The Connecticut labor press., 1920-10-02


 sage week." and that going with it is the slogan, Eat more sausage and grow fat" Unfortunately in modern sausage there is little fat or lean, their filing filings @ befrg uith largely c1moufiage r1e of The war may have ended but we're still eating wartime fodder and paying war time prices. And taxes? Well, we're paying taxes on the past, present and future.
 Yankees boiling over with enthusi- astic patriotism and others to the manor born, are to give valuable aid to the New Haven Italians in celebrating Columbus Day, October 12. They have just woke up, it seems, to the fact that Christopho Columbo was too great man for one nationality to celebrate the memory thereof all alone. It sounds fine and the sentiment hints of a real brotherhood of the nations, but some of the names mentioned make me sus- picious of republican plot to work in little party missionary work at the festivities.
 "Foodstuf Prices Drop," reads a headline. Unfortunately my grocer never reads the papers.
 Speaking about lower prices and the newspapers, at least one New Haven daily seems reluctant to admit that there has been a drop in prices of toodstufts or wearing apparel any where. True, there isn't any over whe1ming evidences of slump in the Elm City but in the west such appears to be the fact. Can 1t be that the news paper in question, by not publishing the gladsome tidings, thinks to please or curry favor with the prohteers?
 Merchandise Is more or less stag nant; the goods on many storekeepers shelves are not moving. The purchas- ing public is not buying; all fed Up on high prices. The natural means of emptying the shelves is by stimulating demand. Lowered prices causes de- mand. MT. Ford, of flivver fame, sees it, also MT. Wood, the woolen king, and some others, so they've turned to and Cut the prices.
 Right here it is both pertinent and timely to touch on the wage earner and the question of nigh prices It was not the workingman's high wages which put , , the cost of living high up in the air, but the workingman's willingness to pass his high wages over to the prohteer has been the means of keeping the prices up in the air. Think it over, and then decide what's the answer and who's l the goat.
 Record arrests for drunenness are l being made in Connecticut cities. Bellevue hospital in New York reports 1 that the number of cases i'll the a1co- t,of: l,a1 eoI cent. in six months. Any many reports are similar. Apropos, and wonder of , wonders, it has just been discovered that there are grave doubts that the manufacture and sale o6 intoxicating drinks ever can be stopped! And why not, pray? Simply because 1t has at 1 last been learned that it is impossible, and it is all owing to the waywardness 1 of man and the processes of nature. 1 The wise have known for some time l that it is hard undertaking to make men good by the rule of law. Now, it seems they have finally come to the conclusion that, whether or no, the pro-
 ducts of mother earth will decay fir ment and turn into alcohol. And while the people await an intelligent consid- eration of the Volstead law, possibly
 resulting in light wines and beers, we | have the home hooch.
 Make your own" is the slogan of the dealers i'll the makings for the home l hooch. Some of them are hourishing like the proverbia1 green bay tree, sell l ing a few cents worth of hops and a 1 bit of malt for a good1y sum. The re- suits of the brew, Pm told, are at times most amazing, kick being developed that seems fendish in purpose and he'll ! ish in striking its blows. The hooch, 1 it seems, has been known to separate 1 once loving couples, scatter families, | turn brother against brother and change saints into snakes Yes, and little sis ter, who was supposed to be enjoying a | much needed rest, is again going forth