New Britain herald., 1930-03-21
CANDIDATE KELLY
 PROMISES REFORMS
Independent Pledges RassSs.
 ment Of Property if Elected

The policy of the independent party of New Britain, which was formed by the Citizens Property Owners association, is to urge the adoption of the city manager form Of government to replace the pres ont form and if l am elected mayor l promise that will bring about this change said Martin Kelly, in- dependent nominee for mayor at rally held last night at the Union Painters hall on Main street.
 Reassessment Of Property
 MT. Kelly stated that there should be no bond issue if the grand list was what it should be. An other matter I promise to turn my attention to when I'm elected is to the reassessment of all property which will be done by experts who city" he said.
 By this plan justice will reign in all sections. There will be no favoritism, everyone will pay the full amount.
 The business man of today needs more information than his predeces- sor a decade or two ago. Business is infinitely more complicated, not simply by the multitude of special ized fields which have grown up since the war;, but also because of the enormous Improvements in communication and transportation, the desire for information and the means for it's qualification.
 The business man Of today can TO longer exist in comfortable isoa- ton, even of he wants to. He must know what is going on in his government, if he is to conduct his operations profitably. He must pre- pare for repercussions upon his business from remote areas which were entirely beyond his compre- hensions or interest only a few years ago.
 Chain stores and chain banking cXerts it's greatest influence upon our daily affairs in hundreds of diff ferent ways. Every day decisions are made, action is taken that affects the health, wealth and happiness of every person, every point in our city life.
 The government of our city is the machinery created by the con- stitution and supplemented by laws passed in conformity with the con- stitution to sec to it that the laws of the city are enforced, with equal opportunity for all and special priv ileges for none.
 Many people have never discov- cred their government. They think of it only as regulatory body, a lew cnforming instrument. They are rarely conscious Of it as a. helpful agency in business or everyday work, as a great cooperative insti- tuition for the general welfare.
 Criticizes "Old Machines"
 Let us see what the old machines have been doing. In Is years the city's debt has increased by the fabulous sum of s4,00o,000, which the future generations vii! have to pay.
 Example No. 1-School commit tee efficiency from long experience and faithful service. High school contract appropriations: so4O,e99 bonds sold, excluding expense, S5S4,3S2.9o. Total contracts award cd, S557,62S..6. Awarding con- tracts for s2S,s45.36 moro than funds available.
 Some more old guard efficiency. Over sSO.Oo0 for extras which should have been included in the specification. Almost s600,000 for aa imperial opera house, as a me- morial to these famous men. while some of our children are being ed rcated in unhealthy, unsanitary, filthy conditions in our city. Others have to travel miles in all kinds of conditions to gain an education which has been paid for hundred old. $2s,922.1O to furnish the im- perial opera house, of which about s1,400 was for drapes.
 The most interesting thing about this old guard system of doing things is that those departments are supposed to be really business institutions. The people in them do not Of course, shave the incentive Of profit as in the private business of our city.
 In general it is quite clear the city business thinking is no longed moving in the good old way, from hunch to hunch, but rather from fact to fact, not simply because our people are getting wiser but be- cause they must know where they are going, because if they don't they will soon cease to exist, conner cially speaking"
 Among the other speakers were Frank Gryguc, candidate for city tax collector, Stephen Yawin, who acted as chairman, Anthony Czech- owcz, and Vincent Dobrowolski, president.
 The party will hold a rally to- morrow night at the corner of Main and East Main streets and arrange lnents are being made by the town committee.