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The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-07-29

borrowings on May 10, 1892. In Hartford taxes are due July l in New Haven, Feb and Sept 1 !; in Bridgeport, April and September n; and in SNorwalk, Oct l, 1881 and April 1, 1892.
 New Haven had debt limit of $18,959,311 and had net borrow ings of $1S,612, ,@46.76, leaving a margin of $346,864.24. It's uncol- Ieoted taxes totalled $2,529,856.39 on March 31, 1882.
 In Bridgeport. while. the debt limit was $15,472.118.75, borrow ings totalled $15,062,O86.35, leaving margin of $410,032.40. Uncollect- ed taxes totalled $1.952,S62.O7.
 In the group of six which had gone beyond their debt limits. it is shown that:
 The city of Bristol and all of it's subdivisions. with a borrowing power of $3.079,763.20, had, ex- elusive of water debt, net borrow ings of $3.26s.7S4.05. an excess of $189.020.S5.
 The town and city of Danbury. with a debt limit of $1,97O,323, had exclusive. of water debt, total net borrowings of $2,O96,990.S7, an ex- cess of $126,667,87.
 Norwalk was 5,007.4f over its debt limit, having a capacity of $3.668,452, and, exclusive of water and selectrict debt, net borrowings of $3;673,459.41. The excess con- stituted the town deposit fund.
 The net borrowings of the town and city of Stamford were $8,607,- 025.98, and the debt limit was $8.- 001.33O.45. showing an excess of $605,6S5.53 in borrowing.
 s The debt limit of the city and school districts of Waterbury was $9,662,119.90: the net borrowings. exclusive of water debt. totalled $12,205, 491.59, showing that Wat terbury had exceeded the regular 5 per cent limit by $2,543.371.69.
 The debt limit of the town of Windham and the city of Wilii- mantle was $1,2O1,516.80. and bor- rowings, exclusive of water debt, totalled $1.S87.521.25, showing an excess of debt, under the general per cent statute of $686,OO4.45.
 Commissioner Blodgett pointed out that with respect to the amount of borrowings in anticipation of taxes in any particular community, the sum shown on given date would be greater or less, depend ing upon the municipal fiscal year and the immediate necessities for temporary borrowing. On any other date than May 10--the date used In this survey--it is likely that a different picture might be shown.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-07-29
CONNECTICUT co GREATLY CHANGED
Pnnderford Explains !. Growth of Bus in Two B Years
TROLLEY STILL LEADER

During the past two years since July 1. 1880. motor bus service oi The Connecticut Company has grown from nineteen to thirty three per cent of the total service, but the: street car furnishing now only two-thirds of the service al against eighty-one per cent in 1880 still continues to be the back bone of the street transportation system, since the trolleys carry seventy-five per cent of the passen- gers, according to statement is- sued to-day by President J. K Punderford.
 Business conditions and the con- tinued Increase In private automo. bile use, Mir Punderford states have been responsible for such a distinct change in the company'f operations in the two year period that the motor coaches now, for the first time in the company'f history, cover more miles of route than do the troiIeys.
 Only July 1, 1880, the company operated 451 miles of rail line while its buses covered 270 miles of street and highway. To-day there are 112 miles less of trolley line and I45 miles more of bus route. bringing the length of route to 339 miles for the street cars and 415 miles for the motor coach- es. In addition to the. 112 miles of first main track. the company also abandoned during the two year period eighteen miles of other track, making the total abandon ments in rail line 130 miles.
 All told, however. the company since 1890 has increased its total miles of road serviced both by troll ley and by bus by thirty -three miles. It now operates 754 miles of road as compared with 721 miles in 1880. Thus, the company is now actually seryicing more ter :. ritory despite the abnormal de. crease in passengers which has occurred.
 Of the 112 miles of electric
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-07-29
Pick Elm City
 For Convention
Waterbury's Four Delegates Attend c. 0. P, State Central Committee Meeting Which Makes Deci- sion-Sept 6, ', Dates

