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Milford chronicle., 1935-12-13
LINCOLN CITY

Bernard Ireland, member of the
faculty at Columbia University,
New York City, is visiting his sis
ter and brother-in-law, Mr.. and Mrs.
Harvey Swain and family.
Mrs. India Calhoun is visiting her
daughter and family, Mr.. and Mrs.
Roy Deats, near Middletown.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paris Johnson NOV
ed Monday to the Sackett property,
one mile cast of town.
The properties of Mr.. and Mrs. E..
G. Reed on Greedy avenue have
been newly rooted and many other
improvements made.
Mrs. J. p. Johnson, Mrs. James
Wilkins and sen Marvin and Mrs.
Richard Johnson spent last Thurs
day in Wilmington.
Emil Paarz of Haddon Heights,
N. j., was the weekend guest Of
Miss Blanche Short.
Mrs. Mary Shechler of Philadel-
rhia is spending two weeks with
her daughter and sOn-in-law, Mr..
and Mrs. NJ. c. Brenneman.
Mrs. Edward Fitzgerald spent last
lueSudy III OOFSi Ol q 9HOgpAuS
tour.
Mrs. Lohand Deputy who has
heen in a serious condition for the
past week remains unchanged at
this writing.
Mrs. Helen Mutt, a resident of this
town for more than 20 years, left
last Friday fer Baltimore, Md,
where she will live with her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Florence Clendaniel and
family. Mrs. Mutt will be missed by
her friends and also the many Or
ganizations of which she was a part.
Mrs. Frank Dawson entertained
of friends at a quilting on
of last week.
The supper given by the ladies of
the town for the benefit of the Com
Hall on Wednesday evening
was well patronized. Net receipts
were $35.
The local w. c. r. U. will meet
with Rev. and Mrs. S. L. Handy on
Tuesday afternoon, December II, at
two O'Clock. Text word, Joy" A
full attendance is urged
Home Coming Day will be obser-
YEA at Slaughter Neck Church on
at both morning and eve
ming services. Rev S. L. Handy Will
sneak in tie morning at II o'clock
and Rev. Richard NJ. Green of Chris
lana. will be the guest speaker in
The evening at 1880 o'clock.
Mr.. and Mrs Franklin Dawson, /
Mr.. and Mrs. Woodrow Morgan and |
Emil Paarz of Haddon Heights, N.
Milford chronicle., 1935-12-13
Still Coughing?

No matter how many medicines
you have tried for your cough, chest
cold or bronchial irritation, you can
get relief now with CreomulSion.
Serious trouble may be brewing and
you cannot afford to take a chance
with anything less than Creomul-
sion, which goes right to the seat
of the trouble to aid nature to
soothe and heal the inflamed mem
braneS as the germ-laden phlegm
is loosened and expelled.
Even If other remedies have
failed, don't be discouraged, your
druggist is authorized to guarantee
Creomulsion and to refund your
money if you are not satisfied with
results from the very first bottle.
Get Creomulsion right now. (Adv)
Milford chronicle., 1935-12-13

Instead of bewailing the fact that
we can't have all that we want most
of us should be thankful we don't get
all we deserve.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-03-04
A Thought for Today
Some Pertinent Advice

