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Putnam patriot., 1930-02-20
POMFRET PARAGRAPHS

Patrick Donlin Of Hartford was in Pomfret on Sunday.
 NIr. and Mrs. James Byrnes were in Hartford over the weekend.
 Mrs. E. B. Richardson has been housed with an attack of laryngitis.
 Mrs. Louis de Florez will entertain the Contract Club on this tThursday) evening.
 New books recently added to the Pomfret library, partly by purchase, and partly by gift are listed below.
 Miss Bertha Stevens, who has been suffering from severe cold ever since her arrival in New York. is able to be out again.
 Miss Moves returned on Saturday afternoon from New York, where she visited Mir. and Mrs. Nathan Weed, and other friends.
 Miss Dorothy Colt of New York, who has been the guest of Miss Math- ewson for a few days, returned to the city Tuesday.
 Miss Brown, teacher of the North School grammar grade, has recover ed from light attack of chicken pox. and is back in school.
 The usefulness of the Pomfret Library in the community is evinced by it's very large circulation of books, l35 having been given out last Sat urday.
 Mr. and Mrs. r. J. Foley and Mrs. Yesta Graves attended a Valentine party at the home of Mir. and Mrs. Ernest Cutler at West Glouceste-, R. l.. Saturday night.
 A very full meeting of the Ladies' Benevolent Society gathered at the home of the Misses Reyes on Wednes- day. Twenty six members were in in the morning. and others attended in the afternoon.
 The Contract Club was delightfully."- entertained last week by Mrs. John Campbell. Mir. and Mrs. Unger, and Mir. and Mrs. Whitehead were absent, as they were attending the opera; Mrs. Richardson was unable to be present and Miss Lowell is out of town. Mrs Whyland, Mir. and Mrs. Pond, Mrs. Moore, and John Gros- venor, and other guests increased the usual three tables to four.
Putnam patriot., 1930-02-20
A, the Ben Gro.venor Inn

Miss Mary Parsons and Miss Gibbs of Providence, are spending a week at the Main House.
 Mir. and Mrs. James T. Soutter, Miss Sally Soutter and their two sons were registered at the South cottage during the past weekend.
 The Contract Club was entertained by Mrs. John D. Campbell last Thurs day evening. Substitutes at the three regular tables were Arthur Clifford, MT. and Mrs. David $. Pond, Mrs. William Whyland, and John r. Gros- venor. A table of bridge was added of Mrs. John r. Grosvenor, Mrs. Chester Brown, Miss Elizabeth Bigelow and Loring Emory.
 Mrs. Leonard Fackner and Miss Fackner of Greenwich. spent the past weekend at the East cottage.
 The Orchard and Olive cottages will be open this weekend to accommodate rarents and guests of Pomfret School students. who are coming to attend their Annual Sixth Form Dance. Among the visitors expected are: Mir. and Mrs. Anson N. Hard and guest MT. and Mrs Morgan Wing and guest Mrs. George Brewer and Miss Brewer, Mrs. George B. Wagstaff, Mrs. Alfred Wagstaff and Miss Frazer, NIT. and Mrs. Theodore Dixon, Mir. and Mrs. John Wing, Mir. and Mrs. Philip Llv- ingston, Mrs. Robert Livingston, MT. and Mrs. Felix T. Hughes, Mrs. $. K. Churchill, all of New York; Mrs. T. k. Hodges of Detroit; Mir. and Mrs. Blanchard Rand and guest of Sails bury. Conn; Mir. and Mrs. Robert Buell. and guest of Hartford MT. and Mrs. Malcolm Farmer. Miss Farmer of Hartford: Mrs. Hays Clemens, of Erie. Pa. MT. and Mrs. J. D. Sweeney of New Rochelle; Mrs. Armand Sehles- inger and guest of Milwaukee; Mrs Charles Fletcher of Providence; Mrs. Marshall Geer and Miss Geer of Short Hills. N. J.
 Mrs. H. c. Gray of New York. is spending this weekend at the Main House.
Putnam patriot., 1930-02-20
East Putnam