, dentials, permanent organization,
 rules and resolutions will be ap. pointed.
 "The nomination of candidates. the adoption of resolutions and
 other business will take place at
 the second days session of the
 convention. which will begin at 10 a. m.
 "The primaries or caucusses' in the several towns for the appoint
 ment of delegates must be held on Thursday, August 25, 1882, at an hour fixed by the chairman of
 the republican town committee upon at least five days notice by !! posting and advertising in accord ahce with party rules; at which | time and place delegates will also be chosen to the Hcongressional. Isenatorial and probate district con- ventions and to any other con- ventions which may be called for the purpose of filling vacancies.
 Each town is entitled sto twice as many delegates as 1t has members i in the, house Tsof representatives.
 The town of Orange Is entitled to two delegates.
 Each senatorial district is en-
 titled to two delegates. In towns
 having one or more senatorial dis ltricts within their limits, such del-
 egates shall be elected by the del- egates to the town convention from the various wards comprising the senatorial districts and shall reside in the districts respectively represented by them. Delegates from the several senatorial dis
 tricts comprising two or more towns each shall. be appointed by
 the delegates chosen to the state iconvention by the towns comprfs- ing such senatorial districts at district convention which must be held on Monday, August 29, 1892. Notice of the hour and place of
 holding such convention will be given by the members of the Re- publican state Central Committee from each district" <
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-07-29

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-07-29

railway track which the company has abandoned during the two years, eighty-eight miles was re- placed by bus service, leaving only twenty-four miles of formerly ser- yiced road which returned so little revenue than even bus service was not warranted. During the period covered, the company placed buses on sixty-seven miles of road and withdrew them from ten miles of road formerly serviced by motor. making the net gain in bus route 145 miles.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-07-29
Society

A farewell party was rendered Mrs Loretta Cooper at Camp Whip poor-Will, Hitchcock Lake. last evening in the form hot-dog roast. The evening was spent in swimming, canoeing and singing. Those attending were: Mir and Mrs Kenneth Cooper, the Misses Irene Cantin, Mary Pergoli, Anna Loner- gan, Betty Ragowskf and Mildred Rosengrant. Harold Wright, David Ford, Danny Edwards, John Ed wards, Eric DeBarbara. and Al De- Barbara
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-07-29
Blue Ribbon
 Malt Winners

The si5.000.o0 Blue Ribbon Malt contest which was featured through newspaper advertising and over the Columbia Broadcasting system by Ben Bernie has come to insiinFs tshir decisien. The con- test closed June 6, but due to the thousands upon thousands of en- ties, it has taken some time to give each and every entry careful eon- alteration. Each entry was also acknowledged.
 The eminent judges, Hon Antcn esrmsk . psycr ss cf .,si. the !, s,iy g.,,s et director Of operations, Century of rroEfeas Worlds fair, Chicago, 1883, and. Al Jois0n, internationally known entertainer, Judged the ft5 winners In tho contest
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The Alaskan., 1932-09-09
Giving Jobs to Alaskans

Iby the early Fall months, and some funds are now available for that purpose, every man so taken care of would be just that many less who will need relief before next Winter comes to an end. Authorities who are in charge of Federal road funds in
 Alaska, and who certainly are familiar with existing unemploy-
 ment conditions and the need
 for easing them, ought to leave mo effort unspared to get ap- |proval from Washing ton, if need ed, to expand their activities here to the utmost extent that their funds will permit.-Juneau Empire.
 Petersburg has already had 3
 taste of the fine policy of the
 Aberdeen contractor in the con-
 struction of the Scow Bay-Pe- tersburg Road. All single men and all hired in Juneau. The
 policy is not building friends for
 the contractor and so far as get ting approval for further exten- SionS of this work-PeterSburg will be money ahead if the fed
 eral road commission undertak- es direct hiring and firing of the men on the job. In fact, as a
 means of bringing back prosperf- ty that is the only way to handle the job. All the money appro- Ipriated for such jobs will be us- led while under the contract sys- tenn mule and slave drivers and petty grafters usually see to 1t
 that they get more than their
 own profit out of the contract.
The Alaskan., 1932-09-09

