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The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-27
Property a Liability

Colonel Robert R. Mccormick of Chi caqo, in recent address broadcast by d national radio network. went pretty far when he declared that the ownership o! property in the United States "has become a liability. not an asset But there IS enough truth in it to set nation thinking.
 The evil talk of tax strikes is heard throughout the land" he said. But far more serious than strikes IS the inability of taxpayers to pay. Strike or no strike. it is absolutely impossible to pay the taxes assessed. Owners of buildings are tearing them down because the taxes are more than the receipts. Owners of improved property are unable to pay their taxes and tax-buyers cannot be found to evict them.
 Individuals, estates and corporations are beginning to find it impossible to meet fed era taxation extorted with all the ruthless ness of the Germans in Belgium. Obvious ly, by the continuation of the principle of taxes exacting tribute on values as they rise and eonceding nothing when they decline. sooner or later the government will have ex- torted the entire value of the property
 That is the tendency, at any rate. And what can be done what must be done = to prevent the threatened ruin? Obviously the first step is public economy. Economy in every taxing unit from the village or township to the national government. In this essential task we, have hardly made 3 start.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-27

The death of Judge William P. Tyler of
 Middlebury was shock to his many friends in this city. And he had countless numbers of them in all walks of life. Judge Tyler was a democratic person. well liked and re- spected His demise was not unexpected as those who had talked with him during his last illness realized that he was facing the end. During his career he had held praetic- ally every public office that his native town could offer him. Born and brought up in Middlebury he was content to make it his home all his life and to devote his efforts to making it a community in which hon. est-God-fearing people would delight to dwell. The judge could converse fluently on almost all pertinent topics, but loved nothing better than discussion of Connee-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-27
Deep Oil

To overflowing seas of oil another sea is added Oil has been struck in new field. in the Gulf Coast section. in enormous quantities. by Edgar B. Davis, famous for having won two or three fortunes in the oil game and for spending one of them in sup porting a reinesrnation play in New York a few. years ago. The most remarkable thing about the new field is its depth. The oil is found 7,800 feet beneath the surface. more than q mile and q half down. Drilling 10 such depth may cost 100000 a well. It takes money and nerve to sink wildcat wells ai such eoa when gsologsts gre doubt lul. One winner however oils the finan. eisl machinery and capital pouB in.
 So here s another flood coming Co add io lbs troubles of sn industry already too productive for is own good. The oil inc dusify ss whole. AliI doing much Co pui Iis bouw in order viii fses new difficulties
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-27
A Book a Day
Here's Story of Life's Evolu-
 tion in Form of Map
by BRUCE CATION

A handy device for the man who wants to get a clear picture of the evolution of the earth and the life which it bears is being offered now in "The Histomap of Evolution" by John B. Sparks.
 This, instead of being a regular book, is a 1arge-sized species of map, chart, measuring when un- folded some four or five feet in length. It portrays, on a neat time scale, the manner in which the in animate earth developed, the times and circumstances in which life the life stream, eddying and swirl first appeared and the way in ing in turbulent, seemingly hit or-miss fashion, finally presented mother earth with the human race. The divisions charting these de- |velopments run, roughly, in paral- Tel columns so that you can see just what happened when. and how 1t was related to developments in other spheres of activity. Further more, when the chart reaches the era of organized human society 1t charts the development of the dif- ferent races and nations of men.
 In the main the chart is based on accepted historical, geological and archaeological findings. It im- jressed me as useful and in- formative thing for the man who, wants to have a simple, under standable guide to the perplexing mazes of pre-history.
 "The Hitomap of Evolution" is offered by Rand-McNally for $1.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-27
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1882
Poles Favor Democrats?