Mrs. Mason Rabbit is Ill.
 C. A. Burrill has entered hospi- tai in Norwich.
 Miss Ethel Davis of Stafford Springs is staying at her home here.
 Mir. and Mrs. Donald Gibson of Putnam called on relatives Sunday.
 Miss Clara Geer has returned from a visit with her sister in New Hamp- shire.
 Miss Ellen Arnold of Putnam, a former teacher of Mrs. Agnes Bur Till spent Tuesday with her.
Putnam patriot., 1930-02-20

Willie-Sister has four other beaus.
 Suitor-But, l have never seen any of them.
 Willie-Me neither, but she. gave me a dollar to tell you that.-The
Putnam patriot., 1930-02-20

All are sorry to hear of Gustave Rasyaro's illness again at Day Kim ball hospital.
 There's an epidemic of German measles in town among our High School students.
 Miss Helen Bosworth entertained her friends Friday evening, the l4th, at Valentine party at her home, Valley Farm.
 Mr. and Mrs. Merrill K. Keith and daughter of Whitinsyille, Mass. spent the weekend with his parents, Mir. and Mrs. A. M. Keith.
 A party of our town people attend ed the "Womanless Wedding" given by Brotherhood of the Congregational church of Willimantic last Friday eve ming. It was very amusing affair.
 Rev. E. Cook of Hartford, supplied the pulpit last Sunday. There was a large audience in spite of the severe cold day. All heard a most interesting sermon. The young peoples meeting in the evening was omitted.
 Mrs. Anton Kaletehitz died at the Haven" Monday morning after .
Putnam patriot., 1930-02-20
Foreigners" in Polynesis

The Polynesians imagine that the sky descends at the horizon and en' closes the earth. Hence they cali for eigners "papalangi," or "heaven-bufst- CTS" as having broken in from anoth- CT world outside
Putnam patriot., 1930-02-20

Heroes of the nations Alshouse Jataka tales Babbitt Great inventors and their inventions
 Backman Shasta of the wolves Baker Fairy stories and fables Baldwin Story of Siegfried Baldwin Juan and Juanita Baylor Bad litt.e rabbit and other stories
 Bigham Tales of the red children Brown That's why stories Bryce The houses we live in Carpenter With the circus Cooper Alison Blair Crownheld Gauntlet of Dunmore Daniel Bilmbi de la Rame
Putnam patriot., 1930-02-20

Boss-Look here, what did yoa mean by telling me you had had i've years experience in selling real estate when you never even had . job before7
 Youth-Well you advertised for q. man with imagination The PstA- finder.
Putnam patriot., 1930-02-20
France Tourists' Playground

France gets the Hons share of the money spent by American tourists. Almost one fourth of the sS00.0ooooo or SaO0.000n00 that Americans spend abroad annually goes into French pockets.
Putnam patriot., 1930-02-20

long illness. Funeral Tuesday morn- ing at St. Joseph's church, and burial in Wlllimantie. Besides her husbana. she leaves three sons, John. of this town, and All and Peter kaletchstz of New York.
Putnam patriot., 1930-02-20

Judge-So the plaintiff is suing for damages on two pairs of trousers?
 Lawyer-Yes. your honor, this IS A two pants suit.-The Pathfinder.
Putnam patriot., 1930-02-20
Eastford

Miss Eleanor Spink, daughter of Mir and Mrs. William Spink. was married to Byron c. Lawrence. son of Mir. and Mrs. Charles Lawrence of Stafford. at the home of the bride groom's parents last Saturday after noon by Rev. r. A. Fuller of Putnam. former pastor of the church. A buff fet lunch was served after the cere- mony.
 Mir. Lawrence is chief electrician at the Hartford hospital, while the bride is a nurse in charge of the first aid at the Arrow Electric Company. She was one of Eastfords young ladies. and graduate of the grammar school and also from the Putnam High School. and the Hartford City hospi- tai class 1927. After March l, they will be at Home to friends at their new home on North Main street Wethersheld
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-16
sALE-INDUsTRIAL PROPERTY.