The Ketchikan Chamber of Commerce recently petitioned Gov. Parks and other omcials of the Government to take any ac- tion necessary to insure the en- ployment of AlaskanS on a road project about to be undertaken there by the United States Bu- rGau of Public Roads. The organ ization asserted it was confident the Government agents here either had the power to do what was asked or could get it from Washington by asking for it.
 It was wrong on both counts. Neither Juneau nor Washington authorities can legally put limits on contractors that will deprive them of the right to hire labor where they please. Of course, the Ketchikan business men were perfectly justified in their ef- forts to protect their unemploy.- ment workers. The spirit they exhibited is commendable. How ever, no official action, even were it possible, will be needed. R. H. Stock, the successful bid der for the Ketchikan work along with two other projects, has set all fears at rest by the announce ment that no labor will brought from the States for any of this work.
 The number of men to be put to work, 45, while not impress sive, means that 45 Alaskans will be able to earn enough wag- es to tide them through the com ing winter. If the Territory could get a few more projects opened up and work launched on them
The Alaskan., 1932-09-09
What Is Civilization?

Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia Univer- l Isity has declared that "Civili-
 zation has as it's foundation
 five fundamental institutions.
 Upon these five fundamental institutions civilization rests and has long rested, and as they are strengthened, purified, perpetu-
 ated, civilization grows richer and fuller and the cornerstone | Of our whole domestic and social order. Destroy the family, weak en the family, take away the family, and civilization, as we
 know it and have known it., would cease to exist.
 The second of these funda- mental institutions is property: the right to ownership and con- trol of that which may be law fully gained. Property is the cornerstone and the foundation
 of our whole economic order. The third of these is the state,
 and the state, of course, come
 later than the family Or proper
 ty. The state is that institution
 which man has builded in order
 that We may live happily and
 helpfully together in organized
 society. The state erects govern
 ments.
 The fourth is the church. The
 church has been brought into
 existence in ancient as well as in modern times, in order that
 man may give expression to his sense of dependence upon a
 higher power, to his faith and to his wish to worship.
 The fifth is the university. The university came into being in order that man might satisfy his
 curiosity, that mind to break 1 through boundaries that sepa- )rate the known and the un-
 known, to learn new truth, to
 establish new fact, to bring him. self in touch with new experi- enceS, to lift himself out of the present, the new, the static, into
 the future, the tomorrow, the
The Alaskan., 1932-09-09
Proof of the Pudding

the forests was driving loggers out of the country and bank rupting saw mills. That the resi- dents were becoming poorer and poorer and that as the individual units became poorer, it was only a matter of time when the in. veStment units would follow suit in bankruptcy. Like it or not, every part of the territory is feeling more this year the fu- tility of allowing ignoramuses and bigoted demagogues to con- trol the resources of Alaska.
 Only the united action in op- posing continuation of such poli- cy will put a stop to it. Silence gives consent-and if your si- fence is consent it is because you desire such conditions to con-. tinue. The poor ye have with you and they are getting poorer but the disease of any part of a body nas it's effect upon all other parts so that in time the unaI- fected parts also become diseas- ed. Calling the doctor after the disease has spread to all parts of the body will be too late. And usually, anyhow, the calling of the doctor is when there is not much hope of any kind of cure.
The Alaskan., 1932-09-09

In each of the towns in Southeastern Alaska, proof of the failure of the industrial system in Alaska is being made evident. In a country which has natural resources not one bit less valuable than the resources in Canada, we find business houses closing their doors. Hop ing against hope that the resi- dent labor market will be able to purchase supplies some of these concerns held open their doors. Now that the season is over and the buying public has nothing to buy with it is good business policy to wind up affairs for there is nothing to be gained by remaining open during the com ing winter months when there will be less to hope for.
 For twelve years the writer has pointed out the fact that the hiring and paying off of the cannery workers in Seattle was not developing Alaska properly; that the discrimination under the O'Malley administration of fisheries in favor of the mechan- ical traps did not tend to con- serve either fish or labor; that the misdirected regulation of
The Alaskan., 1932-09-09

a trap is "lifted' on Sunday, salmon are killed. Why hasn't MT. Rustgard done anything to enforce this law? He has long clamored to be freed from the restrictions of his office. Is there anything to prevent him fror1 demanding that the Bureau of Fisheries or the District, AJtorn- Iey enforce this law?
 John Rustgard must explain 1. Why he defended the fish trust on the tax bill; Z. Why he opposed the Johnson resolution;
 3. Why P. E. Harris endorsed
The Alaskan., 1932-09-09

