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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1927-02-17
Washington's Birthday Will
Be Observed by Masons
Star in the West Lodge Will Be
Host to Eastern Stars at Ma
sonic Temple Tuesday

The anniversary of the birth
of George Washington is red
letter day in the ANIMAL of Mason
airy as the Father of His Country
was one of the foremost Masons
of his time.
To commemorate the event prop
erly Star in the West Lodge of this
city will be hosts to the members
of the Eastern Star at the Masonic
Temple Tuesday evening, Feb. %.
An informal program peculiar
ly fitted for the occasion has been
arranged. There will be vocal and
instrumental music and refresh
ments.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1927-02-17
FARGO RATE CASE
MAY BE RE-OPENED
Shippers Are Summoned to
Hearing on Case Satur-
day at St. Paul
THIS CITY AFFECTED
Order Was Made by Inter
State Commerce Com
mission

Herald readers will recall that
in September 1925 the Interstate
Commerce Commission promul-
gated railroad freight rates inaug-
urated by the jobbers of Fargo,
N. D., which has since worked a
hardship on many cities in Min
nesota, Sank Centre included.
In putting the new rates over
the Twin City Jobbers and the
Minnesota Railroad and Ware
house Commission were "asleep
at the switch"
Sank Centre directly affected
by this order. Under the rate as
promulgated a 100-lb. sack of
flour can be shipped from Alex
andria to this city much cheaper
than it could be shipped from
this city to Alexandria.
The Minnesota Railroad and
Warehouse commission and the
Jobbers have made several at
tempts to have the ruling rescind-
ed or modified but without sue
cess to date. From the following
story in the Minneapolis Journal
of Tuesday evening it appears that
the Interstate Commerce will re-
open the case:
"Reopening the Fargo rate case
and revision of schedules in THE
Fargo decision today were con-
sidered probable by Minneapolis
shippers, after o. P. B. Jacobson,
chairman of the state railroad
and warehouse commission, called
an informal conference of car
riers and shippers for Saturday
at 10 a. m. in his office.
"The Fargo and Watertown
rate decisions, handed down by the
Interstate Commerce Commission
in 1925, were protested by Twin
City shippers on the ground that
schedules created were discrimin-
atory. 1t was argued Fargo was
able to ship into Twin City trade
territory at more favorable rates
than those provided for shipments
from these cities.
"Saturday's conference was
called at the suggestion of j., B.
Campbell of the Interstate Com
merce Commission, who will at
tend. Minneapolis shippers con-
sidered action of the commission
in taking the initiative as a friend
ly overture, and said they believed
the conference will result in re-
opening the two cases, conducting
formal hearings and revising the
present schedule of tariffs pend
ing commission decision on rail
road demands for general upward
revision of class freight rates in
western trunk line territory.
schedules published in the
Fargo decision became effective
September IL, 1925, and increas-
ed class rates to points in Mime
sofa $50 miles or less from Far
go on shipments from Minneapo-
lis, st. Paul, Moorhead, Duluth,
Crookston, Fergus Falls, Thief
River Falls, Detroit Lakes, Wa
dena, Brainerd, Sank Centre, st.
Cloud and Wilmar.
"The Watertown decision tar
CONTINUED on Page Tenn
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1927-02-17
LEGISLATURE HAS
BUDGET REPORT
Appropriations Asked Are
Below Limit Set by
Governor
BUILDING PLANS HIT
Educational Requests Have
Hard Shedding in Reco-
mendations

