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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-08
Raising Revenue

When the Connecticut mayors convene in
New Britain in September to discuss ways
and means of increasing municipal revenue
we hope that some far-sighted executive may
suggest that cities and towns cut running ev-
penses so that tax rates may fall. OF course
at present the burden of creating municipal
revenue falls on the property owner Real es-
tate taxes furnish the bulk of the money taken
in by the city. Just what other means of rals-
ing taxes will be proposed are unknown to
most of us, but in the last year we have seen
many suggested, some employed, Others dis
earded.
municipalities have engaged in competition
with private enterprises in selling gas, cleo
tricity, and water Some towns have run troll
ley and bus lines. In only few instances
were they successful. A municipal water
works can be successfully conducted probably
better than any other enterprise, for with
the city or town furnishing the water eltl-
zens are assured of good supply at cost
rates. There is no need upon the part of the
city to make profit upon its Investment.
All it needs to do is to pay expenses and most
water works will do that.
The question of water rents has per-
picked Waterbury as we'll as most cities where
the city has managed the system, Now !, is
claimed that there ism enough revenue &C
cruing from the present rates. A revision is
suggested There won't be any objection to
that in Waterbury provided taxpayers arcn
obliged to stand by and see large industrial
consumers supplied at cheaper rate than the
ordinary domestic user. Perhaps Waterbury
can adjust its rates SO that it will be assured
of revenue sufficient unto its water depart
ment. Certainly receipts from the water de-
partment should not be expected to pay for
deficit in some other one.
New sources of taxation are too few to be
unknown. What most people want to-day is
fewer and lower taxes. They have been
mounting steadily for SO many years that 1t
would be a relief to find them on the down
grade. If they ever do wing in this direction
it will be because of several reasons. Econ
omical government and satisfaction of the
public with fewer city Improvements Or less
expensive ones. The man who can stabilize
city government SO that it can be run a; cost
will be the man to discuss civic government
with Connecticut mayors. Lower costs OF
government will be preferred to newer ways
>of raising revenue.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-08
Auto Casualties

). Il, The National Safety Council reports that
automobile accidents took $50 lives in the
United States in the Month of May, an IN
screase of 200 deaths over the April total.
Nav, of course, is the first month of the
heavy touring season. With more cars on
The highways it is perhaps natural that there
mould be more accidents. There is an en-
couraging factor-the total for May of this
year is about the same as for May last year,
IA tragic factor is that the number of acci-
dents to children was disproportionately high,
this increase occurring chiefly in small towns
and rural sections.
In the big cities the more strict traffic reg
.rlations. the use of policemen at crossings
near school buildings, and the safety cam
signs conducted in the public schools all
Ito to protect children somewhat from trait
accidents. These safeguards are largely
licking outside the cities. 1t is hne for
america to take to wheels. The automobile
~ done us all much good service. But that
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-08

With the opening of the new route over
Sherman Hill in Woodbury., Waterbury S
western gateway is now ready for all corners.
No more can complaints be registered by mo-
florists that our exit on the west is far from
passable. Since the new boulevard up
through Chase Park was opened traffic along
the Middlebury road has increased daily. l he
new road past Lake Quassapaug and down
through the hills into Woodbury. and South
bury completes the entire scheme. Waterbury
is we'll prepared to welcome and say goodbye
to the tourist aow with but one exception.
That is Thomaston avenue or the lower Wa
terville road as most of us refer to it, We
don't imagine that it will get good surface
for some years. If the state would only In
clude it in its trunk line system. as it really
should, our problem would be solved. Per-
haps in 1888 the legislature will view the Sit
uaton in a different light.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-08
Quotations

We are trying in the age of the
electric light to teach national econ
omic progress with candle.
Nicholas Murray Butler.
Infancy is a period of beatitude,
and so are childhood and youth;
but each in its proper time.
"A. Lawrence Lowell.
In an apartment house elevator
the removal of a mans hat seems
to introduce a personal note-a note
which, in the case of some tenants,
one could do very nicely without.
Elsie Mccormick.
This has been called an age Of
engineers. Perhaps 1t might better
be called an age of firemen and
stokers.
Rev Bernard Iddings Bell.
Prohibition is like a divorce case
both sides are right.
Mabel Walker Willebrandt.
Leisure. like property. has its pitt
falls.
Ray Lyman Wilbur.
Any place where a man has done
a good piece of work is a good
place.
--Oskar Strauss.
y
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-08
NEW YORK
wIh Gilbert Swan

