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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-03-14
MARCH % TO BE
RED LETTER DAY
M0NG MASONS
COnsistory to Be Established
Here, With Work in First
II Degrees

:, Final preparations for one Of the
largest Masonic gatherings ever
held in this section of the state are
being made as q result Of the move
lncnt started several weeks ago
among Scottish Rite Masons residing
in Bismarck, Mandan and the sur
rounding territory to have = con-
sistory established here.
The big meeting will start at 8
o'clock in the morning on Wednes-
day, March %, and all degrees to
and including the 18th will be exem-
plified. Meals will be served in the
temple dining room at noon and
again in the evening.
An Epoch in History
The locating of q Scottish Rite
consistory at Bismarck marks an
epoch in Masonic history in this
section. Therefore but four other
consistories now doing the work in
the state, and the territory allotted
to Bismarck and Mandan, as this
Consistory is to be known, makes
it possible to soon have one Of the
largest, if not the largest, consis-
tory in the west in the very near
future. A class numbering about
lbs will take the degrees at the
meeting here.
It is the intention to install 4
Lodge Of the Rose Croix being the
degrees from the fifteenth to the
eighteenth, at an early date, in fact
it is hoped that interest will demand
that all the degrees from the fourth
to the thirty-sccond will be given
in Bismarck within the next few
months. This will Immediately place
Bismarck and Mandan Masons on
a level plane with Fargo. Grand
Forks and Minot Masonically, as
everything Masonic that is worked
in those temples will be as complete
~ taken care Of.
As it is now it is necessary to
go to one Of these other centers to
finish the degrees, thus entailing 4
great expense that the locating of
The complete bodies at this point
will obviate.
Fargoans to Put on Work
F. L. Gage, under whose energies
the present movement has thus far
been made, states that the work Of
putting on the degrees will be done
by the Fargo bodies. Between Is
ard 20 CT the active workers of the
Tasonic bodies will come to Bis
marck tho day previous and arrange
the nee sary settings for putting
on this beautiful work. The Bis
narck and Nandan officers will
work with the Fargo teams and gain
as n,v,', needed instruction thereby
as possible.
It hid been the intention to have
the Mirot degree teams here as
we'll, but the uncertainty of trans
portat'on at this time Of the year
n It necessary to have the work.
ers all come from Fargo for this
cass. If the roads are passable,
however at the time Of the meet
ing it is expected a large delega-
Ct the Minot Masons will be
present ut the ceremonies Wednes-
- nicht.
The program as finally decided
"~aa Is to give all the work Of the
'ic''rccs up to and including the
It'll during the day, have the
hnrGuet at 6 o'clock. then follow
it'll the fourteenth during the eve
ing.
IN JERSEY
Guest: Goodness! What was the
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-03-14

Koreans often paste instead Of
sew their clothes together, pulling
them apart when they are to be
washed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-28

Il DRIVE A CAB"

Right turn, left, reverse-stick out
that hand, dumbbell! Roll up against
the curb-easy, good, the curb, not
the building Quick, gas! Step on
it---don't stall her, snappy now
Christ! If you amt a dumb nut!
Stalled again!" Learning to drive was
lots of fun!
More Bad Breaks"
The toughest part, breaking in, was
over So I figured when l got the
chauffeur license. Now for the keys
to that adventure chariot--the hack
book and badge and I'd be Sitting
pretty" 1t was winter. Jobs were
hard to get. / mI have been sitting
so pretty that the mack bureau police
figured me too pretty to disturb. So
they let me sit three months before
granting my application. And that
line shivering before the precinct
doors at West goth Street, close to
the Hudson, blowing like the bellows
of hell!
What pleasure it was lining up
for five days from dawn to dark, be-
fore l got inside, the coppers either
snarling at you or pushing you back
in line when the press was too great
and that devil of an icy wind cutting
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-28

blows out. Hack regulations forbid
he use of a side door and demand
a. open windshield in bad weather. 1t
isn't the normal amount of rain, hail
or cold that beats through the wind
shield and open sides against mans
body when the weather is bad It is
any one Of the Three Happiness Boys
backed up by a wind resistance in the
usual 25 miles per hour speed when
you're on the fly. You damn soon
lose that school boy complexion and
the skin you love to touch is untouch-
able after a twelve hour battle with
cold rain or windstorms.
How's Your Health.
The springs on the cab wear down
after few months Of bounding over
ruts. The kidneys last longer but
hey finally hit the bumps too and
with them goes the stomach so long
loaded up on jerky,; gulped grub and
many shots Of rat-gut coffee.
Watching glaring traffic lights
takes the steam out of the eyes as
does catching cat-naps during the day
when it is hard to get used to sleep
ing while the sun is up. After few
weeks jockeying a cab a guy feels
like he needs an overhauling.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-28

