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The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-12
A New Champion

Fred Perry, the dynamic English tennis player takes his place in an imposing gallery of immortals who have won the national singles title of the United States. The All Corners todrnament. as it was once called has listed the names of the elite in this field of sport. It is certainly graeed by that of the Englishman who almost single-handed brought the Davis Cup to Great Britain earl fer in the summer. We make this last state- ffent without understanding one bit the playing and the victories of Bunny Austin in the cup play. We would have liked to sec Austin participate in the event just ended, but we don't think his presence would have changed the ultimate result.
 Perry against Jack Crawford, the Sensa- tonai Australian, was a magnificent player. He cvereame both temperament and wildness when both seemed destined to allow Craw- ford to become undisputed worlds champion tennis player. After Crawford humbled Frank Shields Saturday afternoon the writer freely predicted his win on the following day. That we were proved wrong only goes to show the heights to which Perry can scale. It is all the more impressive in view of the fact that it was his first important title. Ger. tainly the United States Lawn Tennis Asso- ciation can regard Perry's feat as one for them to study
 Following last years national singles se- leeted American players were sent on a trip around the world. Their lesurely voyage was occupied with much tennis in foreign lands. They ended it with disastrous effects in France. We can't say that it was due to the world tennis cruise. That would be un discriminating the ability of the English play. cs. After watching Perry perform at Forest Hills last week there was quick assent to the belief that Vines, Allison. ct alia, had merely saeeumbed to superior brand of tennis It is q question whether q Vines at his best could have matched either Perry or Crawford last week. And certainly if not Vines who then? We have nobody yet who has the ability. We have potential candidates though.
 So Fred Perry succeeds to the throne of Vines Doeg. Coehet. LaCoste, Tilden. John- aen. Williams. Murray. and host of other tennis giants. It remains to be seen how long he can reign supreme in sport in which competition becomes keener every day. We have no reason to say that he will not ap' proaeh Tilden's record of six straight cham pionships and an extra one after the French instruction. Other than that there are too many youngsters rapidly forging to the front : to worry him. It was fine climax to year of triumph for him. He can return to Eng land proud of his first major title and secure in the knowledge that it was richly deserved.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-12

Once more sections of this state have been singled out for attack on the ground that towns are maintaining speed traps with which to enrich their treasuries. Attorney Benja- min Pokras, counsel for the New England Motorists Association was the latest to open fire. He was so ineensed in a recent address that he declared the next Legislature should repeal the statute granting fees to constables and other enforcement officers for making arrests for violations of the motor laws. He declared that this had encouraged rotten system of motor traps in small towns.
 Pokras' outburst followed an arrest in l93l of a motorist in Easton. He pleaded guilty to the charges and was sent to jail for 90 days. He lost his license as result and when the period of suspension ended he was obliged to carry insurance for financial re- sponsibility. Everybody should be obliged. of course. to do that in this day and age. But that's beside this question. Attorney Pokras claims that the man was ignorant of his rights and failed to secure counsel Prob ably there is considerable truth in this Too many people fail to stand up for their rights when arrested on motor law violations If they are wrong or right they submit to fine or forfeit hail As for small town speed
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-12
A Book a Day --
 by BRUCE CATION
Where Democracy Reaches Its Peak