In an address delivered before the Bridgeport Citizens and Taxpayers Pro- tective League last week Frank J. Bren- nan. a member of the Board of Apportion- n1ent and Taxation of that city, declared that the maximum tax levy on property should be twenty mills. Such statement as this is bound to arouse kindly feelings in the breasts of thousands of home own CTS in any city in the country, Waterbury included. He is quite right in making such an assertion, but he should have pointed out that whatever difference there migh exist between 20 mills and the actual tax rate (if above it) would have to be made up in some other way.
 Right now the American people are laboring under a delusion. It is based on the theory that a government, just the same as man, must live right up to it's income, even go over it if necessary. From a frugal race we have grown into prod igal one. Nothing is too good for the average American citizen nor for the com munity in which he dwells. Give some thing to one man and his neighbor de- mands it. Let one city improve on it's physical outlines and dozen others are copying the idea, perhaps even expanding on it. Imitation may be form of flat tery, but it gets many of us into trouble
 MT Brennan in the course of his talks in which he made the 20 mill tax the highlight suggested national sales tax as the way to relieve the burden on the property owner. He also proposed to re- duce mortgage interest rates to four per cent. The argument behind all such de- mands for lower interest rates is sound Interest rates on savings and commercial deposits have gone down, why not others to preserve the same margin of safety as existed when they were on the rising scale: Interest on unpaid tax bills certainly should not be computed at the rate of nine percent. All must agree on that. That's not fine, it's a sentence.
 There never will be lower taxes until the several governing bodies in the United States take the bit in their teeth and cast off all surplus weight. In short govern ment today is too expensive. It costs too much to get too little service. You won't ruin the efficiency of any form of govern ment nor slow up it's production by casting off obsolete parts, removing the dead wood. Economy in government means economy in taxation. If we insist on po- litical exploitation of every form of government that we have then we must not object to high taxes and wide va riety of them. The two go hand in hand
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-03-04

Sahara was once fertile. So were vast areas of China. now bare and dry.
 Something drastic has to be done about this, even if new weather cycle starts soon, with few seasons of heavier rain fall. Nature has given us warning. The government plan for belts of forest at in- tervals from Canada to Texas will help, but takes time. There may have to be much less blowing and far more planting with quick-growing trees, shrubs and hardy grasses.
 We are coming to our senses, too, about standing water. Instead of draining lakes and drying swamps for new farm land, we have learned that Nature really knew what she was about when she placed those reservoirs there for storage of local and regional moisture, tempering climate, pre- serving soil and supporting many valuable kinds of wild life. So Wisconsin and sev- eral other states are starting to restore their lakes and swamps. Civilized man learns very slowly about Natures balance, but he does learn.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-03-04
Pro and Con

\ The New Deal lately seems to have entered new phase. The first phase was legislative, the second was administrative, and the third, now under discussion, is judicial. There is a wave of court tests to determine the right of the government to do what it has been trying to do about money, about relations of industry and labor, about prices, about conservation of natural resources, about waterpower de- velopment, and so on, in ways which the this depression and prevent future ones.
 tolerated, the administration plans. The climax of that peirod was the acceptance of the governments gold policy by the Supreme Court. But that victory has been followed by small avalanche of ad- verse decisions from minor federal courts. The most important of them so far are those which pronounce unconstitutional the governments right to produce and sell electric power, to control labor rela- tions through Section "A of the Recovery Act, and to regulate wages and prices through MIRA in the soft coal industry.
 These defeats are impressive, as is the language in which some of them are eX- pHessed. On the other hand, there have been, and doubtless will still be, court de- ciaions taking the opposite position, with just as strong language on the other side. At this stage in the administration of The odOre Roosevelt, about 30 years ago, the president was advocating the popular recall of judicial decisions. It doesn't seem likely that the second Roosevelt will do that.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-03-04
So They Say

The only disparity between Italy and Abys- sinia is nj the air. Once that is removed, Abyss sinia has nothing to fear Col Hubert Julian, Harlem's Plying Phantom
 Organize and demand equitable distribution of the earnings of the automobile industry. which made millionaires of owners through exploitation of workers. William Green, A. F. of L. president, to St Louis workers.
 If the government doesn't about the value of the dollar it should repeal it's counter feiting laws.
 Roger Babson, noted economist.
 What is there so holy and sacred about the bolshevik rebime in Mexico that we fill the air with protests about the prosecutions in Ger many. but cannot get even hearing for those who have been persecuted in Mexico? Archbishop Michael J. Curley of Baltimore
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-03-04
Back To Swamps

Flowing the rich prairie sod and contin- uing to blow it, for wheat and other quick crops, was profitable while it lasted. Now, over millions of acres in the plains of the Mississippi Valley and the Northwest, the soil is impoverished Worse still over vast areas it is blowing away. Last summer dust clouds darkened the sky from the sldpes of the Rockies to New England. And only short time ago, in the midst Of winter, there were dust storms again. That is the way deserts are made. The
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-03-04