Nobody should doubt that the majority of Polish voters in Connecticut would show preference for the democratic ticket this fall. Notwithstanding this, though. republican Polish organization recently en- dorsed President Hoover and the state and national tickets in sweeping proclamation that was supposed to have behind 1t the weight of the Polish vote in Connecticut. However. indignant denias have emerged from New Britain where there is large Polish vote and where feeling against the republican party of this state runs rather high.
 It may be recalled that last year when the Legislature was in session Representative Lueien Maciora introduced measure which would have the governor proclaim annually October II as Pulaski Day in honor of that great Polish patriot who fought and died for this country in the Revolutionary War. It was defeated purely along party lines with the democrats favoring the proposal and the republicans opposing. We can recall quite clearly reading of what one republican leg islator said when stating his opposition to the bill. He declared it would be a bad precedent for the state to pay honor in this fashion as it would then be forced to do the same thing for dozen more men whose deeds were on par with PulaskIs.
 Unfortunately our state solons did not realize that Pulaski Day was being recog- nized in every state in the Union. We have lost track of the number that have already approved of similar measures to the one introduced in the Connecticut Gen. eral Assembly. Nearly half of the states must now have statutes calling upon their chief executives to proclaim October l l as Fulaski Day and asking their citizens to observe it by display of flags, etc. Early this year Congress approved of similar bill on national scale and President Hoover has already called upon the country to observe October II. 1932. 'as Pulaski Day. That measure was passed mainly due to the fine legislative work of Representative Angus tine Lonergan of Hartford, a democrat.
 It is not our intention to make Pulaski Day political plank in either of the two major parties. but certainly the democrats of this state have shown far more recognl- ton of Pulaskis claim to fame than have the republicans We believe that this will be remembered in November when voters cast their ballots. In the meantime there should be no claim on any racial vote by either party We presume that no matter how vaiantly and faithfully the democratic leg islators worked for the best interests of the state in the legislative session of l93 there will be those who will maintain that the state must be kept in republican hands if it is not to perish. That go.p. fair weather philosophy While we hate to see worldwide depression end this. though: for all time still it is probably for the best.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-27
To-day's Selected Poem,
SEPTEMBER
(Reprinted from the Christian Science
 MOnitOrl

(Reprinted from the Christian Science
 Monitor) Wind and the robIn's note to-day Have heard of autumn and betray
 The green long reign of summer. The rust is failing in the leaves, September stands beside the sheayes The new, the happy comcr. Not sad my soason of the red And russet orchards gaiiy spread From Cboesbury to COoming, Nor sad when twilit valley trees Are ships becalmed on misty seas. And beetles go ab00ming. Now soon shall come tho morning crowds or hRrIIDgA B00n the G0l0ured clouds From oak and ash and willow, And soon inc thorn and brinr shall Dc in scarlet and in yellow. Spring Ja1gbed and thrilled million veins And summer sboDs above her rains TO hli kepiembsrH farlBgt September talks sH kiBKs who kn0w fine worlds why and Huperbiy 70 fn robes 0f wladOin'H wearing,
 --John Drinswater. ia "coliseisd Poems
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-27
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS IA xo sI.<, 6tu.n