In "The Farm" Louis Bromfield laments the passing of tho old middle west--the middle west that blossomed before the Civil War, . land of independent farmers, where no one was very rich and no one was very poor and all men admitted their mutual equality.
 Mir. Bromhelds novel describes that period by tracing the history of an ohio farm from 1915 to tho present day. It is e loose, rambling sort of story. It lacks q plot. in the ordinary sense of the word. But 1t does present . unified pic- ture, and 1t . well-written, in- teresting and moving story. The old middle west, says Mir. Bromheld, came about as close to exemplifying the Jeffersonian ideal Of democracy as any society that ever existed. It was perhaps, as good Q place to live as the earth ever saw. And 1t Is gone,, now, forever.
 The rise of industrialism is the villain in MT. Bromtield's piece. Amerlca, he says, was corrupted by tho love of riches. It lost sight of the pioneer virtues to become grasping and mercenary. It ruined It's farmer class and put in its place a sordid commercialism that had neither ideals nor integrity. MT. Bromfeld has made the old Ohio more idyllic, possibly. than was actually the case. Since he needed to put highlights in his pic- ture I believe he was justihed. My one objection to his book is that 1t ia so good that 1t ought to be just . little bit better.
 America Is still moving. The aftermath of the pioneer ora ia about to resolve itself into some- thing new. We havo c right, 1 think, to. expect q first t-class novel; ist to sense that change and to in- terpret it. Has Mir. Bromfield crip- pied himself by exiling himself from the ohio which is not what 1t used to be. and settling in Eu- rope?
 Printed by Harpers. "The Farm" sells for $2.b0.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-12
Economic Laws

With prohibitions repeal in sight even within hearing distillers are about to reap the harvest long denied them. Prices of me. dieinal whiskey are reported to be mounting sky high In one way this is probably good thing It will conserve for few years the rapidly dwindling stocks of aged whiskey. It will undoubtedly be lo36 or lo37 before whiskey production in the United States will match consumption. It must be kept r mind that legal whiskey now must age four years to bear government seal. While distilcss have been granted permission to increase their annual manufactured products they natural ly won't be available for some years
 In view of all the circumstances there is probably good reason for lacking up the prices on medicinal whiskey. as we have come to call that stock legally manufactured How ever. in view of the fact that the country is , supposed to be supporting national recov-
 cry act we wonder just what attitude Gen eral Johnson and his aides down at Wash- inston will take towards the sky-rocketng
 of prices. Unquestonably it will open the
 doorway to competition from foreign mar
 kets which right now are primed with alco- holie beverages designed for American con-
 sumption. And if the American market is crowded
 next year with foreign whiskeys gins, wines
 beers. liquors, etc. it is safe to assume that in
 three or four more years when our own prod
 ucts are being consumed in large quantities a
 price war is apt to result The good old
 law of supply and demand is being quoted
 extensively now. But then before this law
 can be applied perhaps we will have to guage
 correctly American habits and customs of the
 present day. They seem to run strictly to hard liquors. but with the bars down who knows but what this country will become addicted to wines and beers. And in that event there will be no need to conserve our present whskey stocks. Augmented by what will come in from Europe or across the border they should prove more than ad- equste. There is such thing as reading sifuation wrong. We wonder if American distillers may not have shown this mistake.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-12
PRICE OF A HEAD
(sprlngield Republican,

Wo may take, with due reserve the report that secret Nazi or- ganization has set q price of 10000 marks, or about $6,S00, on the head of Professor Albert Elnstein, who has been living in Belgium. The professor, who expressed sur prise that anybody could think his head worth so much takes the matter philosophlcally, but Mrs Einstein does not profess to be Q philosopher and has done her best to keep her famous husband from Igiong out for long solitary walks. That they have loft Blanken. berghe, where they have been stay ing, and gone on the yacht of Q friend on long cruise to unknown places may have no connection with the supposed offer of 10000 marks for the head of a great thinker, but the great thinkers wife may sleep more easily at sea.
 It Is hard to believe that any SC !. cret society not composed of 'crim- inals would deliberately seek the murder of so famous and so harm less Q man as Einstein, whose life Is lived mainly in an inaccessible world of his own filled with the enigmatic symbols through which he tries to read the riddle of the universe. It was through his theory of relatively, dramatically confirmed at one point by Brit ish eclipse expedition, that the in- |tellectual barriers between Germany and the outside world were brok- en down at the end of the war. Even a murder squad might feel grateful enough for that to spare the life of an elderly mathemati- clan.
 That his life would be unsafe in Germany can readily be credited. for he is much too famous a man to escape notice, and the Maxi gov- |ernment is not yet able to restrain all the homicidal lunatics among its supporters. But deliberately plotting his murder or putting a price on his head is another mat |ter, and he may hope that the Irumor which has alarmed the po- lice of Belgium will prove to be un- founded. But the outside world will feel, no matter how modest Prof Einstein may be, that $6,S00 Is a
 low price to put on the head of such a thinker as the world pro- duces perhaps only once in a cen-
 tury or so.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-12
Rome Letter
BY THOMAS B. MORGAN

