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By Upton Sinclair

explain this cryptic utterance. AS
proof of my evil influence he con-
trasts the labor movements of Amer
lea and Europe. The former, which
has been exposed for so long to my
writings, is weak, its members being
intellectual and moral infants"
while the movements in Europe are,
"in comparison, strong because
the masses of individuals that COM
pose them are, relatively speaking,
not intellectual and moral infants
but instructed, well developed, re-
/ sourceful men,"
This essay was first published in
the Freeman" six years ago; and
at that time l supplied to Mr.. Brooks
the facts, which happen to be exactly
the opposite of what he states. The
novels of Upton Sinclair named by
him-"King Coal" Jimmie Higgins"
and 400 Per Cent" have had very
little circulation among the workers
of America, but the instructed, well
developed, resourceful men" of the
labor movements of Europe have de-
voured them. These novels have ap-
peared serially in scores of Socialist,
Communist and labor papers, and in
book form have been best sellers in
French, German, Italian, Dutch, Swe-
dish, Norwegian, Finnish, Yiddish,
Polish, Czechish, Slavic and Ukraini-
an. Literally scores of editions have
been published in Russia, they have
toured the country as stage-plays,
and moving pictures have been made
of them.
These facts l supplied to Mr..
Brooks; and what attention did he
pay to them? He waited six years,
and then reprinted his false thesis
without altering a single essential
word! And that is what passes for
critical authority in Americal
ITO Be Continaed.)
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in ancient Erse; or maybe it is a
commedia DELI arte in Sicily, or a
theatre movement in the ghettos of
Warsaw, or a painter of primitives
from Tahiti, or of geometrical lines
labelled "Nude Coming Downstairs"
Anything, so long as it is sufficiently
difficult to understand! Many years
ago 1 remember in the "New Age" of
London, literary explorer returning
from a tour of South America with
whole string of poetical scalps; a
new culture, outdoing anything pre-
viously known in the world, but I'M
fortunately all in Spanish, and too
exquisite to be translated!
There lies before me sumptuous
volume, bound in orange-yellow cloth:
Emerson and Others" by Van Wyck
Brooks. The public is invited to pay
three dollars for this work of the
bookmaker's art, and apparently does
so, because it is one of the successes
of the critical season, the leading re-
views all devote columns and pages
to praising it. 1t is a perfect exam
pie of the highbrow school, fastidi-
Gus and aloof, comparing with litera-
ture as chiselled marble to the living
body. Mr.. Brooks fights the battles
of privilege with the weapons of dis
dain; while at the same tt m e
maintaining an elaborate pose of
liberalism, and serenity so lofty
that it scorns to be aware of opposi-
ton.
One of the other "others" in this
volume is my unfortunate self; my
novels are disposed of in half a dozen
devastating pages. l am the betrayer
of the working classes, because
tempt them into self-pity, and hatred
of their oppressors. Hatred of OPP
prcssors tends to place you more at
the oppressors' mercy, says Mr..
Brooks--but does not condescend to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-17

Editor, Daily Worker:-
On this Tenth Anniversary of the
Russian Social Revolution W h h
ushered new era of socialist con-
struction in all phases of life, l cannot
hold back my deep admiration and
joy.
The workers. and peasants govern
ment of the Soviet Union have proved
to the most sceptic and reactionary
its entire devotion for the happiness
and welfare Of the most humble in
habitant. The daily distortion of
news of capitalist papers can no
longer sway the masses and keep
them in complete ignorance about this
world shaking event.
There are millions now organized
throughout the world under the Com
munist banner, who are engaged in
deadly struggle against capitalist and
its enslaving regime, explaining to
the workers the fundamental causes
of our misery and oppression, the
periodic wars-vast slaughter houses
for the working people.
The October Revolution for the
first time in history was led and re-
mains in the hands of proletariat, and
here we celebrate it's glorious Tenth
Anniversary.
Our task is to continue for the sue
cess of social revolution in every
country, against a combined capitalist
attack on Soviet Union head by per-
tedious Albion, and in this event turn
it into civil war eradicating thereby
this exploitation system and for the
benefit of working people.
Long live the Russian October
JOHN SHAFFROTH
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Letters From Our Readers

