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The Connecticut labor news., 1922-02-17
American Railroads
 Boycott U. s. Ships
Must Tell on March I, About Pref
 erentia1 Contracts With laps.

Washington, Feb. 17.-The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul and the Great Northern railroads will inform the ship ping board on March 1, 1t is stated, whether they will abrogate their prefer ential contracts with Japanese vessels.
 The railroads and their espec,a1 de- lenders have been placed III an ernbar- rassing position since it has been dis covered that the largest trunk lines in the country have secret agreements with for eign shipping companies which amount to an out-and-out boycott of American vessels.
 The agreements are made public just at time when every 100 per cent A1neri- can was preparing to shout:
 "Subsidize American ships that we may have an American merchant marine"
 Down with the La Toilette seaman's law-it is a barrier to an American ner- chant marine"
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-02-17
BUILDING SHOWS CONSIDERABLE GAIN
 DURING JANUARY
Increase 46 Per Cent. Over Year Be- fore, While New England
 Doubles.

January construction activity was 49 per cent greater in volume than 1t was in the corresponding month of last year according to the F. w. Dodge Company. The total amount of contracts awarded last month in the 2 northeastern states of the country was $166 6,320000 AL though this represented a decline of 16 per cent from the previous month, 1t was the second largest January total on the Dodge Company's statistical record, having been exceeded only in January, 1920
 Not only did the work actually start in January, as indicated by the awards of contracts, hold up exceedingly well for this season, but the volume of con templated new work reported, amounting to $435, ,859 000, was the largest monthly total of contemplated work reported since April, 1921, registering an increase of } per cent over the amount reported in December, and 2 per cent over the amount reported in January, 1921. All this indicates an increased volume of construction in 1922.
 Residential building accounted for 45 percent of the January total, amounting to S75,728,OOO Business buildings amounted to $23,694,000, or 34 per cent of the total; industrial buildings, $1o,- oo5,OO0, or l2 per cent; public works and utilities, $18,735,000 or II per cent. In dustrial building, although small, showed a gratifying increase over the previous month.
 Contracts awarded i'll the New Eng land states during January amounted to $16,005, ,000 Although this is a 40 per cent decline from the proceeding month, it is nearly double the figure for January 1921.
 Among the items included in the Jan- uary, 1922, total were the following $5,090000, or B per cent for residential buildings; S3283,0O0, or 20 per cent for industrial buildings; $3137 ,000, or 19 per cent for business buildings; and $l l,307,- GOO. or 8 per cent for educational build ings.
 Contemplated new work reported in January amounted to S43,778. .OGO, an in crease of 40 per cent over the volume of contemplated work reported in Decem- Der.
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The Connecticut labor news., 1922-02-17
UNION SPY HEAD
 JAILED IN NEW YORK

New York, Feb. 1n-"Captain" Robert J. Foster, head of union spy bureau and so-called detective" agency, has been sentenced to serve 30 days in the city prison and pay a fine of $500 for his refusal to furnish information to the Lockwood com mittee regarding his spy methods.
 Fosters offices adjoin those of Walter Drew, general counsel of the anti-union national erectors' associa- ton. In December, last year, Foster told the Lockwood committee that he was retained by big steel interests, through Drew. He admitted that his "operatives" spied on unions, but he refused to give other information.
 Attorneys for Foster appealed the decision which will be used by Foster to secure additional spy business.
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The Connecticut labor news., 1922-02-17
CONNECTICUT NOT
 TO HAVE ANOTHER
 CONGRESSMAN NOW
Those at Washington, Except Glynn, Have Trouble Enough
 as It Is.

Connecticut IS not likely to have an additional congressman to elect next
 all, even though its population en- tiles 1t to another representative. A decision by the House committee on census, s to 6, to recommend against my change in the size of Congress will result, 1t is believed, in the drop ping of the project until after the :on3ing elections in November.
 The decision of the census commit tee was reached last week and among hose committee members who voted in favor of an immediate reapportion- ment was Congressman James P. Glynn of Winsted, representing the Fifth Connecticut district Reports from Washington are to the effect that the House Is expected to accept the committees report and drop the reapportionment for the present ses- sion.
 The last session of the Connecticut legislature also declined to take any action toward a reapportionment of he state to provide an additional con- gressiOnal district, contingent on ac- ton being taken by Congress to al- low this state another member. A bill rearranging the present five con- gresS1Onal districts so as to create sixth district was carefully prepared by Senator Arthur F. Bowers of Man chester, but after considerable delib- eration, 1t was voted to continue the matter to the next session of the leg islature
 News of the action of the census committee in Washington was receiv- ed with considerable interest in Con- necticut political circles, as Senator William H. Hall Of Wilmington was regarded as fairly certain to seek nomination for congressman at large from the republican state convention in the early fall.
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-02-17