moving, the dynamic.
 Having these five fundament- als of civilization-the entire governed world having these five fundamentals of civilizat ton can it truly be said that there is a civilization?
 The illiterate, yes, the ignorant Indian of Alaska had none of these prior to the coming of the civilized" races but he recog- nized property rights and did not need the force of law or courts or armies to force a res pect of the rights of others.
 He had his government by clans and tribes; he had his law economic and social which were far more rigid than any law of any nation and the penalties for violation were carried out to the letter nor was there any mis- carriage of justice.
 He had his belief in a Super for Being, a Power Above, with out the tenets of theologies and il another did not follow his be- llefs he did not kill through wars as did the Catholics and Protestants through the ages. lie had a respect for the beliefs of others.
 He had no universities but he had his schools of thought and training whereby his mind could pe developed and broadened out. Through experience and obser- vstion handed down through the generations but each gen. eration benefited from the ex- periences of those who preceded.
 Tn comparison, the civilization under the new has it's advan- tages but we must admit that it has it's disadvantages also. And such a thing as Christian civili- zation" to the heathen is a sad joke for primitive man with his hates and passions, however civilized education might mako him, is not one bit better than the civilization of the people Of the heathen ages.
The Alaskan., 1932-09-09
John Rustgard-- Attorney General

MT. Rustgard is a candidate for reelection to the office of at torney general which office he has now held twelve years. This year he must explain not only what he has done, but more i'm portant to the fishing population of this Division, what he has NOT done.
 In 1927, at his own request, he appeared with Walstein C.. Smith and opposed the bill to tax the big catches of fish traps Tn that hearing, he took the side of the fish trust and was respon- sible for defeating the bill which would have been of great help to SeinerS.
 In 1929, Representative J. E. Johnson, of Ketchikan, was a. bout to introduce resolution ia the legislature directing the ar- torney general to test the fishery laws of 1924 which says that there shall be no exclusive grant of the right of fishery" but every regulation shall be of gen. eral application. Lawyers are a. greed that the fish trap is an exclusive form of fishery and un- lawful under the laws of the United States. MT. Rustgard per- suaded MT. Johnson NO1 to in troduce that resolution. Why?
 In 1881, Senator Wesley l.. Jones got President Hoover to nominate MT. Rustgard to be the federal judge at Nome. But the man who persuaded Senator Jones to do this was P. E. Harris of fishery trust fame, big can- neryman, big trapman. Harris has one fish trap that catches over one million sockeye yearly, on which he would have had to pay a decent tax instead of the mere $20O. which Rustgard pro- cured for the trust in 1929 when he voluntarily appeared against the trap tax bill. The man who asked the courtesy of the floor for MT. Rustgard was Nate Hardy, a Democrat who has since been rewarded by appointment as fish warden altho at the time he did not know the difference between a catfish and a humpy.
 Why did P. E. Harris endorse MT. Rustgard?
 MT. Rustgard, Republican can didate, recently accused Repub- lican President Hoover of con- spiracy when MT. Hoover sent Rustgard's name into the Senate for the jndgeship at Nome. MT.
The Alaskan., 1932-09-09
him for Judgesflip;

him for Judgesfip;
 4. Why he accused his President of conspiracy;
 ,. Why the take, catch or kilP' clause is not enforced;
 s. Why his office employs only Democrats;
 '. Why his office employs out side attorneys to do his work;
 s. Why his every act has SUD- ported the federal governor a. gainst the auditors office;
 9. Why he failed to support Auditor Cole in protecting school funds.
The Alaskan., 1932-09-09

