The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 24, 1927, Page 4

_ New Orleans Prepares for Greatest Festival in Its History; thé Rich Will| Magnificiently Display Themselves to the Marvelling Populace, and the Hotel Keepers Pluck Indiscriminately All and Sundry. { 4 THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURS DAY, FEBR UARY 24, 1927 Top, left; Rex; right, carnival maskers; below, acclaiming Rex. By PIERRE JACQUES CARONDELET. Exclusive Central Press Dispatch to The DAILY WORKER. NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 23.—Amer- fiea’s- maddest, merriest frolic and revel dawns again as old New Orle- ans sets the stage for her ‘one hun- dreth Mardi Gras. Straight down the line of the years for a century the South’s greatest city that itself is more than two cen- turies old, has staged that carnival “amid scenes of lavish splendor unique in the new world. And the hundredth Mardi Gras will be the greatest of them all. Other American cities have festivals. But nowhere in Amer’ is there anything approaching the carnival that every year sees a city of more than half a million souls shut its doors and turn loose for a day of revelry—the only day in all the year when masking is permitted in Louisi- ana by law from sunrise to sunset. City Care Forgot.” That day New Orleans becomes what those who know her best and love her best have always called her —The City That Care Forgot. That day millionaire banker, in mask and costume, revels on the streets in a throng that holds the bootblack as well—that holds men and women, boys and girls, from every walk of life. There is nothing like it anywhere in the Western Hemisphere. For there is something about the spirit of Mardi Gras in New Orleans that sweeps off their feet those who are not natives, just as it sweeps from their feet those whose families for generations have been born, have : lived, and have died here. their a OH, HO! FOR THE MARDI GRAS The M. "AL Capitalist socie daily life of the ma. tion. who keep a careful watch over actions. Capitalism has not ye into the crannies of the brain terial which goes to make up o facts of our ev Mr. J. H. Tregoe, executiv the other day, “MUCH DE. LICISTS IN DIRECTING CHANNELS. FROM GANIZED REASONING |nival. For the real social season of New Orleans starts on Twelfth Night {twelve days after Christmas) and comes to its climax of a series of mag- nificent and costly. balls with the night of Mardi Gras when the Ball of Rex jand the Ball of Comus bring the win- ter season here to a full stop. Mardi Gras in New Orleans! is the phrase that has drawn m of Americans here year after ye a century. They came to reve That for here ‘be reached by the rest of America only on river steamh ili —unless you rode down . They come today in de that have Shower baths and manicures and radio as part of their.standard equipment. Within the life of those living today they will be coming by airplane— some already have done so. Some Come for a Day. Seores of thousands only come for the di f Mardi Gras. But hundreds whose names have been in \the Social Register for generations come shortly after Christmas and are guests at the most remarkable seri of balls in any social season anywhere in the world. The cost? It runs far into the mil- lions of dollars with every Carnival. It is nothing unusual for the wealthy father of some debutante in New Or- leans to Spend from $50,000 to $75,000 to launch his daughter upon her so- jcial career. The frock of one Carnival queen, a girl of nineteen, daughter of a millionaire Louisianan, alone cost | $15,000 at a recent carnival. that a rare and isolated instance. and coasting , S| swamps Nor is| Kingly and Courtly. | Every ball has its king and queen. They culminate in the Ball of Rex. And the King and Queen of Rex are King and Queen of the Carnival. All) other monarchs of the season are sub- servient to them. But each queen is surrounded by her court of Maids of Honor and each King is surrounded by his court of, Dukes. Most gorgeous of all the balls is the Ball of Comus which is given on the same night—the night of Mardi as the Ball of Rex. In full oply of royal state, that night, the King-and Queen of Rex and omus with their courts interchange visits ® To be King and Queen of Carnival ie highest social honor a New Or- s man and debutante can receive. is a costly