According to State Senator Julius C. Stremlau of Meriden the personal tax is unpopular" and ought to be repealed. Speaking for several bills that propose it's elimination at legislative hearings in Hart ford last week he declared that some towns in this state make no effort at all to collect the personal tax. Others find it hard to collect the levy. His proposal is that the tax be repealed and similar $2 tax substituted to be known as the old age tax, the proceeds financ- ing the old age pension plan that Con- necticut seems likely to put into effect shortly. We sympathize with the old age pension. We should have it. But what's to be gained by calling a.per- sonal tax an old age pension tax? The taxpayer certainly shouldn't feel any bet ter about paying this lowly $2 simply be- cause it's called by different name. And why should towns show more signs of life in collecting it under new name? We don't quite see the logic in these argu- ments to retain present taxes under new names. A tax is a tax, call it what you will.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-03-04
Small Tax Savings

Sales tax payments may be deducted from federal income taxes. But there's catch. Receipts for those sales taxes have to be saved as proof of payment, and few people have the patience to paste them into a scrap book, or the space to store them as they accumulate. Recent federal taxes paid on cigarets and cosmetics might have been deducted too, but not many peo- pie ever bothered to save the stamps.
 Perhaps the totals are small and out of proportion to the trouble required to keep track of them. But that is an attitude left over from days of general prosperity. Will the American people as whole ever again act upon the principle that "a penny saved is penny earned"?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-03-04
A Book a Day
Depicts Mob's Side Of Revolution
By PURGE CAPTION

Almost every self-respecting novelist has had a crack tat the French Revolution, and the affair has been served up, fictionaliy. with all kinds of emotional sauce.
 But basically the attitude of all these novels Is the same; the ter rorist and the unwashed mobs are the williams, and the victims of the guillotine or the heroes and heroines-with the Little Corporal emerging occasionally as the in- strument of divine Justice.
 We get a new slant at last in "The Black Consul" by Antolli Vinogradov. This author is red Russian and his sympathies are with the proletariat. Robespierre and Marat are his heroes and the men and women they killed are the williams. lass
 The tragedy of the affair is seen not in its terror and bloodshed. but in the reactions that brought the Directory and Napoleon to power. 3t
 The novel is chiefly concerned with the revolution in Haiti. where the black slaves heard dOOuL hDeEly dAA AEatSEAAAyS : pushed their French masters ,in- to the ocean and, under Toussaint LOuverturc, established an. sinde- pehdence which has been main- tained to this day except for oc- casional United States marine corps interludes. ~
 The book. then, Is the story of this remarkable negro, Toussaint, and of Robespierre and Marat.
 It becomes bit dull in the middle. because the author insists on quoting verbatim. for page after page from revolutionary speeches and documents of the time; but in the main it is a tragic and moving book as well worth reading. s9'sss.
 PublIshed By Viking, 1t sells for $2.75. (copyright. 1885. NEA sreyice)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-03-04
TODAY'S COMMON ERROR Never say, "Our mutual friend Mir Brown; say "Our conn mon friend"

o. When was the United States Steel Corporation incorporated?
 A. February 25, 1901, under the laws of New Jersey.
 0. How high is the Empire State Building in New York City?
 A. One thousand two hundred forty-eight feet.
 O. Where in the Bible is the verse: They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed; their silver and theIr gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the Lord"?
 A. Ezekiel 7:19.
 o. What does the name Decker mean?
 A. It is a German family name meaning day.
 Q. Is the World Court the same as the Hague Tribunal?
 A. No. The World Court is an international court accessory to the League of Nations, established in accordance with Article IA of the Covenant of the League. The Hague Tribunal is permanent
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-03-04
(Copyrlght, 1885, by United FeatlIee Syndicate, Inc.)
HARBOR POLLUTION (New Haven Journal-Courier. )


