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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-18
BlOdgett Makes
 Suggestions
Calls Attention to the COl- lection of Deferred
 Taxes

At the meeting of real estate boards in New Haven yesterday, Tax Commissioner William H. Blodget outlined eight suggestions for relieving the present tax difn- culties in Connecticut towns ana cities as follws:
 1, Determine the activities m which 1t is proper for state anu local governments to engage,
 2. Keen the activities of all such governments within the limitations SO determined, but further restrict each such governmental unit to such activities only as are most essential and which are justified by it's financial condition.
 3. Exercise control of receipts and disbursements of each such government by more painstaking preparation and closer scrutiny or standard budgets, to the end that deficits may be avoided.
 4. Insist upon reasonable ac- countancy practices and positive control of expenditures by the use of uniform terminology in accounts to conform to standard budget items, so that tendencies to extra yagance and wastefulness may be observed and comparison Of ex- penditures, item by item, may be made by each unit of government with expenditures for the same purpose by every other such unit.
 5. Insist that every project in- yolying capital outlay be tempor- arily abandoned, unless there ex- ists an emergency requiring such outlay or unless a community IS so committed with respect to any capital expenditure that its aband- onment Is not legally possible.
 6. Insist upon widening the tax base through legislation action and readjustment of laws imposing taxes, to meet ever changing con- ditions so as to embrace every kind of property, including much which is now exempt, and to apply the tax to incomes and businesses, all for the purpose of Tightening the tax load upon groups and classes of taxpayers who would otherwlse suffer from discrimination. de- pression and possible drying up or the tax source. a
 T. Insist upon ascertaining the facts with respect to assessments and assessment practices, to deter mine whether the tax burden Is being distributed equitably. so far as that is possible of accomplish ment, and correct such evils In the law itself and the administra- tion thereof as may be found to exist. In no community can 1t be taken for granted that the condi- ton of assessments is satisfactory in the absence of positive evidence to that effect.
 8. Insist upon efficiency upon the mart of collectors of taxes and prompt payments by all who are able to pay, making statutory pro- vision for deferrlng collection Of taxes from those who show posi- lively and seasonably the need of favor at the hands of the com munity, but preserving the right of the community to collect if and when conditions change and the needy taxpayor becomes more ablc to meet his tax obligations. This provlslon should be inserted in the statute Co avoid imposing unlqees- sary hardship and an exceaslvo number Of tax sales, which arc likely Co occur even in periods of nrosperity.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-18

only problem on the Hoover Gran Gl agenda. Italy wants reparatiOns and war debts reduced, perhapF cancelled. Mir Hoover has showD a tendency to reconsider European obligations in the light of capacity to pay.
 Only last night the American government sent Europe . new Statement of it's position of war debts and separations, indicating the imminence of new international debt discussions.
 After his talk with MT Hoover Grandi was scheduled to have luncheon with secretary of treas ury Mellon, the governments fi-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-18

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-18
DINO CRANDI IN ARM CHAIR CHAT
 WITH PRESIDENT
They Will Discuss Plans for Disarmament -Itali- an Statesman Brings His COuntry's Views
By JOSEPH H. BAIRD IInitAd Press stan Qorresp0ndentl

(United Press stan Correspondentl
 Washington, Nov. 17-(UP)-- An arm chair conversation this morning between President Hoover and Italy's foreign minister, Dino Granli, offered the president a new opportunity for bold world dis armament move.
 Such a move, as dramatic as MT Hoover's debt holiday proposal last summer, would come through reopening of Franco-Italian arma- ment negotiations at the presidents suggestion or on his initiative.
 The visiting Italian statesman, envoy of a regime vigorous in for eign affairs, was prepared to make a bid for disarmament. He bears instructions from Premier Benito Mussolini to tell MT Hoover that Italy is ready to make new sac rifices to end it's naval rivalry With France.
 Italy feels 1t can not initiate me- gotiations with France, whether MT Hoover is prepared to do this Is problematical. His secretary Of of state, Henry L. Stimson. did 1t once before. He sent Ambassador Hugh Gibson to talk with Paris and Rome. Negotiations progress ed to the point wher an accord was announced. It was rejected by France later.
 One of MT Hoover's greatest am- bitions in the foreign field is to make the world disarmament con- ference next February a confer- ence that really disarms. And no ohst a cle in his way is more formid- able, statesman say, than Franco Italian naval rivalry. Hence he might welcome an opportunity to attach this problem.
 The Franco-Italian naval prob- lem is a heritage of the London London naval conference. There France and Italy agreed to sign the battlship limitations sections of
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-18