honor. Any king of Car- val, or Rex, as he is known, must figure on accepting the honor that he} has kissed goodbye to from $25,000 to $50,000. But they make it all back, if they are either real estate men with prop- rty up state, or out of the bayou -or if they are hotel keepers. For the Mardi Gras is the grandest advertising stunt that a parasitic American gang of town boomers ever | thought of. The crowds come from far and near, the parades swirl thru the streets, hundreds of floats on which thousands of dollars have been, spent, costumed figures decked as knights and ladies, Klansmen or burnt cork minstrels, and recruited for fifty cents a day from the slums, give col- or, and the real estate men and the hotel keepers reap their golden har- G Nearly twenty balls mark the Car- | vest. nival season that culminates on Mardi Gras. It is not unusual to have from | aspects—quite a few of them. Mardi Gras itself—Fat Tuesday— the day before Ash Wednesday—the day when men bid farewell to fleshly | year in advance, with special scenery! things at the dawn of Lent’s forty | and decorations, with special vingiootare| days of prayer and fasting—that day | for the members of each Krewe. Many comes on March 1 in 1927. jof the older, more historic Krewes| What It’s About. have their costumes made in Paris by| The very word Carnival tells the| costumers who from father to son for! story. It comes from the Latin, Carne| generations have counted that New| Vale—Farewell to the Flesh. And| Orleans patronage one of the greatest | Mardi Gras is the climax of that Car-| assets of their business. company’s shops, Schenectady, N. Y. not be used, however. Instead the Hudson type will pull larger, table. This permits t Ba men—the modern tendency in railroading. i 5 | Read The Daily Worker Every Day UPER-GREY HOUND OF RAILS GOES ON DUTY The Mardi Gras has its busiress The $100,000 to $200,000 spent upon a sin-| hundredth exhibition of | ostentatious worked hand in hand with the bour- gle ball. For every ball is planned a display will break quite a few fathers | geoisie and were a menace every- of debutantes, but for the poorer sec- tions of New Orleans it will mean a} little cheap labor, and for the men on/| the make, it is the yearly fools’ fes-| tival, where the fool has a good time and leaves his money with those pre- destined to separate him from it. ame engine and train crew to do more work, and throws out of employment a few | ber, and as the years go : dia ANCES,.”—BERT MILLER, THESE TION MAY PAROXYSMS BE ABSENT AND WELL OR- CONTROL Manager's Corner POLICE. ty is replete with agencies whereby the s is direc to insure the maintenance of the present system of exploita- Not only do we have police, soldiers, courts and jails, ted into. the “proper” channels * what the workers do, but we have also an organized machinery of “mental police,” to keep an eye on what the workers think. Of course it is more difficult to control the thought of the workers, than.to control their t invented a method of peering and therefore it endeavors to accomplish its purpose by supervising carefully the raw ma- ur thoughts and opinions—the ryday life as recounted in the newspapers. e manager of the National As- sociation of Credit Men has put this very aptly when he said PENDS UPON OUR. PUB- THOUGHT INTO SOUND MAINSPRINGS OF AC- PUBLIC UTTER- EIGHTH OF MARCH, INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY _ HAS GREAT HISTORY; WILL HAVE GREATER FUTURE By RACHEL HOLTMAN. The women began to struggle in than Young Workers League Invites Parents to Send Children to Open Forum The Young Workers’ League, Section 4 of Chicago, has been con- ducting an open forum at their headquarters 1239 S. Sawyer Ave., and the results have been very gratifying. The attendance has been to the full capacity of the hall and many young workers are now sym- pathizers of this league. The sub- jects'are of timely interest to the | the economic field much earlier jin the political field. ‘As soon industrial revolution made it pos | for them to enter industry, the wo- men began to organize. | Economic strikes started in such} industries as clothing and footwear as in the thirties of the last} The struggle for bread was | always acute and imperative. A difference in views on the ques- ‘tion of equal rights was noticeable | ‘in America quite early, The