 New Havcners will have no pro- tests when they read the current report of the state water commis- sion. They know they deserve the verbal trouncing they. get thcre and tare only af little assuagcd to see that the castigation is rather general. Our own harbor is an open sewer, our very front yard unfit to bathe in, unfit to fish in, unfit to grow oysters in. We have some sewage disposal plants, but they are inadequate,, and we must go 2 long way to reach the control status of the ordinarily civilized community. We must make up our minds to do so at the earliest pos sible moment. Unpleasant as the New Haven situation is, the report contriyes to make the Naugatuck river pollu- tion seem If anything more horri- ble. The river sweeps into Torr- ington, we readl a sparkling. and vital stream;. but after receiving the raw sewage of some 26.000
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-03-04

dence in the history of the coun- try. %,', EE.
 That vote, according to most DO. litical observers, came from the left. But since then ROoseveIt's chief trend has been to the right. Certainly the PcconstructiOnists of the New Deal who so tcna- ciOus hung on the cOat-tails of Big Business to present too great an accumulation of profits and too fast a recovery without rec form, are now out. Some were transferred, some were fired; all are junked.
 This, together with the in- crease in Big Business profits, is what has played into the hands of Huey Long
 Huey has staged his appeal to the fellows on relief, to the slowly disintegrating m le3- class. In the past they have been solid, conservative, sometimes reactionary. But not now. As an illustration here is the sentiment of typical, middle-class Texan as to how the Roosevelt program Is going:
 "F'ine! Fine! And will continue as long as appropriations last, Then every rat for his hole and God help the ono in last.
 "For job-getting purposes we are still democrats down here, otherwise we are sorter King fishy's'
 That is THE CROSSROAD ROOSEVELT FACES AT THE MID-MIEESTONE OF HIS AD. MINISTRATION.
 MAIL BAG
 J. T. IT., Missoula, Mont.-Un- der an order just issued by the Navy department, universities and colleges having R. O. T. c. units will be allowed to nomin- ate one candidate and one alter nate from their senior classes to take examinations for appoint ment as second lieutenants in the marine corps. Fifty-six commis- sions will be awarded. l.. N., Kirksville. MO.--The govern ment no longer gives away. free seeds. The practice .T was, aban- doned in 1923. IT. G., WiI- mington, DcI.-NRA officials are rather vague about details of their so-called compliance activ- ities. The compliance division claims that it has removed lover 300" Blue Eagles and that about 10 per cent" have been restored. Code enforcement has long been one of the chief weak nesses of the NRA.Ya. w. D., St. Paul, Minn.--Senator Thom- SchaH is not highly regarded by his. colleagues. He has, been several times rebuked for using abusive and unseemly language: ... .. J. J.. w, Chcrrydalc, Va.- Support for Henry Wallace as a , presidentials candidate has come from individuals within the Federal Council of Churches, rather than from the council it. self which never engages in poli- ties. A. c. J., Dalhart, Texas-There are 1,04S private bills introduced in the 73rd session of congress and referred to the committee on claims. The committee acted on 516 of these; some died on the house calendar; 426 survived, carrying total appropriations of $906,- 999.43.
 Copyright, 1885, by United
 FeatlTee Syndicate, Inc.)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-03-04
Selected Poem
I SAW RED BUDS

I SAW HE'D BUDS (Margaret Ashmun in thesChristian Science
 Monitor) I saw red buds upon maple tree When all the branch was tufted white with
 snow;
 And in the riven ice where grass should be Blue scillas showed timid azure row. I saw the tall forsytha, afame
 With golden bells. before a bitter gale Bent all awry: and daffodils that came To gallant bloom in thunder-yusts and hail. For so spring ever is: first cod then warm Alluring, then repelling: fierce, then gay; Now zephyr bland, and now a-stir with storm,- For spring must work in her willful way.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-03-04

people 1t is a dead, gray thing, un- iit for any use for miles below the city" Nor is degradation done;
 Waterbury contributes the sewage of another 100000. and then coints Naugatuck. Steps are being taken in Torrlngton to correct this abuse; the lower cities will follow suit. And New Haven must tend to It's own sewage nrohiey,, Ahara at hnutu.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-03-04
Daily Washington Merry Go Round
-BY DREW PEARSON and ROBERT s. ALLEN N--------

fer Rou an ore eMeryo
 MIRA Agency Dscoses Failure of New Deal Redisbue Wealth. Payros Now Cent Production Declines Onehd While Rich Show In President Seen At Administration At Left Huey TOng
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-03-04
Your Questions Answered

