New Britain herald., 1927-12-24


 Plum buildings. or confectionery that contain wine or spirit or a flaw bring, are not regarded as an in- fringement Of the prohibition law. Your buildings, we take if. will not contain liquor in liquid form. and there will not, therefore, be any diff ficulty in admitting them to the United States"
 Tn other words" thought the chef. mo one could eat enough pud- ding 10 feel the effects of what put in it.--not like the way you mean, any way
 As 10 this. judge for yourself Those are the ingredients, and the liquor.
 14 ozs. raisins, 12 ozs. entrants, l2 ozs. suet, g ozs. flour, ozs. chopped apple, OF. orange peel. oz& brown sugar. 1-2 pint milk. eggs 12 oz. crystallsed peel, 10 ozs. bread crumbs 1 oz. ginger, 1. oz. citron peel, teaspoorful salt, 1-4 pint brandy, 1-3 pint stout, IA pint rum, gills old port wine.
 In addition 10 this. all the fruit Is we'll macerated in brandy for sever al days before 1t IS used. At a mod est estimate, each pudding contains a pint of liquor.
 But you see. you can't drink r. Next month the board of finance and taxation will undertake the tas, of stopping the upward trend of New Britain's tax rate, endeavoring to hold 1t at 251s mills, if possible, but facing anything but a favorable outlook.
 Taxes form one of the most un- welcome avenues of disbursement known to the citizenry of this and every other city; tax is nevertheless one of the principal subjects of con- versa ton. particularly at this time of year and IS very often the basis of most interesting and enlightening discussion.
 Cries Of extravagance and prom ises of economy are familiar fea- lures of almost every political cam paign, particularly city and state elections, but few of these election time charges and promises produce any results or finger long in the public mind.
 The census bureau has discovered that the costs of state governments ! in almost every case has doubled in the last 10 years. while the costs of municipal governments has trcblcd In some instances. New Britain is included in the latter group. In 1917 New Britain's government cost the citizens $l.373.01T. This year about S4000.oo0 will have been spent before the fiscal year comes to close This condition has been found iD almost every other city where New Britain's sta andards arc maintained.
 The problem it would appear from the consistent upward trend in diff l ferent sections where different po- lltical groups are in control and un- l der various systems of government. l makes it evident that the situation cannot be. controlled by merely vot- ! ing this group in and that group i out. Yet no one seem able to sug- gcst the remedy, and taxes continue to rise.
 Government experts have comput- ! ed the cost Of taxes as being one , sixth of thc income of every wage earner in the country. 4 popular fal- lacy is that the property owners pay | the taxes and that those who rent | apartments or who live in hotels. etc. are freed from the burden of taxation.
 A survey recently made by na- | tional financial paper pointed out 1 that the taxes paid out of the Unit ed States Steel corporation in one year amounted 10 55.000,ooo or 5.j of the corporations receipts for that year. The tax payments, however, were distributed by the company on all It's products so that whoever rode on railroad train, bought anything that was transported by freight, whoever built house or rented one. whoever used piped oil or gas, whoever used any tool or bit Of ma
 chinery made of steel or produced hy machinery made of steel, paid q part of the steel corporation's taxes.
 It is estimated that from one quarter 10 one third Of New Brit aims population pays direct taxes. So that those who do not have oc- casion to make annual trips 10 the office of Collector Loomis may not labor under the impression they are