Greed of Capitalism Is Epitomized by Satiric Bas Relief In Dining Room of New Boston Chamber of Commerce
Greed of Capitalism Is Epitomized by Satiric Bas Relief In Dining Room of New Boston Chamber of Commerce BOSTON. Mm..—The beautiful new ^dining room of ths Boston Chamber of Commerce, with it*...
...HenrV, was quite sore about what happened, claiming that he had killed his big brown cat Bismarck by mistake for a fox...
...They passed them on to the sculptors...
...It will likewise exclude any delegate coming from the Socialist Party or any other organized party except, of course, branches of the Farmer-Labor Federation...
...But, as the architects feared, "sooner or later some damn fool will always ask the meaning of a design," they had caid—somebody has told the Chamber of Commerce members what it's all about...
...I wish some of you boys and girls could get some social distinction and break into our little circle...
...This horse's name is Prince, unusual as that name may strike you...
...Not until some months later did he admit hit mistake and take a position against any fraternal r*l«tions with Communist organizations...
...But so cleverly were they designed and so well has the secret been kept, that no one noticed the rather sardonic jest until the perpetrator himself, Homer Eaton Keyes, told the story in the current number of The Center, one of the chamber publications...
...The architects were most insistent upon this point, for, as one of them feelingly re! marked, 'Sooner or later some damn fool will always ask the meaning of a design.' In such case it is embarrassing to admit that there is none...
...Labor is push' ing forward to wreat the torch from capital...
...Keyes explained that the erI chitects of thi* particular building, Parker, Thorn** & Rice, were not satisfied with merely traditional classic figures...
...Sol Newberg is our official kibitzer and he stands around and jollies us while we are cutting off the fox's tail to hang up in the clubroom...
...It was safe because, as representing "Commerce,"' it showed Mercury, the god of commerce, seated on a throne and receiving gifts presented by dignified figures symbolising Industry, Agriculture, and whatever other activities might be imagined as yielding up something to commercial progress...
...If you don't believe it, look at Fatty Arbuckle or Leopold and Loeb...
...Unknown to the officer* and other members of the Chamber of Commerce, a Socialistic bas relief adorns the ceiling of the dining room in the magnificent new building at Federal and Franklin streets...
...I Mr...
...It toast either be delegated or eatuwed...
...That the organization should decide to bar Communists was not surprising considering their disruptive methods, hut that the decision should include Socialist Party branches came as a surprise...
...The drive will be reinforced in the next few weeks so that this Industry will be thoroughly organized in this city.__ What concerns all must be approved by all.—Justinian...
...So consider this an invitation to come over and take Prince out for a trial spin...
...Minneapolis Farm-Labor Party Ban Political Parties From Membership MINNEAPOIS, Minn.—The Hennepin County Central Committee of the Farmer-Labor Federation pasted a resolution declaring that political party organizations could not affiliate with the central body and delegates from branches of such political parties would not be eligible.' This resolution will bar the delegate* of the Workers' party who have been heretofore affiliated...
...This maiden symbolires the various social diversions of young folk in school and college...
...His first mistake cost him the confidence of many sincere workers and it was only with difficulty that he has rehabilitated himself with them...
...Liberty and private monopoly cannot live together—Henry D. Lloyd...
...Bourgeois Bedtime Stories By McALISTER COLEMAN rjlHE itcret it out...
...When a woman is dressed ex haute ceremonie," aayt my program informant, "deference from her escort make* it obligatory that he match the dignity and propriety of her own turnout with hit . or write himself down a social pariah...
...It was agreed that the {wo general ideas of industry and education, both of which are of widespread New England concern, might likewise offer suitable subjects for decorative treatment...
...So, you see I had to go to Gray's and do a lo of bargaining and finally got thi young feller with slicked down hail to sell me a seat in the balcony al half price...
...Meantime the Socialists will go along with their work just the tame, confident that Mr...
...Everq after the convention had sdjoumedj Mahoney for some time defended the participation of Communitta in it...
...All the officers except that of the vice-president are unopposed...
...Beside H if Mother plaqu* titled "Education," Minerva, th« goddess of wisdom, is fast asleep ui her post, while her pupils slip away to athletics and jazz, for which Pan provides music on a neolithic saxo ' phone...
...When we ride to the hounds, it's just a bunch* of good fellows together...
...Neither, of course, can wholly win...