ST. Paul, Mimi, Feb. 14-Gov-
ernor Theodore .Chlistianson to-
day laid the biennial budget on
the floor of the Minnesota legis-
lature-a veritable $39,632,097.-
80 bomb-which is expected to be
ignited by the fire of opposition
from opponents of the big three
The budget shows the scars of
slashes made by the $685. S7.17
cuts from the 'big three" pruning
knife and is $1,102,225.31 less
than the appropriations made by
the 1925 legislature.
Governor Christensen accom-
panied the budget figures with a
brief message, complimenting A.
j. Peterson, Henry Rines and III.
w. Austin of the department of
administration of finance, on their
efforts to hold down recommended
tions without seriously Gripping
any state department or activity.
In his inaugural message the
governor fixed the. maximum ap-
preparation figure for the next
two years at $40,644,353.21, and
has since repeatedly threatened
to exercise his veto power to keep
within the total allowed in 1925.
Therefore, the total sum as rec
commended by Commissioner Pet
erson, submitted by the governor
today allows the legislature lee
way of about $1,000,000 before
reaching the danger line.
State aid to schools, teachers
colleges and the state university
were the hardest hit by the cuts
showing a total reduction of $4,-
538,367 from the amounts re-
quested.
Major budget slashes follow:
| State aid to schools, $2,641, 900
teachers colleges, $1,005.323
state university, 1891, 446; penal
and charitable institutions, $685..
500; university special activities,
principally for country agricul-
tural agents, agricultural extern
sion and research bureaus $454,-
400; state agricultural society
(new swine barn and other i'm
provements) $4,000; state game
and fish department, $245.534;
livestock sanitary board, $685.
GIT; secretary of state (princip-
ally motor vehicle bureau) $780,.
220; state board of health, STA.
628, and state soldiers home
| sos, 488.
! Reductions made from the am
cunts requested for Teachers col.
| leges and the institutions under
the state board of control are &C.
counted for almost entirely by
elimination of items for new build.
ings, or other permanent i'm.
provements, while the big cut il
| the amount asked for state aid tt
schools in harmony with the known
attitude of Gov. Christensen, WHIT
vetoed the so-called supplemental
school aid bill passed by the 1927
| legislature.
| Reductions were made in each
/ of the IL items in the budget re
quest of the state board of health
4 the major cuts being: for mater.
nifty and infancy protection, $751;.
]. 900; sanitary engineering labora-
tory, $18,840; steam pollution
$40, 900; preventable disease.
$13,465, and venereal diseases
I$14,578-
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1927-02-17
TooLEY OPERA TONIGHT

One of the big numbers of
the Sank Centre Lyceum
course will be at the Junior
High School Auditorium this
Thursday evening when the
Tooiey Opera Company will
present tuneful "Chimes of
Normandy" The splendid
ability of MIR. Tooley is given
full range in this production.
Seats are on sale at the Corr
ner Drug Store.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1927-02-17

Supt. H. A. Falk went to Long
Prairie Thursday Of last week
where he judged a debate between
Long Prairie and Cass Lake with
the former winning 80.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1927-02-17

Why doesn't New York just or
ganize an eight-team major league
inside the city and always have a
winner?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-18
The Voice Of Britain's ImperiaIists

Two things cause the hypocrital smile of capitalist demo
ray disappear and its lips to draw back from its teeth in
snarl
One is strike or some other protest by work
ers other revolt Of colonial peoples against imperas
rule.
Sir Mitchell Thomson who as chief civil commissioner dur
ing general Britain instrumental in putting the
police military basis has opportunity to dis
play his talents behalf of the empire Sir Mitchell Thomson
with Sir William JoynsonHcks home secretary ably secondng
his motion declares that all those who the shipment of
troops China should be stood against wall and shot
The Communists of Great Britain distributed leaflets
bound troop conngents urging them refuse to
shoot workers and peasants for the benefit of lords
dukes landlords and capitalists and British imperiasts
alarmed They may well be because such things get
started is hard to tell where they going stop and in these
days of establishment OF the once creduous masses is entirely
possible that Thomas Atkins do of two thngsreuse
coona go step farther and shoot few mpeasts
such of their lackeys may be within
Middle liberals and social democrats will protest against
SUCH crassss Sir Thomson exhibits They will explain that
the sentiments of the section of the British
ruling andths exactly where they will be mistaken
consciously trying to deceive the masses.
only Sir Thomson in deadly earnest but he speaks for
section of the British ruling class which really countshe
scaed who will hesitate nothing suppress not only
attempts to win the army and the navy TO the SIDE OF the Masses
but the struggles of the for better wages and improved
working conditions.
Those who laugh like those by Sir Mitchell
Thomson of kindsenemes of the working class and
fools.
The armies and Of imperas powers organized
trained fire at three tagetrva mperast nations
workers and peasants of the colonial and semoona countries
the working class at home But IN no war with rival does
the of mprast ruling class reach the high point does
struggle is with the working class with national be
alton movements like that in China
when the working class of imperas nation makes
with the colonial that the rulers have the
greatest worry and is exactly the fear of this
which produces the codbooded righteousness of
Thomson.
But the Communists the workers of Britain
way and spite threats this is the way the British working
class will ravsOoner than Sir Mitchell Thomson thinks
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-18
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IMPERIALISM WORLD POLITICS." by Parker Macmillan
$780,
EUROPEAN editors and public slow to attach the imperial
the United They still
still dudd by the so
voice Is
raised against "the American Empire
that
ton and the evident sympathy which
it's struggle to mancate itself from the leading strings of American
ca Imperialism
Wemformed
United States is playing Prof p T. Mon Columbia University
of
today Describing the notes
the failures and then writes of the successful Empires
Britain Russia and America" A the
States boldly and frankly set themselves the
u Of carving out supendou colonial empress and the
feeling
for modest of colonial territory"
This Prof Moons States
has obtained colonial empire Take this fairly
Haiti Sano Domingo Nicaragua
beraand add it the list of territories possessions
grand total that will put the United States colonial place
for and for population and the
ence."
Capital is being exported trade being territory
acquired The United States all
opulent european predecessors SCOTT NEARING.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-18
Park Avenue Nursed By
Mr.. H. Gordon DuvaI
! Who Likes His $-Bll