Festoons of concentrations gilt
tered with gay lights. Over and
under the adornments the days
laundry flew loosely in the evening
breeze. Socks and shirts and indies,
like so many pennants on a regatta
yacht!
Just across the square a band
stand had appeared overnight, dec
Grated with tinseled front that
mounted to gilt Tyre at the peak.
The street itself had been broaded
over by subway workers extending
new artery. The thick planking
fell away to a vacant lot where
excavators had left miniature
gully and any amount of old ma
chinery, planks, boxes and debris
On an ordinary evening, all this
would be particularly depressing
But now, the followed lot became
an arena, with boys and girls climb
ing upon boxes and machinery and
board, turning it into an amphithe-
alter. About midnight there was to
be fireworks, and the set pieces
stood at precarious angles waitinS
for their part in the program.
Along the electric-arched street.
balloon vendors cried their wares
Where pushcarts usually supply
vegetables and fruits, were carts
laden with cakes and candies and
strings of beaded nuts, baskets of
| confetti, pompons and the pasteries
| most favored on a holiday occasion.
For dozens of blocks the tene-
ments had turned their jewellers in
to the street. Youngsters scamper-
ed as at a picnic. The lolly-pop
statesmen busily handed out small
packages. A lone clam merchant
industriously cracked shells with
blunt jackknife.
Then the band land the shrine
born on the shoulders of two dozen
attendants little girls In white,
carrying candles more paraders
and, at the foot of the shrine.
a tragic little girl, pathetically Grip
pied, seeking through faith relief
from malformations. And since all
such festas are for the benefit of
the church, the crowds rush up TO
toss money; bills. of all denomina-
tions are pinned to the shrine's
adornment; more bills are piled high
on platters placed on the impromptu
altar.
There is singing and the echoing
Of a thousand voices babbling in
friendly conversation
Thus, through the East Side, are
the saints remembered 80. a world
of ice cream and toy balloons and
play for the tired tenement folk.
GILBERT SWAN.
| Copyright, 1891, NEA Service, Inc)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-08

Johnny Doeg, national tennis champion, IS
writing column of tennis instructions tor
BEGINNERS in the Newark Evening News, OF
which he is a member of the business staff.
We wonder what action the U. S. Lawn len
mis- Association will take toward this. When
Bill Tilden and Winnie Richards tried to mix
tennis and writing for the newspapers few
years back they ran into difficulties winch
ended with Richards becoming professional
immediately Tilden dehed the association
and actually won his point. He reported
tournaments in which he did not participate
or from which he was eliminated. Perhaps
since Doeg doesn't contemplate active tennis
for many years his flight into writing fields
will be overlooked.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-08

to know about such vital things as lights
brakes, and steering wheel Should any of
them 90 wrong at a crucial moment we can
well imagine the consequences in property
damage and loss of life or injury. 1t might
be we'll for all motorists to secure this free
test during the four days that the apparatus
is installed on Freight street. 1t should be
source of some satisfaction to automobile
owners to be issued certificate guaranteeing
their car to be in first class condition as re-
CARDS the enumerated parts. There should
be rush in auto servicing, too Many people
will heed the warning and have their car put
in good working order.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-08

Waterbury automobile owners should take
advantage of the opportunity to have their
brakes and headlights tested on Freight street
while the special apparatus for this purpose
is installed there. The Automobile Club of
New Haven county is conducting the tests
with the cooperation of the local Chamber
of Commerce and the Waterbury Police De-
partment. In addition to having brakes
tested and lights focused, there will be tests
for horns, windshield wipers. and steering
wheel play. There is no charge. Of course
there won't be any adjustments made on cars
Whatever is suggested by the officials in
charge must be made at some service station
at the car owners expense. It's always well
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-08
TO-DAY IS THEA
ANNIVERSARY
81 AgHXA
German Crisis