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-18
THANKSGIVING

The Center Church choir, noted for it's A Cappella singing, under the direction of Miss Pauline Voor- hees, will render a program of Thanksgiving music, Sunday after noon, November 22, at 4:30 o'clock, in Center church on the Green, New Haven. All the numbers of the rich and varied program will be sung without instrumental acc compartment, thus bringing out the qualities of the voices to the fullest degree. Many music lovers of Wa terbury will doubtless attend.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-18

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nancial expert There he viii have an opportunity to examine further the possibilities of a world financial renaissance.
 The youthful Grandi and his at- tractive, brunette wife were invi-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-18
SHERIFF CAN'T FIND SALE
 FOR HUGE LAKE BOAT
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st Catherine, Ont - Nobody wants the s. s. Brockyille.
 This Great Lakes freighter, val- ued at many thousands of dollars. was seived by the sheriff when owners couldn't meet the crews back wages.
 The sheriff announced an auc- ton. Nobody came but second- hand junk dealers. They bid the magnificent sum of e476. DIs- gusted. the sheriff called the saie off.
 The boats crew, despalrIng of their pay. are making plans Co operate the boat themselves.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-18

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-18

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-18

American oulboasd motors are popular in Germany thls year.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-12-31
MORE CURRENCY

Senator Henrik Shipstead has come
forward with a proposal that more
treasury certificates be issued. and
thus more money be put in circula-
ton. He thinks adoption of his plan
would have an immediate effect in
restoring price levels. In answer to
the charge he anticipates initiation of
the currency would make it possible
to pay debts in cheap money, Senator
Shipstead says that money at present
is dishonest because it is so per cent
dearer than it was when the debt was
incurred. Today, he claimed, the
farmer must produce two or three
times more commodities to pay his
taxes and his interest than he did
when the debt was insured. when
a debtor" he said, "can pay debt
in money of the same value in which
the debt was incurred then he is pay
ing his debt in honest COIN"
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-12-31
HE MIGHT BE DONE BETTER BY

F. W., Peck, director of Extension
of the Department of Agriculture Uni
versity of Minnesota, stated in a re-
cent radio address over WLB and
WCCO that on one of the public build
ings in Washington. D. c. was chiseled
in stone these words:
1.-The Farm, Best Home of the Fam
lily, Main Source of National Wealth,
Foundation of Civilized Society-The
National Providence"
If these statements be true, Mr..
Peck said, is it not fitting that the
forces responsible for the standing
of agriculture as business and as a
mode of life should be so organized,
directed and operated as to offer every
educational opportunity to those per-
sons directly and indirectly engaged
in the industry?
We might add the suggestion that
some of the members of congress who
are always opposing measures helpful
to the farmer should read these words
and ponder on the significance which
prompted their being inscribed on the
building.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-12-31
SHOULD BE MORE LIKE
ONE BIG FAMILY

