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The Connecticut labor press., 1919-07-12
CANNOT FIGHT ..
 THE ICE TRUST
Federal Agents in Connecticut Have All Their Time Taken Up
 Investigating Liquor Gases.

The case of the government against John Barleycorn and Miss Virginia Dare is occupying all the spare, time of the Federal agents now and accord ing to John F. Crosby District Attor- ney for Connecticut, the investigators have no time to spend in looking up violations by the ice trust. There were some investigators at work on the ice question but the district attorney switch ed them over to the liquor dealers. MT. Crosby said he was doubtful if the case about the icemen could be prepared in time to have the attorney general of the United States act on it this year. There ca1, be TO prosecution unless he ap- proves.
 The national government and the state government did not provide any extra machinery for looking into viola tions of the liquor law so the district attorney is attending to this with his own employees. Mr. Crosby said that for the tune being the liquor cases were more important than ice but ordinarily it would not be considered 5o The dis, trict attorney suggests that the states attorneys tackle the. ice question butt they do not appear to be very keen on this business.
The Connecticut labor press., 1919-07-12
FEDERATION FOR
 SHORTER WORKDAY
Big Feature of Closing Session of American Federation of Labor
 Annual Convention.

The annual convention of the Amer lcan Federation of Labor at Atlantic City adopted the report of the commit tee on shorter working hours The re- port of the committee i'll part was as follows:
 Tn giving consideration to a shorter work day at this time there was many things to be taken into consideration. In the first place it must be realized that during the war five million of the most actfXe young men i'll the country were taken from industries for war service. Tn spite of this the produc- ton of rhe country during the war period was greater than it had been at any other given period in history
 Labor organizations for many years have been fighting to secure the eight hour day, once known as the shorter work day This eight hour day meant AS hours of labor per week. Because of the changed condition brought about ny the war a number of the industries have been ahle already to introduce the IA hour week, continuing the eight hour day with Saturday half holiday.
 our committee believes it will be but short time until the eight hour day with the Saturday half holiday will be the universal hours of labor and
 
 There is at the present time a large volume of unrest among the working men of this continent There can be no doubt but that there are two reasons for this unusual condition, first, the high cost of the necessities of life: second unemployment.
 Until wages are so adjusted that earnings of labor will buy the same amount of the necessities of life that cot Id be purchased by the earnings pre- vious to the war, this unrestfu1 exhibi- ton by the working people has a foun- dation for its existence and cannot be set aside.
 Manufacturers and employers of labor should recognize this fact and ir- crease the wages to this point without any controversy.
 Regarding unemployment, it is al most impossible to peruse a daily paper without finding somewhere i'll its col umns a statement that every effort should be made to secure employment for soldiers returning from, across the sea or from the camps maintained in this country This is most laudable effort and meets with the approval of general good of the community work must also be provided for civilians as we'll as ex-service men. This can best be done by the shortening of the hours of labor.
 There is no doubt but that in the near future many organizations will de- termine that in order to take. care of all of their members gaining a hveli- hood by employment at their trades it will be necessary to inaugurate a six hour day."
The Connecticut labor press., 1919-07-12
BRIDGEPORT MUSICIANS.
Banquet for Men Who Served in
 the Service.

Bridgeport, July 1.-The Bridgeport Musical Union honored the 61 members of the organizations who enlisted in the country's service. After a short parade the heroes were escorted to the hall where there was banquet attended by over 300. Among the guests were Mayor Clifford B. Wilson, Hon. George w. Wheeler, George Flames, park com missioner; Karl Lang, president of the Central Labor Union.
 John J. O'Nei1l, president of the union, was master of ceremonies. The committee who conducted the pleasant event were John J. O'Neill Oscar F. Kuablin, John H. Schmidt, Fred N. Benner, George P. Sanborn, F. Schmidt, F. Bayers, J. H. Mcclure, H. Miller, E. Smith, P. Goulding, F. Weiland, w. Koustance, L. Chermak, J. J. Broad brook, J. Armstrong, J. w. Phoenix, s. Pretrim, c. w. Ratzenberger, J. Giampaolo, H. C. Hedinott, J. Lennant, and P. Saur.
The Connecticut labor press., 1919-07-12
.BARBERS UNION
 RAISES ITS DUES
Increases Business Agent s Salary
 and Listens to Interesting Address by P. F.. O 'Meara.