On July 8, 1917, German political
unrest, due to popular dissatisfaction
with the conduct of the war, had
reached a crisis. The Hamburger
Fremdenblatt on that day said:
1--WE are now living through
the greatest crisis in our political
life which has arisen since the
outbreak of the war. This crisis
centers around the the fundamental
questions of war and peace as
we'll as the reorganization of our
internal political system.
In referring to Matthias Err
berger, member of Parliament,
who created profound sensa-
ton by declaring for peace with
out annexations or indemnities
and who criticized the German
submarine policy and the blunder-
ing diplomacy which brought
America into the war, the Frem-
denblatt said:
Continuation of the submarine
does not come into the question,
not even so far as Erzberger is
concerned. The question is of re-
vising the war aim formula some
what on the lines demanded by
our Social Democrats"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-08
At The National Capitol
DAILY WASHINGTON LETTER
A Digest of Who's Who and What's What
By RODNEY BUTCHER

own medical service the company
paid more than 100000 to COM
munity hospitals and specialists and
consultants from other towns in the
same year.
The free medical care includes
physical therapy. X-ray therapy,
heliotherapy and even the services
of psychologist. Nursing is free
and helpers" are sometimes fur
nished families stricken by illness.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-08
HONESTY'S REWARD.

London An unemployed youth
found a purse, containing $3.50
which was lost by Wellingsborough
woman. He took it to police head
quarters and officers there told him
to return 1t to the owner. The lad
walked quite a distance to reach
the woman's home. He turned over
the purse and money to the women
and she gave him . reward of 80
cents!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-08

is no reason for permitting It to slaughter
thousands of persons every year. Motorists
must learn to drive carefully. Pedestrians
must learn TO watch out for cars and to take
their proper turn at crosswalks. Children
must be taught to pause at eurbs to make sure
the way is clear before going into the street
to retrieve ball or to cross to the other SIDE
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-08
WE'LL DEVELOPED,

London - Horace Macmanus, Of
Chatham, is we'll developed at 10.
Horace is fat and doesn't care who
knows it. He weighs 200 pounds
now and is growing steadily. lie
has just received part in pag-
cant to play the role Of Joe, the
fat boy in the Pickwick Papers. He
is to be allowed to eat and sleep
just as heavily as the Joe of the
story.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-08
Personal Health Service
(By William Brady, M. d.

Signed letters pertaining to personal
health and hygiene, not disease diagnosis or
treatment will be answered by DR. Brady. al
dress him, care of the Democrat sehdlhs
stamp and addressed envelope.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-08

California golfer has solved the prob
lem of balls lost in the rough. He daubs the
balls with certain formula which attracts
white butterflies When he loses ball he sits
down and waits for the butterflies to congre-
gate. It's all right until the butterflies go on
strike. And suppose few bees start buzzlng
around.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-08

There are probably 100 men in every trace
and profession, including typewrltlng' Preaeh-
our champion prize fighters if they wanted TO
ing and cutting slip covers, who could lick
train for six months
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-08

If IRIS true that the average farmer walks
* miles dav, that's what's wrong with
agriculture.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-08

An operation will save the lives
of persons who have swallowed the
deadly poison, bichloride of mere
ury.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-08

All vehicles must be lighted not later than
$50 daylight Saving Tlme) tonight.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-08
O-O-O
BEST POEM OF THE MONTH

Speakers take the floor to laud
What navy men have done
abroad;
While sailors whisper now and then
What breads have done to navy
Our Navy.
600
Graham McNamee had Stribling
leading until the last fifteen Sec
onds. Now we know why his wife
wants to divorce him.
600
Then there was the bride who
thought a yeast cake was
something swell.
600
Not to forget the kid who thought
"Old Ironsides" got that way eating
spinach.
The single man with double
vision is bound to marry.
600
United States Putting Europe on
It's Feet-Headline. Huh, wish
Europe would do as much for the
United States.
600
DING DING
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-08
DING, DING
Her dresses are prints,
You bet your life,
And prints are becoming
To an editors wife.

