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The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-04
NEW NAVAL CONSTRUCTION
(Ncw York Times)

A report of the General Board of the Navy urges that forty three warships be laid down before Dec. 31. The purpose in view is to bring the fleet up to the ratios al- lowed by the Washington and Lon- don treaties. The general board is satisfied with the battleship class, but points out that in auxiliaries the United States is inferior to Great Britain and to Japan. The Vinson plan deals with deficiencies in a practical manner. It proposes fewer new ships, twenty destroy CTS, four submarines, one aircraft carrier and five 6-in-gun cruis- CTS. There is general agreement that the lighter cruisers should find space on their decks for alr planes.
 It is not to be denied that in auxiliaries the United States Navy is deficient. It's destroyers are not to be compared in effectiveness with those of Great Britain and Japan built since the World War. Most of them are obsolescent and some are obsolete. In destroyer leaders the United States is de-- plorably weak. There is a req need for more light cruisers. The latest submarines of Great Britain and Japan are so far in advance of most of our vessels of that type In appropriating for new ships congress should proceed with mod eration. To lay down ships that might have been left unfinished by a new limitation of armaments would not be the part of wisdom A bill for construction of additional units introduced by Senator Tram mell contains an excellent provi- sion authorizing the president t1 promote further limitations and. Il possible, to suspend in whole or ir part construction that has beer started.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-04
NEW JERSEY TOLL ROAD

tDIluSSPOlt A bill has been introduced in the New Jersy legislature to collect a toll of 10 cents from each passen- ger vehicle and 20 cents from each commercial vehicle or truck using the new elevated highway which leads from the New Jersey end of the Holland tunnel, to Newark. Engineers of the state utilities commission drew up the bill and it's terms have been agreed to by Governor Moore and legislative leaders.
 Here is a clear example of Con- necticut! The newest and finest
 highway in New Jersey is to be a toll road. The state needs the revenue of $1,000,000 year which the tolls will bring. And the New Jersey salons cannily assert that the strangers within their gates, who use their expensive highways, can well afford to pay something toward their upkeep.
 Is it such bad principle after all? All roads today are in effect toll roads because of the gasoline tax. But some highways are far more costly than others to build and maintain. Why should not the
 users of these expensive parkways pay something toward them? Why
 should the cost be met solely out
 of general funds?
 There are plenty of ways of go- ing from New York city to Newark without using the new elevated
 highway which connects with the
 Holland tunnel. However by the use of this highway the motorist can
 save time and delay from traffic.
 If he is not pressed for time and
 wishes to avoid tolls he can take
 some other route (although there
 is no way of crossing the Hudson river, whether by gridge, tunnel
 or ferry without paying tolls.
 The same reasoning would apply to the Merit highway. New Jersey is setting Connecticut the example
 and showing this state how to fi-
 nance the Merritt highway. Inci-
 dentally New York state is now
 planning two special toll highways,
 in addition to its already large bat
 tery of toll bridges and tunnels.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-04
Our Daily Washington Letter Too Much Optimism Is Cause of Most Bankruptcies,
 U. s. Survey Reveals
 RY RODNEY lIlTlHER
BY RODNEY BUTCHER

their names on notes for other persons and most of the others had been assessed for personal in- jury or property damages caused by automobile accidents. Bank ruptcy is frequently resorted to when salaries are attached to collect these judgments, and in most cases the bankrupt sched- ules all his other debts at the same time.
 The next largest cause was the a. nidance of liabilities on fore closed homes-13.5 per cent. The postwar real estate boom and the
 own your own home" fad brought on lot of this.
 Domestic misfortunes = divorce and alimony payments, illness, medical and funeral expenses were responsible for 12 per cent of the bankruptcies. And debts incurred during various ventures into business for about 5 per cent more.
 Stock and real estate specula- ton accounted for per cent. In l one instance tailor making | $1,600 year was unable to make payments on s50,000 specula- tive real estate venture. A train porter, earning less than $25 d week, secured title to two $15,- 900 apartment houses by making two down payments of $100. Among conclusions of the sur- vey are these:
 ''Too many merchants have fol- lowed the policy of selling the merchandise and getting the name of the purchaser on their books, how or when he is to pay for it being of secondary matter |. {. With the whole machinery of modern business set to stimulate sales, the tendency to overload the consumer with credit is al. most irresistible"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-04
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
 Enits s,ss

