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The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-11-23

Coincident with the move on the part of the Waterbury officials to bring about an increase in the wa ter rates. locally, two privately owned water companies in Connec- ticut have, it was learned to-day, filed petitions with the Pubic Utilities commission at Hartford for hearing no rates, also. one private concern, the Ansonia Wa ter company, has petitioned the commission for permission to in- crease it's rates. The Guilford- Chester company has asked to be heard on a petition offered by it's consumers who seek to have rates reduced. In other words, the wa ter rate question is becoming a general question in Connecticut and is not confined to Waterbury, alone.
 To have the city again selling factories water is hope of the To- cal board of finance. In past years the city reaped a net harvest in water rents from factories but the handsome revenue vanished when unfair rates compelled them to resort to their own water supplies. In discussions now of revised rates the possibility of encouraging fac- tories to once more buy water rom municipality is being given very serious consideration. This, com, missioners of the finance board believe, could be accomplished py making the rate sufficiently at tractive to industrial chle1talhs so that they would buy. u
 It was learned to-day in talks with several of the city's ieadlng citizens that with the munic1panty great water system 1t IS 1elt tnae it would be excellent business 1uog- ment to furnish water to the shops at a price that would be cheaper than maintenance and development of their own private supplies. 'Undersell them," was the advice.
 They pointed to favorable rates utility complies give to their larg- est consumers. They added that if factories with their own power plants find it more economical to buy electricity from an outside firm and the firm can make a profit, why can't the city with the right rate entice factories with their own expensive water rates to buy rom the city. Waterbury, with its great Shepaug has water to burn, so to speak. 1t was declared, and an effort should be made to sell 1t to the factories. A preferen- tial rate was suggested which, Tn being carried out, would return to the city its greatest consumers of other years, namely, factories.
 The finance board, 1t was also learned to-day, is pondering on what may result in a water main service charge. to the factories Many nlants now use 8 m1nlmum
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-11-23
Water Rate Question
 State-Wide Subject
Two Privately Owned Firms Petition Utilities Com.
 mission For Hearings on Different Ratings

of city water but at the same time the city furnishes them with wa ter main service which can be had in an emergency, whether 1t be fire, drought or damage to their pivate supplies. This protection is furnished gratis. The factories, having city water service available though not used, benefit by low insurance rates. The finance com- missioners are of a mind, it ap- pears. for this reason to charge for the water main service, especially in cases where factories continue to use their own sources instead of that of the city.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-11-23
FULL WEATHER REPORT

Washington, Nov 2S.-(UP)-The weather forecast:
 Maine: Cloudy tonight and Fri day. snow or rain Friday, slightly colder in east portion tonight, slowly rising temperature Friday.
 Vermont and New Hampshire: Cloudy, followed by snow or rain beginning late tonight or Friday, slowly rising temperature Friday. Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut: Cloudy tonight and Friday, probably rain with slowly rising temperature Friday.
 DISTRICT OF WATERBURY, ss.
 Probate Court, November 22nd,
 ESTATE OF Concetta Pope. late of Waterbury, in said District, de- ceased. Upon the application or Jo- that he may be authorized to sell, certain real estate belonging to said Estate as per application on file more fully appears, 1t is
 ORDERED, That said application be heard and determined at the Pro: bate Office in Waterbury, in said District, on the 27th day of Novem- Der AID. 1883 at o'clock in the afternoon (Standard time), and that notice be given of the pendency of said application, and the time and place of hearing thereon. by pub fishing this order one time in some newspaper having a circulation in said District, also by leaving with or by mailing in registered letters, postage prepaid from Waterbury. copy of this order to all parties in- terested and residing without the Probate District of Waterbury on or before the 23rd day of Novem- Der 1888.
 Attest:
 Asst. Clerk
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-11-23
SCHOLARSHIP TO
 WESLEYAN BOYS