from which the follow ing excerpt is taken:
 Tt is to be observed that of ten bills brought into this corfu hardly three have any color or shadow of just complaint. The rest are omni fundaments carere and to be exhibited either by malice or out of turbulent humor wherewith too many are possessed, or else to shelter themselves for while from some i'm .ninent storm. Wherein, as in many times, the remedy proves worse than the disease; so if they were all forced as aforesaid to come to touch (that is, to a hearing where their nakedness would soon appear) and there, if their causes befrivolous were to be we'll lashed with costs, 1t will make them and others, from their examples, more wary how they trouble their neighbors and the courts so widely as they do."
 There are many grave abuses erninat Ing from the Lord Chancellors court and IS each Lord Chancellor had a ''con- ,cience" of his own, there was no de- lcrrnining in advance what chancellor night do in a given case, for there were 10 legal boundaries to his authority and 10 statutory enactments to guide him.
 This was a condition which led to many vigorous protests. Perhaps one of the most Illuminating analysis of what the court of equity was in the one given by the great English jriust John Selden, in the year l644:
 Equity in law, he said is the same that the spirit is in religion-what every one pleases to make 1t. Sometimes they go according to law; sometimes accord ing to rule of court. Equity IS a roguish thing: for in law we have a ! measure and know what to trust to, equity is according to the conscience of him that is chancellor and, as that is longer or narrower, so Is equity. Iris all one as if they should make the stand ard of measure the chancellor's foot What an uncertain measure this would 1 be; one chancellor has a long foot, an- other a short foot, third an indifferent foot. It is the same thing with the chancellor's conscience"
 The struggle between the court of equity and the courts of law continued for many years. As time passed, lawyers instead of clergymen, became the Lord Chancellor. Also, as time passed, the number of cases coming before the court of equity became so numerous that as- sstants to the Lord Chancellor were necessary and in time a definite court
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-02-17
HOW AMERICA GOT
 ITS EQUITY COURTS

"The courts of equity which we have today in the United States are directly descended from the original Lord Chan cel1or of England who first be- came the keeper of the kings 'conscience,' says John Frey in this, the second of his brilliant series of articles on the injunc- ton and it's genesis.
 Injunctions are issued by equity courts.
 That is why it is important to know about equity courts how they came into being, what their functions properly are, how they acquired other func- tions and for what reasons.
 In these articles the whole story is being told by an auth ority.
 A complete understanding of the equity court as an institu- ton and of the reasons, as we'll as the excuses, for injunctions is important in the great con- test to bring to an end the inn proper and unlawful use of the injunction.
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-02-17
FARM AND LABOR MUST COOPERATE
 AND ORGANIZE
Swift, Heroic Action Needed to Gust
 Middlemen Prohteers, Says Perkins.
By GEORGE w. PERKINS,

By GEORGE w. PERKINS. President, Cigarmakers' International
 Union.
 International Labor News Service)
 Chicago, Feb. 17.-The biggest la bor, economic, and political issues in the Middle West or elsewhere are better. more comprehensive, and more effective organization economically and politically. There should be pro per and effective cooperation be- tween the farmers and the industrial workers.
 As long as an unfair per cent of the profits on farm work, as now, goes into the hands of the prohteer- ing middle men there is no relief in so far as the products of the agricul- tural districts reaching the table of the industrial worker are concerned
 Conditions are such that they de- mand swift and heroic action in the matter of cooperation in marketing agricultural products and the elim- ination of the unfair, prohteering, un-
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-02-17

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New Britain herald., 1922-10-25
FASHION SHOW AT FOX'S.