iou youE
And prints are becoming
To an EDITORS wife.
600
A noted expert on diets, says
there is genuine strength in board
ing house hash. SO don't knock the
hash, it may look weak, but you
never can tell.
600
An aviator is just an air mail
to the maiden lady of question
able years.
Christmas ties are beginning to
make their appearance, which means
anything is possible during the va
cation season.
Now they're advertising form
fit overalls. So perhaps we'll
be able to FIGURE out the
auto mechanic after this.
600
Here's one the composing room
foreman tossed the column this
morning: What happens to a girl in
wooden stockings? Nothing.
o-O-o
Just about this time, the
June graduate begins to wonder
if it was worth putting a 81
frame on the diploma.
600
The average bride no longer
frames her wedding certificate
News Item. Probably figuring she's
been framed herself, Ell?
Then there were the ship
wrecked passengers who said
they had raft of fun.
o-O-o
Dizzy Dorothy, Waterbury's intel
lectual idiot, thinks Joan of Arc
girl who knew her geometry.
O-O-O
1t pays to be flat at times.
Consider the electric iron, for
instance.
In the good old days, many a lad
spun home in a home spun suit.
THE LITTLE THINGS IN LIFE
He bought his gal an Austin,
1t made her heart turn blue,
She thanked him amid tears and
"Oh dear, how small of you"
600
Then there was the bathing girl
who simonized her body so she'd
shed water.
600
Once upon a time a gal stuck
a bell buoy in the bath tub and
imagined herself at the sea
shore.
New York girls are using roller
skates to develop their legs. l sup
pose the boys will refer to them as
good skates after this.
600
Many a meal is late because
the can opener disappears at the
wrong time.
600
An optimist is a man who spends
! part of his vacation painting storm
doors, windows and snow shovels.
| 600
A modern miracle: Finding
"keep Off the Grass Sign" in
the middle of the Cobb desert.
600
The girl who marries a poet fig
ures he had more crust than crus
of bread in getting her to sign up
| 600
| TEE, HEE.
Ships that pass in the night,
| Bring plenty OF notice they say,
But how about the schOOners,
That drinkers down each day?
| 600
BY refusing to wear hats. mer
| are falling heir to more hair.
600
If you're in doubt whether
the teeth she has are her own,
wait for the corn on the cob
season and then ask her to eat
an ear.
600
This concludes our regular mid
| week program. 1t came to you ovel
DID and was broadcast by the Wa
terbury Evening Democrat, pioneer
| in this type of newspaper work. W.
are signing off at this time to b.
| back on the air again tomorrow
evening at the usual hour.
o--O--0
Good night.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-08
Good evening.
600
ASK ANY BUDDY
(And if honest, he'll probably say
he did,
"a SMILES THE THING"

A young doughboy from Kalamazoo,
Bid farewell to lady named Lou.
But in far away France
He forgot his romance
What of that9 So did l! Didn't you?
Foreign Service Magazine.
600
I suppose you get that "low down
feeling" while riding in an Austin
and passing a Mack truck.
600
The old woman who lived in
shoe, perhaps had the usual
feminine habit and laced her
self pretty tight at that.
o-O-o
A modern kiddie car. Ford with
half dozen youngsters in the rear
seat.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-28

The Negro churches of the United
States have a membership of ever
100000.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-28