The Jour1leyrnen Barbers' Union, No. 215, of New Haven voted to increase the monthly dues to SIPS at the meet ing held in the Insurance building on Thursday night. It was also voted to increase the salary of the secretary and business agent, Anthony Merlino- As reported in another column in The Connecticut Labor Press, MT. Merlino is to be married soon. It is just CO., incidence but, interesting nevertheless that announcement of MT Mer1ino's wedding engagernent and his raise in salary should be announced at the same time --~-. .~
 President Patrick F. O'Meara of the Connecticut Federation of Labor made an interesting talk upon the value of organization. He spoke about the re- cent trouble III the Naugatuck Valley and how the men were influenced to re- turn to work by officials of the Connec- ticut Federation of Labor.
The Connecticut labor press., 1919-07-12
MEETINGS LIKE
 BOX AND COX
Railway Photographers Division Has Both Day and Night
 Meetings in New Haven.

As some of the men in the Railway Photographers organization work days and others work nights both day and night meetings are held by the organiza- ton i'll the rooms at Church and Crown streets. The night meetings begin at s o'clock and are held on the first Friday of each month The day meetings be- gin at 10 80 o'clock and are held on the third Tuesday of each month. The or garlzation also has headquarters in al office building on Chapel street, in the building where the Brotherhood of Rail- way Clerks IS located
 Formerly, the meetings were held or the same date and it is possible that the date was changed for fear an occasion might arise similar to the plot of c vaudeville sketch that was very popular some years ago and which was called Box and Cox" A land1ady in New York rented one room to two printers, one working on a morning paper and the other on an afternoon paper. When Box left the room to go to work she hXed the bedding and made 1t ready for Cox. Neither one knew that the other was occupying the room. Of course there was not much lceway at times be- tween the leaving time of Box and the arrival of Cox and this caused the landlady to be obliged to work at top speed to make the quick change.
 It will thus be seen that if the rail way telegraphers who met in the day had a lengthy session and the meeting was prolonged with arguments it would have been necessary to cut short the proceedings if the session lasted until it was time for the night meeting to begin.
 George S. Mccormick, who is living i'll West Haven, is the secretary of the organization.
 w, B. Shalkop of the station masters office is writing some very clever stuff for the magazine of the telegraphers. He Is the certified division correspond ent. He may be added to the staff of The Connecticut Labor Press.
 The last evening session of the Rail way Photographers was held on the night of the Fourth of July. It was a hot night as our readers will recall, there were numerous attractions but the faithful telegraphers to the number of five held meeting as duly provided for but a strict regard for the truth compels US to say that very little busi- ness was transacted.
The Connecticut labor press., 1919-07-12

cutting off communication of quarters to officers at sea. This allowance, made during the war, permitted officers ahoat to maintain their families ashore, and was made to compensate officers for the increased cost of living. It amounted to approximately $40 a month for an ensign and increased about SIS monthly with each higher rank
 In connection with the new crganiza- tion it is stated that more than 25O officers of the regular navy of the grades of liertenant-commande and above have rendered their resignati0ns. many of them to accept positions with industrial corporations, several of which, prior to the war, made standing offers to graduates of the Naval Acad- emy at sums greatly in excess of their naval pay.
The Connecticut labor press., 1919-07-12
BRIDGEPORT OUTING.
Electrical Workers Have Boxing
 Contests and Dinner.

Bridgeport, July 11-Members of the electrical department of the U. M. C. recently had their fifth annual outing at LordShip, where there was a shore dinner and various games, including boxing three-legged race, baseball and tug-ofwar in which the married men pulled the single men out of the cleats The committee consisted of Thomas Nolan, Frank Van Ormer and John Madigan.
The Connecticut labor press., 1919-07-12
.. 'r CARPENTERS COUNCIL.

