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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-03
Personal Abuse

If there is any one thing that we would think the republican campaign committees in Waterbury would have learned by this time. it would be that campaigns of mud singing and personal abuse never pay. For quarter of a century or more almost every republican city campaign has been conducted along these lines, instead of offers of any reasonable constructive program, with the result that the city has constantly grown more and more democratic. We do not suppose the democrats are SO much superior to the republicans as to say that is an excess of virtue on their part, but they have learned long ago that it Is a political mis- take. that it doesn't pay and drives away votes. That has been demonstrated time and time again.
 Of course, anyone wno runs for public office in Waterbury has to be pretty thick skinned and fairly hard boiled. That is why great many good men will not accept nomination. But after all what is there to most of this talk? Mir Tracy says that the mayor has turned out to be politi- clan. We'll, what of it? No one has ever accused Frank Hayes of lacking brains. and to be good politician takes brains. The one thing that the voters and taxpayers are interested in is whether he has handled the job as we'll as could be done under the circumstances. No one can deny that he has saved us money and reduced our tax rate. Mir Tracy doesn't deny that. He couldn't
 And then Mir Greene says that some company, in which Mir Leary is an officer, long before Mir Leary was elected con-, troller. secured some adjustment of water bill, which was excessive by reason of some faulty computation. He intimates that it shouldn't have been done, and says he wouldn't permit it. Why not. if 1t was fair and right? Mr Leary didn't pass on it. Other city officers do that. Mir Greene doesn't say there was anything wrong or corrupt about 1t. He wouldn't dare. If he did. he might be called upon to make good his assertion in court, which he couldn't do. He just intimates and hints. That is what we call personal abuse and mud sling ing. It never did pay and it will not pay this time.
 No administration is perfect not even the present one. but on the whole, it has done good job under very trying conditions. The tax bills, reduced one sixth in the last year, tell the story. Actions speak louder than words. Pull the top lever and vote for economy in dollars and cents. not in theories.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-03
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1s:
Mayor Frank Hayes

N Perhaps with the exception of no other chief executive in the long line of mayors ,who have held sway over the destiny of the municipal government of Waterbury has any occupied the unique position of the present incumbent, Mayor Frank Hayes. Never Tn the history of the city has man entered upon the duties of mayor under more trying and harassinp conditions than Mayor Hayes. Yet. despite those conditions which con- fronted him two years ago upon taking office, we sincerely think and believe he has made good his promises to greater extent than it has been the good fortune ot any other mayor of Waterbury to do.
 The Waterbury Democrat makes this as- sertion almost on the eve ot election not with any intention of fattering Mayor Hayes, but in recognition almost ot super human task accomplished. Only the un- Ainching determination and supreme energy of such man as Frank Hayes could have brought to such successful elimination the chaos he found upon entering office. To his everlasting credit it must be said he took the iob. found 1t worse than he bargalned tor, yet had the pluck to untangle 1t despite the
 
 selves to any mayor of Waterbury.
 Not only having the misfortune of enter ing upon the duties of mayor of the city ot Waterbury when things financially speaking had reached about the lowest possible ebb, he had to take the bull by the horns and lit the city out of the mire of almost insolvency dsring a period of depression heretofore un- known. Yet he has accomplished what he set out to do in just nineteen short months Tn tbe face of such uneven odds. Such an ac- Somplishment must and does speak volumes Ar the kind of mayor whom the democrat k party has chosen again to head its ticket bn next Tuesday.
 So it is with this faint praise which linn led space forbids giving more - 1t would take volumes to do it justiee-that hs Waterbury Democrat sincerely endorses Hnd recommends the name of Frank Hayes sgain to the electorate as the best possible choice as mayor for the ensuing two years. We're he republican or socialist we could but aay the same in answer to his wonderful astievements which needs no defense other Aan its bare recitation. Try as some will iD twist and turn it to suit political ends it ssmains the same indisputable undying fact. namely that he has put one of Waterburys feet on solid ground again, which, if it IS again criterion of his ability, should be suf- 6oisnt reason for his reelection next Tues dsN after which if we know Mayor Hayes nright, he will go the whole way and eom- riete the job before he calls quits Then in- aeed can the word ''finis" be truly added to T monumental achievement.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-03