Editor, Daily WORKER
have read the letter of one Jo-
seph Payne, Jr., appearing in The
DAILY WORKER under date of Uc-
tober IA.
Now that letter is a fair sample
of what constitutes the American
mind. I've lived here 20 years, and
have long ago been disillusioned.
When affairs Of general nature are
discussed by Americans of this type
and they, sadly enough, are in the
immense majority most fearful
stupidity seems to pervade their
words and thoughts, and one is rem
dered speeches. at the Grass ignor-
ance of these supercilious scissorbills.
Everything in Anglo-Saxon Amer
lea is contradictory and subverted. A
country that was founded upon JUS
tice and freedom, now practices the
most infamous tyranny and hatred of
freedom.
A country that formerly granted
refuge to the politically oppressed,
now deports the friends of liberty
while offering asylum to the former
tyrants such as the Russian emigrees.
This individual who has only Just
finished yelling against the German
police system would gladly introduce
the same despotism here. Instead OF
being a balanced man of thought and
reason and seeing benefit in a pro-
motion of the general freedom, his
stupidity causes him to believe in
racial superiority or inferiority.
w. RAVENWORTH.
Santa Cruz, California.
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Continued from Last Issue. }
XIII.
The Critic-Caste.

EVERY successful artist becomes
Ia host to number of parasites, the
critics who live by telling the public
what the artist means, and how and
why he is great. The average person
is unable to formulate a Judgment of
an art work; he knows what he likes,
Of course, but literature is a more
serious matter You have heard the
story of the little boy who asked his
mother how it happened that all the
things that tasted good were bad for
you, while those which were good
for you were so hard to get down.
Literature, in the capitalist order,
is a profession, and like other pro-
LESSONS it is concerned to increase
it's own prestige and emoluments. Do
not say that you have a sore throat,
says the doctor; come to me and let
me tell you that you have follicular
pharyngo-to nsilitis, with leucocytosis
of the parenchyma and inflammation
of the arytenoid cartilage and the
lymphoid crypts. In exactly the same
way, don't say that the characters in
Proust's novels are miserable SEX
degenerates; get Henry B. Fuller, a
venerable professional of American
letters, to tell you that "Sapho and
Urania appear as the twin patron
esses of Proust's oeuvre"; or let Ana
tole France, venerable professional
Of French letters, describe Proust as
sun Bernardin de Saint Pierre de-
prave" and "un Petrone ingenu."
If you join the congregation of the
Proust-worshippers, and read these
interminable volumes, you will find
that the aristocrats of present-day
France, like all other decadent groups
they give them, the costumes they con-
duct of their idle and empty lives:
the words they use and the accents
they give thin, the costumes they con-
slider proper, their manner of lifting
an eyebrow at what they disapprove.
And the farther the process of their
degeneration proceeds, the more re-
mote from reality and common-sense
do their standards become; they have
to invent finer shades of difference,
because there are hordes of Ameri-
cans, watching them, and having the
insolence to publish books of
etiquette.
And exactly the same system pre-
walls among the professional high
broWs of literature and art. The stan
dards of these critics have no rela-
tionship to beauty, kindness, or wis
dom; they are code of artificialities,
designed to enable the critic to awe
his victims. They lay emphasis upon
technique, since that is the aspect of
art concerning which the ordinary
person seldom thinks; nor indeed does
the artist, until his powers have be-
gun to wane. The sophisticated critic
accumulates vast complex of tech
nical and historical knowledge; and
overwhelms US with this apparatus
Of learning, and with his ability to
appreciate work in which we can see
no sense whatever.
In the days of my youth it was
the academic critics who were set
over me, and they put me to translat-
ing Xenophon and Thucydides, Virgil
and Plautus. Then I went on to
postgraduate work." and l remember
for two weeks having to struggle
through a translation of Ariosto; |
am sure never spent an equal length
of time at more silly occupation.
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NJ. q. Missionaries
Will Meet Oct. $3.50