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DOWNTOWN INDUSTRIAL SITE, CLOSE
proved street, with railroad facilities: over
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-16

va, HIGHLANDs-2 ROOMS. KITCHEN =;
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10"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-16

RENT-INDUsTRIAL PROPERTY.
WHARP FOR EUMBER YARD on or:
deep water; long or short lease. Ad4IeS6
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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-04-11
MOTHERS
Have No Place in Nations
Factories, Says Green

Washington.-"On of the chief
purposes of organized labor is to de-
velop home life and the sacred re-
lationship which is associated with
home and with family life," said
VIM. Green, president A. F. of L., in
radio address that was sponsored
by the National Radio Home Makers
Club.
Because we regard wages mad in
come as essential to the modern
American home, we emphasize the
need of high wages and a steady in
come. Among the working people the
enjoyment of life, the establishment
and maintenance of the home and
salaries.
1--WE have ever thought of the home
as the place where the family lived,
where children are reared while the
father and breadwinner worked and
earned the money necessary to main
tain the home in decnecy and COM
fort. We think of the children being
in school and the mother at home.
Modern economic and industrial meth
DDS have changed this ideal condition
SO that in many instances the mother
works in the mill and factory helping
the father and husband to maintain
the home and family
American labor does not believe
that this is good for society or for
the nation. Modern industry should
be denied the exacting demands
which it makes upon mothers in the
mills and factories. An economic
order should be established which will
permit the mother to live in the home
and care for the children.
''The security and permanence of
our American institutions rests in the
confines of the home In order to
protest it, we must strive to abolish
poverty and unemployment.
1--WE must maintain an American
standard of living commensurate with
all the requirements of an American
home"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-04-11

Birmingham, Ala. (ILNS)-Despite
South Carolina legislature passed
two labor measures in which the
workers of that state were deeply in
terested, they were killed in the SEN
ate. Two bills, the "48-loom" meas
ure and the 48-hour week, were of
especial interest to textile workers.
President Green, of the American
Federation Of Labor, in his tour of
South Carolina made an address to
a joint session of the legislature and
urged the members to pass the meas
ures, although the set-up was against
them, it was learned. The fact that
the two bills passed the house indi-
Gated the interest in the laws and
both had the tendency to further
trade union organization work in
South Carolina, according to labor
leaders.
President Green, in his address,
made plea that the workers be per-
mitted to organize in conformity with
the fundamental rights of American
citizens, as guaranteed by the con-
stitution. In a speech on the labor
bills before the South Carolina house,
Dowell E. Patterson, president Of the
State Federation and a member of
the house, recalled this statement by
President Green in answering allega-
tions by other house members in dis
cussing the labor bills.
MANY of these matters can be set
tied by collective bargaining," Mr.
Patterson said in referring to the
"48-loom" bill "If we had more trade
unions we would not have such bills
as this. But when will workers at
tempt to organize we are met with
active antagonism. If the workers
are not permitted to organize, to
whom can they turn? If you do not
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-04-11

New York, N. Y.-At the last
luncheon discussion under the direc-
tion of the Women's Trade Union
League, held at the Town Hall Club
here, Spencer Miller, Jr., was asked
to speak on the subject of the Baumes
laws. Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt,
who presided, introduced him not only
as secretary of the Workers Educa-
ton Bureau, but also as the assistant
to Thomas Mott-Osborne during his
regime as warden of Sing Sing. Mr..
Miller touched only on one of the
Baumes laws, namely, the one which
applies to the fourth offender.
Mr.. Miller began by contending that
the Baumes law, applying to the
fourth offender, was illogical because
of the emphasis placed upon the
crime instead of the criminal. "The
Baumes law" he said, "is faulty in so
far as its supporters have sought to
wipe away the opportunity for the
prisoner to earn Communication, by de
claring the fourth offender an habit
ual criminal, with no possibility of re-
lease and is most serious step back
ward because it focuses attention on
the crime instead of the criminal
Pendulum Swings Back
"In this new law the pendulum
swings back again. For sixty years
students of penology, psychologists
and humanitarians, have concentrat-
ed upon the criminal and not his
crime. This, in their opinion, seemed
to be stepping toward that day when
all criminals against the social laws
of man would be treated PATHOLOGY
cally by the physician. And all those
who have anything to do with the
practical application of the law know
full well that the one great beacon
light that can be held with telling
effect before these unfortunates is the
alluring flame of hope.
"'This is no magic number; moth
ing profound.
What else is there, what can there
be for men hedged in behind the walls,
but the hope of parole, the hope of
pardon maybe-to be able to take
their place again among the free and
the decent.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-04-11
Miller Sees Baumes Law
As Serious Liability To
Protection Of Society