Daughter, IS, college freshman, has or Is Threatened with gOitrc. She cannot take resu- lar gym work on account of heart bOthcrins bcr College doctor says she should have gOitrc operation at once. Our family physlciah says mn and prcscribes some kind of iOdin medical ton for her. Our home Is in Indiana. Should we send her to South Carolina where there Is m orc i)din in the food and environmcnt?
 G. w. McC.) Answer-No, I should advise you to stick with the family physician's course. Good medical treatment and regulation of the gen. cure in most cases of exophthalmic goitre.
 Good Judgment
 All the best operators l have seen agree that 1t requires four. five or six treatments TOT eaci, tonsii, if one is to avoid excessive rcactions and sore thrOats. Perhaps 1t is undue haste that explains the unsatisfactory experience of some physicians with this method. e. A. F, M D. Answer-The most positive protest I have received from a patient came from lady who said that the one treatment she had. which produced such a severe sore throat that she thirds of one tonsil. Dr. Bungle should not attempt to give such treatment.
 Pasteurized to Raw
 You recommended the use of raw (not certificd) milk for children. We recently changed from pasteurizcd to raw One of the children has since had d rash on his check. We wonder if the raw milk Is responsible For this? (D. J. Al
 Answer-Certified milk is always the best for anybody if 1t Is available. l recommend the use of raw milk ONLY when your phy- sican or your local health officer tells you the grade you propose to use Is safe. 1 do not think the use of raw milk can have anything to do with the skin rash.
 Copyright, John F. bile Col
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-04
So They Say

It is, I may say now. both the policy and the practice of the Uni- ? ed States to confer where questions affecting peace are concerned.-
 Norman Davis, U. s. representative at Geneva.
 Humor is profession like law.
 medicine, engineering. and poetry Ed Wynn, comedian. Even the impending imitation, which seems to be necessary. may turn out to be good thing. in spite of our old and conservative economic notions.-Charles A. Mil- Ter, former president of the R. F. C.. There is evolution backward as
 well as forward.-Prof Thomas Hunt Morgan. California Institute
 of Technology.
 If the wild oats theory were a
 sound principle of living. then we
 could also say that the way to
 make your arm strong Is to break
 it.-Rev Carlos G. Pulled of New York.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-04
DOING NOTHING ,w .. .xx.
(Hartford Times)


 There seems to be very little ex- cuse for the long delay exhibited by the legislature in arriving at de- finite policy of state action toward distressed cities and towns with re- lation to their financial plights be- cause of extraordinary outlay for welfare and unemployment relief. This plight, of course, is aggravat- ed by the tax-collection situation. If there were something new about the issue, something that had come up within a few weeks or days, the cause would be diff ferent. But the problems present ed have been notoriously maturing for many months, and with them a. taxation problem touching the in terests of almost everyone in the state. The legislature has done mo- thing as yet about the taxation problem. Nothing more than a spe- cial tax commission is in sight.
 These distressed cities and towns for the chief part are democratic. The smaller towns are republican. Republican leadership controlling the. house, appears to be taking the position Let those democratic municipalities rot until they call for republican salvation The dem- ocratic cities have together formed no plan, except that the mayors are for state bond issue. The gov- ernor has assumed no aggressive leadership in the matter.
 The session is running swiftly to- ward adjournment. The time is ex- tremely short in which there might be proposal and debate refiecting a deliberate public opinion. In the will be done. and that inconsider- ate and injudicious. The assembly very last hours perhaps, somethins has attended to the beer question. but on q concern vital literally to the bread and butter of thousands. and immensely important to the purses of thousands more, there
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-04
A Book a Day
 by BRUCE CATION
The Case Of Herr Hitler