Bridgeport July 1l.-An election oi a business agent for the District Coun- gil in Bridgeport of the Carpenters and Joiners' Union is now in Progress and the result will not be Known until Mon day night. Local 1913 voted tonight on this matter. The candidates are Martin Kane, the present incumbent, who is a Nioe-president of the Connecticut Fed -eration of Labor, and H. C. Bailantyne
The Connecticut labor press., 1919-07-12
hardly look sour1y upon the vintages winch the author condemns.

hdIuiy LOOK sOurly upon the vintages winch the author condemns.
 he luminous golden wines spark1ed m the air, crowned with jewels as they were poured into the glass, filling the atmosphere with an intense odor of an- tiquity. All the shades of amber from sott gray, to pale yellow, glittered iii these fluids, as thick as oil to the sight, yet ot a glistening transparency. A ta1nt exotic perfume, which summoned to thought fantastic flowers of a super natural world, rose over, the liquids ex- fracted :9 from the mystery of the casks. 1II LlIe seemed to expand upon tasting them; the blood began to burn. bo11nde7 ing more quickly through the veins: the sense ot smell, quickened to unknown deS1res' grew excited as if scenting a new electricity"
 It 1s' not thus that the thoughts of man are turned toward prohibition.
The Connecticut labor press., 1919-07-12
OUR NEW NAMESAKE.

The Labor Press," new Yiddish weekly, has appeared on the East Side m New York as the organ in that sec tlon ot the American Federation of Labor and the local, national and inter natlonal unions affiliated with it. Rob- ert Maisel, who has been associated with the American Alliance for Labor and Democracy, is the head of the paper which has the indorsement of Samuel Gompers.
 Speaking of the new paper, MT Maisel said that his publication will not 1ications.
The Connecticut labor press., 1919-07-12
TEMPERANCE BOOK.
Has Fine Chapter on Luminous
 Golden Wines.

La Bodega," the latest novel of Vincente B1asco Ibanez (Dutton), is an argument for temperance, and yet there are moments i'll which the reader can
The Connecticut labor press., 1919-07-12

Keep in touch with the Buying Guide. The firms represented therein are there because they are interested in having your trade and they are entitled to it..
The Connecticut labor press., 1919-07-12

Buy cigars made in your home town and help fellow union man hold his job. Give first preference to the cigar whose manufacturer advertises in your labor paper.
The Connecticut labor press., 1919-07-12

A dollar year is less than two cents week That's all The Connecticut Labor Press costs you and you get your moneys worth many times over.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-27

future for the boy in Government, for
he has learned, this Englishman who
has made his fortune in the United
States, that that is the golden calf of
the landed gentlemen. Yet we never
come to a close study of Government,
for this is not a dissection Of that
many legged creature, but rather of
the black beetle Heredity. The boy
Deryk has the curse Of his mothers
unhappiness and his fathers will, his
Inconsistency and his money. With all
this the shadow of the inevitable does
not fall too fast. Across the pages
run other characters, not impregnated
with the poison, such as Idina, for
whose sake Deryk breaks with his
father and who, though loved by
young Lancing, is repealed by him in
one of those cold spasms that helped
the father made the hundred millions.
There is Professor Manisty, the glo-
rious suffering scientist who wins the
finest woman in the book and who
takes the tragedy of his life like a
Major when he discovers that under
the sands of Asia Minor, where he has
delyed for years, there is not the Ii
brarv of Hellenopolis, but a river d.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-27

which reviewers picture to themselves
as crowded with Mr.. Oppenheim's
heroes about to take a Brodic. Let an
American author think of Govern
ment and up bob pictures of Mr..
Burleson, the Congressional Record,
and spur Scared desks, or the vacant
White House. Mr.. McKenna, who
married a Prime Minister'S daughter,
knows lots about the British Govern
nent.
Do not assume, from this depression,
that Midas and Son is taken up with
the Government. 1t deals mainly with
the persons who make the title: Sir
Aylmer Lancing and his son Deryk.
Sir Aylmer has made hundred mill
ion dollars at the cost Of his own
health and his wife's happiness. She
is dead and he is a broken being in a
wheel chair. Of an iron man nothing
remains but an iron will and a strange
love for his son. Life holds nothing
for the baronet except desire to see
to it that the son goes the right way
and does something with the four
million dollars a year that are pour
ing in and piling up. he looks to
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-27
The Story of midas and Scr"
With This Stephen
Unhappne

