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BABES BE:“LS ';;.i.,ibt::'_'no GAR{
Mortality Great Where Women Were
Compelied to Work in the Mills to
Eke Out Father's Income—Poor
Home Sanitation.
How industrial conditions affect a
baby’s chance of living beyond its first
Year Is described in a report on “Infant
Mortality in New Bedford,” issued by
the children’s bureau of the United
States Departnent of Labor.
Unskilled and semi-skilled occupa
tions predominate in the cotton indus
try, and at the time the survey was
made wages were low In the Massa
chusetts city. A low income was ac
companled, as in other industrial cit
ies, studied by the bureau, by poor
home sanitation, congestion, lack of
adequate medical care and a mother
who was overworked, either in the fac
tory or at home.
Over half of the New Bedford bables
lived in the river section, where the
worst living conditions in the city were
to be found. There families of from
15 to 18, including lodgers, were in
Inany cases crowded together in five
roeom tenements,
Practically all the mothers working
In the cotton mills of New Bedford
were in families where the father
earned less than the amount necessary
to maintain a decent standard of Hv
ing. Almost half of all the mothers
were gainfully employed, chiefly in the
cotton mills, during the year before
the baby was born, and two-fifths dur
ing the year following the baby's birth.
Most of these mothers worked during
both periods. The harmful results
of depriving a young baby of its moth
er's care and nursing are shown in
the fact that among the babies whose
mothers left them to go out to work
when the baby . was less than four
months old the mortality was nearly
twice the average rate.
The low-income group showed a high
mortality rate, while the group having
income sufficient to insure proper care
and surroundings for the mothers and
bables had a low mortality rate. In
the low-wage group 20 bables out of
every hundred born alive died before
the end of the first year. In the high
est wage group only six out of every
hundred bables died.
Canadian Labor Stirred.
Charges that {nstigators of the
“open shop” movement in the United
States are extending thelr campaign
into Canada were made by Tom Moore,
president of the Canadlan Trades and
Labor congress.
Mr, Moore's statement was in reply
40 an address made by N. J. Kennedy,
president of the Bullders Employer's
assoclation of Detroit, Mich), hefore
the Ottawa branch of the Canadian
Bullding Industries association, In
which he said that the United States
“had been run for the past four and a
half years by Samuel Gompers, and
that the last election was a mandate
to the government that the people
were tired of beire dominnted by the
of The Fitzgerald Leader
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American Federation of Labor.”
Labor will not “lightly relinquish
what it has gained,” warned the labor
leader, and it will not countenance the
“veiled campalgn” which he sald, was
in progress both in (anada and the
United States to create “open shop’
conditions,
German Labor Conditions Bad,
That 10 per cent of the entire pop
ulation of Germany are wholly or
partly without employment was a
semi-official statement just published.
The figures given show that 432,000
men are receiving unemployment sup
port from the government or munici
palities. The number of members of
families given unemployment support
Increased to 495,000. This make close
to one million people whom the tax
payers are supporting.
It is estlmated that there are an
other million unemployed who do not
come within the provisions entitling
them to support. These are not count
ed In the estimated four milllons who
are working only part time and need
some assistance,
Many British Unemployed.
Officlal statistics of the British min
istry of labor shows the percentage of
unemployment among skilled workers
in unions making returns to the min
istry was 6.1 per cent at the end of
December, 1920, -
This was higher than the ratio for
December in the four years preceding
the war, but was lower than the per
centage shown in returns for Decem
her, 1908 and 1909. "Fhe 1920 per
centage 18 based upon more than 1,500,-
000 workers in trades making returns.
Federal Employees’ Union.
The National Federation of Federal
Employees has chartered its twenty
sixth local, and now has eight locals
outside the continental territory of the
United States, that is, in the insular
possessions, the Canal Zone, Alaska,
and on foreign soll. The federation
shows a growth of more than 7,000
members in the past seven months, or
an average rate of more than 1,000 a
month, according to the report of the
national secretary-treasurer, H. J.
Newmyer.
Gulls as Weather Forecasters,
Those who live by the coast do not
want a better weather sign than the
gulls, which In the various winds that
will bring the rain, collect in big
flocks and gather ¢n the fields or circle
high over the 'ijnnd. wheeling and
screaming uneasily. 'They will not
come in on a false alarm, and none
need fear they will make a mistake.
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THE FITZGERALD LEADER SATURDAY, APRIL 2, 1921,
Unlettered Presidents.