Middletown, Conn, Nov s. (UP)-A football captain, oenat~ CT and an editor are Wesleyan unt- versity's nominees for this year Rhodes scholarship competitton, " was announced to-day by Professor Cornelius Kruse.
 Charles H. Brown, of Ames, fas lz the football player. Ralph C. Wood, Albany, N. r.. editor of tho Wesleyan Cardinal, and Charles 2. Olson Jr. Worcester, Mass, are the other nominees.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-11-23
Doucette In Joint Recital Here Sunday
Dramatic Tenor to be Heard With Kae Ellen iOtchliss
 at Temple Hall

Marcel Doucette. former mem- Der of the Consolidated High School Glee club who at present Is under the tutelage of Frederic Freemantel, will make his Water bury debut Sunday evening in a joint recital with Kae Ellen Hotch- kiss, artist pupil of Royal Dadmun and graduate of Julius Hartt School of Music, at Temple hall at S:15 o'clock.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-11-23
SETTLED CLAIM
 TOO SPEEDILY

Bridgeport, Conn. Nov 23.-(UP) With five minutes after Mrs Will hemina Frank, New York city, set- tied s10.000 damage action against Percy Mossop for 9e2sO. a jury returned a verdict awarding her the full amount of the suit.
 Mrs Frank sued for the death of her husband, Julius O. Frank, fatally injured last April by Mos sop's automobile. Her counsel, Da- vid Goldstein, opposed the settle ment by which she lost $3750.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-11-23
NOVA SCOTIAN GROWS
 RECORD APPLE CROP

Berwick, N. S. Nov 23-Estab- fishing a new all-time record for a Nova Scotia orchardist, S. B. Chute of this town completed harvesting his 4O.OOOO barrel crop of apples re, gently. Arthur T. Smith, general agent of the Dominion Atlantic railway at Halifax states that MT Chute's record yield is from 300 priys prised, 'l among many other leading yarities, 4OOO barrels of Craven steins, $2oo barrels of Cox's orange ana O.O0O of Ben Davis and Canes
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-11-23
CABINET RESIGNS

La Paz, Bolivia, Nov 23-(UP)- The entire cabinet resigned to-day, in order to permit President Dam iel Salamanca to name premier who will form a coalition govern ment for national defense.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-20
FRANKNESS IN THE ARMY

TNHERE was something rather refreshing
a and at the same time, rather startling
about Major General johnson Hagoods blunt
statement that an overhaul Of the war de-
partment and army organizations could save
the government a neat $50,000,O00 year and
increase military efficiency at the same time.
High army officers do not often speak with
such frankness. And when this one asserts
that the war department is top-heavy and
would collapse at the outbreak of a war, it
seems obvious that pretty thorough investi-
cation is called for.
War departments in all lands have a way
of growing rigid and unwieldy in peace time;
if ours has done SO, as General Hagood says
a drastic overhauling ought to be in order.
To be told, in addition, that this overhaul
ing would actually save us $5OOOOOOO a year
makes the job seem even more attractive.
Official Washington might do we'll to give Cen
eral Hagoods words some deep consideration.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-20
M. E.TracySays:

T Asst year the government received approx
IL mately $6OOOOOOO0 through income taxes
Treasury officials confidently expected that the
higher rates provided for this year would pro-
duce 81 O00,0 000
Up to April 10, the government had received
only $189, 100000, or 100000 less than it had
received up to the same time last year.
Making due allowance for belted returns, this
indicates that the government will get no more
revenue from income taxes in 1888 than it did
in 1882 if, indeed it gets as much.
The reason is obvious Incomes have shrunk
enough to offset the rise in rates. Besides every
investor who could do so has converted his hold
ings into taX-eXempt securities.
While manufacturers, merchants, farmers,
professional men and home owners labor under
a load of increased taxes, capital to the extent
of some more than twenty billion dollars enjoys
immunity.
Chalk it up as just one more result of the
craze for prosperity through installment buying.
THESE taX-eXenpt securities were authorized
Il to promote bigger and better borrowing, to
tempt the tightwad to loosen up, to provide ir-
resistible bait for money lenders.
1t sounded fine when we wanted smoother
roads over which to ride as we paid, or more
magnificent school buildings, SO financed that
the next generation would foot the bill.
We not only saddled our children with debt
but promised their creditors exemption from
taxes to do better job of it.
Just now the set-up doesn't look so good.
After filling out your little income tax re-
turn and signing your little check for the first
quarterly payment, it's kind of tough to have
some acquaintance drop around ana remind you
that he was spared the annoyance when you
know that he has more to spend than you do
though he doesn't do lick of work.
You must go right on digging up cash with
which to pay interest on the taX-eXempt bonds
he has tucked away, not knowing how 81 IN or
how sharply your salary will be cut. while he
enjoys sure-flre income without work or worry.
NTELL 1t all began with the war, when great
w governments decided it was much easier
not to pay as they fought, and when business
borrowed page from statecraft to BOOST produc-
tion with politicians quick to see the advantage
of such policy.
1t was a wonderful spree while it lasted
Just think Of the streets we paved the parks
we bought, the public buildings we erected and
the improvements we obtained, not to men
ton the wooden ships We launched and the fly
by-night concerns We promoted through the
capital We were able to raise on tax-exempt
securities.
And Just think of what an impetus it lent
to the scheme of installment buying along the
line, with brokerage fees for this a commission
charge for that and an insurance policy to
cover it all.
1t seems mighty hard to paw the fiddler
right now, but let's not forget that we not only
hired him. but danced joyously to the tune he
played.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-20
S0Ued BIZ q P0r0qr0ph

VOU just saved yourself on Shaw
Il with the last paragraphs. When
you and 1 are rs (Gott verhutte',
If We have enough vitality left to
stand up and tell bunch of stuffed
shirts, breathing down our necks,
that their system is lousy and that
Communism, of some sort or an
other, is the only answer to the
mess they've got us into. then. old
gaffer, we can be permitted some
rather senile cracks about morons.
Il think it was a stirring and
touching thing. as you intima:ed,
indeed, that at the end Shaw should
come to us to repay as he thought,
his early debt to Henry George and
those other pioneers of freedom who
first set alight the Shavian flame.
They say the old warrior is up
set over the failure Of his New
York speech. So far as this listener
was. concerned, those 1886 words
that came across the air to remote
New Jersey home did more to justi-
fly the existence of the radio than
all the other millions of words that
have assailed my ears since they
first thought the darned thing up
Copyright. 1888. BY The Tines
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-20
DON'T BLAME THE SUN

60 sits the weather that's to blame is it?
~ DR.. L. " Burton, editor of Food Industries,
displays charts showing that for the last
twelve years whenever the sun got really hot,
earthly business depressions got that way, too.
When Old Sol cooled, up went the business
barometer and prosperity smiled again.
The charts also indicate a relation between
violet rays and the mundane mood.
Plenty of ultraviolet rays in the air seem
to make us cheerful, a shortage of rays throws
us into the dumps.
Since the solar radiation has been above
normal for years and since the sun seems to
be getting less hot and bothered now, we
can expect good times pronto.
We would like to believe in those charts
If our troubles are caused by solar heat we
can sit by like the ancients, and wait for a
new deal from Phoebus. But perhaps it would
be better to keep plugging along with our
economic house cleaning.
Nobody seems to be able to do much about
the weather. And who knows but it's the
misery and stupidity on earth that has been
agtating the sun?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-20
THE LOW WAGE CIRCLE

NTILLIAM GREEN, president of the Amer
w lean Federation of Labor, is doing the
whole nation a service by his insistent at
ten1pts 20 prod the public conscience into &C
tlvity over the growing sweatshop menace
Low wages, he points out, are becoming
more and more prevalent In certain parts
of some industries they are about down to
starvation levels.
The workers involved are losing hope for
the future. Their living standards are being
lowered cruelty.
Nor is that all. All industry feels the eff
feet Of their lowered purchasing power AS
the sweatshop worker sinks down, he pulls
everybody else down with him.
Low wages are about the most expensive
kind there is, and Mr.. Green is performing a
public service by insisting that we recognize
the fact.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-20