vertcd by Heracles. Anyway, he says,
it proves that old Anaximenes was
right about the river There are Sir
Sidney Dawsonis sister, the fiendish
old slanderer of Idina, and Sidney
himself, who lives life of memories,
which he likes to believe are wicked
ones. There are Mrs. Welman, the
Delilah Of the intellectual young Sam
son, and the fast persons of her set.
There is Hatherly, the old friend Of
Sir Aylmer, who has given I'D what
might have been a career In order
that he may be the lawyer-slave of the
baronet. There is Yolande, the really
fine woman of the novel, who would
have married Deryk if Sir Aylmer
and Hatherly had not tried to make
her do SO and whose genuine affec-
ton for the suffering Professor Man.
isty makes of itself good little love
story within a book devoted chiefly
TO the fall of black night upon the
brief and cloudy day Of young Deryk.
All these characters, maneuvered by
the genius of Mr.. McKenna-a genius
which consists in part of his ability
to go directly forward with his fie-
tional troops-add verisimilitude to
the general tale of the invalid baronet
and his fated son.
In the end the supposedly iron wills
fail. Sir Aylmer dies in his chair,
leaving the hundred millions to the
complete disposal of Deryk. And then,
when Deryk has the money that he
has wanted, and the freedom, and the
girl-then Heredity, or Mr.. Hardy's
Fate, or whatever it is that makes men
spoil their lives, steps in with the
warrant. The reader is likely to close
the book with mental-not physical
-shiver and say: 1t would have been
so easy to have changed it; he could
have married the girl; she loved him;
perhaps he would have settled down
and read De Morgan and played the
photograph. But no ; it couldn t have
been changed. The main Deryk, as Me-
Kenna made him through his father.
was irretrievably lost. Nothing could
have saved him but a cOnfiscation Of
his fortune, and, with that gone, he
would have been a mean sort of man,
whining because he had only one
evening suit. To have kept him alive
and married him to the girl would
have been a miserable trick on Idina,
who had never done anything to de-
serve such a fate. She thought she
loved him, it is true, but Mr.. Howells
assures us that hearts do not break.
Idina probably thought hers was
broken, but she had seven thousand
pounds year, and London is quite
town.
To sum up backward, the novel is
consistent, right to the last lethal line;
Mr.. MeKenna has a style as clear as
the eye Of a returned soldier; and
Riverside Drive was not the place for
a great millionaire in 1891.
MIDAS AND SON. BY STEPHEN Nc.
KKNEA. George b. Doraa Company
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-27

ITO begin with the trifling faults Of
= Stephen McKenna's latest
novel, Midas and Son, let us say that
they are come Of almost excusable
ignorance of certain ways of the
Western world. Mr.. McKenna is a
young man, and how was he to know
that a multi-millionairc like Aylmcr
Lancing could not have lived on
Riverside Drive in 1912 The Drive
was then known as Riverside avenue,
and the folks who lived on it then
were, and are as unknown to fame as
Rumpelstiltskin. A man of the Ian
cling type would have lived on Fifth
avenue or Madison avenue, or one Of
the cross streets. Again, there is
Lancing meeting his wife, Boston
young lady and presumably proud, at
Atlantic City one summer. Boston
folks in Atlantic City in the summer
Of 1882 The mind refuses to jump
such gap. Mr.. McKcnna has only
done what an American author, try
ing to set an cpIogue in England
without having studied the subject
carefully, would have done. And
when an American author sends a
hero to a mansion in Limchouse, or to
q sIum in Park Lane, or has him go
grouse shooting in St. John s Wood,
let the British reviewers chide him as
gently as we chide Mr.. McKenna. The
Atlantic is broad yet, and places
change as well as times. No convoy
has been devised that will guarantee
safe crossing for novclists.
Now for Mr.. McKenna's style,
which is much more important to the
main theme. 1t might best be de-
scribed by making an inventory of
what it does not contain. 1t is free
from that painful looScness which
notifies the books of the wondering,
laundering, laundering, strictly sub
jective writer's who approach the job
Of writing a novel armed only with
pencils, paper and the cosmic urge.
They are the IIermiOnes Of modern
literature, and they make you guess
what they mean. McKenna goes about
his job like a good bricklayer. He
never has the corners of the house as
high as the second story before the
sills of the ground floor doors are laid.
He does not always drag you away
from a view of the new building to
hiss sermon in your ear. He breaches
sometimes, as all modern serious nov
elists have a tendency to do. His
subject occasionally has to do with
Goyernment-w wherein it fails, and
what men or large fortunes or talents
might do to help it along. The British
Government seems to catch authors, or
their attention, while they are young;
and some authors may be Like twigs
and Scotchmen. These authors do a
great deal to make the Government
seem ponderous and respectable. They
are always taking you to the House
at night, and then for walk along
the Embanl<mcnt- that jolly old place
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-10-04
ROAD
BUILDING
BOND ISSUE Is BIG PROBLEM
Best Means to Pull Counties Out OF
Land of Mud--Make All Improve
ments Permanent.