Reading about modern ways of filling in roadways that pass through swampy re- gions. such as the Chase Boulevard along Sunnyside avenue. we wonder if there is as much to be said about this pew-fangled method as its discoveries claim. Instead of waiting for the road to settle over a period of months or even years the gravel i'll is piled high over the surface and transfixed by numerous wires attached to blasting caps far below the surface. They arc exploded and the result Is the sinking of the fill to hard pan. Of course if the spot is bottomless the experiment might not work so well. In that event engineers might do assthey are now doing in jolly old England Hay an iron or molten stone pavement. The quest for hard-surfaced roads has led to cast iron right in London. We'd hate to. get a fall on it. We'd much prefer those rubber roads.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-03
An Economical Congress

It is only little more than two months until Congress convenes again. Every law maker who is able to add and subtract and to put the welfare of his country above po- litical expectancy for any small part of it, may conclude that the government must economiZe. Even as matter of practical politics. 1t isn't certain that what looks like expenditure by Congress this winter will bring home any political bacon next fall
 There may have been time early in this depression period when the deliberate ex-' pendture of billions for public works would have taken up the employment slack, held business steady about half way down and hastened the return of normal activity. If so. that time has passed. Business has gone down too far for the government to pull it back up. The government can still help, but it is primarily task for private enter prise.
 Government, despite common notion to the contrary, IS not omnipotent. It has great taxing. power. It can levy on wealth for public work, relief or other purposes. But there is a limit, and no distant one. to the advantages of public taxation and public expenditure. Excessive taxation soon de- feats itself, as it is beginning to do in Eng easily drained dry by much milking and lit tie feeding. Government income profits most land. The taxed public is a milch COW. easily drained dry by much milking and little feeding. Government income profits most from letting that cow have plenty of wholesome food = by encouraging profit able business activity. then taxing the profits whatever they can stand without impair ment of capital investment.
 In the fiscal year ending June 30 our gov erenment had deficit of about $900.000. 900. The deficit since that date has been piling up at rate that suggests twice as big a total for the present year. Congress can take its choice of heading for governmental bankrupteysor heading away from it. Busi- ness has far greater resources for getting out of its depression bog than the government has for getting it out It is time for gov ernment to cooperate with the natural forces of recovery and encourage private business by setting. itself, an example of economy. The less it spends, the more business will be able to spend.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-03
Here, There And EDeryDhere
MONEY WELL SPENT.
(New Haven Times)

The results of one of Connecti-
 cuts unemployment relief meas
 ures are already evident in our
 forests. Early this year the iegis-t
 lature authorized special unem--
 ployment emergency appropriation of $100,000 to be used in improv- ing state forest lands. The money was for the employment of labor only and was equally divided be-
 tween the construction of fire lines in state forests and tree planting. The work has been completed and Connecticut now finds itself with
 250 miles of firebreaks laid down in areas where high fire hazards
 existed. In addition 600.000 pine and spruce trees were planted on
 lands entirely stripped of forest growth.
 Not only did this appropriation
 place the forests in better condi-'
 tion for fire control and restore tree growth to the idle lands, but
 what was more it rendered finan-
 cial assistance to hundreds of
 workers at a time when they sorely
 needed it.
 This splendid work has already
 drawn the attention of other.
 states. The Detroit News, com-.
 menting on Connecticut's initiative,
 urges similar action in Michigan in
 these words:
 How different the situation is. in Michigan, state that stands | in crying need of reforestation.
 This year we find appropriations. for forestry purposes cut in two as compared with last year. In fact. only sufficient money has been, appropriated to carry on a restrict ed program of forest administrd-. ton and nursery tree productions leaving nothing after this fall for actual reforestation. This may oe' part of the administrators pro- gram of economy, but 1t would seem that with the acknowledge. ment and acceptance of the great. need of reforestation on our 700,.s | 900 acres of State forest lands coupled with the unemployment situation, this would be an oppor.. tune time for Michigan to expand. It's forestry activities rather than curtail them. New York, Wiscoass sin and Connecticut at least bee. lieve this true and have acted ac., cordingly." ' It is satisfying to know that other states are looking to the Nutmeg state as a leader in worth-- while enterprises. Governor Cross.s
 who sponsored the measure, may we'll be proud.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-03

Poor old Danbury. Along comes a Princess Eugenie hat boom and thes Hat Town experiences untold of prosperity. But whenever something like that happens to town there is migration in that diree- ton by the unemployed. As result Dan bury is to-day host to hundreds of destitute families, who came to the western Conneeti- cut city with the hope of finding jobs while the hat industry was. running at. full ca paeity. There are enough people in Dan- bury to fill the jobs. The city has to deftay the expense of sending the visitors home. And it's costing the city pretty penny. too.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-03

