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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-11
Women Voters Plan
 Meeting January p
New Haven and Litcheld County Leagues to Hear Mrs
 Harris T. Baldwin at Mrs John P. EltOn's Home

Mrs Harris T. Baldwin of Wash ington, D. C., will speak on "Gov- ernment and Living Costs" at a meeting of the Leagues of Women Voters of New Haven and Litch- field counties on Monday, January 22. Mrs Baldwin, who is chairman of the department of living costs of the National League of Women Voters, is a recognized expert in economic problems of the day. Her talk will deal especially with the activities of federal agencies which tend to lower living costs and pre- vent unfair trade practices.
 The meeting will be held at the home of Mrs John P. Elton, 70 Church street, Waterbury, from eleven until three o'clock. Mrs Edgar S. Sturtevant of New Haven, chairman of the New Haven Coun- ty league. will preside. Mrs Frank J. Newcomb, 178 Highland street, Waterbury, is in charge of lunch con reservations. Mrs Karl Winter of Watertown is chairman of the Litchfield County league.
 The morning. session will feature four discussion meetings. One on living costs will be led by Mrs Baldwin. Miss Emily H. Whitney of New Haven, state league chair man of the department of educa- ton, will lead the second and the third will be in charge of the chairman of the department of in- ternational cooperation to prevent war, Mrs Cornelius Kruse' of Mid dletoWn. Mrs kruSe will also give
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ity is the largest local code
 body in the country, irrespec-
 tive of industry, and has near
 ly 0O,OOO business units under
 it's direction. These, in turn, | handle about One-tenth of the
 total volume of retail business l in the nation.
 l Here's Maurice Mermey, the ex-
 ecutive secretary: since the re-
 tail code went into effect on Octo- Der 30, we have had 225 com | plaints, about 190 of which dealt
 with labor. Of the complaints
 followed through, 60 per cent
 were found to be justified and re-
 suited in nearly 10000 employees having their wages raised or their | hours of work reduced. Decisions Are Enforced "There has not been a single case of outright refusal to comply with our rulings. Two employers took their appeals to Washington | in a perfectly regular way, but our original decisions were up- held.
 "The volume of complaints has been getting heavier as consumers, l cHlplOycS, dHu ICldi have gotten used to the idea that this outfit means business and is perfectly capable of enforcing its | decisions"
 As for unfair business practices, | the retail codesters have been so | thorough in their investigations
 of complaints that they have sent shoppers about the city pricing all
 kinds of goods.
 Fake bankruptcy and going- Out-Of-business sales, mis- branding of goods, and other common lodges of unscrupu- IOus merchants have been halted in every case in which a complaint has been lodged against them.
 MT Whalen himself is proudest of his organizations accomplish
 ments in the labor field.
 Settled Garment Strikes "Our outstanding achievement" he says, twas the early settling of the garment strikes, in which 94,0OO needle trades workers walked out. Mediation of those strikes was the supreme test, To-
 cally. of the proposition that la bor could, and would, co-operate. New York's garment industry never had been more than scat teringly unionized. Hideaway sweatshops, child labor, clashing
 union factions and the schemes of sub-contractors to dodge labor
 laws kept the situation pretty well out of hand.
 When the Blue Eagle first
 swooped on the teeming midtown garment section, the International Lady Garment Workers Union ranked twenty-sixth in member
 ship among the city's labor organ iZations. The strikes began early in Au- gust, and the NRA faced its most formidable problem right at the start of its own activity. Dress factory workers walked out, co., 900 strong. Embroidery and un- derwear workers, about 34,0O0. struck next.
 Grover Whalen and his men presided at hearings night and day, for weeks. One by ono the
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quently, perhaps, it also has
 demonstrated n s i'd r a ble
 idOlatry for Gen. Hugh John
 son. who has not spoken quite
 SO bluntly hereabOuts as he has
 in some other sections of the
 country.
 Besides New York is very re- mote from the centers of some of the more critical problems.
 All's Quiet in N. Y.
 Wheat is just something that one buys in one form or another at the bakers at about the same old price. Meat is 0 commodity which appears with dependable regularity in refrigerator cars.
 Steel Is something one bets on in the stock market. And so on.
 Here's an example which prob ably Is true of hundreds of New York concerns:
 "In the states where our raw materials come from, and where our factories are located" said a manufacturer, i've fought the MIRA tooth and nail. We've been scrapping in Washington, too. But alPs quiet in our New York busi- ness office, where we had to put on a lot more employees"
 While many MIRA groups are being dissolved into regional au- thorities, officials here believe that this one must continue essen- tially as before.
 "It's too big job for regional supervision" says Thomas J. Donovan, vice chairman of the de- partment of law and complaints. For instance, the New York state organization at present has a staff of only 12 people, while the one for the city is keeping 200 busy. And at the peak of our activity we had more than 500 employes."e
 ThrOngs Seek Advice
 From the first week in August, when the Blue Eagle went into action here, the bureau of inter- pretation functioned more as an educational and diplomatic serv- Ice than as legal office.
 Employers demanded rulings on scores of specific applications of the FRA. And thousands of unemployed men and women, with even hazier notions of what 1t was all about, romped in with
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different branches of the industry resumed operation, and in every case labor was benefited.
 Wages Are Boosted
 The work week, which had been virtually unlimited, was reduced to AS and 52 hours. Pitifully low wages of many employees were in- creased as much as 100 per cent in reaching the $15 minimum. A minimum wage also was es- tabilshed for unskilled as well as skilled labor.
 Sweatshops and home work practically were abolished. So was child labor, with the working age limit raised to IS years. From a membership of | 0O,OOO, with a ranking of | twenty-sixth, the garment
 union membership rose to 175,OOO and third place in strength.
 Up to Nov. 1, when the re- gional labor board took over the work of the city committee, set clement had been made of 55 strikes involving 250,000 em-
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ployes, total weekly payroll of $6,0OO,000 and affecting the live lihood of some 100000 persons.
 Since Nov. i, the regional la bor board has settled 148 strikes, averted 22, and thus has kept ap- proximately 21,000 workers at their jobs.
 Packets Still Alive b Labor's opposition to the MIRA in New York has been negligible, with few such examples as the food workers and walters unions threat to cause New Years Eve strike of 150,000 persons as a , protest against the restaurant code when it was awaiting the signature of the president. In spite of MT Whalen's state ment that there have been only z | few cases in which there was ever | a suspicion of racketeering, there is considerable newspaper evidence that some labor unions still arc victimized by racketeers. TOMORROW Springfield, Mass. and how New EngIanders look on the New Deal.
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COMMUNITY CLUB
 SESSION TONIGHT