H. Gordon Duval is the founder
of the Park Ave. Association and
an ambitious fellow at that. So
we find that he has many ways of
making his association grow, and
incidentally to bring in the shekels
at the same time.
His method is as follows: He has
two divisions. His residential divi-
sion consists of one thousand mill
lionaire residents who pay him SIG
year each to maintain Park ave-
nue's exclusiveness.
The second dlrlsion consists of
merchants who pay Mr.. Duyal $50
a year each for the use Of the
names and addresses of the inhabi-
tants living in the wealthiest gold
coast district in the city.
When IL is all said and done, Mr..
Duyal is quite happy, thank you,
and may soon join his clients in
the millionaire class.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-18
'@on Gnslair

to take; the point is simply, no
senior student is in good social
standing until he or she has been
in Jail for at least thirty days in
a class struggle case"
"And the teachers ?" demanded
Gregor Nikolaieff.
"Once every three years, or every
five years for the teachers"
"And the founder! How often
for the founder?" Peter clamored
in glee; but Dan Irving said the
founder would have to wait until
he had got rid of his money.
They argued back and forth.
Could you interest young people in
the idea of self-discipline? Would
your danger be in setting the
standard too easy, so that you
wouldn't accomplish much, or in
setting it too high, so that you
wouldn't have any students? Bun
ny, the young idealist, was for set
ting it high; and Harry Seager said
that people would volunteer more
quickly to- die than they would to
get along without tobacco. And he
wanted to know, what were they
going to do about the Communists.
Harry was no politician any more,
he was a social revolutionist, and
only waiting for the day of action.
Regardless of what socialist party.
members might wish, they couldn't
keep Bolshevik students out of
college, and even if they did, the
ideas would bust in.
Bunny answered by setting forth
his ideal of the open mind. Why
couldn't the students do their own
educating, and make their own de-
cisions? Let the teachers give the
information they were asked for;
and then let the students thresh
it out-every class room and open
forum, and no loyalty except to
research and freedom They were
all willing to admit that there
would be no use starting sectar-
ian institution, to advocate one set
of doctrines and exclude the others.
Also, it took a partisan of each
doctrine to set it forth fairly. SO
then, here was Bunny pinning them
down; "Chaim, would you be will
ing for Harry to explain his ideas
to your class? Harry, would you
give Chain a chance to TALK"
Bunny could see his own job-the
arbitrator who kept these warning
fractions out of each others hair!
Then said Chain, the skeptic, II
want to know, vot are you going to
do about sex?"
Bunny admitted that this wor-
ried him. Il suppose we'll have to
conform to bourgeois standards"
ooh, my Cod" cried Peter Maggie.
let the bourgeoisie begin!"
Jacob Menzies, the student, had
just been reading a book about
Ruskin, the old time Socialist col
ony in Tennessee. 1t was the sex
problem which had broken up that
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-18