Minneapolis, Mimi, Oct. 12-(AP)
The greatest gathering Of Metho-
dist Episcopal foreign missionaries
in years is expected at the 18th an
nual meeting of the general execu-
tive committee Of the Woman's
Foreign Missionary Society in Min
neapolis Oct. $3.50.
Last year $2,30O,O0O was spent in
the work of more than 700 mis-
sionaries under the jurisdiction Of
the board.
Because Of war conditions, the
contingent from China is expected
to be AUG ented. In addition, the
new rule, making the second term
of service five instead of six years.
goes into effect this year for the
first time. hat will bring many
missionaries home who ordinarily
would not return until next year.
Mrs. Thomas Nicholson, president
of the society, is in Europe. In her
absence, the meeting will be di1
rected by Mr.: F. F. Lindsay, first
vice president.
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$%U )'1l,1
HOLLYWOOD
BY DAN THOMAS
NEA Service Writer

Cedar City, Utah. Oct. 12-This
city was very much in the news q
few weeks ago because Of some kind
Of q war between two movie com.
panies. It seems that Edwin Carewe
and AL Roget arrived here about
the same time and both claimed the
same location spot about 10000 feet
up in the mountains. ...
The cause of the whole thing
might we'll be laid at the feet OF
Jack Dempsey and Gene Tunney
Everyone. in both companies was
sore because there was no chance
of them getting back to Chicago
to donate some forty dollars each
to Tex Richard. So they decided
to stage their OWN private scrap
They even pulled the sheriff into
it. At least press reports stated
that the sheriff had to exercise his
official authority to bring about
peace between the movie war
riors.
couldn't learn OF any casual
ties upon arriving here, however.
Much has been written about
how the movie folk make snow
pictures in sweltering weather. But
up here IL is just the opposite. AL
Roget is shooting drouth scenes for
1.-THE Shepherd Of the Hills" Just
@ he was in the middle Of scene
where everything was supposed to
Be dying from. the heat q few days
ago, snow started to fall.
Hollywood directors could learn
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Tear Down Houses
For University

London. * AP) WY Parliamentary
powers are to be sought to close the
eight-block area which the London
university has acquired in Blooms
bury. so that a $5,000,000 range Of
buildings may be erected on the site.
The 100 houses which will finally
vanish to make room for the uni
versity stand chiefly in Torrington
square and one side Of Russell
square and Malet street.
A row of red brick, five story
houses in Russell square will ulti-
mately 60. Once they were fashion
able residences but now they are
offices.
/ Torrington square is an avenue of
hotels, boarding houses, and private
residences, with two long rows of
tai trees standing in the narrow
garden which takes up the center.
In that great area, when the new
headquarters have been finished,
there will be senate house, a cere-
monial hall, and examination hall.
The students union headquarters
will almost certainly be there, as
we'll as a great library.
The range of buildings will have
character Of it's own-a striking
skyline Of halls and towers. An ar
fist who can design it will soon be
sought.
1.-THE University of London is al
ready the greatest university in the
world" according to Mr.. s. L. Loney,
al ;ss.aos. ~ kho nn,e~snno k:A.n ~f ~.
don university. 1T has 10000 stu.
dents-as many as Oxford, Cam
bridge, Manchester and Liverpool
put together-and it's income is more
than equal to the first three Of those
four"
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II do not believe in pastor
accepting money Cor his church
work." says Mrs. Ellis. "He - or
she should have other employ
ment during the week and earn
enough in tina way to obviate such
necessity.
I'VE don't make any rule about
who is to preach on a certsin day.
It depends on which Of US the
congregation seems. to need most at
q certain time"
During the Is years of their mar.
ried life, Dr.. Ellis and his wife
have conducted evangelistic serv-
ices in mary sections of the coun-
try. DR.. Ellis helped to build with
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Proposals for furnishing the follow.
ing snow removal equipment will be
received by the State Highway Com
mission in the offices OF thee Depart
ment Of State Highways at Bismarck,
North Dakota, not later than 10
o'clock A. NJ, October 27th. 1927, al
which time and place they will be
publicly opened ana read:
Motor Trucks. to 8 ton
capacity equipped with
steel dump body and ny.
draulic hoist.
Snow Plows for 8 to s ton
trucks with complete at
the. plows to the trucks.
Price bid to include prepaid freight
to Valley City. Minot and Grand
Forks.
Delivery to be made within 80 day:
after contract is awarded.
A certified check for 5 per cent
together with q bidders bond in thu
full amount Of the gross sum bid mus
accompany each proposal.
Copies OF proposal blanks may bs
obtained from the Department o.
State Highways. Bismarck. Nortl
The right IL reserved to reject an.
and all proposals. to waive technical
tiles. or to accept such - may b.
determined to be for the best inter
estO OF the state.
STATE HIGHWAY COMMIssIOt
Jos. J. ErmatinGer,
Secretary.
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BENSON N9l|tjlDER CASE