The regular meeting of the Washington Park Community club will Do hold tonight Ct gitb o'clock in Muicnhy school. The principal business will bo the election Of of- fieers for the ensuing year. Nom nations will be made from the floor. Chairman John bhehf, the membership drive committed, tH expected t0 have fifiy new mair- befs Co Do presented for meinbor- ship, After tho buslBers meeting social session will be held,
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the idea that the MIRA was created especially to restore their old jobs. Not just any jobs, but the places which they last held.
 Nobody knows how this thought became so prevalent, but disillu- sionment brought grumbling.
 The division of law has re- ceived and responded to 32,000 inquiries. The complaint division, which opened its doors on the first day to 15O clamoring clients, has received several thousand charges of evasion every month, and had eight clerks in it's file room who did pothing but move the incoming and outgoing re- ports.
 Many Complaints Settled
 Of the complaints considered valid, 11,917 have been acted upon, being referred variously to the investigation department, the bureau of. interpretation, the mediation board. and the retail code authority. The organization, as you may have guessed, is some- what complicated.
 The city's retail code author
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Wholesale trade is approximately IS per cent above the volume of last year, and retail trade has im- proved nearly 25 per cent.
 Factories have hired 20 per cent more workers, and manufacturing payrolls have increased 13 per cent.
 Thousands Back at Work
 In the retail field, more than 90 per cent of the businesses have signed the presidents re-employ- ment agreement, 33.100 new jobs have been created, and retail store payrolls have jumped $43,- 470,000 a year.
 Thirty thousand New Workers are working in reforestation camps, and about 150,000 are on the payrolls of the Civil Works Administration.
 New York likes the NRA
 very much indeed. COnse-
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FAKE LOSES EAGLE
 Only one New York con- cern has been stripped of its Blue Eagle, although scores of others have been caught in code evasions. Henry Wolff, n deputy administra- tor, discovered that the owner of a dress shop pro- vided cheap wedding rings for his women clerks to wear on Saturday nights. say, if questioned. ........ Each girl was coached to say, if questioned "I'm the wife of one of the bosses here, and I came to help out my husband, because the MIRA makes us let the reg ular help go home early"
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MASTER PLUMBERS
 MET LAST NIGHT