colony, he declared; and his father
chimed in, at will break up any
colony dat ever exists under capt.
taisml Qere is only yum way you
can make vun man live Wit yum
woman all his life, and date is to
shut dem up in a house togedder
and never let dem out. But if you
let dem get Wit odder couples, den
right away yum man finds he wants
some odder woman but de right
yum"
"But them" said Dan Irving,
according to bourgeois standards,
they get divorce"
"Sure tingw said Chain. "But
not in Socialist colony! If dey
would do it in colony, it would be
a free love nest, and you would be
on de front page of de papers, and
de American Legion come and bust
you in de SMOOTH
Ito Be Continued).
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-18

vi
What did they think about it?
Chain Menzies was, as always, the
first to speak, Perhaps his feel
ings had been hurt by the reference
to tobacco; anyhow, he said it
looked to him like it vas anodder
colony; you didn't change a colony
by calling it a college, and colony
vas de worst trap you could set for
de movement. you git people to
go off and live by themselves, diff
ferent from de rest of de workers,
and vedder dey are comfortable or
vedder dey ain't-and dey Won't be
all de time dey are linking about
something else but de class struggle
out in de world"
THAT'S quite true" said Bunny.
"But we shan't be so far from the
world, and the purpose of our train
ing will be, not the colony, but the
movement outside, and how to help
it."
Ode people vot are going to help
de movement has got to be in it
every hour. You git dem out yum
mont and dey are no good any
more; dey have got some sort of
graft den, something easy, dey are
no longer workers."
"But this isn't going to be so
easy, Comrade Chain"
Listen to himl He is going to
git nice young college ladies and
gentlemen to come and live lives
dat will not seem easy to de work.
ers!"
"You might as well admit it,
Bunny" put in Harry Seager.
you'll have a nice polite place,
with all the boys and girls wearing
William Morris costumes. They'll
work earnestly for a while, but
they'll never be efficient, and if you
really have any buildings put up,
or any food raised, you'll have
regulation hard listed workingmen
to do it. know, because we're
picking walnuts nowp'
don't want a poille place. salu
Bunny. 81 want a gymnasium
where people train for the class
struggle; and if we can't have dis
cipline any other way, how about
this as part of the course-every
student is pledged to go to Jail for
not less than thirty days"
"Attaboyl" cried Peter Maggie.
"Now you're talking!"
"Vot is he going to do--break de
speed laws?" inquired Chain, sar-
castically.
Hes going into Angel City and
picket in a strike. Or he's going
to hold socialist meetings on street
corners until some cop picks him
up. You don't need me to tell you
how to get arrested in the class
struggle, Comrade Chaim."
eyes, but he might run into some
Judge dat would not understand de
college regulation, and might give
him six mont's.'
"Well, that's a chance we'll have
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-18
Join The Workers (COmmunist) Party.
Efficiency Unionism" at Miami

capitalist press has difficulty in interpreting
recy meaning of the proposal made by President Lewis of
Mine Workers to the operators at Miami joint
sion with the wage scale committee of the union.
The New York World for instance states in its head to its
story proceedings that Lewis offers efficiency place
q wage cut
The synonymous. The Lewis proposal for a
tribunal composed Of technical experts and lawyers settle dis
puted questions the industry takes for granted that
pusory arbitration debatabe question although
the membership the has been allowed pass
it. effects of such policy clearly apparent
in the anthracite fields.
The left wing by putting the issue squarey before the
membership and consolidating all elements honestly willing to
fight the union from the of efficiency unionsm
will be able to defeat the Lewis machine.
The advocacy Of such policy compulsory arbitration
and efficiency methods when the union is faced with the
sbty of strike April first and needs to have its morale
highest possible level additional evidence of the
disregard for the interests of the rank and file shown
sstenty by President Lewis and his henchmen.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-18

