The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-31

adopted prohibition a year before. He had a survey of labor conditions made and found that the efficiency of labor had improved 15 per cent during the year that prohibition had been adopted. I have never been a total abstinence man myself but when 1 think of the wickedness and suffer- ing that is caused by liquor, I feel that 1t would be verey small sacri- flee for any of us to give up his own benefits that would be produced If personal tastes for thu incaloulable rum were forever thrown into the dis card.
 q can claim no special qualifica- tions for the senatorship. have spent a good deal of my life, especi- ally of recent years, in the public service, and I have always been in terested in governmental matters. I was educated as a lawyer and prac- ticed for thirteen years, the last five years being spent as general counsel for the Connecticut Railway & Light ing Co. have been in the banking business for a dozen years or more, and am a member of the board of di- | rectors of quite a number of corpora tions and institutions.
 Student of Taxation
 q am a good deal interested in 1 the legislation of local and state tax | ation. I haze studied and written more or less on these subjects, and 1 last year I was appointed by Cover nor Holcomb as a state delegate to i the National State Taxation confer ence at Atlanta. I am a member of the National Tax Association. As president of the Connecticut AssocIa- tion of Securities Dealers I have been quite active in securing the passage of laws by our Connecticut legislature which have served to modernize to a certain extent the taxation of securi- ties. This association presented to the i legislature a measure, which was ul- timately passed, making the bonds oi our Connecticut cities and towns ex- empt in the hands of Connecticut holders, and this has resulted ir l Bridgeport, as well as other cities procuring a higher price for it's bonds than they otherwise would have ! brought.
 ''I do not believe that anyone ought i to make a strenuous political cam. paign in these times of war. I shall 1 content myself with very moderate effort"
 Heads War Work
 MT. Hincks is a member of an old Bridgeport family and has been iden- tified with the progress of the city l since boyhood. He is a member o1 the Fairfield county bar, formerly practicing attorney and general coun. sel for some of the big concerns o1
 the city. For number of years ha! been a member of the firm of Hinck: i Bros, dealers in bonds and fl nanciaI agents. He has been active
 in politics at various times, was former chairman of the Democratic Town committee, and has taken {
 keen interest in all of the matters
 which affect the welfare of the city During the last year MT. Hinck! has been active in war work and ha! spent a great deal of his time in aiC
 of the War Savings campaign, anC
 especially in promoting the sale O
 thrift stamps. As a consequence O } his work, aided by many others, thu sale of stamps in Bridgeport has beer
 larger than in any city of Connecticut and the per capita sale has been larg CT than in any city of its size in tn, [ country, and larger than nearly al other cities of the United States. Re gently MT. Hincks was selected a
 chairman of the War Work commit tee, which is to have charge of tn , big drive to raise the sum of $400,00 1 | in Bridgeport for the seven organiza