To understand Alof Hitler, a
 mere study of Hitler himself will not suffice. You must examine German history ever since the Armistice and study the psycho- 1 lory of the German people as a whole if you hope to find out now
 Hitler got his power and why ne uses it as he does.
 so says Everett R. Clinchy in "The Strange Case of Herr Hitter, a new publication in the John Day series of 25-cent pamphlets. The Nazi movement, says MT !, Clinchy, stems directly from the | Versailles treaty, which Is the cniei source of its strength. He re, | marks pointedly: "A threatened ] culture will inevitably rise and as sert itself. Germany is illustrating this principle of group behaviof. She is resisting death"
 Hitler has dramatized the resur-
 gent patriotism of Germany: ne has. also. symbolized the attempt
 of a suffering nation to escape rom l reality. He has adopted anti
 Semitism with design similar to I the factors a magician takes into account when he chooses the box l for his tricks with the audience Tn mind." r
 l Anti-Semitism satisfies the Ger
 mans inferiority complex; it also,
 by releasing emotional restraints, serves as a kind of cocktail. And
 it serves Hitler as very useful
 red herring to be dragged across | the trail of over-complicated econ- tnomic problems.
 ''The potential possibilities for wretchedness within Germany, and | havoc for the world" remarks MT l Clinchy, "are staggeringly alarm
 ing" ,,., a,a,, .,
 the German dictator rather illum- mating.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-04
Will We Rue This?

Passage of the birth control bill by the House Tuesday marked the end of long fight in this state to liberalize the so-called birth control laws. Ever since 1923 efforts have been made to soften Conneotieuts at fitude towards this moral question. We have long had the reputation of possessing the strictest laws with regard to the ques- ton of use of contraceptives and dissemina- ion of birth control Information. In fact we have been rather proud of this fact. But of recent years tbe world has been subjected to dcmoralizing forces of materislism and
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-04
SIDEWALK DAMAGES
(Meriden Journal)


 Another substantial sidewalk verdict prompts the thought that If Meriden had all the money it has paid out in damages and court costs for these sort of injuries, the citizens wouldn't have to be worry ing now about the coming high school bond payments.
 Sidewalk accident cases have al- ways been torment to city off, cials and some years ago an at- tempt was made to shift at least a part of the financial responsibility upon abutting property holders. This feature of the law has been pretty much overlooked in lawsuit papers, though considerable bally- hooed otherwise, and the reason may be found in the recent su- prepe court decision finding that the land owner could not be sub- jected to civil liability. It is the city's business to see that sidewaiks are safe and it can compel action
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-04

The Bridgeport Telegram recently called attention to the fact that New Jerseys latest and most up to date highway is to be oper- ated as roll road. This, intimates the Telegram. is enough to convince Connecti- cut to proceed along similar lines with re- gard to tn. proposed Merritt Highway. It says in part. Here is a clear example for Connecticut. The rewest and finest high way in New Jersey is to be toll road. The sta+e needs the revenue of $l.000.000 year wkieh the tolls will bring And the New Jersey solons cannily assert that the strangers within their gates. who use their expensive highways. can we'll afford to pay something toward their upkeep. .. We're inclined to agree with the Telegram that this example is one to be followed The more we contemplate the Merritt Highway and other big projects sLeh as the two new bridges across the Connecticut river, the more we are convinced that return to the days of toll gates is indicated. Tolls could pay for such projects long before their usefulness had ceased. And if road or bridge can pay for itself in few years without undue hardship on the taxpayers ot the state so much the better. More on this topic later.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-04
Here, There And Everywhere
in this respect through it police

in this respect through it police powers.
 When sidewalk suits. piled up alarmingly the city fathers decided to take out liability insurance against sidewalk and other street accidents and let some company do the worrying. The premium was low to start with, around $2OOO, but suits continued to be so numerous and the verdicts or settlements so substantial that the premium has risen until the last payment was $5S25. Two cases in q few weeks have cost the insurance company about $4000. K
 Insurance will continue to be good protection only if premiums can be kept within reasonable bounds and that seems to be a big job considering all the miles of streets in the city and how easy it is for a person to fall. The law being what it Is, apparently nothing more can be done by the city than to work in close cooperation with the insurance lawyers on these cases.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-04