ers don't give you rumble They
only fight the court suit. The boss is
bankrupt or wouldn't help If he could
so you borrow or take out Of the saw
ings to pay the bondsman and lawyer
Funny | never thought much about
accidents before I went hacking.
Some Dead Losses.
Buildings and hotels very often
have too many exits and entrances to
suit hackman. Every once in awhile
a swell steps in one and out the other
leaving his bill in figures on the clock
to tell the driver that he can whistle
for his money. Here's better one,
yet. A sAiek and his frail hop in the
cab. Hotel Roosevelt, Buddy" He
steps out at the hotel. "Sorry, Buddy,
the smallest I've got--change this
ten?" Forty-five cent fare change
for the ten and you're out the tip. The
ten "ain't what it ought to be-" And
cab driver is always changing bills.
(Sometimes you are lucky in the
darkness it is only a tin half dollar,
or Canadian quarter that they slip
you.)
Iron work is tough racket, but
it's got nothing on hacking. Tires
blow quick and often. They are heavy
and you sweat to change one when she
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-28

S25 worth tip, a weeks wage and the
passenger is $50 sorry" you get the
ticket.
The nervous old lady riding home
from shopping is nervous, driver,
nervous, please drive slowly" So you
crawl through traffic-clock register
ing little for the time lost and the old
girl gets out and says, THANK you,"
and skumps you, no tip.
The best hour of the night, 1890
to 1880, when the shows break,
Broadway is kept clear of all empty
cruising taxis. You pull your arms
out and push leg off chiselling to
cut into Broadway land some loads
are no feathers to push around) but
traffic must be kept clear-for High
Hat and the Mrs. whose limousine is
choking up Broadway with private
car traffic. When you grab the call
it's step on it and to hell with the
pedestrian. The rate is cheap, 20
cents mile. The hound who owns
the rig is expecting a minimum of SIS
per night and $50 over Saturday and
Sunday. So you put in the hours,
damned long ones, from until A. And
you've got to travel fast. Sometimes
you hit somebody. They're down and
you're in the can. The insurance fax
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-28
BY A. B. MAGIL.

I SUPPOSE it is proper to speak of
Thomas Hardy as the last of
the great Victorian writer's, though in
many ways he was strangely, stub
bornly n-Victorian. Yet he was the
last literary representative of the
period in which the English bourgeoi-
sic, appropriating for itself the tech
nique of the new industrialism, sue
ceeded by means of plumber, murder
and astute concessions (when neces-
sary) both at home and abroad, in
placing the bloody seal of empire
over larger portion of the globe
and a greater number of people than
any nation of modern times. 1t was
also the age which saw the rise of
Darwinism, which the British bour-
geoisie also appropriated for itself
while it fed the working class on
religious dope and the standard
household virtues
In the swell gathering of we'll
groomed literary stars Hardy was
lonely, uncouth, inexplicable figure.
He didn't belong. Yet so many of
these writer's, despite their suave ex-
teriors, felt uncomfortable inside, and
for Victorian to feel uncomfortable
was the height of agony Most of
them were wrestling with the problem
Of how to marry Charles Darwin to no
less a person than God. Ten
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-28
BY A. C..

By A. C.
1t looked like a cinch! Big money
m it! Sitting behind the wheel of a
saxi, cow-boying people around town.
These New York hackmen seemed to
have lots of time to spend Cabling in
coffee-pots, or knocking ivory balls
around in pool rooms. No red tape
about references in getting a job. All
a fellow has to do is learn to run a
ear, get the hack and chauffeur's Ii
censes, take his pick of cab in any
garage near home, turn on the, switch,
step on it--and out on the street
cruising for pick-ups. Nothing to it!
The largest and scabbiest cab COM
pany in the city, the Yellow Taxi Cor
poration, holding most railway, ferry
and hotel concessions, about a year
and half ago, operated a free driv-
ing school in a desperate effort to get
enough cowboys to man all its hacks.
So signed up for the ten days of
learning to shift gears on a wheezy
old instruction cab. School-and the
guerilla instructor seated alongside
me with an iron jack-handle to crack
the hand or leg that made mistake.
"Clutch-first, second, high, neutral!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-28