The Waterbury Master Plumbers association at its meeting Tuesday evening in Foresters' hall elected James Lowe president to succeed Theodore E. Kurtz. Other officers chosen included Albert Blanchard, vice. president; r. A. Garrity, re- cording secretary; Julius Riechen- bach, financial secretary and John Gill; treasurer. The directors of the association will be chosen at the next meeting.
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FALSE FIRE ALARM
 SENT IN LAST NIGHT

A false alarm was registered from Box 334 at the corner of South Leonard and Seventh streets at 9:26 o'clock last evening. Four companies of fire apparatus re- sponded to the call, including two East Main street companies, one from headquarters and one from the Brooklyn station.
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By PAUL HARRISON

(Waterbury Correspondent) NEW YORK, Jan 1.-The Blue Eagle is strutting pretty " proudly the sidewalks of New York He has heard Grover Whaen declare in ringing that he work of the MIRA here has been smashing success"
 Of course MT Whaen was the local MIRA administrator until his resignation few days and may be prejudiced But MT Whaen also has figures.
 The figures show that than 500000 persons have put back into business and industry number repre- sentng about half the cys unemployed only few months
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d short report following luncheon on the national conference on the Cause and cure of War which will be held in Washington January It to 19. A fourth discussion group on league business methods will be led by Miss Florence l.. Harri- son and Miss Grace P. Asserson of the state league staff. Each of these discussion meetings is planned to help local league de- partment chairmen and officers in meeting problems of league work
 r their communities.
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SABBATH EVE AT
 TEMPLE ISRAEL

At the regular Sabbath Eve services at Temple Israel tomor- row evening at 8 o'clock, Rabbi Aaron H. Lefkowitz will review Irving Fineman's Hear Ye Sons" The public Is invited.
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 New Deal? Great, Is N. Y. Verdict
Thousands Go Back To Work; Retail
 Store Payrolls Jump Millions

This eighth of eleven articles America Under Blue Eagle series written exclusively for the Waterbury Dem- and other NEA Service after 5OOOme jour- the nations principal of population after mo1ths'
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SOrOrities

Mrs. Dorothy sweet will entertain
Beta chapter, omega Phi Tau
sorority, at her home, 1927 West
Thirty-fourth street, tonight.
Lambda chapter, omega Phi Tau
sorority, will hold a business meet
ing tonight at the home of Mrs
Edward Koskey, 4549 winthrop ave-
nue..
Indiana Alpha chapter, Delta The
ia Chi sorority, will meet tonight
with Miss Margaret Bodkins for
installation esrvices and a party for
rushees.
Phi Sigma Theta sorority will
meet tonight with Miss Alice Krause.
Miss Marian Landmeier will en-
terrain members of Delta Rho chap
ter, Phi Pi Psi sorority, Monday
night at her home, 1923 South East
street
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Founding
Observance
Scheduled
Irvington Quest Club to
Give Program
Sept. IA.

Fifteenth anniversary program OF
the Irvington Quest Club will include
a program by Mrs. J. H. Arlington
and Mrs. Chalmer Schlosser, Friday,
at the Presidents day luncheon. Va
cation observations will be responses
given to roll call.
Mrs. SchloSSer is club president,
and her assistants for the year are
Mrs. Arlington, vice-president;
Mrs. Ira Melvin, secretary, and Mrs.
Richard B. Miller, treasurer. The
years program is under the direc-
ton of Mesdames E. M. Hughes, G.
A. Ruhsenberger and Richard B.
Miller.
Guests will be entertained at the
Oct. IL meeting with Mrs. M. P.
Bartlett, hostess. Musical program is
scheduled with the social committee
in charge.
Radio, American Indians and gov
ernmental policies for the Indians,
national defense, American publish
ers and authors, will be among top
les at bi-monthly meetings.
A special holiday program will be
held Dec. IA with Mrs. L. A. Ran
dali entertaining. Christmas Sur
prises" will be held. Mesdames
Solly Schubach, Arl Garrett and
Ralph Mckay will be hoStesses.
The May 10 meeting with Mrs. A.
E. Curtis will have as its theme "A
Woman Author" by Mrs. R. L.
Badgley; "A Woman Actor Mrs.
H. P. Bartlett; "a Woman in Bust
ness" Mrs. Pearl Kohnle, and "A
Woman Educator" Mrs. Ralph
Mckay.
Seventeen members are enrolled
in the organization, founded in 1919.
Mrs. Ralph Mckay is delegate to the
local council with Mrs. H. P. Bart
lett alternate and Mrs. E. M. Hughes,
delegate to Irvington union, with
Mrs. Ruhsenberger alternate.
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4 WOn1an:S ViezUbOint
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON -

painful conflict. Her future well
ware depends upon the manner
IN which she solves it.
To batter down the remains Of
her Self-reSpect at this point IS
to stupidity set her against society
when she easily might become one
of its most useful members. I
often feel that those prurient per-
sons who are so avid in discover
ing and condemning sexual mis-
takes are unconsciously saying to
the offender, What I dare not
do, you shall not do"
Dear Jane Jordan-I have a beau
tiful daughter of Is who has a de-
cided talent for writing. However
she does not want to be a writer
but an actress. Now I do not feel
that she has any histrionic ability
whatever, but is carried away only
by a temporary fad. always
wanted to write myself, but was
prevented from doing so by circum-
stances. I had hoped that my
daughter would succeed where J
failed and avoid the mistakes
made. What can I do to stimulate
her to use the ability which 1 am
sure she has?
DEFEATED MOTHER.
Answer - The stubborn insis-
tence of the parent on purposes
inconsistent with those of the
child is apt to give rise to serious
personalities disorders. You should
not expect to crafty your own
needs through your daughter. 1
do not know whether she would
make a good actress or not, but
I do know that she will not make
a good writer if you force her into
a profession which she definitely
does not wish to adopt.
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two boys and two sweet sisters.
How I dread for them to ever read
such slush as you fill up space with!
Cheap, tawdry, free love, and then
you tell them their lives are not
wrecked. Why they give you space
no one knows. You should read
good, logical advice like what Doro-
thy Dix writes, or even Mae West.
Can you possibly come out of the
gutter before some one else takes
your position away from you? You
may deceive yourself and few OF
your kind, but not mothers and sis
tiers who have other things to do
than read your filthy column. You
have no right in a respectable
family paper. Every one has his
opinion of you and the quicker you
get out the better. You should be
arrested for contributing to the de-
linquency of minors.
Theodore Dresser is far too deep
for you to understand and you
smerge his name when you mis-
quote him. Any editor of intelli-
gence and moral uplift would not
print your cheap trash. Here's
hoping you get out of a paper
young boys and girls enjoy.
DISGUISED.
Answer have stated over and
over again that mere freedom in
love is exceptionally disappointing
as a mode of life. DiSilluSon-
ment and not fulfllment results
from the casting off of all re-
straints and inhibitions.
The person who has engaged
in a sordid series of trivial affairs
awakens in time to a dismayed
recognition of the fact that he is
emotionally unstable, socially IT.
responsible, a disappointment to
himself, and a person deprived Of
the respect and confidence of his
comrades.
The conventions can not be lg-
nored entirely in establishing a
plan of life. The opinion of ones
friends, children, employers and
employees Yields an unacceptable
influence in the making or break
ing of personality. What the COM
munity regards as admirable,
beautiful base or vile has a
definite bearing upon the hap
pineSs of each of its members.
The young girl reared in our
society who is discovered in a
sexual lapse, suffers from ex-
cruciating feelings of guilt and
abasement. The inconsistency be-
tween her behavior and what she
was taught to believe produces a
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Personals

