The Connecticut labor press., 1920-10-02

Father, dear father, come home with me now"
 About all the practical politicians, hear, agree that the women for the most part will vote just as the husbands or their fathers vote. Consequently states that have been republican will be more strongly republican and the democrats will have bigger majorities i'll the demo- cratic states. But the wise political forecasters make two exceptions, to wit: The women who have been ardent suffragists and the organized labor women. These two classes of women voters, it is said, are likely to break away from any influence of the men and vote according to their own ideas.
 Many men refuse to vote because they look upon the ballot box as a farce, the results controlled by party bosses working i'll the interests of big business. Many other men vote just as their bosses tell them to vote or through the implied wishes of their employers. And thousands of men vote because they were brought up in democratic or republican families, just as thousands follow the religion they were taught to believe. So it will be to great extent with the women. The really and truly independent voter is rare bird. If the wage workers all voted for men loyal to the cause of organized labor, then labor would get all that 1t Is en- titled to. It IS up to the organized la bor women to show the men the way. I pin my faith to these earnest women who have, for many weary years, had to fight battle for shorter hours and equal pay for equal work, and bolster up their cause by repeatedly stimulat- ing their weaker brothers to battle with them.
 In the report of a committee of the New Haven County Bar Association, having in hand the business of lacking up charges to be made to clients 1 find this: "A number of attorneys spoke deprecating what they termed the trade union spirit. which is creeping into the practice of law" Well, well, what do yer know about that? It strikes me that if there was little more trade union spirit' of fair play in the law game there wouldn't be half so many lawyers.
 The New Haven Chamber of Com merce has gone and done 1t again. Been working like the ever busy beaver, all the time and overtime, and now after many weary months has, according to the report, gathered huge amount of ] material on the housing question" But 1t seems, that's about all at present. No wood been gathered, or bricks, or shingle nails, but "huge amount" of building material just the same. We'll it can be added to other huge amounts of reports, statistics and what not that have been accommodating. for years. It will all be useful some day for the junk gentleman to carry off to his lair.
 But that is not all The hard work ing, always faithful busy bees of the chamber held a discussion of the ten tative program of the civic section | which proposes a war chest for the community, if found desirable, and noon | day lunches at which authorities will 1 discuss specific problems Can you ! beat it? Going to have war chest, supposedly for the next war, or any old war that happens along. Wonder why the bright minds didn't start a | drive? If there's anything the people are suffering for it's another drive. And there'11 be noon-day lunches for | the discussion of problems. That let's the cat out of the bag. tells the why l and the wherefore and whichness of l the which. Can't get along without those dearly beloved Hotel Taft lunch | es; and those perp1exing problems, we must have 'em in our business Some people not only persist in talk ing all the joy out of life but they add insult to injury at the same time Here comes William F. Whitmore, the fair price commissioner, saying that he had read of the wave of lower prices sweep ing over the country but he had not noticed the wave here Others there be who haven't noticed any wave either, but they were so overjoyed at the very thought of lower prices that they were struck speechless.