New Britain herald., 1924-03-15

from weather standpoint-faiied tt
 keep about 150 women away from g
 democratic rally. The promoters de. D I clared that if the weather had beer
 pleasant they would have had a larger
 crowd than the hall could hold. The
 same measure of enthusiasm was shown over republican rally al-
 though the attendance was not SC
 large because the organization did not
 offer any social inducements such as
 were put on the program by the democratic managers.
 In days of old when politicians were bold they were wont to have a
 keg of brew with a kick on it stand ing in the corner ito keep the boys
 in good humor." A flask or two also
 added to the zest of the occasion. I Times and customs change. At one women's rally into which a male
 newspaperman had the hardihood to
 intrude he found them sitting around : eating ice cream and macaroons. He
 did not remain long in this pleasant
 company but has not the slightest
 doubt that he might have, heard some interesting conversation, not with re- spect to the Mellon tax plan or he situation at Washington, but about the newest styles in Easter hats and the color of spring dresses. This may be
 a rash guess, but We will leave it to
 the ladies to furnish the evidence as 1 to it's truth.
 1 Hats, dresses or whatnot, women are becoming a big factor in poli- i tics. Party leaders have organized them in the west with industry which
 reveals a western "l1ick." The con- servative cast has Jagged behind, | probably because women as a whole 1 have shown little interest in the game. The male managers are begin | ming to wake mp to the fact that they are overlooking a gold mine in which many votes arc to be had for the picking and are making haste to line up their fair friends.
 As result of the activity of democratic and republican leaders, it is expected that the female vote next month will be by far the largest ever cast here.
 Probably no talk to local Rotarians has caused quite as much comment | throughout the membership and | among many of those who read its re- l port in the "Herald'' as that given recently by Byron T.. Newton, rep resenting the Anthracite coal com mission. Air. Newton's address was interesting and undoubtedly truthful and accurate us far as it went. but the Observer believes that taking only one side of the story, Mr. New ton, inadvertently gave the impression here that an anthracite miners life is one of those "fowery beds of case" which are heard about in hynl- nals, and that the reason they take so many days off Is because they are making so much money they must have time to spend it.
 AIr. Newton's talk was confined to a large extent to contract miners, who do make good money, but he avoided explaining the dam gers of contract mining, or any ref erenee to company miners.
 As a striking contrast to the ad- dress made by Mir. Newton, the Ob- server presents herewith extracts from the report fQr the year 1923 made by Mine Inspector E. |. Evans, m official elected by the people, for ono single district iT Central Penn sylsania. for the year 1923.
 Mir. Evans. who is one of the most expert mining engineers in pennsyl- | sania, shows in his report that in nine C operating % mines, within 2 | radius Of a few miles, there were .3 men killed and G4 injured in one rear. He showed that. there are 3S7 Joys under 2i years Of age em- ,loyed underground and 5S7 more ! at the collieries above 2 round between the ages of IA and 21.
 His report says that in an annual production Of 3,421,64S tons, there | vas ono fatal accident inside tunder- -roundD for every 146,57e tons pro- q Iuccd and one fatal accident outside s above groundD Tor every. t4S,7G7 Il ons produced. .
 There was one fatal accident dur ng the year for every PSI persons mployed. In the same proportion to ! he number of people employed and he size Of the population affected, his would mean in New Britain about [ men killed in factories in one year.
 Inside the mines there was one on-fatal accident during the year or every 79 men and boys em- loved.
 During the year in this one dis rict, the central point of which is a ,wn of 17.00O people, Mir. Evans re. orts 10 wives made widows and II hiidren became orphans in one small istriet in i2 months.
 IL was necessary to operate 8 rgc fans, tthese fans run anywhere .om 10 to 20 feet in diameterD in rder to force air into the mines so Ien could breathe while working. In ldition to these 33 fans there also ere 23 large air comprcssors work g for the same purpose.
 Of the %. mines in operation. IS them contain dangerous explosive tses, making if necessary for men to ork with safety lamps and making
 impossible to strike matches or noke while working. This report 1plies to a total of G.656 employees. compared 10 approximately 10000 orkers in New Britain factories.
 Had Mr. Newton created hypothe- .al city the size of New Britain and id there were ST people killed in cal factofies in a year and about 70 seriously injured, that all of er1 worked in dark places, with sufficient light, that some Of the