cause she loves her children, she
loves all children. Nor do we rec
ognize our responsibility until We
have acquired the same kind of
concern, concern that causes us
to rebel at the thought of any wor-
thy mother enduring poverty and
misery that We, as a social group.
can alleviate.
THIS year the challenge to our
l. charity is greater than ever
But when wealth takes fight. love
blossoms more profusely in human
hearts.
Out of the deepest need of our
fellow creatures will spring the re-
Spouse that is the essence of all
religion and all unselhsh human
love.
Our own mothers do not desire
gifts. however expensive, so much
as they long for a day Of our COM
pany, a few of our time. To speak
our love to them in words is better
than to say it with anything our
money can buy.
While We remember our own, hare
We forget our neighbours mother?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-20
Mental Disease Is Great Economic Problem

MENTAL disease constitutes to-
AVA day one of the most enor-
nous burdens carried by the we'll
in this country on behalf of the
sick. In 1881, the state of New
York spent more than $13O00O,00O
on the care of the mentally disabled
Already the subject is receiving
most serious attention from both
the economic and the scientific
points of view.
There are some mental diseases
which probably can be prevented
whereas there are others which are
still of unknown cause and for
which little can be done
Certain mental diseases, as is
pointed out by DR.. Horatio M. Pol
lock, are associated with actual
destruction of the tissue or with
poisonings of portions Of the nerv-
GUS system. These are known as
organic mental diseases.
There are, for instance, the types
Of mental breakdown that occur
with the changes that take place in
the blood vessels due to old age.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-20

income, no one is gc.ng to be very eager to lend
him any money.
Suppose, however. that he cuts his living
expenses 10 $50 week He can now, if he
wishes buy house and shoulder a $4,000
mortgage. The fact that he is far more deeply
in debt than before cuts no ice He has bal
anced his budget by cutting his day-by-day
expenses. Having done so. he is good risk
Uncle Sam is in much the same position
These bond issues needn't worry US provided
the budget for actual current expenses is re-
duced
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-20
It Seems
to Me
: BY HAYWOOD BROUN :

NEW YORK, April 2o-Tm
~ afraid that Hitler has become
too convenient a symbol A great
many people are doing their one
good deed of the year by saying that
they don't like Adolf. Having ex-
pressed this opinion, they settle
back firm in the conviction that
they have done their bit to set
muddled world Alright
But it isn't good enough. AS Nor
man Thomas pointed out in Union
Square the other day, some of those
who did at least a little to make
Hitler possible now are running
around in circles saying. Isn't this
awful?"
Certainly some Of those loudest in
their protests are the very ones who
liked TO point out that MusSolini
made the trains run on time. And
few Of our very best citizens have
been quite articulate in declaring
that America should have a good
lron-hanGed dictatorship as the wav
out of its woes.
Now, 1t is possible that one form
OF taSclSm may be little better or
little worse than another. But
there is in all accuracy no such
thing as HitleriSm! He is merely
manifestation of a theory of gov
eminent which has been established
in other lands. And if you are truly
against him you also must be
against his cousins and his uncles
and his aunts.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-20
A Woman's Viewpoint i:

a GAIN the year moves along to-
IA ward Mothers day. We have
a new suggestion for its observance
from the Golden Rule Foundation.
The plan is worthy of support
from all to whom the word mother
has a profound rather than SEN
timental meaning. 1t urges us to
use the money that ordinarily goes
for gifts to our own more fortunate
mothers to swell fund for that
large group Of American women,
mothers, too, who have suffered so
tragically during the last few years
from unemployment and poverty.
For they have done noble ma
tional service in sustaining the NOR
ale of husbands and sons. They
have kept homes together by the
sheer power of faith and affection
Long ago they won our admiration;
now they deserve our help.
In such manner We should be full
filling the truest obligations of chill
dren. For if there is to be born
within us a more unselfish concep-
ton of motherhood, then it, in turn,
will encourage a more unselhsh
conception Of filial duty.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-20
NeO Jersey Notes