Sometimes the newspapers in the
larger cities complain that when we
get a state income tax most of that
tax will be paid in the larger cities.
True, most of the tax will be paid in
the cities. But they fail to state who
are the people in those larger cities
that will pay the tax. 1t is very
small percentage of the people-those
whose incomes are big enough so that
it won't hurt them one bit to pay the
tax, and furthermore it will come
from those who get proportionate pro-
lection from the government. If the
larger cities will move some of those
millionaires out in the rural districts
then more of the income tax will be
collected here. AS it is now most of
the money men of Minnesota are To-
Gated in Minneapolis, st. Paul or Du-
luth, and if it was not for the rural
districts of the state there would be
no Minneapolis, St. Paul, and Duluth.
This is not mentioned to create pre-
judice, to put country against city,
or class against class-far from it..
The purpose is to equalize the tax
burden much more. The income tax
is one tax a person is always lucky
to have to pay. If his income is not
good he does not pay it.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-12-31
HE STILL FEELS GOOD

A man down at Isle wrote humor-
ously last week in the Mile Laos Mes
senger on how to retain the depres-
sion, stating that if some one does
not get busy and make some kind of
an effort to keep it, this depression
will disappear" Amongst other
things he suggests as a means of
keeping the depression to stay away
from shows, adding, you just can't
see a show and keep the depression
in mind" He also advises against
advertising and says that if you get
sick, don't call the doctor nor call
Oh the druggist. If you are just a
little sick to begin with, just call on
your friends. Between your illness
and your conversation you can get
that perfect depressed feeling of real
depression. And finally the Isle cor
respondent warns all to be sure to
keep away from dances, and asks:
How are you going to embrace the
fair danes and the depression at the
same timer"
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-12-31

country of ours a man should have
the right to protect his own property
when he has a warranty deed to it,
but If you catch one and hold it until
the owner comes and pays the dam
age you get yourself in trouble.
suppose the state owns the game, but
who is the state, all the people or
just few? 1t is my opinion this
game and fish were placed here for
not for few to tell the rest what they
should do and when they should do it.
We are getting so many laws that
it is impossible for person to live
up to them all without disobeying
some of them. For instance our fish
law, season is open for pike and pick
erel on May 1, other fish June 81.
Suppose a person goes fishing after
May 1 and of course he may be fish
, ing in water that is not very clear.
OF course he is unable to see what
kind of a fish is going to grab his
hook, but one gets on and upon pull
ling it in he finds a bass or crappie.
Now, according to our law he is liable
to a fine for if he takes it off the
hook and throws it back he is guilty
of wanton waste, for any one knows
that a badly hooked fish will die and
if he keeps it he is liable to a fine of
$40. and costs and 80 or 60 days in
Jail. Bass season closes Dec. 1 but
all other fish is open until Feb. 1, so
if you go angling through the ice and
if a bass wants to take the hook,
who is to blame, the bass or the
angler? Anyway the one holding the
line pays the penalty l say when
fishing season opens, open it for all
kinds, as long as there is a limit
that ought to be enough to protect
any shortage.
Why was there a shortage of prairie
chickens and grouse few years ago,
not because they were killed off by
the hunter; no, but a deep snow and
a heavy crust and a long cold spell
afterwards they either froze or
smothered. Anyway one could find
them in the spring in punches. That
was wanton waste but nobody was to
blame.
huff said, am l right or wrong?
R. w. PEMBLETON.
Willow River, Mimi, Dec. %, 1881
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-12-31
CAN WORK BOTH WAYS

Whenever there is talk of issuing
more currency to put money into cir
culation and lessening the value of
the dollar, or federal bond issue
to be paid for out of federal income
taxes and which would help create
jobs for the unemployed on needed
projects, then the cry goes up from
the reactionary press that prosperity
can not be legislated. There has been
plenty of legislation which has helped
amass the big fortunes in the hands
of the few, it has not all come about
through personal initiative, hard
work and rugged" individualism. So
now it won't hurt a bit to legislate
little along the other line. Then
after that we may get together on a
more fundamental program. BY this
time it should be very apparent that
the tariff program is not doing us
much good.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-12-31
GET A PIECE OF LAND
PUBLICITY