"And imagine if you please the re-
version again to the barbaric and in
human attitude of treatment before
the subjective and the personal idea
found lodgment in the minds of men
with a heart. What can be expected
of man, at middle life, or not much
beyond it, who is deprived of all
hope? Is he, or is he not, liable to
be embittered, irreconcilable Will he
necessitate, make excusable again,
the cruel treatment of his wardens
and his keepers? ? Does anyone think
that the recent riots at Auburn were
brought about by hopeful prisoners ?
Does it take profoundly practical
man to see as we'll that the contin-
ued operation of this law will i'm
measurably increase the liability of
the state? A budget of $50,00O,000
say, will be as a flea bite to the ex-
penses required for harboring the
fourth offenders of the future.
Offenses Graded IllogicalIy
Then as to the character of the
crimes for which offenders may be
incarcerated in prisons for life
Again it is not a profound observa-
ton that man committing a single
offensc may be greater menace to
society than he who is sent up for
life for series of petty pilferings.
At the moment the case of a man
whose sum total of offenses netted
him exactly $36 in all is in every
Continued on page four)
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-04-11

In the long run, industry must de.
pend largely on the wage earners fo,
customers. Steady increases
in wage earners' incomes are neces.
sary to provide buyers for increased
output of industries and agriculture
In other words, wages become an as.
pect of business credit on which the
producer must calculate. High wages
are sustaining element in prosperity
and prevention of unemployment"
Problem Needs Help of All
Mr. Green told the committee that
unemployment is a problem which has
plagued workers and communities for
decades, and that it is beyond the
power of individuals or groups to
cope with. He said that it is a social
as well as an industrial problem and
requires the joint efforts of every or
ganization or element concerned with
it.
Outlining labor's unemployment
program, Mr.. Green said:
Before any fundamental plans can
be developed we must first know the
facts of the problem and the amount
of unemployment and the occupations
of the unemployed. There are three
major sources from which this infor-
nation can be obtained
q. Unemployment census.
SO. Supplementing this periodic in
formation, there should be national
clearing house of current unemploy-
ment data such as only an adequate
federal employment service could fur
nish.
s3. Some one federal agency should
assemble and publish the facts of en-
ployment in all major industries.
Urges Remedial Measures
Remedial measures of labor include
an adequate federal employment
service, Mr.. Green said. He urged
the giving of special help for workers
displaced by machinery and the find
ing of work for older men.
"To meet periods of depression,
Mr.. Green said, there should be de-
ferred programs for construction at
public works, ready to be initiated
when needed. Such program has
been before congress. Although such
a program has been much discussed
for years and generally approved, the
depression last year came upon us
without provisions for initiating
constructive program together with
the machinery for putting it into op-
GRAFTON.
Labor is fully persuaded unem-
ployment can be eliminated as a So
cial and economic problem. We have
organizations necessary to contribute
to its solution and are ready to CO.
operate in working out constructive
methods. Unemployment is the most
serious drain on industrial progress,
and a serious social waste"
Union Functions Hampered
Questioned as to his opinion on the
efficacy of unemployment insurance,
Mr.. Green said:
"If our trade unions were allowed
to function, and if there were not
such a relentless warfare against
them, there could be developed forms
of unemployment insurance to tide
employees over in times of seasonal
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-04-11
Rejection of Labor Bills
By South Carolina Gives
Boost to Union Sentiment

allow unions then you will have bills
of this sort before you. Mr.. Green
asked for the right to organize
right which capital is granted. 1t is
true we have labor laws, but they are
not enforced"
w. H. Keith, of Greenville, S. c., a
house member, who represents tex
tile center, opposed the "48-loom"
measure, because he said at is no
time to be fooling with mill legisla-
tion." He declared two textile mills
were closed at Gaffney and one at
Greenville was about to close. "Let
us do what we can to bring more mills
to South Carolina, so that more peo-
pie can be employed. The supply of
labor is too great. Most of us don't
know how many looms a man can
operate"
1t was pointed out that the "stretch
out" system (giving more looms to
operatives) was the cause of most of
the strikes, this with cuts in wages
were trouble breeders among the
workers who resented being exploited.
The defeat of the bills, according to
President Patterson, of the State Fed
Grafton, has consolidated the workers
of South Carolina, who now know that
legislation is not the cure for all in
dustrial ills, but that organization
and collective bargaining is the an
swer.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-04-11
PARKER is NAMED
TO SUPREME COURT