. Bridgeport is seriously considering elim- mating few of its lights on centrally located streets It isn't the first city to dis cuss this move. It even has been done in various towns of the state. Hartford, we believe, was the first city to put it into effect. Other cities followed suit by de- creasing the number of lights or by some other arrangement with lighting companies whereby the monthly bills showed eonsid- erable drop. Economy demands many things of us.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-04
-In-
 |MezC York
By JULIA BLANsHARD

XIV RAA1AANkAA&h1eAF
 New York-New York has gone tango-mad. But apparently all that tangoes is not Spanish. Rosita'
 dusky, graceful partner Of Ramon
 whose dances delight EI Garron
 habitues, is an Irish lassie. Tn tne
 team of Maurice and Corpona.
 sleek, vivid, black-haired Maurice
 was born Cohen, on the East Sioe.
 Tamiris and Marguerite, the Ia nous Band Box team Of IeW
 years ago, learned the appeal that Spanish dances have. They had failed to get a footing when they first started dancing together. So thev shipped to South America with 2. troupe, stayed two years, learned both Spanish and Spanish dances, and came back speaking only Spanish or very broken Eng lish.
 They became the rage. But at a party at the Irving Beriins' somebody cracked a Jewish joke and Tamiris laughed out loud. So she confessed that she had been Helen Becker, on Delaney street. Bridge Item.
 Willard Karn, bridge expert. wore a loud orange, beige and brown checked shirt and tie at the Mayfair the other evening. T bought these in Paris five years ago, but I've just gotten up my nerve to wear them now" he con- fessed. He also admitted that
 while some bridge experts have to practice bridge daily, to keep in form, he doesn't, My bridge is given" he explained.
 The Woman of It.
 Ishbel MacDonald has no trace of the Scotch b-rr which Is evil dent in the voice of her Prime Minister father ..... Pearl Buck, author of Good Earth" who has
 been under fire by the Missionary Societies for her opinion of mis- sionaries in China, has never own ed a single piece of jewelry .... Amelia Earhart, speaking at the l dinner of the American Newspaper | Publishers association, won every
 body's heart by her quiet humor and by the modest way she dis missed her own ocean-crossinS flight as "such a lot of fun" Shopping Note.
 | At a dinner the other evening.
 Mrs Henry Epstein (daughter of
 Max Steuer, counsel for Banker | Charles MitchelD told of a new
 kind of shopping list. | A 14-year-old girl. arrested for ! shoplifting, was brought before the Children's court, where Mrs Epstein does volunteer case work.
 In the child's purse was neat
 list of things she was to steal. one | item for each day in the week: | Monday-stockings for Sam, size
 g. Tuesday-pants for Gus, IA year size. Wednesday, sweater | for Ma, size 40. And so forth. All
 family necessities. Not single
 thing for the girl herself!
 l The child was paroled and IS making rapid strides in a night
 course in stenography, in addition
 to goining to school daytimes.
 Proving It's Spring. Warm weather notes: Hurdy-
 gurdies play gay airs. with some notes missing, in Eighth avenue and the West Side shopping dis | trict; zestful German bands col
 lect pennies through the village and Gramercy Park; worn violin
 ists and groups of ragged street
 singers play through the snooty
 Sutton Place-East River residentlai
 section.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-04
Personal Health Service (By William Brady, NJ. 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 md addressed envelope.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-04

Egg-rolling at Washington is prettier thing than log rolling.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-04

Angelo Patr says that children can and should be satisfied with things they possess Wonder if their parents could teach them that?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-04

All vehicles must be lighted tonight not later than S:2l o'clock, daylight saving time.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-04
Proving It's Spring.

has been demonstrated a singular apathy and neglect.
 Meanwhile there seems to be prospects that the highway money will be voted as usual and the states budget be fixed in such way that if there is later special session to deal with the welfare relief and municipal finance troubles millions which might have been of help will have been locked away from use for the emergency.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-04

