The Connecticut labor press., 1920-09-04
 THE OMOOkER Y cock my hat as please, indoors or out. ',-Walt Whitman

occasionally in the mortuary rooms of
 an Elm City undertaking establishment to talk things over. There's nothing dead about these meetings, however, but just now they're bit mournful
 owing to the fact that the back pay allowed by the Railway Labor Board has failed to materialize. Maybe in
 time, though, to do the Christmas shop ping early if not soon enough to help out in paying the advanced rent charges some of the boys are having to meet. Speaking about house rents, am re- minded of the fact that we don't hear any more about humble cottages" Down around the beaches they now call
 even the poorest shacks villas and bun galoes and all because the rent charges have boosted tehm into that class. Ev- used to be called his castle and now it's getting to be such in reality when the cost of keeping it is figured. When 1t comes to voting intelligently
 1 have confidence that the women mem bers of the labor unions will hold their own with school teachers, society 1adeis and the general run of female up1ift- CTS and high brows. If not, then or ganized labor has not proven the educa- tive force that I believe 1t has in edu- eating women toward a higher stand ard of living. True, this educative
 force has fallen short in reaching many union men, but it's getting there, and at any rate we expect the women to grasp the problems of the ballot box more quickly than ever men did. Just as the wage earning woman of today is better qualified to spend the wages she earns than is the average wage working man, so it is be1ievable that she will cast her vote with better judgment
 Maine in its rottenest days of pro- ,hibition non-enforcement never was cursed with worse scandals in relation to rum smuggling and selling than Is Connecticut at the present time. They
 had some 60 years of 1t in the Pine Tree State and 1t was only because rum was allowed to be sold by the boot1eggers 1 and in the speakeasies that the prohibi- 1 ton law remained on the statutes Gen. l eral Grant never said much but he said
 one good thing: eff you want to get
 rid of bad law, enforce it." The
 sooner the Volstead actis really enforced l the quicker will come "safe and sane" l light wines and beers and the respect |
 be closed for lack of customers.
 l Wonderful startling things are again
 being seen by the United States Cham
 Der of Commerce and its high brow prophets are spreading the gladsome l news through the nub1ic press. .sThe
 high cost of necessities reads the re-
 ports, "are disturbing factors, but there
 is no need to get panicky, because amid all the cross currents and eddies of the
 situation light is breaking" I read 1 column more of the same sort of stuff
 and although that was two days ago I
 have failed to gain. an ink1ing of
 whereabouts the light was breaking. l That reminds me of beautifully
 written, soul-inspiring magazine article i that 1 read recently under the caption The Passing of the Lunch Box" It told how the horny-handed sons of toll
 were no longer carrying lunch boxes or dinner pals but that now the workers all dined in swell lunch rooms or high priced restaurants. The author of the article seemed to feel very badly about 1t, took 1t to heart and 1amented greatly that such weakness should have over taken the workingman. We'll, 1t is in deed terrible thing to contemplate, but as I feel unequal to the task of walloping the worker as he seems to de- serve I will, instead, add my testimony to that of the author. Some degenerate laborers that I konw of have the audac- ity to eat pie for breakfast and there are others fallen so low that they smoke cigarettes where formerly they puffed T. D. pipes.
 Glib tongued promoters were in New Haven recently trying to induce street car men to invest flew hundred dol lars'' in jitney bus line. The invest