Washington. = President Hoover
nominated Hon. John J. Parker,
United States Circuit Judge of Char
lotte, N. c., to succeed the late Asso-
ciate Justice Sanford, of the United
States supreme court
Judge Parker, now "A, is one of the
youngest men ever elevated to the
highest court. He was appointed
federal circuit judge by President
Coolidge. Judge Parker's friends
agree that he is not liberal.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-04-11
WAGE CUTS REPORTED

Philadelphia.-Wage cuts by the
Durham Hosiery Mill, Durham, n. c.,
are reported by officers of the Amer
ican Federation of Full Fashioned
Hosiery Workers, unit of United
Textile Workers. The Durham mill
recently adopted a short-time sched-
ule. Wage cuts are also reported in
the American Tobacco Company's
hosiery mill in Durham, and also in
the notoriously anti-union Golden Belt
Hosiery Company's mill.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-04-11
STRONGEST UNION

Akron, Ohio-"I am member of
the strongest union in the world"
said Richard l.. Garnett, Columbus,
attorney, in an address to the local
Painters Union. The speaker said
his union has business agents sitting
on the benches in all courts.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-04-11
Workers Are Victims of Machines
President Green Tells Senator's

unemployment. The trouble is that
because of the warfare against trade
unions, they are not allowed to func-
tion properly"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-04-11
Says Unemployment Total
Hit 100000 in February
Changes Made in Industry Without Regard to What
Happens to Displaced Wage Earners A. F. of L.
Head Declares at Senate Committee Hearing

Washington, d. c. (ILNS)-De-
claring that unemployed workers
have been left to pay the cost of
social progress" President William
Green, of the American Federation
of Labor, testifying before the SEN
ate committee on commerce this week.
pushed the total of unemployed to a
new high level. He said that in Feb
! ruary 100000 were idle. He then
told the senators that industry had
installed improved machinery and
made use of new technical processes
without regard to their effect on the
wage earners who were displaced to
join the great army of jobless.
1--WE estimate that 3,7OO,O00 wage
earners were out of work in Febru-
ary, 1880, and that they lost over
$400,000,000 in wages" Mr. Green
said. ''Since unemployment was
nearly as high in January and March
as in February, those out of work lost
well night 81 ,000,0 100000 in the first
three months of 1880. That is, those
men who might have created over
81 900, 100000 worth of wealth were
standing idle, and the country as a
whole, as we'll as the men themselves,
is that much poorer because these
wage earners were not employed in
productive work
One Out of Four Idle
Unemployment in February is the
most serious we have experienced in
the three winters we have collected
figures, and indicates that approx
mately one worker in every four was
out of work. In the building trades,
43 per cent were unemployed, or ap-
proximately one out of every two.
Doubtless one element in this
problem is a mounting wave of tech
biological unemployment. The Amer
ican Federation of Labor has been in
creasingly conscious of this both
through reports of displacements re-
ceived from trade unions and reports
of technical progress. Increasing ap-
plication of scientific information to
industry has brought social progress
but the changes have been installed
without consideration for what hap
pens to displaced workers. Unem-
ployed workers have been left to pay
the costs of social progress"
Pointing out that trade and indus
try depend very largely on wage
earners for customers, Mr.. Green said
that because of the serious curtail-
ment of buying power caused by the
great extent of unemployment, retail
trade has failed to make its usual
spring recovery.
Production Outstrips Wages
Discussing the cause of the busi-
ness depression, Mr.. Green said:
For 13 months before the recess
sion last summer, industrial activity
had been rising. But our factories
were producing beyond the power of
the public to buy, for production in
creased more than twice as fast as
the purchasing power of wage earn
ers. From May, 1923, to June, 1929,
production of factories increased 16
per cent, while wage payments to
workers in factories rose only per
cent and payments to railroad en-
ployes increased only per cent.