Leave It 10 the ClArlut0nS
 | would appreciate 1t if you would give a few talks about. toxic poisoning tpxcmia and autQ-
 intoxication. These are such prolific causes Oi III health that am sure many readers would bc interested GA. V. S.) Answer-Obviously you have been misled by quack bait. Toxic poisining"-which the charlatans feature in their appeals to prospect i've custOmers-is q purely imaginary state. Toxic means poisonous. Ridiculous to describe poisoning as poisonous. Toxemia means poison in the blood. Toxemia is effect, never a cause of disease. Administration Is a morbid motion without scientific basis So If you are determined about 1t you must turn to the come ,n booklets and ads of the quacks and nostrum mongers for that sort of poison.
 I0din Ration Docs No Harm You state that there Is no evidence that the
 use Of i0dixcd salt instead Of ordinary salt ever
 does any barm May call your attention t0 report published in, the Journal 0f the Amer. ican Medical association, June 9, fe2S by Bed. ford shcImirc, on "Acnc from lodixed Salt (H. q. IT,, R. NJ
 Answcr-Notwith hstandiBg the odd notion en. tortained by the author of the article, 1 stilI assert and experience now fully bears mo out In the belief, that the use of iodized salt io place of common salt ns n means of providing m lodin ration never does any harm and gem
 orally does roal good in preventing both simple and pthalnic g0itsr. Tine surgeons wh0 con- oolyed the notion that iodized salt might do harm, were seroBeiy ign0rans Of ihe fact thDt a can 0f salmon o0ntains more iodin than any
 one can possibly get from iodlxed salt The large hospitals iB the G0ter belt have bhd h stsadlIy denrenaiDf number Of operations for Toltsr since iodixed salt came into wide use 10 inc commodities served by inc harpitaM. fC0pyrigbt, John f Dilis co,)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-27
BUYING wATERWoRKs LAND
 IN WOLCOTT
(New Britain Herald)

The city, according to the audi tors who have just gone over it's books, played smiling Santa Claus to the farmer in Wolcott from whom it's purchased land for its watershed. Somehow 'or other, whenever municipality goes into the market for anything 1t is like ly to pay top prices; especially in connection with land.
 The moralsit that when the city purchased the land in question 1t could just as tasily have done the same thing the auditors did, which was to find what it was assessed for and the probable worth com puted from that, with something added perhaps to induce the own- CT to tell. As q matter of fact, such a sale could not be withheld anyway when the land was needed for watershed purposes.
 The blow administered to the waaer department is somewhat severe. For years 1t has been known, however that the water partment was getting little for its product and was easily disposed concerning water rentals. That the department is not receiving enough for its water to take care of oper- ating expenses and reduction of indebltdness has been self-evident for long time. Yet-1et any city official bring up the subject of charging more for water and he immediately has the entire city in arms against him. That, obvious ly, is because the water plant is a municipally owned institution and the general belief is 1t should be conducted in such an uprofi:t- able manner as to sell it's services below cost.
 Conditions being what they are political conditions as we'll as the public attideude toward it's water departments duties-we do perhaps that there may be an inn anticipate a change; except per haps that there may be an im- provement in the method of book keeling. This change can be early brought about because 1t will not cost much and will not affect the rates of the water.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-27
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industrial activity kept right on going down.
 But around the end of August, about the time the stock market started down, the indices began to level. out and then came a slow up- turn which has given business a period of three or four consecutive weeks which showed no decline. Joined to this were the slightly bet ter commodity prices which had prevailed through the summer.
 
 Spring Upturn Seen
 The question is whether this in- dustrial rise will be maintained or extended. Only the figures from week to week can answer that. The basic industries-agriculture, rail- roads, coal, steel and the like have not .begun to pick up. And the political-psychological factor, arising from the fact that American business men andsman = lecturers have always. been taught to regard election years as some- what dangerous, is likely to retard improvement.
 Nevertheless, students of econ homie conditions who have been optimistic at no time previously in the last'three years are looking for ward to next sprin. Tey believe that by that time the country will start on its long, pull toward recov- cry in a movement stimulated by exhaustion of stocks, large con- struction appropriation likely to be made by congress, maintenance of reinforced financial structure and general realization by financiers and employers that the deflation of labor has been completed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-27

While the republicans were dropping one veteran legislator last week in their con- gressional conventions they were returning another to the fold. Representative Rieh- ard P. Freeman of New London was de- posed in place of State Secretary William J. Higgins of Coventry who was virtually promised the place SO that he might vaeate his state office. However, Congressman Freeman had been in poor health of recent months and unable to participate as exten- sively in political affairs at Washington as he might have wished to do. Schuyler Mer- ritt returns to the fray in the fourth district where he will attempt to unseat Represen- tative Tierney who removed him from the scene two years ago in Fairfield eounty's political uphcaval.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-27
So They Say

No racket has yet been discov- cred that did not present itself as having worthy economic or so- cial purpose. = Gordon L.. Hos- letter, executive director, Employ CTS Association of Chicago.
 
