No Hard Times in “Temperance” Villages.
MR. WILLIAM E. DODGE, the well-known manufacturer and merchant of New York, when recently before the Congressional Labor Committee as a witness, said that his firm, employing some 2,000 persons, made it a rule that persons engaged in their manufacturing village should not use intoxicating drinks. As a consequence, there was no complaint of hard times among them. The villages named by him were: Ansonia, Conn.; Dodge Mills, near Williamsport, Penn.; Tobyhanna Mills, Warren County, Penn.; St. Simon’s Mills, Ga.; Wabasheen Mills and Magnattiwan Mills, Ontario, Canada, and Collingwood Mills, Canada. “Many of our employes,” Mr. Dodge continued, “are property owners. They own their dwellings and have reared large families. Some of them have been with us ten, twenty, and twenty-five years. Our men have not suffered during this depression. They have accepted wages which we could pay, and there has, therefore, been no special distress among them. Crime is practically unknown among them.—Scientific American.