differ-| ence portrayed itself in the class/| struggle that began to penetrate the | whole of society. While the bour-! “Breaking Chains” Ap- peals to Workers— | To Make Tour | This remarkable Russian film, now | being shown for the first time in America after a sensational run in | European countries, is received with | Sreat satisfaction and appreciation by all who have the good fortune to see it, Thousands who have seen the film the first. time have been deeply im- pressed with the tale it tells, In Chicago, where “Breaking Chains” was shown in December last; over two thousand people were turned away the first night. | “Breaking Chains” is a story that | speaks of history in the making. | While it has its plot with its heroes, villains, lovers and fighters, it also portrays the development of a new | order of society, besides giving a} realistic glimpse of the days of the| barricades during the revolution. The | | film is a real story of life, full of ac- Is one of the principals in “Pup- | tion, drama and reconstruction. It} | fires the imagination and brings hope | to the enslaved. | “Breaking Chains” will be shewn| in the following cities and theatres | below listed: | Kenosha, Wis., Vogue Theatre, | | March 2; Kenosha, Wis., Butterfly | | Theatre, March 3; Cleveland, Ohio,| | Dutchess Theatre, March 2, 3; Col-/ | linsville, Ill., Miners Theatre, March | | 4; St.Louis, Mo., Odeon Theatre, | | March 6; Ziegler, Ill, March 7; West | Frankford, Ill., March 9; East Ham-| | mond, Ind., Columbia, March 9; Gary, | \Ind., Plaza Theatre, March 11; In-| | diana Harbor, Ind., Sunnyside Thea- | |tre, March 12; Canonsburg, Pa.,| | March 14; East Pittsburgh, Pa,,' March. 15; Pittsburgh, Pa., March 16. pets of Passion,” which will inaugur- ate the Theatre Masque, Chanin’s new playhouse on West 45th Street. einen ceeniiea isi aches Royale Theatre. The play was adapt- ed from the Italian Rosso di San Secondo by Ernest Boyd and Eduardo Ciannelli. It is the first of San Se- condo’s works to reach the English- speaking stage. Alice Brady concludes her engage- ment in “Lady Alone” this Saturday evening at the Forrest Theatre. The play will be at the Shubert-Riviera next week with an engagement in Boston to follow. Walter Woolf, star. of “Countess Maritza,” wilf deliver two lectures | bilizing the working class, in order | revolution. | day life: “Down with the Bourgeoi- geois women wanted the right to vote | only for the sake of keeping the! existing social order, the working women demanded’ the ballot not only to protect their interests, but also as a weapon that could be used for mo- to overthrow the whole existing capi-| talist society. For this purpose there was called) in 1910 an international conference | in Copenhagen of all the women so- cialists. America was very weil #ep- resented. Clara Zetkin proposed that not only | in America but in all the other coun- tries such demands should be put forward. A definite day in the year, was chosen for that purpose—the 8th | of March. | On the 8th of March’ efforts| should ‘be made to mobilize the wo-! men all over the wofid; t support! the struggle for equal suffrage, to! overthrow the capitalist order of so-| ciety and finally liberate women. | yermany, the stronghold of the Second International, celebrated this day in 1911 on a broad scale. Inj | | | | | | | | Austria the police dispersed meetings | business and demonstrations of women, be-| cause they were afraid of the immen-|! sity of the movement. In this country the socialist wo- men did not celebrate this day on} their own hook, but went with the | suffragettes, who made use of the} day to obtain votes, get publicity and members for the equal rights move-| ent. | In Russia Women’s Day was cele-} brated the first time in 1913. Spe- cial articles were written by the com- | rades in exile. A demonstration was held in Leningrad, which resulted in numerous arrests. In 1914 Womén’s Day in Russia was celebrated under the slogan, “Down with the Czar!” In 1916 the attempts to hold cele- brations were in vain. In all coun- tries the social democratic traitors where to carry anything thru. But there came the month of Feb- ruary. The sufferings of the Rus- sian masses were indescribable; pov- erty, hunger, sickness and death reigned all over Russia; the bloody war still demanded its victims. Then the women of Leningrad