party Of Pfyfe's the night the cap
tain threatened your brother"
II went, remember, to one or
(! two Of Pfyfe's parties" said the
major. X don't, Is . rule, care
for such gatherings, but Alvin con-
WINGED me it was = good business
policy"
He lifted his head, and frowned
fixedly into space, like one search
ing for m elusive memory.
However, l don't recall = BY
George! Yes, ! believe l do.
But If the instance / am thinking
Of is what you have in mind, you
can dismiss it. We were all little
moist that night"
Ibid Captain Lcacock draw q
gun? ?" asked Heath.
The major pursed his lips.
snow that you mention it. think
he did make some motion of the
kind"
"Did you see the gum" pursued
Heath.
mo, can't say that I did"
Markham put the next question.
do you think Captain Leacock
capable Of the act of murder"
Hardly" Major Benson an
swered with emphasis. "Leacock
isn't cold-blooded. The woman over
whom the tiff occurred is more
capable Of such an act than he IT,"
A short silence followed, broken
by Vance.
"What do you know, Major, about
this glass Of fashion and mold Of
form, Pfyfe? He appears a rare
bird. Has he a history, or is his
presence his life's document"
"Leander Pfyfe," said the major.
lis q typical specimen of the mod
ern young do-nothing, - ! say
young. though ! imagine he's around
40. He was pampered in his up
bringing-had everything he wanted,
/ believe; but he became restless,
and followed several different fads
till he tired Of them.
"He was two years in South
Africa hunting big game, and, I
think, wrote a book recouAting his
adventures. Since then he has done
nothing that know Of. He mar
ried q wealthy shrew some years
ago-for her money, ! imagine. But
the woman's father controls the
purse-strings, and holds him down
to q rigid allowance. Pfyfe's
waster and an idler, but Alvin
seemed to find some attraction in
the man."
The majors words had been care
less in infection and undeliberated.
like those of a man discussing a
neutral matter; but all Of us,
think, received the impression that
he had strong personal dislike for
Pfyfe.
"Not a ravishing personality,
what? remarked Vance. "And he
uses far too much Jicky."
"Still," supplied Heath, with a
puzzled frown, n fellows got to
have q lot Of nerve to shoot big
game. And, speaking Of nerve,
I've been thinking that the guy who
shot your brother, Major, was a i
mighty cool-headed proposition. He
did it from the front when his man
was wide awake, and with a servant
upstairs. That takes nerve"
Sergeant, you're positively brill
liant!" exclaimed Vance.
NNIOuu6y, juno los 1OIenOOU.J
Though Vance and I arrived at
the district attorneys office the fol-
lowing morning a little after 8, the
captain had been waiting 20 min
utes; and Markham directed
. Swacker to send him in at once.
Captain Philip Leacock was a
typical army officer, very tall-fully
Is feet 2 inches, - clean-shaven
straight and slender. His face was
grave and immobile; and h stood
before the district attorney in the |
erect, earnest attitude Of soldier
awaiting orders from his superior
officer.
ITO Be COntinued)
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a lot about location lunches" up
here. / say ."up" because we are
up in the. mountains. The usual
meal served on location trips con-
sists Of a box lunch. Both Carewe
and Rogel are serving their COM
panies hot lunches every day. The
meal just finished at Carewe's
Ramona" camp was better than
anything the cinema village has
to offer.
There's q red cap porter here
who is the chief entertainer for the
entire film aggregation. I have
never seen a porter one-tenth as
industrious. He just about run the
train-which goes from here to the
main line single-handed. He
handles all of the baggage and the
mail, sells tickets, gives TIE engi-
neer the starting signal, keeps the
cars-both Of them-clean, and
looks after the comfort of the pas
sengers. Whenever things get dull,
all we have to do is to drop down
to the railroad station and watch
that porter work.
# there ever was q game trouper,
Rita Carewe is it. One Of the
sequences in Ramona" was shot on
q high cliff which coul be reached
only by narrow trail. Erie Car
eve had arranged to have Rita and
Dolores Rio carried up the hillside
while the rest Of the company rode
horses.
y don't want to be Carried up
there, dad" declared Rita. "Save
that hundred dollars and I'll take
q chal.ce on a horse"
But she didn't get her own way.
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LOTS FOR SALE