"THERE are a number of North
Il Jersey notes cluttering up nv
desk which I know you have been
anxiously awaiting" writes Nc
Alister Coleman.
Springs virginia. crocus broke out
in Hohokus. But I'm not going on
with that. 1t is the political situa-
ton that wish to analyze. AS one
in a position to know, I must tell
you that it's getting pretty tense. I
had narrow escape the other
night. Just as 1 arrived at the meet
ing, the comrades were nominating
me for tax collector to run in the
spring primaries
Now, I've run plenty, but I abso-
lutely put my foot down at running
Tor tax collector. Around our town
there is a regular army out looking
for bonuses for bringing in tax COL
lectors. They nearly got one the
other day. He had stepped out of
his armored car on the FairlaWn
Road, to snipe a butt.
He popped back in again, how
ever, before the Citizens Protective
League could snare him. They
picked up the trail of another. north
of Saddle River, but he threw the
pack off by wading upstream.
Il understand that they are show
ing several good brushes over at the
Paramus Tax Collectors Hunting
and Riding Association clubrooms.
For months now no one has spoken
to neighbor of ours-a city slicker
who just moved out here and who
paid his water tax right off. We
told him he couldn't come over
from New York and use his sinister
influence on us.
A lot of the boys wanted to ride
him out of town on a rail, but
calmer counSeIS finally prevailed.
and we are using oStracism instead.
At any moment now We expect him
to break down and admit to COL
lective sabotage. If he doesn't our
local O-Gay-Pay-Oo will go to
work on him
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-20
:: The Message Center {:

the hands of police officials and pro-
vision be made for any who have to
have assistance, outside of the YAM
pire type who exist at the expense
of the people.
Provision should be made for
heavy penalties to any of the leech
type who persist in imposing on the
taxpayers. The least that our hun
dreds of officials can do is to strip
the forbidden fruit from any appli-
cant to this veritable garden OF
Eden. 1 am aware of one instance
where man and his wife have re-
ceived aid from the trustee and well
fare agencies for more than two
years, always had an automobile of
some sort, no children, and the man
hasn't worked for the trustee or
any one else during this period and
never will, as long as the conditions
OF the charity organizations re-
main so lax.
Many of the county patrons never
paid a cent Of taxes, and yet expect
our loyal support. If the existing
system can not be remedied, let's
go the limit and include a case of
beer in each weekly county allow
ance and retain the goodwill of
these parasites. If this burlesque
continues, there will be more worthy
dependents and blood-suckers of the
public than taxpayers.
Give hearty support to the worthy
and twenty-five lashes on the bare
back of any person guilty Of ebus-
ing this privilege, and in no time
the basket stiff roll of the county
would be reduced by half. Then the
taxpayers again could take a deep
breath without paying such exhor-
bitant taxes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-20

with hardening of the arteries in
the aged.
1t is believed that the real con-
troll of mental disease of functional
origin viii come through better
study Of the young and through the
use of suitable preventive measures
in childhood and in Adolescence,
and also through control of
heredity, rather than through any
specific methods applied late in life.
Much has been written of late
relative to types of mental dis
turbance associated with the current
economic depression.
A recent report from the Neuro-
logic Institute of New York in
dictates an increase in patients of
shattered morale who are apathetic
and listless, who have lost hope,
largely due to feeling of insecurity
1t seems to be necessary to de-
velop some method for relieving
emotional strains and raising the
morale Of those who feel themselves
insecure in time of financial stress.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-20
BY DR.. MORRIS FIsHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia. the
Health Magazine.

Another type of mental disease
is wholly functional; that is, definite
changes can not be found in the
tissue of the brain nor can there
be seen any evidence of poisoning
of the body either by bacterial or
chemical poisons.
Since it is more easily possible
to attack disease when it's cause is
known definitely than to attack
those Of unknown origin, much of
modern medicine is devoted to an
attempt to control such conditions
as alcoholism, syphilis, and similar
conditions, definitely responsible for
certain amounts of mental disease.
Mental disease due to drugs is less
common than that due to alcohol or
syphilis.
On the other hand, as life in
general has been prolonged, there
has been gradual increase in the
amount of mental disease associated