could really decide the question, and
the best policy was to let the Legis-
lature pass the measures and place
them before that tribunal for a ruling.
The bills, drafted by Attorney Cen
eral Lane, provided the machinery for
the election of delegates and the
method of holding their sessions, and
these provisions, the executive said,
should be carefully considered by the
Assembly before any action is taken.
Under provisions of the bills as pre-
sented by Senator Mcintosh and Dele
gate Lindsay, both of Baltimore Coun-
ty, the delegates would be elected at
the primary of May. 1882.
Would Serve without Pay.
Candidates for the posts of delegate
would be listed on ballots separate
from the regular ones used at the pri-
mary, and would be counted separate,
and placed in separate ballot boxes.
None of the candidates would be re-
quired to post any fee for filing their
candidates., and would serve without
pay.
Each county and district of Balti-
more City would be entitled to the same
number of delegates as they have COM
bined members in the House and Sem
ate and qualifications governing cleo
ton Of members Of the General As
aspirants.
Members of the Assembly were
placed in an anomalous position
through introduction of the bills. Every
county in the State voted against cali
ing the convention, and the majority
by which the proposal passed was gath
cred entirely in Baltimore City,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-28
FISH URGES LAW
TO DEPORT REDS
New York Representative Ad-
dresses Anti-CommuniSt
Meeting at Silver Spring.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
SILVER SPRING. Md, February 49,
Enactment of a Federal law author
ling deportation of all alien Com
munists and barring prospective i'll
migrants known to be Communists was
urged last night by Representative
, Hamilton Fish of New York in an ad-
dress at a patriotic meeting sponsored
by the American Legion Post of Mont
gomery County in the National Guard
Armory here.
Representative Fish also raped
opponents OF the bonus bill which was
passed yesterday over the Presidents
veto, saying that their charges that the
loans to the veterans would neceSSltate
an increase in taxation were untrue and
made for their own selfish ends.
He asserted that the Government is
merely loaning at Az per cent interest
money for which it pays per cent and
that there are ample funds now in the
Treasury to finance the loans.
Red Issue. Most Serious.
Representative Fish called the issue
of Communism the most important
the most reaching and the most
serious in the world today in its effect
Oh CItIllIdLlO anu GIlc safety dllO Ildp-
ness of the people of the civilized
nations"
Moscow, he said, is concentrating on
sowing the spirit of revolution among
the 100000 colored people of Amer
lea, and this movement is helped by
men like Clarence Darrow, who recently
made addresses in colored churches
here. Despite Soviet propaganda, Rep
resentative Fish declared, he is con-
in iC
loyal to the principles of American
Government
Mrs. Walker Speaks.
Mrs William Sherman Walker, chair
man of the National Defense Commit
tee of the Daughters of the American
Revolution, told of the Russian five
among American business men to scott
at the thr at of Communism in this
country.
Mrs. Charles C. Conrad, State COM
mander of the American Legion Auxll
| iary extended greetings.
His experiences in a Siberian prison
camp, W re detailed by Arthur A. Kop-
man, who was arrested in Russia on
suspicion of being a spy. He finally
succeeded in smuggling a message to
the American consul in Poland who
secured his release.
The m citing was arranged by Maj.
Howard w. Cutler, commander of the
CisSel-SaXon American Legion Post of
Silver Spring; Mrs. Paul Clark, preSi-
dent of the Silver Spring Auxiliary:
Warner E. Humphrey, commander of
the Hend- rson Smith Edmonds Post of
Rockville: Mrs. Helen Weadon, head of
| the Rockville Auxiliary, and Albert
Wilson, commander of the Norman B.
Trice Post of Sandy Spring.
The program commenced with a pa
triotic concert by the United States
Army Band and invocation by Rev.
7. A. Calnan of st. Michaers Catholic
Church. Lieut.. Col. George Hender-
son, department commander of the
American Legion of Maryland, presided.
There were two vocal solos by Mrs.
Estelle Hunt Dean, accompanied on the
piano by her daughter, Miss Helen
Dean. Benediction was pronounced by
Rev. Ralph D. Smith of the Woodside
Methodist Episcopal Church.
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also owned considerable farming land
in Madison and valuable real estate In
the town Of Culpeper.
Mr.. Fray, who was q son Of Joseph
NJ. Fray of Madison, was twice married,
first to Miss Belle Crigler, who died
some years ago, leaving one daughter.
Ruth, and later to Miss Roberta Brown
ing of Culpeper, who survives him. His
children are Mrs. Ruth Fray Eckman Of
Baltimore, Mrs. Ewing Wall Of Quantico,
Miss Virginia Fray Of Culpeper, Miss
Ellen Fray. student Of Goucher Col
lege, Baltimore: Jackson L. Fray, r., q
student Of woodbury. Forest, and
Samuel Browning Fray Of Culpeper.
He was q member Of Fairfax Lodge
and Shriner.
The funeral will be held on Sunday
afternoon from his residence and inter-
nlent will be In the Masonic Cemetery.
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'CULPEPER'S LEADING
CITIZEN DIES AT HOME
Jackson L. Fray, Banker and Capt.
talist, Expires Following Illness
of Several Months.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
CULPEPER, Va. February 28.-Jack-
son L. Fray, president of the Second
National Bank of Culpeper and leading
citizen, died yesterday at his home, on
East street, after an illness that began
in the early Autumn, in the sixty-ninth
year of his age.
Mr. Fray was a native of the adjoin-
ing Couaty of Madison and a descend
ant of the early German settlers who
coloniZed that region in 1924, and
although making his home in Culpeper
for many years, had always retained his
membership in historic Mount Hebron
Lutheran Church of Madison. In addi-
ton to being president of one of the
leading banks, he was also the founder
and principal owner of the Culpeper
Telephone Co., operating over a large
area of Northern Virginia and sold two
years ago to the Chesapeake & Potomac
Telephone Co. He was the founder and
owner of the Fairfax Theater, owned
large interests in the Culpeper Silk Mills
and in a wholesale grocery concern of
Culpeper and many other interests. He