LOTS FOR SALE-Colonel Maus Of
the army, we'll known to old Bis
markers, offers some choice lots in
Flannery and Wetherby Addition
He advises young men to secure
lots now for their future homes
believing that property in Bis
marck will never again be sold al
such low prices. Taxes on these
lots have been paid to date. Fol
information call on the Hedder
Real Estate Agency, Webb Block
Phone 0.
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Pulpit Is Shared
by Pastor and Wife

Philadelphia, Oct. 12.-(AP)-The
Rev. DR.. Joseph Cannon Ellis and
his wife. Rev. Mary Hubert Mum
ford Ellis, both ordained ministers,
take turns in preaching o their
congregations at tho Munford
Primitive Methodist church here.
They give their services without
pay.
DR.. Ellis, who is {. prscticing
surgeon, conducts regular biweekly
meetings in the church. His wife
bears the title of assistant pastor.
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Bills Allowed by
City Commission

City Auditorium, pay roll ..$l10.6O
Waterworks Dept, pay roll 1890
Police Dept, pay roll, ...... 263.0O
Aug. Helle, labor .......... 32.4o
VIM. Noggle, repairing side
walks ..... S51.4l
NJ. Wildes, labor ........... 5000
Street Dept, pay roll ....... 240.95
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Traffic congestion on highways
and streets of the United States is
responsible for an annual loss of
four billion dollars in time ard
wasted fuel.
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PERSONAL

EPILEPSY-How poisoned blood
causes fits. How to stop fits
promptly. Free treatise and in
structions. Write Western Medi-
cal Assn 1875 w. 62nd ST., Chicago.
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his own hands the church Of which
he is now the pastor.
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Tribune Classified Advertisements
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ROOM AND BOARD

FOR RENT-Room with board IN
modern home. Reasonably priced.
3O7 So. Seventh. Phone 456-M.
WANTED-Roomers and boarders.
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DRESSMAKINC

DRESSMAKING-Neat work guar
anteed. Reasonable, $50 Fourth
street. Mrs. K. Erickson. Phone
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MISCELLANEOUS


FOR SALE-Columbia, B flat cor
net, silver plated, recent model,
free from dents, leather velvet
lined case, extra parts, all in ex-
cellent condition. Sole leather
trombone case. Conn, silver plated,
alto horn old style. Phone 999-W.
Call at COS Fifth street.
FOR SALE-A brand new Olive
Drab overcoat size AZ for $40; al
so an electric plate, beautiful
brass oil la p, set Of flat irons,
picture frame Inquire SOP
Seventh street.
FOR SALE-Potatoes Coo bu., Hub
ard squash 2 lee h., .rutabagas,
beets, carrots zoe bu., cabbage 1c
h., onions 1.50 bu. Gail after 5
p. m. $40 So. Eleventh Street.
FOR SALE-Up to date cleaning
plant. Call and look the plant
over or write Caroline Greenwood
at Hettinger, N. d., for informa-
ton.
FOR SALE Sheep 400 breeding
ewes, IL bucks, all ages. J. B..
Davis, Pretty Rock, N. D., 16
miles southwest of Leith.
FREE FOR hauling away, a seven
section no. water furnace, COM
plete at AL Fifth street, Bis
marck. N. D.
FOR SALE-Persian kittens, we'll
bred. Two months old. Phone
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WANTED TO RENT-Equipped
meat market. A. L. Harper, San
born, N. d.
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FOR SALE-At very lowest
prices, wholesale or retail,
carrots, beets, parsnips, sal
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car II. Will & Co.

OFFICE ROOM FOR RENT
OFFICES FOR RENT-Suite of two
desirable office rooms in Hoskins
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