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VOTRE Dece rn 1012 No. 50 
THE Parce, Post PLAN has proven a success and 
the prospects are that the department will have a balance 
instead of a deficit as in many other years. For years 
previous to the passage of the parcel post law there has 
been a definite desire by the people for a reduction of 
postage from two to one cent for first class mail letters. 
The movement has never met with success because the de- 
ficit argument of the postoffice department has been con- 
clusive. Now matters seem to be changed and with the 
probability of a balance the old argument will be valueless 
and the main argument against the reduction of the price 
of first class matter will have been nullified. A compari- 
son of the charges made for first class matter and parcel 
post matter is at a glance unjust. At the two-cent rate 
the return for ia pound of mail matter is too great. The 
public ought to have and eventually will have one-cent 
first class matter. One argument that has been advanced 
against the one-cent rate is amusing, that is, the one- 
cent rate will make it impossible for a business man to 
sort his mail easily and throw aside the adyertising 
matter. Such an argument is trifling compared with the 
boon the new rate wll be to the people at large. Now 
that the postoffice department is seeing better days it will 
be well for it to share its prosperity with the public. 
A reduction in the price from two to one-cent postage 
will of its own initiative result in an increase in first 
class matter. This very increase will in no small way 
off-set the loss due to the reduction. ‘The one-cent postal 
plan should become law, 
An Inrerestinc Movement had a beginning this 
week in Washington in an effort to pass a national pro- 
hibition law. A committee of one thousand business men 
went to Washington in a body and memorialized Con- 
gress to submit to the states an amendment providing 
for the prohibition of the manufacture of alcoholic liq- 
uors for the beverage trade. The outcome of their pe- 
tition is, of course, uncertain. It is not unlikely that the 
efforts will have been made by them for their cause in 
vain. Yet it is being argued that as the matter now stands 
there are many men personally opposed to the prohobi- 
tion principle who would not be unwilling to cast a vote 
to permit the submission of a constitutional amendment 
on the ground that if the issue is raised that he is willing 
to have the states vote upon it. The dry forces have 
gained ground in the west and it is the west that has 
precipitated this new enterprise. 
Tuer ATTENTION OF THE PuBLic has been for some 
years centered upon the contest being waged between 
‘The contests have been many and — 
capital and labor. 
fought out in various ways, but the most popular as well 
as the most successful method hhas been the influence of 
state and national legislation. The last decade hag pro- 
duced much legislation directly aimed at relieving the 
hardships of the laboring classes. Some of these laws 
have been avowed experiments and have failed, and 
others, equally experimental, have been public benefits. 
Factory inspection laws, this last year, have been passed 
in five states, making twenty-two in all in the Union that 
have passed workmen’s compensation laws. Two new 
states have passed laws limiting the hours of labor on — 
public works to eight hours a day. The labor of women 
has been a severe problem, but at least ten of the states 
have made excellent beginnings in legislative work that 
will bring justice to working women. The immigration 
problem, closely allied with the industrial problem, has — 
been the subject of temporary legislation, but no great 
work thas been done to solve its problem that the new 
Americans present. It is evident that the country is 
awake to the crucial importance of sane laws for the 
protection of laboring men and women. If 1914 shall 
have made gains equal to those made in 1913 the progress 
in a year will be encouraging to a nation that seeks 
righteousness and justice as its aim. 
Tue PLAN Proposed by Winston Churchill of Great 
Britain for an international naval holiday is a wise one 
and will make for peace. It gives cause for thankfulness 
that Congress by a large majority has voted to concur 
in the proposed plan to make no naval expenditures in 
1914 other than those of maintenance of equipment. It 
opens the old question again, if the nations of the world 
can enjoy a naval holiday for a year, why not for two 
or three or even four years? If peace can be maintained 
for the shorter period why not for a longer period? Let 
the cause of peace continue to progress! 
FrrcHBurc Fortows Brveriy and has established an 
alternate week school for industrial education. The plan 
is to give the lads entering, one week in school and an 
alternate week in a work shop. ‘The work in the shop is 
paid for at the rate of ten cents an hour the first year 
and increasing according to a graduated scale until grad- 
uation. During the school period it is computed that the 
dred dollars and have had his schooling and at the end 
be competent to earn a livlihood. Let the good work con- 
average boy will have been able to earn about five hun- 
tinue! 
WinTER Has Come in with a rushing north wind, 
cold and disagreeable, but December so far has neverthe- 
less been a record breaker for comfort and warm weather. 
Dandelions have been in bloom all along the Shore. In 
each of the towns deep plowing has been done with no 
discomfort. In Ware an extra crop of hay has been 
harvested. In Westfield arbutus and violets and other 
spring flowers have been gathered. ‘The ‘Transcript 
writes: “Winter flowers are not unusual, but no one in 
this section ever heard of December hay.” Winter has 
really set in, but it is time. 
WHEN rt CoMEs To GRAFT can anything compare to 
the crafty trick of San Francisco in getting that bill — 
through Congress grabbing the Hetchy Hetchy valley in 
the Yosemite park? 
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