The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1920-10-23
The 0nlnnker
. II cock my hat as please. 81 81 II 4.
El ls Indoors or on" -- Walt Whitman

l see by the papers that the govern
| ment's drive against the high cost of
| living has cost approximately $500,000
| Also that it has tired all out the de-
| partment of justice, so that, in order
| to rest up, an armistice is to be called
| i'll the fight against prohteering on
| November l. These be terrible times,
| indeed SO.
But, if you allow the department of
justice to tell it, it's been great drive
| and remarkably successful. Fines of
| $275,OO0 have been collected and some
of the most wicked of the profteers
have been jailed, their combined terms
aggregating 10 years. Nor is that all
of the wonderfully good news. Some
200 more convictions were obtained
through the fair price committees and
more than 1000 persons and firms in
d1Cted. But, strange as it may seem,
by some hocus poCus these have man
aged to escape their just deserts.
Well, WELL at last a medical society
has come out hatfooted for modihca-
ton of the Volstead act and in favor
of light wines and beers. AS little
cheer up news for the vets l give it
space: The Perth Amboy, N. j.,
Medical Society found that, after
thorough investigation, through the
brewing of home beers and other
liquors intoxication has become alarm
ingly more prevalent than before the
enactment of the Volstead act
The New Jersey medicos also re-
ported that mothers and children are
lnnocently or otherwise partaking of
copious brews of fermented7 fruits or
similar ingredients, the effect of which
is to bring about in many cases
startling condition of intoxication in
homes that has never before existed"
A resolution was then passed calling
for modification of the Vo1stead act
so as to permit the use of light wines
and beers. Everybody rise and sing,
'Oh, how dry | ami"
1t has been supposed throughout the
fight in Connecticut between the jitneys
and the trolley cars, that all the big
motor vehicle manufacturers were
supporting the bus men. 1t has even
been said that the manufacturers of
buses stood ready, when the time
came, to put big money into any fight
that might come up in the Legislature
this winter in behalf of the jitneurs.
What follows tells a somewhat diff
ferent story.
At a recent convention in Atlantic
City, George M. Graham, vice presi-
dent of the Pierce-Arrow Car COM
pany, said the motor bus was abso-
lutely inadequate to supercede the cleo
trio car And what is more to the
IL. IaI in
sight" Other motor vehicle men
present Endorsed Mr.. Graham's state
ment.
DIR. Wellington Kov, the Chinese
minister, denies that there is any Boil
shevik activity IN China and he blandly
adds Chinese by nature and ira
dition 1oath violence and are peace
loving. Chinese labor, not being or
ganized, Bolshevism has no foothold or
starting point to spread its propagan-
da" In other words, the heather
Chinee is too dull of comprehension
to become unionized and hence lacks
the brains to join the reds. DIR. Kov
is some coocoo of kidder.
Wholesale prices for some foodstuffs
dropped FIVE per cent. in September,
so a Washington dispatch states, while
others underwent increases ranging
from eight to II per cent" Nothing
very encouraging about beating the
high cost of existing in that. De
creases of one per cent. in retail prices
were reported in some cities, including
Bridgeport and New Haven" continues
the dispatch And the newspaper I
read it in has the nerve to head it:
"Foodstuffs Prices Declining Steadily"
Well, along the line that half loaf
is better than no bread, admit that
one per cent. reduction in foodstuffs
might save @ fellow a few pennies a
week. That is, if he has family of
10 or more. But for all that l am
utterly unable to arouse my enthusiasm
over it to the boiling point
Then, again, here is this hot one:
"The price of hides has dropped so
per cent. to pre-war levels in the last
six months, L. H. D. Weld of the
research department of Swift & Co. has
declared, and the shoe price is steadily
falling. Reminds me of the old song
sung by the children, London bridge
is falling down, falling down" Steadily
falling, you see but still standing right
UP in the airl
A precedent is to be established at
old Yale when, on October u, at Wool
sey hall, a democratic rally is to be
held within its sacred precincts. Never
before, during the go years of the in
stitution's history, has political meet
ing been allowed in any of its assembly
halls unless conducted by a Yale or
ganization, it is said. And the wicked
democrats have broken the record. But
then, lots of Yale boys fought to make
the world safe for democracy.
Shop rallies are now being held by
the republicans at the noon hour
throughout the state. At these gather
ings the spellbinders seem to have got
ten back to the old tariff question and
protection to American labor. So far,
however, l have heard of no mention
being made of the full dinner pail, once