Rome, (UP)--Vigilant Italian revenue hunters uncovered 675,650 new taxpayers, according to d recent announcement of tho Min istry of Finance. The Fascist campaign to round up tax evaders, relentlessly conducted during the past four years, apparently has found fresh impetus through the pressure of economic conditions.
 Fascist newspapers see the merits of Ferdinand Pecora, spe- cial U. $. senate investigator, in the fact that he exposed tax evaders.
 The 675,G5O new taxpayers de- clared approximately 2,500, ,000,0 900 lire in taxable property and the press hailed the discovery as an exceptionally successful phase in the present campaign.
 War on Tax Evaders.
 The Fascist government has warred against tax evaders ever since its inception, but never be- fore was the drive so carefully planned.
 During the first seven years of Mussolini's rule only half a mill new new taxpayers were found. Tax-evasion, of course, was fla grant in pre-Fascist Italy as we'll, official supporters of the campaign pointed out. Improvements along this line are evident, they de- clared, for the taxable Italian is more submissive through fear of fines than ever before.
 Fascist propaganda centers are of the belief that this amelioration in the individual taxpayers is due to the new moral outlook on life instilled by Fascism.
 "Plutocratic avidity, which is said to be prevalent in America" !" according to an inspired state- ment in the press, Ifs contrary to the tenets of Fascism. The United States has suffered great money losses and greater moral damage through this type of disease" Income Tax Returns Up The largest single group ol declarations analysed by the Italian officials were income-tax returns. This fact was compared | in the press with recent investiga- ton before the senate in Wash. | ington. Ferdinand Pecora, who conducted the investigator wal made the recipient of much eulogy The moro radical news. papers even asserted tha. he understood the task because The il an Italian origin and inspired b, Fascist sentimental The Fascist tax office and 10 patriotic signfficance apparentl, convinced bachelors that it wal their duty to face the music un' | feignedly for next Co the income l tax returns the bachelors e, declarations represented the high est percentage on record.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-12
So They Say.

Propaganda has become one of the major instruments of govern. ment.--Aldous Huxley. af
 Candor compels the admission that America Is a crime-breedins and criminal protecting nation. !, Atty Clarence B. Martin, address
 ing Bar association convention.
 Not me, no sir. I do net borrow money from women, eves when they wear pants. 4A Maurice Chevalier (when asked
 if he borrowed a dollar from
 Marlene Dietrich).
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-12

Somebody had better get in touch with the officials down in Washington who are aiding in putting the Roosevelt emergency program across and tell them to lay off Connecticut. The state was subjected to un- just criticism some weeks ago because, as was alleged, we were not subscribing whole heartedly to the administration plans. That proved false and it was the fault of inter- department ineffieieney as far as we can see. Now Washington says it hasn't received Archibald MeNeil's public works reeommen- dations for the state. He says he forwarded them. It looks as if the forces at Washing ton need an overhauling.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-12
Here, There And Everywhere

presumably, is what he is in busi- ness for. What difference. precise ly, does 1t make If Fritz's raths- keller offers pigs knuckle and sauerkfaut with a stein of beer for 65 cents or the blue plate for 60 cents and tho beer an additional nickel, or if the case is reversed, and customers at beer bar pay enough for their drinks so tha. they may be allowed proAtably to consume galted nuts and sliced sausage? Just where can the line be drawn between what normally composes a meal and what doesn't? Carried to an extreme, un- dor the proposed code. 1t would Dc possible to charge extra for salt, for mustard and for sugar for the coffee. This sort of regulation, aside from the patent impossibillty of its rcement--human inge- nuity being what 1t is---is rother silly stuff and has no place in Q serious code designed to benefit le- gitimate restaurateurs who ere try- ing to mako up some of their losses suffered under prohibition.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-12
Touring Without a Map