 It is not the function of the mayors office to attend burlesque shows. Mayor Joseph V. Mckee of New York city.
 Whatever any one else thinks about the Maine election, 1t IS making my job easier. = Joseph R. Mutt, treasurer of the Republi- can National Committee.
  A nations primary right is to be free of fear of invasion. - Walter E. Edge, United States Ambassador to France.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-27
Here, There And Euery.ohere

bicycle brought in the days of bug gies, phaetons and two-seated pleasure wagons"
 For many country boy the bi- cycle brought the first enlarge ment of the radius of his move- ments and interests. Before the days of bicycles horses which had worked all day in the hayfield wore not to be used in the evening, so father said, for trips to town, even on the night of the strawberry fes- tival or the one-night stand of a traveNng show in the town-hall. A bicycle, on the contrary, was as tireless as the farm boy who washed up" as soon as the milk ing was done and rode his bicycle two or three miles to the land of romance which the village typified.
 A bicycle even made the road to tho school house seem shorter. But 1t was on the Fourth of July, circus day, or at the time of the county fair. when a bicycle carried 0 boy as far as 10 or 12 miles to the county seat. that 1t became in- dispensable. No matter if the. road was deep in dust and sand and the town-line hill so steep that 2 dozen boys and girls cycling to Already together had to dismount and walk up, pushing their wheels beside them, there was always plenty of red lemonade and mountains of gingerbread waiting when they reached the fair grounds.
 A "wheel" may not become as smart as an automobile or afford as great cruising radius" but instinctively one thinks of q boy and bicycle as natural com panions, perhaps as much as boy and his dog. If the modern boy doesn't believe that bicycle is the proper vehicle for the road to adventure, and wholesome fun. let him ask his dad.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-27

A few lucky individuals will profit again. It is the old story. repeated over and over. ever since the first oil rush in western Penn sylvania. -Jhe consumer will benefit. es- peeially if this oil. like most of the Gulf oil. is three -fourths potential gasoline. The possibility of an oil famine, prophesied SO many times. reeedes again. If there is oil a mile and half down, there may be oil two miles down. And there are vast areas. the world over. still unexplored. Our grand children will continue to drive.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-27

So we'll received were the AL auto markers this year that the State Motcr Vehicle Department expects in l933 to pro vide plates with the letters I'D and NC, the former for members of the I'D associa- 'tion and the latter for members of the National Guard engaged in federal work. In few more years perhaps the department will extend the privilege to fraternal organ izations, business houses, and the like. Many individuals have already exercised the privi- lege by selecting plates with their own ini- tials on them. What's next?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-27

Mayor Francis T. Maloney of Meriden. who is the democratic candidate for repre- sentative in the third congressional district intends to make the bonus one of the vital issues of his campaign. He has just called upon Tad Jones' former Yale football coach, the republican nominee, to state his position on the topic. Says Mayor Maloney, The soldiers of the nation want the bonus paid at this time only because of the eco homie conditions and not because it is payment due. Given work they would willingly await the carrying out of the original plan 1 am in favor of giving them work now and paying the bonus in the future, but if we cannot give them work. some revision may be necessary. The bonus is an incurred obligation that must be met and I am in favor of it's payment at such time as will serve best the interests of the country. ." Mir Jones in bis reply to this challenge replied, T am opposed to inn mediate payment of the bonus. The coun- try is in no position to pay the S2,3OO.- 100000 which would be required. l am in favor of taking care of the disabled vet erans and of the widows and orphans of veterans l believe that a majority of Connecticut veterans agree with me in this attitude ;. ' We might refer both the candidates to recent remarks of Alfred E. Smith on the subject of the bonus and sol dier pensions in general. They appeared in the Saturday Evening Post and revealed what an item Uncle Sam's veteran relief bill is annually.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-27