Tonight is tl.e last presentation of the big fashion show at Fox's which Hoyt's Revue, in collaboration with Rnphael's department store, is put ting on. Costumes and women's wearing apparel of the most fetching sort are shown. Irene Castle in Slim Shoulders dressy society drama with most surprising climax, Is the movie offering.
 For the last offering during their present engagement here, Hoyts will present tomorrow Scandals of Pleas ure," an entirely new musical comedy with new jokes and an entirely new array of dance and song numbers. The accompanying picture is Charles Jones in West of Chicago" a rapid fire picture which has great punch and plenty of action.
 Friday evenings "Flapper contest Is attrac citing wide attention. Each member of the. revue will be called upon to do some speciality stunt, comic and otherwise, which Is in line with the current opinions regarding flapperis,n
 Beginning Sunday and continuing through Wednesday Charles Rays latest and best picture, "A Tailor Made Man." will be shown.
New Britain herald., 1922-10-25

berry" he explained. When you pnched it couldn't keep still"
 I'm sorry" said Aunt Polly Wood chuck. T wouldn't have hurt you for worlds"
 T know that" Fatty Coon assured her.
 Then Aunt Polly began to look all around.
 My spectacles--1 have lost them. she said.
 They're pushed up on your fore head" Fatty told her. .. That's so, They are.' said Aunt Polly Woodchuck. I've been wearing them that way all the morning And that's why happened to mistake the tip of your nose for a blackberry. It doesn't really look much like a black berry, you know
 Fatty Coon nodded.
 Thank you. Aunt Polly" he said Copyright 1922 by Metropolitan
 Newspaper Service.)
New Britain herald., 1922-10-25

| about when he wanted to. If all hi ] friends hadn't been able to do like [ wise with their own noses Fatty Cool would have been able to perform l | trick we'll worth knowing. But tricl ! is no trick when everybody else cal 1 do it as well as you can.
 Well. hiding for so long time Fatty found it hard to keep still. Blu i he never moved-except to wiggle th' | end of his nose now and then. Afte a while he began to wonder why h. f heard no one moving in the under brush. It was queer he thought, tha 1 it was so quiet all around him. i And then suddenly he heard twis snap as somebody stepped on 1t.
 An, hal" he said to himself. Here comes somebody looking for me" He stopped moving his nose and hardly dared breathe Nearer and nearer came the sounds, of some one moving, Somebody was pulling the blackberry bushes over then letting them fly back again
 That sounds as if he was picking berries" thought Fatty And pretty soon he added. Tt sounds as if he was eating them, too"
 Then all at once voice spoke right out;
 What beautiful, big blackberries,
 It was Aunt Polly Woodchuck' E voice. Fatty knew that she wasn't playing hide -and-seek She was Der rying
 Everybody liked Aunt Polly Wood chuck. And since Fatty Coon didn't want to startle her he kept still as a mouse, expecting she would soon pass on without having discovered him Especially did he take great pains not to wriggle the tip of his black nose which was all of him that showed amid the blackberry bush where he was hiding.
 Aunt Polly came nearer and near CT to Fatty. Soon she was picking berries off the very bush that con- cealed him. And then she cried;
 My. My What an e-nor-mous blackberry"
 At the same time she seized the tip of Fatty Coon's nose, giving it such tweak that he roared with pain almost in her ear.
 Aunt Polly Woodchuck shrieked. She was terribly frightened. She snatched away her paw, turned, and ripped over root.
 When Fatty jumped out of the blackberry bush Aunt Polly lay spraWling upon the ground. She had dropped both her market basket and her umbrella.
 Don't be alarmed. Aunt Polly!' he called out. "1 won't hurt you"
 Then Fatty helped Aunt Polly Woodchuck upon her feet, picked up her scattered belongings, and gave them to her, Poor old lady, She was still shaking.
 What happened?" she asked Fat ty.
 ''Tou thought my nose was a black
New Britain herald., 1922-10-25
The Wild suspicion Dr. Pcttn
 Voiced to Nadoe