The man who wants to get good idea of the way the whole administration re- eoyery program is going to work out can't do much else than come back about two wears from now. The one thing that is <Iear to-day is that all signs fail in time ire the present. We're trying something so eoupIsteIy new that the man who w.ses fo do q little pfognostieatins has re1hins to % on. Everything is adriit'
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-12
CITY AND STATE
 SHORT TERM LOANS
(IIartford Courant)


 When the state of Connecticut announces that 1t will borrow $1,- 000,000 to tide over its treasury until tax returns come in, 1t Is news. Such a necessity has not ex- isted since 1921. But when the city of Hartford repays a loan of $9.- 100000, borrowed also in anticipa- tion of taxes, 1t Is hardly to be considered news at all, just routine business. To borrow millions in this fashion has become an accept ed and customary practice. not only in Hartford but in almost every other city in the state.
 It should not be concluded from this comparison that the state de- serves nothing but unlimited credit. After, all, 1t is carrying along a $4,000,000 deficit from the last biennium, unrecognized except by the hope that tax returns will inc crease business activity. Yet the state has 30 sources of tax income and could at will create others, while the city must content itself in good times and bad with the single tax on property. Far from approach ing a legal debt limit. the state has only one outstanding bond is- sue totaling $13,336.100, which funds are in hand to pay when ii natures in 1886.
 The contrast. bringing out as it does the difference in facts, bringl also to public attention the reason why the tax structure needs atten. ton, why state aid has been sought by many mayors, why there Is poor banking credit for the cities. and lastly why political tenure is % much less stable in them than else. where. Which of the existing eviia are causes and which effects, how far the state is responsible for the troubles of the cities and how fai politics is responsible. it is eleaI for all the confusion that the citiei are at . disadyantage both In the eyes of the state and Co those .oi 1 the taxpayers. They need the enrn' est and disinterested study and as. sisfance of ali intelligent and pub lio-spiritsd eitizsns.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-12
WHAT NO FREE LUNCH9
(New York HeraId-T Tribune


 There is such a thing as absurd regulation and detail even under the best-devised of individual inc dustrial codes. and the threat of the Society of Restaurateurs against tho established institution of free lunch with beer, and possI. bly in the near future with strong er drinks, would seem to be one of these.
 Quite aside from the sentiment tai aspects of the oidtime free lunch. it must be apparent to even primary-schooi eeonomists that the cost of any "free" portion Of food or drink served iH connection with any other portion must be ab. sorbed. in the covering charge if the restaurateur or bar preprletof is to make q preft And pront'
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-12
By RODNEY BUTCHER The Waterbury Democrat Wash- iun.tOn C0rf,aR RnOndent