ALPHA" Emery Balint, Macy
Masius, So.
You may sit around table in a
Greenwich Village speakeasy, expose
an adamappled neck to it's dim lights,
spit lava-and announce the birth of
proletarian art. But proletarian art
won't be born. 1t amt born that
way.
Here is an honest book by a young
Hungarian writer which represents
the reaction of a sensitive artist to
this cockeyed world. 1t is bitter,
negative book that exposes our Shiny
civilization-but it is not at all
proletarian. No more proletarian
than R. U. R.
Alpha is young artist who wastes
his time drawing pretty pictures,
playing with girls and attending
booze parties. He gets involved in a
sexual mix-up and drives a young
girl to- suicide. A troubled conscience
and profound disgust with the rapid
life drive him into an extended
drunk. Young Alpha winds up in
the hospital.
Then comes the war. Alpha, like
good many other young men,
plunges into it in the hope of per-
sonal salvation. Like a good many
other young men, he is bitterly dis
appointed. It's brutality breaks him.
He comes out of it half-mad.
He goes to live in a little village
where he is tolerated by an old peas
ant woman, who knows him. The
boys and girls of the village run after
him and call him names. Alpha is
half-mad.
One afternoon Alpha goes into a
little cafe, where swinish officers
and pot-bellied business men guzzle
beer and leer at the thinly-covered
bodies of cafe prostitutes. In a burst
of frenzy, he sets fire to the cafe.
The village burns down.
Alpha meets his death at the foot
of cross beneath the heels and the
pitchforks of the angry villagers.
The book is expressionistic-a
its episodes are, with one or two ex-
ceptions, convincing. Balint's bitter
ness is not matter of words; it's
not pose. It's intensity often makes
it unpleasant for the reader who is
accustomed to words.
Is alpha" proletarian? l do not
think SO. But that is not a criticism
against the book.
How can genuine piece of liter
allure be other than negative in de-
caying society? You may invoke the
revolution at the end of a poem or
novel and express the pious wish
that the revolution will change things
(Which, of course, it willy, but that
does not make your work of art
proletarian. Literature is rooted in
its social background; you can't get
proletarian literature until you get
complete change of social struc-
ture.
Take a native example. Mike Gold
has done some fine things. But his
best stuff is negative. 1t is a sweep
ing condemnation of putrid society
which confines children in dark
East Side tenements, which murders
steel workers, which drives factory
girls to prostitution. But Dickens
did that.
Capek, like Balint, is Commun-
list and an excellent artist. But his
work is negative and bitter, too.
Capitalist society, he tells us, makes
automatons of men; capitalist So
ciety brings out the ugliness in men.
Capek is an excellent artist, but he
is not a "proletarian" artist. How
can he be when bourgeois society is
putrid and the proletarian society
still unborn? Harry Freeman
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-18
..EssAYs OF REyoLT,v bv J

ESSAYS OF REVOLT" by Jack
London. Vanguard Press, New
York. $50.
How quaint these latter-day So +.
cialist manifestos sound! can pic
ture the first president of the Inter-
collegiate Socialist Society (now the
harmless League for Industrial De-
mocracy) giving his famous lecture
on Revolution" to the students at
Harvard in the fall of 1907. Jacl;
London, handsome, picturesque,-one
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-18

British Labor NJ Ps who exposed the horrors of Polish
prisons are now charged with being Communists Because their
visit had approval of Ramsay Macdonald the Polish fascist
trusted But the fact that they told the truth
proves concuvey that they Communists! The good presb
terrain Macdonald is being continually imposed on.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-18

McEntee of Philadelphia needed housekeeper she
inserted ad for housekeeper in capitalist sheet I'm
day people applied for the position and the right
girl chosen writes the advertising Which
that there obless than jobs in Philadelphia Would it
not be funny found flea her favorte poodle
one Of those days despite agacy picking the right g
out of fifty
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1927-12-23

on lack important qualifications
for imagining what the climate OF
heaven may be like, And what is
no small matter to the invalid who
needs abundant nutrition as well
as rest and exercise, is that all OF
this region fairly teens with every
thing that is nutritious aud attract
i've. The snow-tipped mountains
on the one hand, and the great
Japan Current on the other make
4he climate of this section unique
in the western hemisphere"
Infant mortality in this State is
three to five per cent lower than
elsewhere, ard we lead all States
in the lowest death rate in cities
and towns.
We rank among the highest edu-
eationally in the Union; a few
years ago we We're given first
place by the Russell Sage Founda
ion. Our standard has been main
tanned and we are still rated among
the highest.
We have natural scenery com
parable with the finest in the
world. Mountains, glaciers, lakes,
waterfalls, rivers, valleys, plains,
Coulees, coast, ocean, sounds, and
Islands, cloud effects ard sunsets,
Exhaust our vocabulary of adiect-
ives in description. The Mt. Rain
Ter National Park, Nj. Baker Nat
ional Forest recreational area, Mt.
Spokane, Dry Falls and other nat.
pral scenic attractions are the NEE
ca of hundreds of thousands of
tourists, and of our own people
annually. With all this wealth OF