Miss Helen Norris, Indiana Har-
Dor, has returned home after spend
ing a month with her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Will G. Norris. Miss
Norris is graduate of the Bap-
fist missionary training school,
Chicago, and does social welfare
work at Katherine House, Indiana
Harbor.
Miss Kathryn Wood has returned
from vacationing in western Can
ada.
Miss jeanette White has returned
to her home, 1923 Washington boule-
ward, after a visit in Kendallville.
Mrs. Garvin M. Brown and daugh-
ter, Miss Nina Brown, have re-
turned to their home after a visit
in Harbor Springs, Mich, as guests
of MIR. and Mrs. Sylvester Johnson
Mrs. Douglas G.. Moskins is visit
ing in New York with Mrs. w. A
Stafford, Poughkeepsie.
Mrs. Francis Clark and son Tom
my, Frankfort, spent the weekend
with Mrs. Clark's parents, Mr.. anc
Mrs. Frank Jones.
Mr. and Mrs. j. Douglas Perry
have returned from a vacation at
Medina, N. Y.
Mrs. William Terrell has returned
| to her home at the Spink-ArmS
after a visit in Michigan.
Mrs. S. K. Ruick will return this
month from Michigan.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. K. Brown have
returned from a vacation at Pelican
Lake, Wisconsin. Mr.. and Mrs
George A. Miller and Mr.. and Mrs
M. S. Parr, Sheridan, spent Labor
day with the Browns, returning to
indianapolis Tuesday. John Mil
Ter left Friday to resume studies
at De Paw university.
Miss Maybelle Shelper has re-
turned to the Sphinx Arms after
spending the summer in California
Mrs. Thelma Paulman and sor
Charles, 4615 Winthrop avenue
have returned from Chicago where
they were guests of Mr.. and Mrs
Edward F. Maiden.
Mr.. and Mrs. D. S. Meditch anc
daughter Janet and son Boris have
returned from a summer vacation
at their country home near Browns
burg.
Mrs. Kurt Painter and children
Kitzie and Fritzie, have returned
from a visit at A Century Of Prog
ress exposition in Chicago.
Mrs. Benjamin D. Hitz is hom'
after a visit at Burt Lake, Mich.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Stewart ant
children, Harry Jr. and Elenore, hav
returned from a visit in Pennsyl
vania and Delaware. Anothe
daughter, Dorothy. will remain il
the east for. several weeks.
Mrs. Theodore B. Griffith ant
daughters Sylvia and Helen have re
turned after spending the summe
in the east.
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carrying a scientific expedition.
CIR THOMAS tried again in
- 1901 and 1908, the last race
with professional pilots. The
World war interviewed and the
contest was not renewed until
1920, when Shamrock " was de-
feated by Resolute, commanded by
Charles Francis Adams, later to
become secretary of the navy.
In 1880 Sir Thomas made his
last attempt to capture that old
mug" as he called it, but Harold
S. Vanderbilt, at the helm of the
Enterprise, maintained American
tradition. Again this year the
fate of the cup will be in his
hands. and very competent ones
they are since yachting has been
his major hobby for many years.
The Rainbow is as perfect as
experience, science and the Here
shof shipyards at Bristol, R. l.,
can make her. She is plated with
steel above the water, bronze be-
low. with a duralumin mast. Au-
thorities assert that she will have
the most severe struggle that any
defender ever has faced, for the
Royal Yacht Squadron has re-
turned to the contest after thirty
nine years with Sopwith's super
fine Endeavour and with Mr.. Sop
with himself as skipper, a for
-hidable combination. The En-
deavour is built entirely of steel,
she flies specially woven sails and
she carries airplane navigating in
struments including windgauge
invented by Mr. Sopwith.
A THOUGHT a newcomer to
N yachting in comparison with
Mr.. Vanderbilt, Mr.. Sopwith is
designer and builder who under
stands his ship and the winds and
tides that beSet her. He is one
of the first airplane pilots in the
British Isles and chose yachting
as a hobby because sailing and
flying are kindred sports where
knowledge of the varying phases
of the winds is both a necessity
and a lure. Mrs. Sopwith also is
interested ardently in the sport
and as timekeeper will be the first
woman ever to act on the crew in
cup race.
Although indianapolis is an in
land city many Of her citizens are
Yachting enthusiasts who will be
intensely interested in the cup
race.
Especially interested will be
members of the MaXinkuckee
Yacht Club under their commo-
dore, c. Harvey Bradley; William
Munk, vice-commodore, and DR.. j.
Ray Newcomb, feet commander,
have their own Thrilling races for
the Winslow cup. These devotees
of yachting join with all patriotic
Americans in the earnest wish
that the Endeavor, a worthy and
alarming opponent, will return to
England satisfied with her effort,
but defeated.
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items and can be made attractive and appetizng.
I'VE will advocate the use of lard substitutes in
many instances since the price of lard and all pork
products has increased to such an extent Mrs Far
rell said.
Last weeks menu was centered about meat loaf
which was made in hollowed-out bread crust. Mrs.
Farrell advised her class that this dish could be
prepared Just as effectively with cheaper cuts Of
meat.
to Indianapolis citizens, but to individuals and or
CARNATIONS in other cities.
A special guest at last Thursdays class was Mrs.
Marguerite Worth, Cleveland, specialist in labor
saving equipment and member of the Electrical
League of Cleveland. Mrs Worth had been sent to
Indianapolis by the league to sit in an interested
lstener at the initial meeting Of this seasons cool