RuStgard said that MeSsrS HOov- Ter, Mitchell and Wickersham merely wanted to give him a temporary office at Nome to get him out of his office to which he said his reelection was merely a matter of counting the ballots and when that was done, the office at Nome would be abolish Cd and Rustgard would again be 3 private citizen-the real ob- jective of MT. Hoover. MT. Rust gard in protecting himself a. gainst MT. Hoover's conspiracy, wired to his attorney general, MT. Mitchell, and demanded as surance that the job at Nome would not be abolished before two years, otherwise he, Rust gard, would not be interested n the office"
 What makes MT. Rustgard a Republican? The Republican paper Stroller's Weekly says that he is preeminently- the most out standing individual in Alaska if not in the world the best fitted 10 be attorney general of Alaska, perhaps that paper can explain what right John Rustgard has to appeal for Republican support He has three employees in his office and all are Democrats.
 The fishing population is in terested. They want MT. Rust gard to explain why he has done absolutely nothing to fight for their cause. Tn the campaign of 1929, he refused to join with the other Republicans in denounc- ing the fish trap. He said fish traps were not an issue in his office, Aren't they?
 The White Fish Bill makes it unlawful to grant an exclusive right of fishery" Lawyers are agreed that the fish trap is all exclusive grant" from it's very nature and thus unlawful. WhH has Rustgard done nothing to protect the rights of Alaskans against the fish trap which is slowly destroying the business of Alaska? P. E. Harris perhaps has a better view of what harm a fearless attorney general could GO. Will Rustgard if reelected, to some thing to compell O'Mal- ley to enforce the law?
 The White fish bill says that it shall be unlawful to "take catch, or kill" any salmon from six o'clock Saturday evening to six o'clock Monday morning. Mr. Rllstgard knows that every time
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-15

during the congress all the streets
Of the city will be hoodlighted.
Thousands upon thousands of
lighted candles will flicker from the
windows of homes here while Dublin
is host to the congress.
Shopkeepers and hotel managers
have been faced with a tremendous
problem in organizing eating and
sleeping accommodations for the
million visitors. Market gardeners
for miles around have sown immense
quantities of vegetables this season,
and officials making arrangements
have urged livestock growers to
withhold their animals from the
market until just before the con-
gress, so that there will be no sud-
den food shortage.
Every precaution has been taken
to insure the welfare of the visitors.
Twenty thousand stewards have
been appointed to control the
crowds, and a small army of inter-
prefers will be provided to help
visitors make their way around.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-15
EXPECT MILLION
AT EUCHARISTIC
CONGRESS MASS
Procession II Miles Long to
Follow PontificaI
Services.

By United Press
DUBLIN, June 15.-A brilliant re-
ligious procession seventeen miles
long, with high dignitaries of the
Catholic church, eminent laymen
and pilgrims from the far places of
the earth walking eighty abreast,
will provide a spectacle unparalleled
for Dublin during the International
Eucharistic congress this month.
The procession will be that of the
blessed sacrament, and it will follow
the most important event of the
congreSs-the solemn pontifical high
mass, in which a million worShipperS
will join.
The famous iron bell of st. Pat
rick. one of Ireland'S most treas
ured relics, will summon the great
throng to the mass, which will be
held in Phoenix park with the
papal legate as celebrant. The bell
is to be taken from its home in the
national museum for the purpose.
In order to synchronize the hymns
and prayers from the multitude,
scores of loud speakers will be used
in the park. A choir of 500 men
and boys will lead the singing.
In the few weeks preceding the
vast assembly, Dublin will be trans
formed with thousands of congress
flags and bunting, and millions of
flowers will decorate the streets
when the meeting has started.
Almost $4,000 has been spent to
make the city appropriately attrac-
tive for the occasion. Triumphal
arches will be built for the worship
pers' professions, and every night
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-15
GARY RAIL LINE SOLD
Deal Marks insult Passage From
Field in Calumet District.

Gary Railways Company prop
critics at Gary have been sold to the
Chicago and Calumet District
Transit Company, marking the pas
sage of insult interests from the
transportation field in the Calumet
district, it was reported here today.
Gary Railways Company formerly
was headed by Charles w. Chase,
who resigned to take charge of the
new indianapolis Railways, Inc.
The Chicago and Calumet District
Transit Company was organized
by Walter ]. Cummins, Chicago, who
also owns the street railway system
at Des Moines, Ia.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-15
AGE CASE FACES BOARD
Veteran Fireman Claims to Be 81;
Records to Be Put in Evidence.

Action on the case of Captain
Philip Kile of Fire Company Is was
postponed by the safety board Tues
day until the next meeting when
Kile will appear and fire depart
ment records will be introduced as
evidence.
Monday was Kile's birthday, on
which he reached his SEVENTEEN
year, according to department rec
ords. The veteran fireman claims
however, to be only 81 because Of
classifying his age in order to en-
list.
In any event, Kile will remain al
his post until after Wednesday, day
of the next board meeting.