The biggest single issue before the
people today is good roads; biggest
not alone of itself, but biggest be-
cause the prompt and satisfactory So
luton of permanent road system in
every state will help to solve a half
dozen fundamental problems and in
directly affect for good, as well as In
dollars and cents, almost every phase
of farm, social and Industrial life in
the state. We cannot expect to have
real system of roads unless 1t Is
based on large units and this Is best
accomplished by accepting the county
and state basis with few experienced
and responsible men in charge in each
case. We must have roads that begin
and end somewhere.
Many counties are presenting to the
taxpayers the question of bond issu"
for the improvement of their high
ways. The bond issue for a public
Improvement should be governed by
the same considerations which govern
bond issue by any business organiza'
ton. When a manufacturing concern
issues bonds, the money raised Is
placed in permanent improvements In
the plant which will last far beyond
The life of the bonds, or else no in
weston would purchase the securities.
Bonds for municipal purposes or for
| public improvements are not always
subjected to this acid test, and in
stances are numerous in this country
where bonds for twenty years have
been issued for the construction of
public roads. where the type of roads
| built with the proceeds of the bond
issue could not possibly last more than
ten years, and even then expensive
maintenance is continually necessary.
In some instances history shows that
| during the life of such bond issue
the original road has been worn out
and rebuilt with different material.
| and with the proceeds of subsequent
bond issues as many as three times.
and stlTl the original bonds are a liza
bility on the community.
| Bond issues for better roads are the
best means to pull counties out Of the
Land of Mud. But 1t must be certain
that the road improvements will last
the life of the bonds. This can be as
sured by securing expert and unpreju-
diced engineering advice on the best
kind of roads for the SOIL The bank
err can perform yeoman service in this
connection. ~
In the state of Iowa the man who be-
gan with nothing and now owns $780,
900 farm, believes in paying as he goes
when building road, but he will bor-
row money from an insurance company
with which to buy more land, and he
has not yet seen that when he builds
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-10-04
SCOUTS in THE EPIDEMIC.

One scout in Morristown, N. D.,
served as an inferno at local hos
pital for two weeks. He did all the
work which Is usually performed by
a grown man. Another spent the bet
ter part of week at a children's home
where the majority of sixty inmates
were suffering from influenza. Water
had to be carried up four flights of
stairs, meals prepared and served and
many other duties performed.
Still another volunteered for work
with the Red Cross and drove a supply
truck three times week between Ho-
boken and soldiers cOnvalescent hos
pital at Mendham.
Four other scouts were on duty at
a diet kitchen established during the
epidemic in the high school building.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-10-04
START OF SCOUTS EDUCATION

Scouting is an educational PROPOSE
ton. It's intent Is both to help the
scout do the thing he likes to do and
to do 1t better and to lead him out into
fields of thought and action that its
many divisions offer.
Every applicant for membership
must pass the following requirements
before he can attain the rank of a
tenderfoOt scout:
/. Know. the scout law, sign, salute
and significance of the badge. =.
g Know the composition and his
tory of the national flag and the GUS
tomary forms of respect to it.
8. Tie the following knots Square
or reef. sheet-bend, bowline, fisher
MANS sheepshank, halter, Glove hitch,
timber hitch, or two half-hitches.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-10-04
AS CONGRESS SEES ITSELF ~
Q Wad some power
the giftie Gle US
10 see oursel's as
itherS see US!
Robert Burns
Robert Burns

HE Official Congressional Directory,
Slxty-Sixth Congress" which is now
OH the government press, might very
wen carry the subtitle, AS Congress
Sees Itself" For it contains as usual
biographical sketch of each senator
ana representative one excep-
ton. And these biographies are auto
biographies. To be sure. there is a