New Britain herald., 1924-12-13
THE OBSER YER Makes Random Observations
 On the City and Its People


 party In Connecticut are approach
 ing second childhood Is demonstrated d
 by their effort In tho city Of Water
 bury to discredit the Waterbury Re-
 publican, splendid representative
 or that type of newspaper which
 gives its readers the benefit of it's
 Independent views on politics.
 Within tho past few days q news
 paper called the Republican Water
 hurian," closely initiating in type
 and makeup the Waterbury Repub-
 llcan, has been distributd through
 the republican town committee of
 that city. A great part of Its con-
 tents Is composed of attacks on the
 Waterbury Republican, which has adopted an attitude hostile to the
 election of J. Henry Roraback's fair
 haired favorite, Hiram Bingham, re- publican candidate for governor. The Waterbury Republican, disgust ed with the high handed machine tactics of J. Henry and his attempt to cram his personal candidate down the throats of the Connecticut vot- CTS, has affronted the boss of the Nutmeg State by declaring itself In favor of the election of Hamilton Hold, democratic candidate. It has denounced Roraback and all his sycophantic satellites; 1t has un- masked his chicanery: 1t has told the truth with biting words, that Bng- ham is the hand picked candidate of J. Henry Roraback and the wishes of the state were not consulted with other candidates for the nomination were mentioned. This has aroused the machine leader as nothing ever did before. His reply has been the of the Republican Wa terburian," which has been peddled and hawked up and down the streets of the Brass City until 1t has be- come a joke.
 Although paid workers of the re- publican town committee assisted in the sheet, the members of the committee declare that they know nothing about 1t. They be- come petulant when questioned and any reference to the 2Waterburian"
 rritates them. It is apparent that they have received their orders from ]. Henry and, like the Light Brigade at Balaklava, it Is not theirs to ques-
 ion why, but to press forward and 10 their work.
 Admirers Of the Waterbury Re- publican resent the silly attempt to iiscredit the paper which has stood or years fortprogress in every field. They predict that J. Henry and his yang will be hoist with their own ,etard and that the reaction from heir blunder will be anything but pleasant.
 The publication of the "Waterbur ! an" indicates that J. Henry Rora- ,ack is losing his grip on ]. Henry 2oraback. Instead of being the | .trong, silent strategisn, a picture l lrawn by his press agents, he has descended to the role of petty poiti- ,ian, startled at every whispering | breeze and on the verge of panic.
 It's a world Of progress. a. You | lsed 10 he able 10 go into a pro- hsion store and buy nickel's worth of ginger snaps;- now you get
 wo cents worth of ginger snaps 1 ind pay the other three cents for improved packing and shipping. You could buy a dress with huge 'leeves, Hopping hustle, and sweep ng train on wide skirt for a few dollars: now you pay five times as much and get one fifth as much 1, lress. You once paid 1b cents a 1ound for turkey and thought 1t was high; now you are soaked four ines that amount and consider lucky if only half of each pound is bone and butchers hand. n the good old days box of shoes cost $2; now pair comes to ten berries and you don't get the box. Once upon time you bought a ute little thing called q phono- graph, which, through a spreading norm, emitted harsh gratings inter- 'porsed with a little music: in these lays you purchase six-bulb, su- )rrhc.crodync, non back firing 'adio, and out of the horn comes a wonderful program, mostly from station s. T. A. T, I. C. Willies title 50 cent mechanical train gave 'ou bad scare when the engine bring snapped and dipped past our ear, but now Tommy's $50
 loctric train can stand you on your lead when you accidentally come n contact with the third rail. Once 'ou could buy a good five cent igar; you still can, but you have 0 pay quarter for it. In them
 lays that is gone forever" you ,lunkod down your five cents ad- mission to the nickelodeon and umpod out of your seat as the last iundrod redskins bit the dust; in hose days you toss away four bits O watch one of these "repressed" sociological movies where the most active actor bites only his lips, You used to get fine quart of for 65 cents: you pay si0 or it now, and it's good to know hat they're still making pre-war tun. But even in these enlightened avs you can buy s two cent pos age stamp for two cents.
 Reports from the State Tubercu- osis Commission reveal the fact hat Connecticut now stands fourth n the per capita sale Of Christmas calls with a record of 6.I. Connec- icuts record is exceeded only by ;ew York with S.S, New Hsmp- hire with 6.9 and New Jersey with B.
 The total raised last year by the