Washington.-After a long series
 of false alarms 1t is pleasant to be able to report that the recent
 business upturn" is more than
 just 50 much propaganda.
 It isn't anything to excite hys- terical hosannas or to change the political situation and there is no assurance that it will be main- tained. But 1t is the best thing of it's kind that has occurred in near I ly two years and no one ought to
 disbelieve 1t simply because the politicians affirm it.
 Recent gains have been partly
 seasonal the type of gains to be expected in normal years. But sea- sonal gains are much better than the lack of them and, although this years gain hasn't compared with
 those of normal years, there was
 none at all a year ago or the year before that.
 Claims by the administration
 that the technical financial aspects
 of the depression, alarming until a few months ago, have been pretty
 well wiped out, are in large part accepted by the. most acute ob- oCA tClos hC ouIWal U lhONCIiChS oA gold, the hoarding menace and the
 dearth of credit have been elimi-
 mated, as depressive factors. There
 is plenty of credit now.
 Taken alone, that doesn't mean
 much. It must be accompanied by actual industrial gains and at pres- ent the credit isn't being used be- cause there is little demand for it. A real buying movement is requir- ed to start the wheels Whirring. Such @ movement cannot be an- ticipated from abroad in the near future because of stranger trade barriers and the tendency of for eign situations to grow worse in- stead of better. That leaves us with the home market.
 Surplus Wiped Out
 Here we have one good condi- ton in universal small inventories. There is no manufactured surplus, such as is a contributory factor to
 most slumps, and the last three years have put us on a hand-to- mouth basis of production.
 That's one reason why there has
 been small upturn in textiles and
 in. shoes during the last month or
 more. Stocks in those lines were
 exhausted. Those are secondary in-
 dustries, however, and real inn
 provement in primary or basic in-
 dustries-such as steel, which is
 very low--is requisite to recovery. The stock market rise of July
 and August was not based on any
 sure signs of economic recovery
 but rather. according to author
 ities, on the Lausanne reparations lagreemcnt and subsequent in- crease of foreign buying on the
 American market. The indices of
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-27
CANADA'S MODEST WINNER (Nev York Herald -Tribunel


 A modest sportsman who played doggedly to victory when he seemed on the verge of defeat, c. Ross Somerville, will return to Canada with the congratulations. and good wishes of all sports-loving Ameri- cans. After a stimulating contest there can be few regrets that the trophy, held in this country for 21 years, should reach British soil again. or that for the first time Canada should claim the amateur golf championship.
 4 sober.faced competitor, bred in the Ayr tradition of his Scottish ancestry, MT SomervIlle took the bad breaks and the good with equal continuity. At the eighth hole it seem as if the contest was over and he was n beaten man: but on the Incoming stretch his play steadied to n brilliant finish with his final putt. It was in his putt ting and his iron play that he out matched his able contender. John ny Goodman. A versatile sports man, equally gifted with cricket but, hockey st0ick, football or golf club. Mr B0merviiie ts a welcome addition to the long list Of goif champions, and we may look for. ward Co the next contest with every expectation Of a good battle fof the trophy.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-27
N9 TODAY esgs es:gs
 WORLD WAR \ ANNIVERSARY &SR ofHAE
BULGARIA. ASKS PEACE

On September 27, 1918. Bulgaria made overtures for peace with the allies, asking for Q 4S-hour truce In which to make terms. In reply. Great Britain callsd for unequivo- cal submission.
 West of Verdun the American troops continued their savage ad- vance. while French troops, east of Rheims. experienced success m gaining five, miles in two days fighting. British in the Cambria sector advanced on a 14-mile front.
 German forces of occupation be. gan to retire from Rumanin.
 British cavalry In Asia Minor drove Turks northward through Mezeris and Joined with the Arab forces of the king of Hejaz.