What is small farm worth? You
can make it into a real home.
The word home thrills every human
heart, the hope of living in his own
home stirs the spirit of every right
thinking man.
You, who have no home of your
own, come back to the SOIL
A 40 or 80 acre farm will mean a
living for you, and your loved ones.
1t will give you the pride of owner
ship, it will give you liberty and free
dom that you cannot enjoy when you
are working for others.
1t will give you a chance to build
up the kind of home that you have
been dreaming about but never can
get as long as you live in a rented
house.
1t means pure fresh air and healthy
work, and it will pay you back just
what you put into it.
The young man who will buy him
self a small farm will at the end of a
few years have more laid by than he
will in a lifetime of work in a large
city. In ten years the value of your
farm will be greater than you save
from lifetime of work in factory or
shop,
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-12-31
PASS TAXES ON
(Labor.)

Congressman Isaac Bacharach of
New Jersey, in radio speech few
days ago, stated the tax doctrine Of
Big Business probably without real
iZing it. He wants a sales tax-lim-
tied, it is true, but still sufficient to
establish the principle. Listen to Mr..
Bacharach's supporting argument.
IF these taxes are reasonable and
uniformly applied" he said, there
seems no ground for supposing that
the industry involved would be SER
iously affected by such taxes.
''The tax would be passed on to the
consumer, and the results to the man
ufacturer in profits would be the
same"
There, you have the Big Business
tax creed. Don't tax profits-keep
your hands off wealth! Put the tax
where the manufacturer can pass it
along"
"The art of taxation" said Colbert,
lis to pluck the public goose in such
way as to get the most feathers
with the least squawk-" He achieved
this end by taxes which were passed
on" until the man who finally paid
them could not recognize them as
taxes. For the minister of despot
like Louis XIV, this was natural
enough-but what place has it in
democracy?
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-12-31
KNOWING-DOING

A few persons in their innocence
may think that legislators-state or
national-do not know what the
people want and what they need in
the way of legislation. 1t is however,
not so much a case of mot knowing
as it is case of not doing" On the
average the lawmakers are smart
enough to know which way they
should vote on the various bills
that come up. they can distinguish the
bills of the people from those of the
special interests. In state legiSla-
lures most of the members have gone
the routine of serving on various
kinds of local governing bodies such
as township boards, school boards,
county boards, village or city councils,
and many of them have served on
community clubs, as directors of
corporations, cooperative movements,
and the like, before becoming men,
bers of the law making body, SO they
are familiar with the needs of the
masses. OF course, being human, they
are subject to err. The errors which
would show in different vote were
the bill to be considered again are,
however, few. knowing what they
should do, it is more important that
the constituents know the records of
their various legislators to see that
they have served them and not the
special interests. Some Legislators
bold and outpspoken, are very con-
sentative and vote with the interests
continually, but they can be respected
for they make no "bones" about it,
folks know where they stand, and can
treat them accordinly at the cleo
tiOn. Others, who may even come
there with good intentions, lack sta
bility and will power, and later choose
the path of least misunderstanding
the special interests and being served
by them. Several weeks ago the
Farmer-Labor Leader published the
vote of each Legislative member on
ten of the most important bills before
the legislature last winter. If you did
not see it, look it up. The Askov
American may also soon publish a
record of each House member, COM
piled in different manner.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-12-31
FROM OUR EXCHANGES
Editorial Comment From Other News
papers. Which May or May Not
Conform With the Opinions
of the AskOv American.)
THIS, TOO, SHALL PASS AWAY
THE Ranger. IrOntOn,)