At least one of our Presidents, pos
sibly two, never went to any kind of a
school. The father of Andrew John
son died when the lad was five years
old, and his mother could not spare
the money to educate him. This con
dition of poverty caused Andrew to
be apprenticed to a tailor. He worked
long hours and hard. One day a
man hrought a book to the shop and
recited many selections that it con
tained. Andrew’s ambition was stirred.
With the man’s help he learned the
alphabet. But he made no real prog
ress until his marriage., His wife read
to him as he plied the needle. She
helped him to learn to read and write,
She was his school. Largely through
her careful, patient instruction he was
enabled to become the mayor of the
town in which they lived.
Nobody Wants Bungler.
There’s no place in progress for the
bungler. The business man gets rid
of the bungler as soon as he can. No
organization wants the bungler on its
rolls. FKurthermore there’s little ex
cuse for the presence of such a nui
sance. Above all there is no excuse
for you to muss things up. You will
do that occasionally in spite of your
self, because you are falsely reported,
misunderstood or over-zealous. But
you don’t have to make a regular thing
of it. Correct the past by a more care
ful present and you will be wiser
through the mistake. So toe in, my
boy, and make good. You have the
world before you and your friends are
waliting to help you celebrate the vic
tory.—Grit.
: Making Joss Sticks.
The composition of the candles
called joss sticks, which are used in
all the religious ceremonies of Bud
dhism, has long remained a mystery
the preparation of the sticks being In
trusted to certain persons chosen from
a limited class. Not long ago, how
ever, there was learned the manner
of making joss sticks in Indo-China.
A stem of bamboo is rolled into a
preparation containing 14 different
odoriferous drugs, two of which are .
significant, as showing a knowledge of
chemical and physical properties.
These are aconite, which serves to pro
tect the sticks agalnst the attacks of
rats and mice, and camphor, which
causes them to burn steadily without
being periodically extinguished.
Few Have Seen Radium.
Radium is a metal that is described
as having a white metallic luster, It
has been isolated only once or twice,
and few persons have seen it. It is
ordinarily obtained from its ores in
the form of sulphate, chloride or bro
mide, according to the United States
geological survey, Department of the
Interior, and it is in the form of these
salts that it is usually sold and used.
These are all white or nearly white
substances, whose appearance is no
more remarkable than that of common ‘
salt or baking powder. Tubes (301)-1
taining radium salts glow mostly be
cause they include impurities wmch[
the radiations from the radium cause
to give light. Radium minerals are
very rarely, if ever, luminescent, ‘
Sandalwood Long Prized. |
Sandalwood is the product prinel
pally of the native state of Mysore,
India, and the district of Coorg. Due
to the development of the sandalwood
oil extracting Industry, the exporta
tion of the wood from Madras has
steadily declined, while that of the
oil has increased. Sandalwood is the
most famous of all scented woods. Its
use for perfumery and incense dates
back thousands of years. The later.
Greeks regarded it as one of their
greatest luxuries, and no festivities
were complete without it. Sandal
wood figures prominently in religious
ceremonies and burial rites in China
and other oriental countries.
Nightmares Have Meaning.
Dreams are made up of symbolic
notions which are, however, easily de
ciphered, for symbols mean the same
thing all over the world ~and have
always meant the same thing. A
nightmare is nothing but a dream so
symbolical that we cannot under
stand its meaning and the image it
conjures up frightens us. As soon as
a sufferer from frequent nightmares,
however, learns to interpret them and
understand their meaning, he ceases
to have them or to be frightened by
them.
Hypocrite Betrays Himself,
Usually it is easy enough to feel
| whether there is a sound human heat
behind the written or the spoken word.
Fine phrases and exalted sentiments
seldom mask the hollowness of the
’ hypocrite.—Victor* Hygo, |
) Tree Grows Inside House.
A graceful elm tree shades a dwells
Ing house near the Maine coast thor
oughly, because it grows through Its
roof. It also grows through two
floors. It was cut down as a very
small tree when the house was to be
bullt, but later was found to be push
'lng up the floor. Its persistent 'decln
‘t)r growth was humored. and now it
8 8 stately tree, with unususl sun
roundings.