...He waa one of the most persistent supporter* of the admit* ¦ion of Oommunists to th« Si Paul copventlon in spite of warnings made and the experience of Labor...
...The play that I went to see wai written by a friend of mine who ha< asked me to come to his house foi dinner...
...He has a penchant for pretzels and is blind in one eye, but his qualifications are impressive and his char, acter unimpeachable, and after all it's character that counts in this world, isn't it...
...There waa but one obvious requirement...
...Max V. Essenfeld, manager of the union, points out that the organization drive that the union has been conducting with the co-operation of the Miscellaneous Trades of the I. L. G. W. U. has brought many workers into the union and many "open i hops" were unionised...
...These elements are uncertain allies, and the stressing of a number of important Labor demands that are in conflict with the business of profit-making must in time make clear the unreliable composition of the movement...
...Meanwhile the torch of the divine fire which has been stolen from heaven slips from the relaxed grasp of Prometheus...
...The reliefs have been in place ever since the building was opened last October...
...It must convey some kind of clearly concerned and definitely Intended meaning...
...You can't imagine how essentially democratic we are, in the finer sense of the word...
...The inwsrd spirit would, however, be in keeping with twentieth century conceptions of life...
...If this were possible, the outward aspect might remain in correct traditional accord with the architectural features of the room...
...I found the definition undei "What the Man Will -Wear" and it seems that asocial pariah is on* who thinks its 0. K. to go to a lady't house to dinner in a dining jacket and who hasn't got sense enough to wear leather field gaiters such as the pair pictured, when he goes out for sports in the afternoon...
...So Mr...
...There are no other tourcea...
...For years I have been wonder ing just what makes a social pariah I have always thought a socia pariah was a member of the Socialis Party, or somebody who didn't be lieve that wisdom began and endei with" the Republicans, or a poor duel who thought that by and large, peaci was a better state of affaire for man kind than war...
...we are all in saddles ready for a brisk ride across country...
...He goes quite steadily if you ring two bells behind the ear that isn't deaf and have a little boy running up ahead with a bag of pretzels and a red flag...
...When we get dolled up,in these things we are' thinking of inviting the Monday Night Opera Club as an auxiliary body...
...At her feet, a maiden grimaces impertinently through a comic mask...
...i And then the important matter of the leather field gaiters...
...In due course, 1 turned two sketches—together with a brief notation—over to the architects...
...Mahoney's action on this flotation is considered another ewe of hit unfortunate moves since the independent political movement - became strong...
...He still gets a kick out of the old flag...
...In all three panels were needed...
...Socialists are well aware of the unstnhle character of the political movement in this Htate...
...One of the three had already been designed with an extremely safe and •ane motif...
...If there are no horses handy around your home, I can tell you where you can get a pretty good second-hand horse that used to run to hounds on the Chambers street cross-town line...
...Bonnaz Embroiderers To Elect Officers Elections for officers of the Bonnaz Embroiderers' Union, Local 66, I. L. G. W. U., will be held this coming Thursday, January 8, at the Debs Auditorium, 7 East Fifteenth street...
...Communist organisation...
...As we read so often in the American Magazine, character will get you, most anywhere...
...When I read about the gaiters to my fellow-members, Eddie Levinson, Master of Refreshments, Pinochle Decks and Fox Hounds, went right over to Brooks's to get a supply of leather gaiters for all thi boys...
...The Crassfeg Midst* For months, while the members have been eating contentedly, unconscious of the radical symbolism immediately over their heads, Prometheus, representing inventive genius, has been chained to a plaster rock in a group called "Industry," while Midas, alias predatory capital, • has been grasping at hi* torch, «• i Apollo, or the finer feeling* of hu i inanity, ha* bowed hi* head in . shame at the scene...
...A horse is really essential...
...After this I shan't be able to enjoy my foxhunts one moment until I get me a pair of those things...
...But, at the same time, Cyclopean laborers interfere, seeking to gain the inspired flame in their own behalf...
...We chaff and jolly each other...
...Thereupon, Midas of the ass's ears, symbolizing purely selfish capital, tries to seize the torch for his own benefit...
...Why not try something new...
...If you get yourself a pair^of these sporting gaiters and learn about when to wear the old soup and fish, en haute ceremonie, we will be glad to have you drop around at the next meeting of the hunt club, provided you got a horse, of course...
...The outcome is observable in the accompanying illustrations, which may be examined without the inconvenience attendant upon reposing on the dining room floor...