| | Washington - Consumers, who must pay for the recovery pro- gram, may yet overcome their weakness by organization. | Designed to protect buyers against unfair prices, Q Consum- CTS Council has been established in Washington which its sponsors hope will serve as Q model for other American cities.
 The sponsors include Dr. John A. Ryan of the National Catholic Welfare Council and Gen. Pelham b. Glassford. Presidents or vice. presidents of the local women's groups, civic organizations and la- Dor unions are also on tho oxecu- tive board. Mrs. John Boyle and Matthew r. Boyd, two prominent citizens, nfo respectively chairman land vice. chairman.
 Washington has been divided Into 500 zones with about 250 families in each. Zone chairmen. nearly all women, win receive complaints and check them with the bi.weekly consumers price guide issued. by Dr. Fred C.. Howe, consuniers' counsel at the Agricultural Adjustment Admin intration----as well as with any, thing similar to be issued later by the MIRA Consumers Advisory Board.
 If prices seem reasonable, ex. planation will be made to tho complainant. If excessive the case will be checked again be. fore Q report is laid before the executive board for action. A committee will thgn see the Tee taller.
 Consumer education and pro- tection of honest retailers from profiteering wholesalers is also | planned. The council will aid Howe in his mission of seeing to 1t that farmers, not middlemen, benefit from increased prices. Fi- nanoing? Easy. Each xone chair. man is asked to collect . dollar a month to operate tho central of- fce., An advisory board of profes- sors of economies In colleges here, accountants and other exports here will deal with technical points, on Q volunteer basis.
 Tho Washington group seems farthest advanced, although the U. $. Conference of Mayors re- gently wrote all American mayors to suggest that they organize con. sumner councils
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-12
Personal Health Service (By William Brady, M. 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 and addressed envelope.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-12
To-day's Selected Poem,
SUNBURN

SUNBURN (Mildred Weston in The New York Times) I have retired So far within The prickly shell Which was my skin That I can neither hear Nor see The friends ''''' Who thrust advice at me; 70 Concerning which advice, ought To guard the kernel or my thought For will surely 1T I stir Crack open IAks q chestnut burr!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-12

It was good news to read that Mayor Joe Dutton of Bristol had been renom- mated for office again. He has been mayor of that city for eight years under its present form of non bipartisan government. He is a stauneh democrat in state politics and an im- portant figure in state circles. He is popular ly known and liked in Waterbury and many were glad to hear that he was again in the field for the mayoralty. His election seems down here, to be merely formality.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-12

High tide at Milford Wednesday, Septem. Der l3, 7.20 a. m, daylight time; low tide, 100 p. m. daylight time.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-12

States are beginning to levy stamp taxes on bottled beer Remember when we fought war against stamp tax' But that was on tea.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-12

Victorian days will hardly reurn, but fashion veers back to King Edward who made people dress for dinner. This fashion may be troublesome but it's really better than eating in shorts or bathing suits.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-12
Our Daily Washington Letter Organization Started to Protect Consumers in
 Recovery Program
"Ihe Plowboys' Union"

That hefty subdivision of the Roosevelt "brain trust" in the De- partment of Agriculture--head by Drs. Rex Tugwell, Mordecai Ezekiel and M. L. Wilson has come to be known as "the Flow boys Union."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-12

traps they were supposed to have been out lawed some years back. If they still exist Connecticut is certainly not progressing.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-12

All vehicles must be lighted not later than 7.3S, daylight time. tonight.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-12
Code for Funeral Cars

Concerns which rent funeral cars, hearses and limousines will come under the "Bus-Sig htsee eeing. Transportation" code. Deputy Ad- ministrator Malcolm Muir decided that.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-12
Explalning Mir. Cates

Explaining Mir. Gates
 Ex industrial Administrator Dudley Gates of MIRA had really lost his job weeks before he re- signed. He was no longer func- tioning as Johnson's assistant. Af- ter the lumber code hearing, at which his various critics thought he was more hard -boiled than understanding. he conducted no moro hearings
 The Chicago insurance manss ideas as to labor" role under the recovery act was commonly con sidered fantastic. Johnson is no labor sympathizer. but # he had accepted Gates theory for verti- cal unions, with an implied dis solution of the A. r. of L., he would have been out of e job,
 The split may accentuate the open shop closed shop fight. "Open shop" advocates are the chief mourners over Gates de- parture. They exclaim: Labor Is running wildw
 Democrats on Capitol Hill complain that W. Forbes Nor. gan, Mrs. Roosevelts uncle and personnel director of the Farm Credit Administration, is letting in too many republicans as apprais- CTS. Tho chief appraiser is Ariel F. Cardon, son-in-law of Senator Reed Shoot of Utah.
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