee was never
more necessary to the workers and
above all to the fighting miners, than
it is today.
TT is the task of the British workers
l. to force the general council and its
delegation in the Anglo-Russian Unity
Committee to participate in the cam
paign of support for the miners with
all possible means. gs
Should the general council refuse to
support the miners, it is necessary
to brand them once again as traitors
and to see to it that new members
are put in the place of the old who
who worthy to bear the name of rep
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-21

THE general council, however, also
L put condition for its participation
in the campaign to support the min
Soviet Labor Unions. This condition
was that all its crimes committed
against the British and the world pro-
letariat be forgiven.
The representative Of the general
council at the conference of the 30-31
of July demanded that the revolution
airy unions of the U. S. s. r. with
draw their statement in which they
published the truth concerning the
.treachery of the general council to
the toilers of the world. Under these
circumstances the miners struggle
has a more than ordinary importance.
THE British miners are the advance
i guard of the British proletariat
and are defending the interests Of
the proletariat against the offensive
Of capital. 1t is the task Of the Brit
ish proletariat to ensure the victory
of the heroic miners at all cost.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-21

Where there are segregated schools
for Negroes, the Negro school gradual
ly becomes school only in name-a
sort of excuse to say to the outside
world: Eyes, we have schools for the
Negroes. The only reason why they
are not up with the white people in
intelligence and education, is their ma
tural inferiority, you see." They know
that they are lying. and that In truth
they are so robbing and limiting the
Negro schools that even II blacks were
superior by nature, they would still
have to remain inferior in education
al attainments. Where there are
separate schools for Negroes. those
Negroes enjoy just one equality in the
school system the equal right to pay
the taxes for the support Of the whole
school system, and mainly 10 educate
white people.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-21

vate capital is beginning to press for
ward, and at the most dangerous point
of it's attack it has regained the level
of 1924. Thus matters stand at pres
emit.
TURNING to our state economics,
communal undertakings, and coop
eratives, we find the net proceeds Of
our socialized economic enterprises to
have been 1925 million roubles in the
year 1924-25; in the economic year
1925-26 the sum will probably be 1886
millions (the final calculation is not
yet finished, so l can only take the
probable flgure.) This is clear profit.
Thus if we accept the most favorable
estimate of the gainsnof private CAPT
tai, as calculated by Kutler, first cor
recting the amouSt in. the manner de-
scribed above. by deducting the
amount of capital consumed by pri-
vate capital from its net profits, then
we shall see that our state economics
are established on firm basis, and
give no cause of anxiety as to the flu
ture of our development towards So
cialist state of society. believe that
the further progress of our economics
is bound to strengthen our position.
MTE must not forget that we have
w already proved our maneuvering
capacity in this sphere. A few years
ago, quite comparatively short time
ago, we exercised pressure upon pri-
vate capital, and began to supplant
it with extraordinary rapidity; as soon
as we saw that we had drawn the
reins a little too tight, we loosened
them again. It has been seen that we
are able to do this. These repeated
tactics for the control of private cap
ital have shown clearly that our state
power is fully able to regulate at will
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-21

and that, should actual danger arise
from private capital, we can at once
apply the lever Of our credit system
as we have already done before-the
lever of our railway transport, of our
taxation apparatus, and of our whole
economic apparatus, and thus rapidly
push aside private capital if needs
be. vs.
THE existing relations of class
4 forces show us where to apply the
necessary levers at any given mo-
ment. We see for instance that pri-
waite capital has now turned its atten-
ton to the villages. This must stimu-
late ne to strengthen our own position
there. We. see that only recently pri-
vate capital was using our state credit
to too great an extent. Here we had
to apply pressure. We see that we
can learn from private capital how to
increase the rapidity of circulation, for
we observe that the means of private
than our means in the more unwieldy
and bureaucratic state institutions.
Here pressure must be exercised to
accelerate circulation. We see that
private capital exploits the investor,
especially the contractors with whom
it deals, and attracts outside capital
with the aid of a minimum of its own.
We have not yet shown ourselves cap
able of doing this. We have not yet
adequately exploited agricultural &C
emulation for the uplift of our indus
try and our co-operatives. Here it is
again needful to draw the logical con-
conclusions is true. but it is quite
wrong to say that private capital
hangs over us like threatening thun-
dercloud. This is perfect nonsense.