(The Ranger, Ironton.)
There is a legend of King Solomoa
which is worth remembering in times
such as the present. He had enter
tanned for some weeks in his palace
a visitor, a wise man from Egypt. The
time had come for the visitor to de-
part and he addressed Solomon some
what as follows:
king, l can make no adequate re-
turn to you for the hospitality you
have shown me, for l have no pos
sessions. Nevertheless, I have one
counsel to give you and you will find
it helpful. There will be times in
the days to come, and l hope that
they will be many, when you will be
healthy in body and at peace in soul,
and you will say to yourself, 1T is
good to be living and to be a king
There will, however, be other things
may they be few-when you are all
ing and troubled in your heart, and
you will say to yourself, of what
avail is this mortal life?' When eth
err of these moods comes upon you, re-
tire to your innermost chamber alone,
and say to yourself, This too, shall
pass away Thus will you never fail
in judgement, which is wisdom"
What was good for Solomon is good
for us. This, too, shall pass away"
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-12-31
PHILIPPINE INDEPENDENCE
Land O'Lakes News }

The question of whether or not the
their independence will be one that
will occupy considerable attention in
the present session of Congress. Adj
vocates of independence for the Phil
ippine Islands base their arguments
on the fact that it is of economic con-
sideration for our farmers that the
Islands should be granted their in
dependence. The present position of
their being a possession of the United
States has been repeatedly used as an
excuse for the open door policy and
against tariff on foreign oils and
fats. 1t is not only the producer Of
butter that is being affected by the
importation of more than one and
three-quarters billion pounds of for
eign oils each year. 1t is now taking
the place of fats and oils that could
be produced on our own farms either
from our pork and dairy products or
vegetable oils such as cottonseed oil
and others, and it's importation af-
fects the entire agricultural industry
in America, whether dairyman, hog
raiser, grain or cotton producer.
Then we have the opposition to
their independence from the stand
point of American financial interests
that have large investments in the
Philippine Islands and other foreign
countries and it is not only their in
terest in production plants in foreign
territory but from the standpoint Of
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-12-31

Opponents of a state income tax
are still calling it lust another tax"
and saying that if we are to adopt
this system of tax gathering it must
be a replacement tax. If it was not
the purpose of the sponsors of an in
come tax to make it replacement
tax they would not be advocating it.
If the purpose of another form of tax
alton was just to raise more revenue
more money to spend-then it had
better be dropped. The income tax
in a nut shell is to equalize the bur-
den of taxation-the cost of govern
ment-and not have the ordinary citi-
zen pay an unjust portion of it.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-12-31
CRIME AND YOUTH
Capital Times, Madisonl

Stories about juvenile criminals are
true of two recent news dispatches
from the middle west-one telling
how a group of young Detroit news
boys, the oldest IA, calmly shot an
other boy to death after fist fight,
the other telling of a 15-year-old hood
lum in Cleveland who had band of
seven other youngsters committing
robberies under his direction.
The lads involved in these two
stories have managed, somehow to get
a frightfully bad start in life. Prob
ably not more than one or two of the
and trustworthy members of society.
And this does not simply mean that
the two cities concerned will have a
dozen new gunner and secOnd-story
workers a few years from now. 1t
means that there has been, in each
case, horrible wastage in societys
most precious possession-young man
hood.
1t is a wastage in which all of us
share the responsibility For boys of
IA and Is do not turn into robbers
and murderers by accident. They
don't get that way because of Unborn
perversity or original sin. Somehow
the adult world has persuaded them
that the red law of the jungle is a
good law by which to live-the only
law, indeed, worth paying any atten-
tion to.
And why shouldn't it? When the
youngster who starts out under the
handicap of bad housing, poverty and
allied misfortunes looks about him
he can see the kings of the under
world in alliance with the poll
ticians who rule his city. He can see
respectable" society winking at the
growth of liquor rings and vice rings
and gambling rings. He can see rich
men conniving at graft and crooked
ness, and he can see how gently the
courts deal with such cases. He can
see, in fact, that society still lets the
strong man do about as he pleases,
and clamps down severely on the
weak.
So all Of us, who accept that kind
of society and do not cry out against
it, share in the guilt And there is
an old text for us to ponder over &.
''it were better that a great milestone
be hanged about his neck =. -