case of bum break with the decision.
But the good old days when the COM
plainant might have a right cross to
the chin to add to his complaint are
dead as the swinging saloon doors
which spun many good customer
into the arms of the waiting hackey.
Today you don't stand chance be-
fore the commissioner. You're licked
before you explain. Almost any Of
Tense from insulting fare (who does
abuse the driver and gets away with
it, to refusing call (when there may
be plenty of reason tor means bye
bye, hack badge"
This is the picture inside the cab.
A convenience to anyone so minded
to get, without argument or knowl-
edge of the driver, his number and
name and turn him in via letter. In
dependence of cab drivers? He'll, they
don't stand a chance with prejudiced
one man dictator control running the
hack bureau now.
He'll On All Sides.
And you catch hell from all sides.
One guy must make a train-"Step
on it, Johnny, good tip if you make
it," Good tip if you make it!-and
doing so get nabbed by speed cop.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-28

dSd lIiot lliS pcSSlilliSili, dlldlCHloit anu
cynicism of the Menckenites and SIM
liar groups now holding the American
literary scene.
William Chopper, brilliant labor
cartoonist, is now in Moscow. He has
recently written a letter to the New
Playwrights in which he tells them
of the recognition their work is re-
ceiving over there.
He further sends the news that
"The Belt" by Paul Sifton, the first
play given by the group this year, is
to be produced at one of the large
revolutionary theatres in Moscow.
EN- 10 Basshe's play, ''The Cen
turies," is also being translated and
will likewise find producer.
Meyerhold, greatest of all the Sow
let theatre directors, and recognized
all over the world as the leader and
pioneer of all that is new in the thea
tire since Reinhardt, has announced
that he will produce "Processional"
next year. This is a labor play deal
ing with West Virginia mine strike,
by John Howard Lawson, one of the
New Playwrights.
"Pinwheel," by Francis Edward
Paragon, another of the group, has
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-28

A chorus of sixteen girls in Orien-
tai costumes moves through the
rhythms of sacred dance of the
East. An old Lama drones on plat
form; a burly Russian Communist
with sense of humor, an American
roughneck aviator who admires the
marines, an oil explorer and million
aires son from Wall Street watch the
strange fateful ceremony.
They are hypnotized by the dane
ing, the chanting, and the Orient, and
then they are bound with cords. The
East is resisting the imperialistic de-
signs of the West. And then the
stage manager yells curtain" the
young curly haired man at the piano
rises to stretch his legs, and the scene
dissolves into groups of young people
chatting and laughing in Americanese.
1t is rehearsal of "The Interna-
tional," at the New Playwrights'
Theatre in Commerce street. Every
one was busy as l wandered through
the compact little arena where five
radical young writers have been work
ing this year to establish a modern
theatre in New York.
Hard work it is, and about fifty
young people are doing it cheerfully,
twelve to fifteen hours a day, under
the severe discipline of a theatre AS
l walked about, it seemed to me
strange that SO few of the radical
workers and intellectuals have fully
appreciated the significance Of thea
ire of this kind in America.
Like all first attempts, it has crud-
tiles and immaturities. These crudi-
ties, which anyone can spot, seem to
have doomed more significant in the
eyes Of the labor intellectuals than
have the virtues of the plays. The
workers have not come in big enough
crowds to put the theatre as yet on
any kind of sound financial basis.
But in Soviet Russia the dramatic
and literary groups who follow Amer
lean affairs are hailing this group as
the first significant dawn of a new
phase in American literature. They
say it is the first sign Of revolt
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-28
An Impression of the New Paywgs Theatre
By DON BROWN

lack of recognition by the American
bourgeoisie of such radical pioneers
in the arts as make up this group.
But the radicals should not adopt a
similar attitude. It is a part of the
cultural task of the revolution to
foster such theatres in each country.
Some Of the radicals in this city
had seen this fact clearly, and thou
sands of workers have given their
loyal support.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-28

been bought for Reinhardt's Theatre
in Vienna, and will soon be produced.
In another field Michael Gold, an
other director of the theatre, has had
a similar experience. His volume of
short stories, "The Damned Agita-
tor" was translated and published in.
Moscow by the State Publishing
House, and has sold over 10000
copies. In America he cannot find a
publisher, except the Vanguard Press,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-28
George Mclaughlin,
Police Commissioner"
Pictures Good Old Days.
Thomas Hardy: The Peasant Mind = H
/ = "He Wrote the Outline of Capitalism's T