Mrs Underwool saya you wisho, to see me, Mrs, Graham"
 Dr. Petit, with his rrofessona dignity in nieky's rar'lnee, ''Work'rl overtime, and with ouls his eyei showing the strain under which ht lad been working oS@ Tom Chester came into the library where haf asked Lillian to sepl aim.
 Yes, l do." I answered. blunt, Please sit down. fon must be ox- hausted"
 Thank you. nm not tired" His tone held the cold, awkarl stiffness which repels so many Of his acdrant- ances, and which eorp'eteW hides the real goodness sul kinlnt ss of the man
 l refused to be impressed however, and pushed a chair toward him,
 But l am, l said petttshls. and 1t tires me to see you standing"
 What Madge Asked
 Tn that case, of course, I have no choice, he said stiffly and sat down in the chair, unconsciously settling into its comfort with relaxing move ment which betrayed his fatigue. felt bit conscience stricken about bothering so tired d man, but my un- easiness over the meaning of his lit- tie speech concerning Dicky was like a barb urging me on, and I went di- rectly to the point.
 ''Dr. Pettit, l must ask you what you meant when you asked me if were sure my husband was in the Adirondacks 2"
 He strengthened in the chair with the effect of jerk. and his eyes showed fatigue no longer. l had the odd notion that something had just kindled fire behind them.
 50 you have reconsidered your an- swer," he said, and his tone betrayed the fierce eagerness which was in him
 Not necessarily" parried. T simply wished to know what was be- hind your question. There must have been something
 There was" he answered grimly. 'but the answer you gave to my aues- ton disposed of it. Unless there came a shrewd look into his eyes, unless you wish to reconsider your answer. In that case I will ask my question again. Are you sure your husband is in the Adirondacks
 Blazing Resentment
 His manner was the offensive, arrn- gant one of the old-style pedagogue. told myself that all he needed was hickory switch under his arm to make the picture complete. If I had been my normal self l would have
New Britain herald., 1922-10-25
SALT C0DF|SH
BY BERTHA E. SHAPLE1GH Of Columbia University

There Is nnucn run nad at the ex- pense of people living on the ocean side of Maine and Massa chusetts be- cause of their liberal use of codfish. Where is there dish more Appetizing than picked up' fish with a baked potato, done to a turn?
 Or those delicious fish balls, or cakes. but with no tomato sauce. There is great difference between an ordinary tomato sauce and a good tomato catsup when served with salt codfish
 i cup salt codflsh
 cups potatoes
 tablespoon butter
 1 cup rich milk
 Paprika to taste
 Soak salt codf1sh over night and cook until tender. Cook potatoes with jackets on and let stand over night,
 Shred codf1sh, peel potatoes and cut into small cubes.
 Place butter in sauce pan. When melted add codhsh and potatoes.
 Pour over milk. dust with paprika and cook until milk is absorbed. Add more milk if necessary, Cook slowly, stirring with fork occasionally.
New Britain herald., 1922-10-25

! Jack nodded assent and Joined in 1 their pleasure. But privately he did some teegraphing to a friend in
 Rome Then he was more content to wait.
 They went on to Pompeii, and for the first time in her life Edna looked into kitchens and living rooms and shops and gardens in which nearly 1900 years ago people like themselves in the midst of everyday life were suddenly buried in a downpour of hot ashes and molten rock. She turned to Jack, emotion surging through her. But Jack nodded absently and a sick disappointment clutched at Ed : nas heart. She saw he was trying to make his thoughts follow hers but that they were really busy on cleo trical contracts and inflated expense accounts The rest of her day was clonded with resentment. Few words passed between herself and Jack as later they 1aboriously climbed the slope of Mount Nesuvius the ever broodins menace of the region.
 Edna felt as if some ominous force were breeding over her honeymoon happiness But she did not expect it's eruption to come so soon.
New Britain herald., 1922-10-25
AUNT POLLY WOODCHUCK's MIS-
 TAKE.

Fatty Coon was having a pleasant time. He had gone blackberrying with several of his friends who lived near him in Cedar swamp.
 It was a great year for backber- ries. You could almost stand still in your tracks and pick berries enough for big meal. With blackberries so plentiful, 1t was not long before Fat ty and his friends had eaten all they could hold. And then they began to play games,
 One of their favorite games was hide-and seek. Fatty Coon had great luck playing it. Nobody found him once. And at last his friends grew fired of never having him Tt" So they played trick on him.
 They stole away and left him hid ing. And there he waited and wait ed. all buried in the bushes. with only the tip of his nose showing.
 The tip of Fatty Coon's nose was black and hairless. It was a funny nose, anyhow He could move it
New Britain herald., 1922-10-25
IF YOU ARE WELL BRED

You realize that one of the greatest tests of good manners comes at the table and you teach child early the proper uses of his knife fork and spoon, and teach him to sit correctly at the table
 You do not permit him to make disparaging remarks about the food and you teach him to pass lightly over any unpleasant incidents or acci- dents
 Teach him to bring agreeable con Nersation and a friendly spirit, as well as clean hands and wei -groomed q appearance to the table.
New Britain herald., 1922-10-25
GO ON WITH THE STORY