In discussing the case that Motor Vehicle Commissioner Stoeekel is bringing against an interstate bus line for alleged speeding within the Connecticut limits the Spring field Republican states that ''the case is of. particular interest because in Connecticut the Greyhound buses run at speed which has caused criticism and has directed the atten- ton of the department of motor vehicles toward them. Commissioner Stoeckel re- gently issued statement to the local en- forcement authorities concerning interstate busses generally. in which he explained that interstate vehicles are as much subject to po- lice regulation as are other vehicles and that they must conform to existing measures of control and to those which might be pre- seribed having to do with ''the safety. com fort and order in respect to the operation of all busses. There having been no fed cral legislation to cover this ground the soundness of Mir Stoeckels position regard ing regulation of operation may be con- eeded. q" There is no use in attempt ing to point out the need of these huge in- terstate buses keeping on schedule. They are required to do that by law. Therefore some degree of speed is excusable, but there is too often tendency upon the part of the driver (not every one) to drive just trinc faster than most of us care to see the pon- dsrous vehicles going.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-03
Road Closed-No Passing

h an apparent effort to bottle up Sher- &ood Island, which is Conneoticuts oldest cate park and incidentally the only one in Enfield county. the town officials of Vest port ore lending the hearty hand of CO., operation. Probably nothing has aroused uhe storm of criticism as has this spot down & Greens Farms. Although purchased for taGk purposes in 1914 it has never been de- Seioped as such and we doubt very much if . ever will. It was the subject of much Consideration last spring in the Legislature. Ihe members went so far one time as to Sps1ously discuss appropriating $750.O0O lbe seashore state park in Fairfield county.
 swspaper notoriety finally forced the egislators to drop this plan.
 The latest move was taken by the board of finance of Westport. It voted to appro- txiate $375 to build fence and gate across
 he read leading to Burial Hill park. The kst is owned by Westport. To most of us this Information is meaningless until we read tat this road IS the only one by which there . access to Sherwood Island. The gate will Ae closed at midnight and opened at 8 Qclodk the following day. Although the 1nessure must be approved at town meet 6g 1t is reliably reported there will be no Exposition from the townspeople. It seems that rough young men have been acting in a Eotstspous manner on the Burial Hill Park Ioad of late. This rowdyism must be &rbed. Hence the fence and gate.
 Of course if somebody should desire to drive Co Sherwood Island and camp there. hs shs or they would have to depend upon ths gate being open. We don't suppose there would be many campers arriving between i1idnight and 8 a. m.. but suppose the gate yas closed earlier or left closed all day'long
 Dst by accident. There are many possibil- G6es. It would seem to us, too. that there tEe many difficulties in the way of the West fon town officials. We never heard of
 nybody closing a public highway with <ess not in this day and age. That belongs - the toll-gate era. long since past.
 2 The intention is plain. It is one more fIGempt to prevent Sherwood Islands fncpsr development. When the sandbar
 pssing was dredged out year or so back it Eecfively prevented automobiles driving Erht out on the island. The excuse was
 5at mosquitoes were breeding at the spot. zinse 1t was dredged out very thorough & end the island completely cut of from the xeinIand. as far as automobile traffic is con uurned. Now they are trying to keep the nucomobiles from driving anywhere near 1lss spot. It is high time that the state took more active part in this faseo Let's have
 e park developed and thrown open to all
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-03
COUNT CzERN1N SPEECH

On October 3, 1917, Count Czer- min, minister of foreign affairs of Austria Hungary, delivered an ad- dress at Budapest which created considerable stir among the bel. ligerent nations and was regarded as evidence of growing and acute necessity of peace. In part, he said: -
 Before we conclude peace we must have the positive certainty that our present opponents have relinquished the idea of economic
 "The question of indemnities which the Entente (Allies) is al- ways advancing assumes remark able completion when one consid- CTS the devastation their armies have wrought. ...
 If our enemies refuse to listen and compel us to continue this murder, then we reserve the right to revise our terms"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-03
Quotations

certainly have no illusions about my personality. or attrac- tiveness.
 Rudy Vallee.
  There should be cosmopolitan system of medicine that would combine the best of all three sys- tems and countries.
 -Dr Charles H. Mayo.
  Government seldom faces a graver risk than when 1t has to devote all of it's energies Go setting its finances in order.
 Bruce Cation.
  Next to reclxlessness at the top of the boom. the most foolish thing In the world is Encouragement, at the bottom of ths slump. .t.. Roger w. Hnbson.
  The task of proper assistance to the dsssrvsns h sns which will
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-03
HARTFORD'S 22e,75s POPULA.
 TTON
(Hartford Courant)