...The central panel—for which I am in no wise accountable—speaks for itself...
...Naturally I couldn't si around all evening without sayinj something about how grand thought his show was...
...But when we explained that most of us had got near-sighted from drinking in Henry's place, everything was cleared up satisfactorily...
...The notations provided to accompany the other two were approximately as follows: "At the left is the panel Education...
...Atalante and Meleager and the golden apples by whose aid the hero won his race with the girl may be discovered in the composition, but they are not essential to its general implications...
...With these ideas in mind I set about making two rough sketches to indicate a possible arrangement of figures and their meaning and to fix the general rhythm of the composition...
...was my thought," he said, "Nobody had any idea what was going on, so naturally nobody objected...
...If the throned Mercury were to pecupy the centre of a series of three panels, he should, if possible, be offset by a profiled figure at the extreme end of each balancing panel...
...Max Diesenhaus is running for that office against Sydney Chaitin, the present incumbent The union is still continuing its negotiations wit'.i the manufacturers for" the renewing of the agreement with some additional demand which the union presents, and it is believed that a settlement will be reached shortly...
...It was here that I ventured to suggest that perhaps a new point of vi v might be permitted in the Interpretation of these two rather well-worn topics...
...Mm..—The beautiful new ^dining room of ths Boston Chamber of Commerce, with it* artistic baa relief worked into the ceiling, ha* been the aubject of many proud boasts since the buildin*, was opened last October...
...Of course, Socialist Party branches will not disband because of this decision...
...TradttlMsf ^!g*e* "Why might it not be possiblewhile adhering to perfectly well recognized classic forms and symbols—to portray a modern conception of education and industry...
...The rest of Minerva's flock are taking advantage of her slumber-to slip away to the athletic games,, while Pan provides saxophonic music upon his pipes...
...You see, in his youth Prince was organizer for_a radical local—The Chambers Street Crosstown Horsecar Horses 189— and you can take it from me that he is no John Sparco...
...Keyea racked his brains...
...At the right is the panel Industry...
...but, in the confusion, Apollo, representative of the finer aspects of life, ceases to play his lyre and hangs his head in shame...
...Y6u know that I'm Master of the Chase for the Arverne, Hammel's and Far Rockaway Pinochle and Fox-hunting Clubs, Inc...
...Once we galloped as far as Bath Beach, where we ran our quarry to earth in the back of Henry Smolz's soft drink emporium...
...All power exercised over a nation must have tome beginning...
...Prometheus, symbolizing that inventive genius without which industry cannot survive, is shown chained to a rock, while an eagle swoops down to devour his liver...
...But it seems that I was wrong...
...We have already extended an invitation to membership to the Colonial Dames of East New York and the* Astoria Son* of the Russian Revolution and they have every intention of joining up once they are assured that we aren't social pariahs...
...Socialists have cooperated loyally with the independent political movement in Minnesota, and it is pointed out that for nearly thirty years they have been carrying on a work of education without which the present movement would not have realized its successes...
...It includes in its composition business elements that must insvitably dilute 1U Labor character...
...At the first clear notes of our hunting cry, which is, "Oy, yoy, echicker isst de goy...
...ATI d*!-' •gated power it trust, and all assumed power ia usurpation.—Tom Paine...
...organizations with Communists ini other parts of the country...
...I found out how mistaken I was the other night when I was readini a theatre program...
...It was while I was trying to think up something to say about the show except "it wouldn't be so rotten ii you'd Ax up the first act and put a kick in the last act and change 'most everything around in tin second act," that I found out what t social pariah is...
...Which left me pretty flat, because when I go out with a woman who is dressed that way and go through all the agonies of fighting my way into a dinner jacket purchased at the Hub Gents' Clothing Emporium in 1909 I figure that I'm hauter ceremonie than anything and it seems I might as well have gone in the old red flannels...
...State Chairman William Mahoney, who for many years was a very active member of the Socialist Party, was Influential in inducing the bodyto make this decision...
...The polls will b« open from 6 to 8 P.M...
...Minerva, goddess of wisdom and learning, is fast asleep on her throne, her aegis laid aside, her spear drooping...
...Now before you begin to say "Pretty soft for that guy alwayi bumming around at theatres in fret seats that he grafts from the paper,' I want to explain...
...Mahoney will again be proven mistaken aa he was regarding the possibility of walking with...
Vol. 2 • January 1925 • No. 1