Naples Jack believes he finds proof o
 Cousins double-dealing.
 GO ON WITH THE STORY
 Yes. were getting each others number old Cousins and l." Jack re- peated grimly Question is, shall we come out and say so, or keep on pre- tending to be all silk?'
 Slave off war as long as you can. suggested Edna neryously. T can see our honeymoon being spoiled com pletely--"
 Wars on," said Jack with mar rowed eyes, not hearing the last part of Edna's sentence. He's waging il from ambush. but I'll study him be- fore firing
 Meantime they began the trip to Capri, Amalf, Pompei and Vesuvi- us that Cousins had planned. And il was a queer tour--Jack and Cousins watching each other like primitive animals as they moved stealthily about, Edna wholly enraptured by what she saw--Capri, the mountain island with it's southern loveliness of nature, it's crumbling castles, it's le- gends of Tiberius, it's thousand wind ing walks, its perpendicular vineyards and it's famed Blue Grotto, the cave into which you shoot lying fiat in your rowboat so as not to strike the low arch of the entrance and where inside everything is bathed in q light of silver and blue of such un- earthly beauty as only dream could approach.
 At Amalfi the three stopped at what was once a Franciscan monastery, now A luxurious modern hotel halfway up a mountain overlooking the blue Med- iterranean. Here Jack. seated in q long, pilared, vine-w -wreathed pergola, tried to talk business with Cousins.
 The European manager in mock anguish appealed to Edna.
 "Please, please stop him, madame, Here are all the beauties of southern 1taly--the full moon--your honey moon. dear madame-and he wishes to bury his nose in a sales report. 1t is terrible!"
 If had more effect than Jack re- alized Edna thrilled with the love- llness that had played on the strings of poets for a thousand years, half laughingly joined Cousins in his pro- test,
 Really. Jackie, I do think we might forget business for minute Just l-o-o-k-"
New Britain herald., 1922-10-25
PLAN COURT-NfARTIAL
Report in Athens Is That Speedy Trial
 Will Be Given Former Officials

Athens, Oct. 25.--According to the latest report the former government officers and military chiefs arrested by the revolut.1..sts at the time of the dethronc-.lent ,! King Constantine Will be triel pJ an extraordinary conrt-!nar..Al
 An investigator h.J been sent ta Corfu by the .o.,.nlssion in charge of the inquiry to question Prince An drew, brother Of CoaM2nt'ne, on tl7. charge That whiI,. ;,f tb. hend of on army corps in Asi1 ,il ,or he rcfrsed to execute an or ter, th-s contributing to t.le disaster or the Gree,. Griry.
New Britain herald., 1922-10-25
Dollar Day at Wise. Shit, {. Coz.

Thursday, October 26, ni'l l,e Dol lar Day" at the Anniversar-- Gaie md even better values than last sear's Anniversary Dollar Day can hc ex- pected. Wise Smith X Co. .a-e ,>re- pared for this Dollar bay isith ex- tensive and advantageous zarchases so that many of the articles offered for one dollar will be found tc b, worth great deal more. some worth double, in fact it will be a Dollar Dav such as Wise, Smith & Go. are able to conduct and Free Souvenir C'ou- pons will be given just the same as usual during the Anniversary Sale Dollar Day as on every other day of the Anniversary Sale-advt
New Britain herald., 1922-10-25
NANCE O'NEIL GIVEN OVATION.

No star is more welcome to Hart ford than Nance O'Neil, Large and appreciative audiences invariably turn out to see her on the annual visits 10 that city. Last night was no excep- tion The offering this season was Jacinto Bonaventes "Tield of Err mine" court comedy of Spain. Field of Ermine" Is comedy drama, treating of the aristocracy of the Spanish Court, with clever situa- tions and sprightly dialogue It will doubtless Serve Miss O'Nei ns long aA Benavente's Passion Flower" did.
 The last performance will be given tonight.
New Britain herald., 1922-10-25
GossipSCorne,
For Palm Beach

It is said that the favorite Palm Beach frock of this season will be the straightline frock of white crepe de chine embroidered with a monoeram Such gowns are being prepared in quantities.