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April 23, 1915 
ANSWER 
To ANTI-SUFFRAGE COMMUNICATION 
To the Editor of the Breeze: 
In reply to Mrs. Putnam’s com- 
munication in last week’s Breeze. | 
beg to call attention to these facts: 
There is no eight-hour law in Mass- 
achusetts, nor in any states that are 
not Equal Suffrage states. And as 
for the Widows’ Pension Law, like 
many other laws in this state, it ‘s 
a law “without teeth,’ as Miss 
Blackwell so well puts it. For it 1s 
so worded that it may be locally 
evaded (and is thus evaded). Even 
when the industrial and social laws 
here are properly worded, they very 
often cannot be enforced. For in- 
stance, the provision for factory in- 
spection in Mass. is wholly inade- 
quate, and child labor continues in 
spite of the law. While in N. Y. 
state the conditions of woman and 
child labor in the canneries and 
sweat-shops, etc., is so shocking that 
Owen Lovejoy of the Child Labor 
Commission recently said the sooner 
we put an end to “chivalry” and try 
simple justice, the better! The recent 
action of the N. Y. legislature in 
passing the canneries bill, making 't 
legal to work women and children 72 
hours a week, has swelled the Suf- 
frage ranks in N. Y. The women of 
Wyoming and Colorado have obtain- 
ed an 8-hour. law—with teeth! 
(which means with real power to 
back it up).. And they have stopped 
child labor in those states. 
—LouiE R. STANWOOD. 
May 15th and not May 1st, will 
be Suffrage Day in Massachusetts. 
There will be many’ demonstrations 
in Boston and other cities and 
towns. Full announcements later. 
: LOOKING FoR GAMES 
The Beverly Baseball club (form- 
erly Beverly Progressives) will open 
its season May 15th., and managers 
of semi-pro teams are invited to send 
time to Nelson B. Clark, Box 1194, 
Boston. 
The Breeze $2 a year postpaid. 
TENEMENTS or 
ROOMS TO RENT— 
This is the season of year when 
the Breeze is besieged by people 
who want to procure apart- 
ments and rooms on the North 
Shore for summer. Advertise- 
ments inserted in the Breeze 
classified columns have brought 
prompt returns to others—why 
not you? The cost is trivial. 
Results are what count. 
Co. for the summer. 
The adjourned town meeting will 
be held next Monday evening, Apr. 
26 atee. 40. 
Mrs. Susan Hoyt is visiting her 
daughter, Mrs. Oakes A. Elden in 
Winchester. 
A dance will be held in the Town 
hall, Thursday evening, Apr. 29, 11 
aid of the District Nurse Fund, un- 
der the auspices of Father Shahan 
couft; 220, M.. C. O. Fy; Carey's 
orchestra. 
Frank McCarthy, the ever popular 
instructor at the playgrounds, has re- 
turned to Manchester for the season. 
Mr. McCarthy has taken up aesthetic 
dancing during the winter, in the line 
of his professional work, and he is to 
take part in the baseball entertain- 
ment next Friday evening, with solo 
dances, and with Miss Beatrice Long 
as partner, 
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MANCHESTER The Essex County association, W. 
so aid R. C., will go to the Soldiers Home 
Charles Marsh has resumed his at Chelsea next Tuesday. The Man- 
duties with the American Express chester members will ‘leave on the 
11.33 train, get off at Salem, meet 
others, and trolley to Chelsea. There 
will be a whist party in the after- 
noon and an entertainment in the 
evening. Refreshments will be ser- 
ved. Everyone is asked to bring a 
box of cake. 
Over the Telephone.—‘‘Is this Mr. 
jones 2” 
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“This is the Getemquick hospital. 
A woman who was taken ill on the 
street has been brought here and we 
think she is your wife.” 
“Toes she say so?” 
“No. The patient is unable to 
talk.” 
“Then it is not Mrs. Jones. Try 
somebody else.” —Richmond Times- 
Dispatch. 
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