left the factories and came out into the streets, demanding bread for their children, and their husbands back from the trenches. That was the first signal for the February-March The peasant women celebrated that day the first time in 1920. Their slogans were of such necessities as they came in contact with in every- sie and capital.” “Down with Iliter- acy.” Over a hundred aisle were opened that day, besides homes for expectant mothers, nurseries and kin- dergartens, With full. pomp the 8th of March was celebrated in Russia in 1923, omen by tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands took part. When Lenin died the slogan be- came: “Remember the Words of Lenin,” “The Work in the Soviets Will Not be Complete if Millions of Women Workers in the Field and Factory Will Not Participate in It.” Until now it has been in general diffieult to have such a celebration in this country. Last year there were gmall celebrations in Detroit, Boston and New York, This year, in America, preparations American youth. The coming lecture | is “Why U. S. marines are being | sent to China,” by Comrade Max Schachtman. } All are invited to attend. The | lecture will be held Sunday, Feb. | 27th, 3 p, m. at 1239 S. Sawyer Ave. | Section 4 is also conducting classes as follows: Every Wednes- day 8:00 p. m., “Draft program of the Y. W. L.,” every Thursday eve- ning, “Marxian Economics,” every Sunday morning at 11 a. m., “Public | Speaking.” All readers; of the Worker are urged to send their children and shopmates. Agitprop Director Section 4, Y. W. L. Samuel Herman. Other dates will be announced later. BROADWAY BRIEFS. “A Woman in the House,” a com- edy by Samuel Shipman and Neil Twomey, with Louis Mann and Clara Lipman as the stars, will open Monday night at the Bronx Opera House. The Theatre Masque, fifth of the Chanin playhouses, will open this eve- ning with “Puppets of Passion.” The | Theatre Masque, designed for dra- | matic offerings, has a seating capa- | city of 800 and is located in West | Forty-fifth Street adjoining the before the drama class of New York University. The first takes place Fri- | day, March, and will be on the sub- ject of “The Stage As a Vocation.” Gloria Knight has joined the cast of “New York Exchange” at the 49th Street Theatre. At the Bijow Theatre next Mon- day, George MacFarlane will present a new comedy, “We All Do,” by Knud Wiberg and Marcel Strauss. The cast includes: H. Reeves-Smith, Charles Richman, Anne Shoemaker, Orlando Daly, Kathryn Livney, Herberg Clarke, Carleton Hildreth, Raymond O’Brien and Virginia Williams. The attraction is playing this week at Webba’s Theatre, Brooklyn. Roll in the Subs For The DAILY | WORKER. Another Arbitration | Scheme to Injure the jy, Building Trades Men Neighborhoo d Playhouse |Tonight and Eyery Eve, (Except Mon.) CLEVELAND. — Charles Smith, bc argc wh dnc agent of the building | “ EEL trades council of Cleveland, has a P I N WwW. H By Francis Edwards Faragoh. new arbitration plan. In a long,| — dreary article in the Cleveland Citi-| an @ MERICAN TH zen of Feb. 12 he elucidates his plan,| TRAGEDY MONTH on the basis of a proposed agree-| Mts. Wed ment. | Longacre vst and Sa’. Not New. | There“is nothing novel about the | —— plan, for it is a counterpart of the | KLAW U. §S. Government’s plan for set-| ling railroad disputes, but is some- what simplified. According to Smith, | a “Board of Adjustment or Media- tion,” consisting of a certain num-| ber of members appointed by the| General Contractors’ Association and | a like number appointed by the) Building Trades Councils, will deal) with each issue arising. Should a dispute arise, a meeting of the board would have to be called within 48) hours. THEA, W. 45th St. Eva. 3:30 MATINEES THURS. & SAT. 6 9 SINNER With Allan Dinchart & Claiborne Foster Sy HARRIS Dice pais, 2:80 8 8.90 WHAT PRICE GLORY Mats. (exc. Sat.) 50c-$1, Eves. 50c-$2 Bronx Opera House }/°s? 5,S%et Pop. Prices. Mat. Tues., Wed. & Sat, are under way for celebrations on the Locomotive No. 5200, the new “Hudson type,” made for New York Central Lines at American Locomotive | 8th of March in all of the larger It cost $100,000, and has a speed of 120 miles an hour. This high speed will | American cities. longer sections of limited trains on the present| will participate in considerable num- Working women and lexger numbers. id “ou oe: + “Three days shall be given the board in which to find and render a decision, unless further time is de- cided or agreed on. Pending and awaiting the decision of the board, work on the job in question shall continue.” Boss Does Anything. “Any action taken by the Building Trades Council in protection of the right granted by the Building Trades Department of the A, F, of L. shall not be deemed a violation or give cause for the voiding of this agree- ment. Any steps the General Con- tractors’ Association may judge ne- cessary to take to cover and safe- guard the interests of its members shall not be deemed a violation or give cause for the voiding of this agreement.” In*explanation of this “agreement, it is stated by Smith that the em- ployers can decide on a permanent body of men for their side, if they please. As far as the workers are concerned, if, for instanee, the car- penters get into dispute with the con- tractors, then the members of the board on the workers’ side will con- sist of carpenters altogether. Thinks Will Bring Peace. “But the best of Smith’s argument is the following: “It would do away with all these sprints to courts af- ter writs and injunctions, paying fer high-priced attorneys who are will- ing to work both ends against the middie for the proper fee, and it would also do away with these ‘pri- vate dicks’ who infest the labor movement, and who turn in reports filled with ties that do their em- ployers no good whatever.” The whole plan is a kind of modi- fied Watson Parker Bill, for the building trades of Cleveland, “LOOSE ANKLES” j New York's Laugh Sensation.- Xtra Mats. Feb. 22, 23, 24 and 20 | * . 6 AY. 48) Civic Repertory $2i Wyaviats t76% EVA LE GALLIENNE Tontehtee <7. “LHREE SISTERS” Tomorrow Night....“CRADLE SONG” Saturday Matinee...“CRADLE SONG” 2 R I M E MELODRAMA or N. ELTINGE Thea. W, 42 St. Evs. . Y, UNDER: WORLD IN 4 ACTS Mats. Wed. &\ Sat. . DILL RADIO BILL MAKES | CANDIDATES WITH By LAURENCE TODD, WASHINGTON.—Without a_ roll call, after weeks of delay. with oc- ‘ional debate, the Dill radio control bill, in compromise form acceptable to Herbert Hoover, passed the senate and went to President Coolidge for signature. Provisions in the original senate bill, stricken out in conference, re- quired that all material broadcast at the expense of any private interest be so declared by the announcer; also, that with regard to broadcasting statements by candidates for public office the station permitting any can- didate to speak must grant equal privileges to all candidates—that is, be treated as a common carrier, It further provided that, for political talks “such license 5! have no power to censor the material broad- cast.” nce this fair-play provision was OPENING TONIGHT | CHANIN'S THEATRE MASQUE ' “PUPPETS OF PASSION” 45 St., West of B’way calephons: Evenings 8:30, Mats.,Wed. and Sat. WALLACK’S 92 Sta Sa ‘What Anne Brought Home A New Comedy Drama Thea., 48 St., W. of B'y. Matinees TUES. and Musical Bon Bon with Dorethy Burgess, Louis Simon, Wm. Frawley, George Sweet. TH Thea., West 45th St. PLYMOU' + Mon., Tues., Wed., Fri., fact eat Pee ee & Sat, 2:30, iat. Tue. ton’s Bt) warener AM Es" tg $e Gilbert & OF PEN- saute, & PIRATES = zance Thursday Evenings Only, “Iolamthe” The LADDER Everybody's Pla; WALDORF, 50th St, Bast et Bway. Mats. TUES. and SAT. EARL e,e carro, Vanities Earl Carroll T2¢2 7th Ave. & 50th St. Mats, Tues, & Sat, 2:30 | Theatre Guild Ac im mn "PYGMALION Week Feb. 28—Brothers aterm ot THERA. W. 52 St. GUILD Mats. Tues. Thu, ‘abut 2:15 NED McCOBB’S DAUGHTER. Week. Feb. 28—The Silver Cord John Golden Th.,58, E.of B'y [Circle Mts.Tue.Thn.&Sat.| 6678, eae RADIO WEAPON OF LARGEST CAMPAIGN FUND killed, the radio becomes the agents of the candidates with the largest campaign fund, and it is closed against the candidates who have little or no funds. Private monopoly in radio is added to private monopoly in big newspapers, in the control of channels of political and economic thought. Minority opinions face a new handicap. Ui iad Native Flora, Fauna At Bear Mountain An outdoor museum will be de- veloped this summer at Bear Moun- tain. It will display under natural eigen fay ato shrub a growing in Harriman te Park. ‘The mena- gerie will show in natural environ- ments all the animals native to the Hudson highlands region. ’ every tree, - the oe