roses and made him a sane, athletic
intellectual. Thackeray, being a
gentleman, conformed, Dickens fornd
salvation in social reform, Swineburne
escaped to paganign1, Kossettl TO medi-
evalism, Wilde and his satellites to
estheticism and perversion, and Nor
ris, with his ears to the ground, to
sen mental guild socialism with medi-
eval trimmings. Only Thomas Hardy
accepted the fundamental implica-
tons of naturalistic science, and
grating on it philosophy borrowed
from Germany, declared that all life
IS an ironic tragedy ending in death
ga thwarted purposing." And for
many years the voice of Hardy was
voice crying in the wilderness.
Both the prose and poetry of Hardy
have many serious defects. 1t is a
mistake to call him an ironist. Most
of his ironic effects are the result Of
crude plot manipulation. And here
lies Hardy's great artistic error: he
nnistook plot for form and plot mani
pulation for the inevitable workings
of ironic fate. "a thinker of crooked
thoughts upon Life in the sere," as
he once described himself, Hardy
wrote solidly and awkwardly, his
effects being substantial rather than
subtle, and in style that is as lively
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-28

which has offered to print the stories
at his own cost.
John Dos Passos, of course, has
been extensively translated in Soviet
Russia and Germany, and Upton Sim
clair, whose Singing Jailbirds" is to
be produced at the New Playwrights
later in the season, is the most popu-
lar American author among the work.
ing masses of Europe and Asia.
There is nothing peculiar about this
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-28

present century and particularly since
the World War--a mood that is a
significant reflex of the period of the
Sterilization and collapse of world
capitalism. Years before, at time
when world capitalism was impetu-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-28

ously on the ascendant, Thomas
Hardy, setting his vision within the
limits of a small English town and
turning his back on capitalism, cast
the eloquent shadow of it's doom and
wrote the outline of its epitaph.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-28

and flexible as that of college pro-
fessor of Latin.
And above all, Hardy lacked social
understanding. His was the stolid,
peasant mind, in so many ways the
unawakened, conservative peasant
mind, recoiling from a cruel, anti
peasant capitalist industrialism.
Turning his back on the outposts of
the new age, Hardy saw in "the lido
cy Of rural life," the, hopeless indi-
vidual tragedies of the English viii
lage, the typical and memorable ex-
preston of all life everywhere. 1t
is true he wrote of the life that he
knew best, but by constructing a uni
versal philosophy on the basis of
what he observed in decaying Eng
lish town, he showed the meagreness,
the parochiality of his social and in
tellectual outlook.
Yet with so many important defects
and limitations, why is it that Thomas
Hardy remains one of the chief Eng
fish writers of the past hundred
years? l have said that his writing
was solid and substantial. There was
in him the gnarled sober strength of
the oak digging deep and intimate
roots. In "The Mayor of Caster
bridge" for example, in which plot
manipulation is particularly obvious,
he succeeds in building up slowly an
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-28

through to the bone! Didn't we have
fun
After l crashed in a horse doctor
stripped me below the waist, cracked
wise and OK'd me physically. The
head clerk pedigreed me. The lower
clerk took the finger prints and the
lowest clerk slipped me a hack book,
badge and large card. In one corner
of the card was a convict mug of me
and the number with the full name.
In the center this recommendation to
the general run of drivers to the trust
ing public:
"Notice to passengers: Keep a
record of above name and number
of this card. This is a photograph
of the authorized driver. If another
person is driving this cab notify a
policeman. This card must be placed
in a conspicuous place in the cab
at all times. Failure to do so means
revocation of license.
George Mclaughlin,
Police Commissioner"
Pictures Good Old Days.
In the days before pictures and po-
lice control, a driver knew who regis
tered complaint and the reasons for
doing so. 1t was considered tough to
cough up saw buck ($1O) fine in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-28

And perhaps Hardy's greatest con-
tribution was in his role as intellec-
tual pathfinder. He anticipated to
a large extent the mood of pessimism
and nihilistic despair that has par
alyzed the intellectual bourgeoisie of
the world throughout most of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-28

entire city that has quality of prefer
natural continuance: it has been and
will be always. His style, which is
ponderous and latinical, is SO only
when he is writing formal English.
When he reproduces through the
mouths of his characters the dialect
Of his native Wessex, his writing be-
comes supple and savory and full of
the strong simplicity, the richness of
folk-speech. Thus the lament Of Mar
ty South in '"The Woodlanders" is a
profoundly beautiful prose poem.
And with all his lack of understand
ing of the social forces at play about
him, Hardy was something of social
rebel and in advance Of most of his
colleagues. In books like Tess of
the D'Urbervilles" and Jude the OBJ
scure" he challenged official British
responsibility, and the British bour-
geoisie replied to these mild indict-
ments of its rotting morality by set
ting upon him its choicest literary
bloodhounds.
New Britain herald., 1928-02-27

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