Historical Ring. I
The original diamond ring of Mary'
Queen of Scots, upon which are en
graved the arms of England, Scotland
and Ireland, quartered, and which was
produced in evidence at the trial of
the unfortunate Mary as a proof of
her pretensions to the crown of Eng
land, was once in the possession of a
certain Mr. Blachard, one of the lords
of the admiralty. The history of this
ring is curious. It descended from
Mar); to her grandson, Charles I, who}
gave it on the scaffold to Archbishop
Juxon for his son, Charles 11, who, in
his troubles, pawned it in Holland for
$1,500, where it was bought by Gover
nor Yale and sold at his sale for
$1,600, presumably for the Pretender.
It afterward came into possesion of
the duke of Argyll, and probably from
him to the family of Mr. Blachard. At
‘the last sale of his effects it was said
to have been purchased for the prince
regent.
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Caesar’s Words.
Julius Caesar is credited with the
saying, which means, “1 came, 1 saw,
1 conquered,” in connection with his
victories in Pontus, a kingdom of Asia
Minor, B. C. 47. The historian Sue
tonius states that the words were dis
played before Caesar’s title in his pub
lic triumph, to indicate the rapidity
with which the campaign was con
cluded. Plutarch, in his life of Caesar,
says the latter, in the account he gave
one of his Roman friends of his v&c—
tory over Pharnaces at Zela in Pontds,
used the three words as a concise sum
mary of the expedition.
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Today and The Prices Last Fall
---This we fully realize, and if you will visit this store
you will at once see that prices are lower, and that
we are in line today with the market. Just a few of
the many values that are here for your inspection;
Saturday, Monday Special
20x20 Doilies, 1 doz., yes, 12 for
O 8 cents
Limit 1 dozen to customer.
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Monday Only, after 9 A. M.,
Men’s Handkerchiefs; a limited quantity
SOc doz.
Limit 1 dozen to customer.
Monday Only, 9:30 to 12:00 O’clock
. 50 pair of Ladies Oxfords and Pumps 7 |
to the first 50 customers or until 50 /y)
! pair is sold, at pair ASN
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The BAZAAR Store
Mens Pure Silk
Hose 50c pair
| Hogmanay.
~ Hogmanay, Hogmena or Hagmena
means holy month. December is so
called because our Lord was born on
‘the 25th thereof. The word is de
rived from the Saxon “Halig manath,”
holy month. New Year’s eve is called
“Hogmonay 'night” or “Hogg-night,”
and it is still customary in parts of
Scotland for persons to go from door
to door on that night, asking in rude
rhymes for cakes or money. King
Haco of Norway fixed the feast of
Yole on Christmas day, the eve of
which used to be called hogg-night,
but ‘the Scots were taught by the
French to transfer the feast of Yole
to the feast of Noel and hogg-night
has ever since been the last of De
| cember.
Instinct of the Groundhog.
Questions about the groundhog as a |
weather prognosticator arise with each
recurring February 2. The marmot |
family, to which the groundhog be
longs, lies dormant in winter, hibernat
ing much like the bear and the bat.
At the approach of cold weather in the
fall they curl up asleep at the bottom
of their deep burrows. About the time
of the wusual midwinter thaw the:
groundhog comes out. By a peculiar
instinct he is able to foretell the
weather several weeks ahead. When
his sagacity tells him that an early
break-up is at hand he stays out. When
a storm period threatens he pops into
his hole again and goes to sleep, not
reappearing for weeks.
Pheasant Hatcherles.
The state of Massachusetts main
tains three pheasant hatcheries, one
at North Wilbraham, one at East
Sandwich and one at Marshfield.
“Where Values Speak Louder than Words”
107-109 East Central Avenue
Protects Hér Young.
The red fox will. when occasion
palls for it, give vent to a kind of
high-pitched screech, that when heard
Rt night is quite awe-inspiring, says
the American Forestry Magazine. This
Is its purpose, as it often serves as a
protection for its young.
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Men’s Wash Ties just in at 15¢ to
-50 c each; Fast colors. i
Monday at 9:30 O’clock
And contiuuing until all are sold—
Ladies Dresses, and Childrens Dresses
$1 each
We reserve right to limit quantity; Cash.
No exchanges or refunds. Every sale final.
Monday, Long as they last
Lace Remnants in 5 yd. Pieces
O yds. for 10c
On Sale Monday only.
Most Men Will Remember That.
Boys know npearly as many untrue
things as grown folk. Does anyone
remember their saying that, “if a ture
tle got hold of a boy’s toe it wouldn’t
let go until the sun goes down?'—
Exchange. .
Ladies Silk Hose
Onyx, $1t052.50