SOCK 10 EVaue DcDtS
 More than 15 per cent of bank rupts were those evading judg- ment debts-the second largest group. Nearly 90 per cent of the group were persons who had put
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-02-02
SOUTH AFRICA ABANDONS GOLD

South Africa's abandonment of the gold stand
ard affords fresh illustration of the nefficacy of
the present economic structure. The inability of
the country which produces So per cent of the
worlds annual gold output to maintain its currency
on gold basis is evidence that something is funda
mentally wrong with the system. -.
Only five countries in the world now remain on
a gold basis. Of these only the United States and
France important in international commerce
and finance They carry on trade with As countries
whose money is on paper basis. However satisfy
ing it may be to national pride to remain on gold
island in the midst of a sea of deprecated cur
rency, producers in gold-standard countries find
their foreign markets contracting steadily because
their production costs higher than those in
countries that are not on gold basis. -.
The sterling bloc, trying hard to make virtue
of necessity processes to be satisfied with the pres
ent monetary situation. As matter of fact Great
Britain and most other countries now off the gold
basis would be glad to return to it if they could.
1t is to the interest of the United States and France
to hasten that return REIMBURSEMENT of the war
debts on fair basis is one of the prerequisites.
Reopening of the normal channels of international
trade is another. Effective steps in those directions
would aid in dispeing the clouds of depression
Chicago Daily News
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-02-02
NEWSPAPERS OPINIONS
FARM PROPERTY TAX

Taxes levied on farm property in North Carolina
were approximately seven million dollars in 1927,
and rose to $1446S,373 in 1927, or an increase OF
1918 per cent After 1927, however, the taxes
levied began to decline. The greatest decline came
between 1880 and 1881 when taxes levied dropped
to S8,527.617 or a decline in year of approx
mately Al per cent.
Taxes levied on farm property amounted to
approximately 21 per cent of the total taxes col
lected in 1920, and about 10 per cent of the 1881
total The annual percentage figures varied be-
tween these two extremes. For the postwar period
of 1920 to 1881 inclusive, the proportion that
farm taxes were of the total declined about SO per
cent
The farm property tax levy in 1920 represented
about p per cent of the total taxes less the high
way fund. The percentage declined almost con-
stantly throughout this period, reaching about IS
per cent in 1912.
Thus it is clear that the farmers share of the
total taxes declined throughout the postwar pc
riod. 1t should be emphasized however, that this
does not prove that the farmers tax burden is not
excessive or that other groups in state not
receiving more favorable treatment than the farm
en- 1t is obvious however from these data that the
state has been collecting larger and larger per-
cent of its total taxes from other than farm prop
erty. It seems reasonably safe to say also that ii
our tax system was fair and just to the farmer in
1920, (about which there may be some question: it
would appear that our system fair in 1881, for
our tax system as modified from time to time has
not apparently Disseminated against the farmer in
favor of all other classes combined.
Although it may be true that our tax system has
not Disseminated against the farmer it may be
true that farmers are paying out more in taxes in
proportion to their wealth than other classes in the
state. 1t is interesting therefore, to examine the
relation which exists between the farmers share
of the total wealth and the share of the taxes
which they pay
Comparing the percent Of wealth controlled by
farmers and the percent OF taxes levied farm
land compared with the total taxes of the state
it seems evident that in 1920 farmers were paying
a higher percent of the total taxes than they con-
trolled of the total wealth. In 1920 they controlled
about 10 percent of the wealth and paid approx
mately IS percent of the selected" taxes or 81
percent of the total taxes collected in the state. In
1880 farmers controlled about q percent of the
wealth and paid or would have paid 10 percent Of
the selected" taxes, or approximately 10 per cent
of the total taxes of the state-Dr. G. w. Forster
N. c. State College.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-02-02

work out of their own troubles, help them
selves, and win their own success and pros
perity. They are going to do this with the
help of the ever-increasing number of good
citizens coming from other sections of the
country to make homes here and aid in
building up this mountain country.
The character of the new citizens who
are coming into Henderson county, at
least, is of the highest type. This section
is looking to them with growing confidence
in the future, based upon the fact of their
selection of this section for homes after
thorough investigation of other areas OF
the United States and foreign countries.