 Boston is deriving a great deal
 of satisfaction from the fact that the director of the census has given
 it a population rating based upon
 the Metropolitan district of which 1t is the center. This means that
 instead of being credited with q population of 781, ,1SS it will be ac-
 corded 2,307,S91 and move from ninth place to third. As the cen- sus table now stands, New York leads with 6,930,446, followed by Chicago with 3,376,438. The other cities in the better than a million
 class are Philadelphia, 1.950,961,
 Detroit, 1,56S,662, and Los An
 geles, 1,238,04S. Greater Boston s 2,307,S97 would therefore place it between Chicago and Philadelphia. If Boston can get this census
 recognition for it's Metropolitan 1 district, why should not the pop
 ulation of Hartford include It's own Metropolitan district? The towns that compose it are just as | much a part of greater Hartford as are the cities and towns that group themselves around Boston. | If Bloomfield, Newington, Weth- ersfield and Windsor, which have | joined with Hartford In creating l the Metropolitan district were in- cluded in figuring Hartford's pop
 ulation, the city would have 1S7, 693 instead of 164,072. It would | then move from 47th place to 43rd place, or just below Worcester. But
 our geographical Metropolitan dis trict is considerably greater than | our political Metropolitan district, i for it properly takes in West Hart ford with population of 24,941 and East Hartford with a popula-
 ton of 17,125. The population of greater Hartford is therefore 229,- 759, which would put 1t in 39th place, or just between San Antonio, and Omaha.
 Boston has long felt itself en- titled to a higher population rat | ing that that which it has pre- viously received. If it is not the hub of the universe, as it likes to | believe, it is, at least the hub Of an area of more than one thou-
 sand square miles. which area IS so densely populated that one cannot tell where Boston proper
 begins and ends. Hartford and the territory immediately surrounding it cannot, of course, lay claim to
 any such density of population. but it is equally true that nothing but imaginary lines separate the city from the towns around and about | it. The city and it's environs are 1 to all intents a single population
 unit. The fact should be recog- nized and stressed. It is neither
 stretching the imagination nor the
 realities to say that Hartford 's population, according to the last | federal enumeration is 229.759.
 If this fact could be accorded official recognition. as has just been
 done in the case of Boston, 1t would
 be of advantage to the community as n whole. For business reasons
 city well up in the 100000 class
 takes on an importance not pos
 sessed by a city that is consider
 ably below that classification. We
 are far from saying that the cen
 sus bureau will change Hartford 6
 rating merely because after long agitation it has changed Boston's, but we do say that from now on Hartford should lay claim to a pop
 ulation of 229.759, a claim that has
 both fact and logic to support it.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-03

suppression of figures and data in his report on international trade payments for 1880. He alleged that the years imports had been over valued by the department to the extent of $175, 100000.
 All these things have happened in the last month or two. So did the scandal that arose when an eminently respected tariff expert of the department was alleged to have busted lady employe in the nose. The casus belli was tenn peramental rather than economic. The tariff expert said he had only brushed the lady with his elbow, but she is very tall and he is very small, so he was not exonerated. There were other mitigating cir cumstances, however. The tariff expert was only fined a months pay and the lady only half months pay.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-03
LET THE HAM BE THIcKER.

NNtW IldytH JOuAnaA SOdk4Shy ts
 Congressman Cyrenus Cole Of Iowa asserts that much bigger and thicker slices of ham will mean a return of prosperity to the livestock; growers of the country. If every. one, says the congressman, would. only slice his ham thicker. much, more ham would be consumed- and the grower of pigs would find an increased demand for his pro-. duct. All of this sounds quite req. sonable. and we are for it--but not solely because of sympathy for the harassed pig-raiser. For, as . Inatr' ter of fact. ham ought to be sliced thicker anyway. Few housewives realize that ham, to be as succu-II lent and delicious as nature intend-' ed, must be cut thick--and the restaurant cooks who know this could be counted on the fingers of one hand. But it should. A thin. slice of ham is an abomination: al thick and juicy one is something for epicures to dream over.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-03
Personal Health Seruice (By William Brady, M. D.

Signed letters pertaining to personal health and hygiene, not disease diagnosis or treatment, will be answered by Dr Brady. Address him, care of the Democrat. sending stamp and addressed envelope.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-03
ponafERs HELP ATIC

if you want to convert your attic to living quarters. and it appears too dark to do so. two dormer win-s dows can be cut Into the roof at a'
 small cost. letting in ample light and fresh air.