New Britain herald., 1927-01-15

ready begun to haunt the financin agents of the municipal governmen
 now that it is definitely known wha
 the grand list next year will be an
 that but a few thousand dollars fl
 additional tax revenue can be count
 ed on therefrom.
 Already the park and public work
 departments have signified their in
 tention of asking additional allow
 ances for 1927-192S; construction ol
 the world war memorial will neces.
 sitate an addition to the mill rate
 so that part payment can be made
 on the shaft: the salary list now ap- pears likely to be boosted somewhat
 and the other incidental costs Of
 government have shown a tendency to mount.
 That the amount of additional tax
 revenue will be insufficient to meet the demands of the several depart
 ments is assured. AS matter of
 fact the school department over-
 draft is likely to be several thous-
 ands of dollars in excess of what will be obtained from increased val nations. With all these facts in mind the board of finance and taxa ton has no avenue into which to turn other than that of an advanced mill rate. The present rate, 23A mills, has been shown to be too low in the opinion of present city off, cials. In an effort to curb an ad- vance in the rate several depart ments were cut to point that low cred their efficiency, by making it impossible to carry on the work laid out for them.
 Unpleasant as a taxrate boost may be. it is doubtful if a question of political expediency will be permit ted to dominate the deliberations of the finance board to a degree that ruthless slashing of departmental estimates will be accepted in prefer cnce to higher rate and efficient 
 An interesting, though not exciting search is on in New Britain. It may result in the discovery of the quarry the hunters are seeking, and again it may come to an abrupt conclusion with nothing accomplished. It has to do with the reason the charter revision committee failed to adopt an amendment affecting the anti quated system of conducting the of the states cases in police court, which was the big growing out of the deliber- ations of the revisionists.
 It had been expected, with suffi- cient reason, that the committee would recommend in it's report to he common council, that the office | of assistant prosecuting attorney be | abolished and a new office created, | 70 as to provide for two prosecutors | on equal footing and with equal 1 salaries, but not a whisper was emit ed even when the subject of two | udgships of court was under dis 'ussion. Hence the search.
 There may or may not be as much | leed for two prosecuting attorneys IS for two judges, but it is firmly be- ieved by well informed citizens that he police court in city the size of New Britain, doing the amount of business the court does, without easonable expectation of a decline, hould have the dual prosecutor ystem. The present salary list pro- ides S3000 for the prosecuting at orney and $500 for the assistant. pon throughout the year but there , no pre-arranged working system. he prosecuting attorney might pre- ent court cases and attend to all the uties of the office every day for hree months, or six months if he ared to, or if his health and private ractlce would permit, and on the ther hand, he could call on the as. lstant every day for long period.
 Under the dual prosecutor system, ne man would carry on the office or stated period of time, on ar- angement with the other. Each , 'ould have equal duties and com- ensation. The work would be evenly ivided, and, it is believed, the re- f nlts would be satisfactory. It would { Q logical to decrease the salary of ( ne prosecuting attorney and in- rease that of the assistant, because { le former would have less work , nan at present, while (he latter s ould have a sizeable increase in uties and responsibility. I
 Whether the common council will l 'e lit to insert the amendment or , ercly approve the report of the re- a Slonists remains to be seen. It is l ropable however, that the recom- l ehdatlons of the latter will be " lopted, because the workings of the s glslative organizations at Hartford a av reasonably be expected to ac- V 'mpllsh what the senator and rep- |. favor. Past experience r IS proven the futility of remon- i, rance by the peepul", and unless ere Is a surprise equal to that oc- s stoned by the committees silence " the matter, the charter as fl nended will omit new reference to h e prosecuting attorneys office for h 70 years at least. 6, thousands of artistic souls are le uslc-lovers-until they attempt to fl rm an orchestra This is ono If +bo l.