The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-09

flying field in the industrial district
Tomorrow is the day of the Zenith Cup.
This black and white plain, full of smoking
chimneys and covered with cinders, with its
low city workshops, what a contrast with the
splendor of that Coast of JOY, perfumed with
the sum- or lighted at night as bright as day!
The four factories which make the four cor
ners of the flying field belong to the Baron de
Chest, or at least to corporations which. he
controls. Automobile and airplane parts are
made there, andsexperiments on all sorts of in
dustrial patents are carried on / see files of
workingmen on their way to work before sun
rise n DisgoTged, by the railroad station, they
come along the railroad embankment. They
are outlined against the sea- Each one carries
a lunchbox, some of themscarry their tools. It
is gloomy procession. Already their heads
are bowed-in the dawn!
These files of working men give the plain the
aspect of a battlefield, and make desolate the
sea which one sees behind them. The Joy of
work is not here. They have no joy, they have
no AIM no ideal. They are strangers to their
tasks They have not even faces. And yet,
together, they make everything real.
Even more than the contrast between things
is the contrast here between people; between
these, and the rich in the sum- There is not in
the whole world black and white more sharply
contrasted.
Poor people! -. 1 leap to the wheel The
door slams, and in the twinkling of an eye
devour with delight the fresh morning air.
MARK yawning is busy in his laboratory. Is
. he busy. with his experiments, No; but
he is always busy. While. he; was still at the
college Of sFouioisgg 47g vas always BUSY. He
thinks about the world of fashion This engin-
eer is man of the world. think it is the most
evolved type of the species; if you carried him
back to the medieval scene he would seem
unreal and made up out of literature!
clever technician-he experiments with
new inventions-he puts aside all his science
as soon as he can, fascinated by the gestures
of smart society. 1t is fever in him.. He is
up in all the incalcuable details of the chron-
icle of luxury and money-and Chest knows
that the Riviera is alive with all sorts of world
ly culture! He struggles desperately on the
rim of that gilded whirlpool. He is living
document, always legible and great talker-.
and often strangled and wild-eyed with the
embarrassment of choosing! .aazs,s
Upon seeing me, he first of all gets rid of a
bit of professional information:
You know, theye invented an asphyxiating
gas which will annihilate whole populations
like fash And as for new explosives-you
ought to see Them old MANI
am ready for anything. laugh.
q you know" adds Mark, ''they dug up an
awful scandal about the decision on the affair
of the pier You know in this town which
isn't even county town, there are five hun
dred automobiles which cost more than two
hundred thousand francs. ~ Yesterday at
the Casino six gamblers had beside them stacks
of banknotes as big as dictionaries; how many
millions! You know that last scandal
that is going around. =. This and that.
and the other. . /. No, no one has any idea.
They're richer than you'd believe
"All the better for them"
Say; do you think it will last?. You
know, at the Winters masquerade last Thurs
day there was black masquer slim as a
spider He CRIED You're mistaken, to the
baroness Shammai when she said she had
black hair. He inspected the Lawrence pic
ture Lady Winter is so proud of and said with
the air of an expert: It's so good that it could
not be worse! Mr.. Bonneard, that half of an
old senator declared to q groun Resnect 10