You enn get an nnsWeR Co any ansWeEable question e fact oP tue eerranslon by WFseinB % freaerlek Waterbury tlemorrne. Wnshlngton Dureau. 1oi8 ThiFteenth Street. Washington. Q. c. onrlDulmg THREE eeneb h coin or Dossage stamps for reply. Do n0t use postal cards. Medical and tegni ndviees eannOt be given noR can extended Resenreh be made. All other questions will receive . personal reply. LetteRs without name or nddFeas eannOt be- am- swered. All letteFN are e0mGdem- tlal. You are cordially invited to make use of this free service as often as yOu please.
 THE EDITOR.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-03-04

Washington, March 4-During the first few. months of his ad- ministration Franklin Roosevelt emphasized the following objec- tives as the two most Important in the New Deal.
 i. A redistribution of wealth whereby the average citizen might have greater buying pow CT, thus enriching the entire country and. breaking up the concentration of wealth in the hands of 0 few. s;
 2. The; attainment of recon ,struction more h a n recovery; in other words, rebuilding the economic structure so as to erase, the periodic peaks and valleys of prosperity and de- pression. 3
 With Roosevelt now midway through his term, 1t is not un- reasonable to make an appraisal of how far those objectives have been attained to date.
 Aln most simultaneously on reaching the midway milestone, the MIRA research and planning division issued Q report which gives a general, and certainly not an anti-administratio answer to these questions.
 It published figures showing that although payrOlls In Dccem- Der 1884 were only about 60 per cent of the total i'm 1928. divi- dcnds and interest were 1850 per cent of their total in 1926.
 This, continued the MIRA re- port, "the income enjoyed by those who received dividends and interest was 50 per cent higher than in 1928, even though the national income has declined nearly 40 per cent since t hat date and volume of production has declined one-third." RICH MAN-POOR MAN
 In other words, there has been no redistribution of wealth. On languagc-the rich have b c getting richer and the poor have been getting poorer.
 Other government figures bear this out.
 The internal revenue figures on income taxes show that dur ing 1883. the first year of the, New Deal. the 5000 people who had incomes of $50, 0,000 or over increased their accumulation of wealth by ten per cent, while the n nfr hxy 1 per cent.
 Meanwhile the number of peO pic reporting incomes less than $5,OOO dwindIcd. In other words, the middle class has be g u n to disintegrate.
 During the same period the net income of corporations in- creased by 35 per cent while the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-03-04

1. Who was the tfounder ot Pennsylvania7
 2. Who was Dudley Buck?
 8. Name the organizer and leader of the volunteers of Amer, ica." '
 4. Who was Emile zola? z
 5. How many points has Nal. tesce cross?
 6. Which country is the largest producer of silver?
 2. How did the name Percheron for a breed of horses originate?
 8. Name the capital of Afghan istan.
 g. Which state does William E. Borah represent in the U. s. senate?
 10. What is a kedge?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-03-04

We. don't know how many people heard what Hilaire Belloc said in his public ap- pearance at Town Hall, New York, last week, but he certainly uttered the prover- bial or lingual mouthful. He stressed the point that capitalism has failed. His so- lution of present day economic evils was restoration of property by inculcating in mankind the desire to own something Liberty and ownership must be taught as inseparable, he claimed. And to enable ownership to be practiced he urged laws preventing heavy property owners in- creasing their holdings, thus enabling the small owner to find something worth while Property alone breeds liberty.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-03-04


 international arbitration court es. tabiished in 1899 by the Hague Conference. N Q. Who was the author of these words: How shall l curse whom God hath not cursed?"
 A. They are recorded in che book of Numbers 23:8 in the Old Testament, and were spoken by Balaam 'to Balak.
 Q. Can a person be a citizen oi a state of the U. S., without being an American citizen?
 A. No. ]
 ' Q. What is the specific gravity of mercury?
 A. About 13.59. SFE
 c. What is whitehall.
 A.. The name is applied to sev- eral species of small, immature fish. In California, where the greatest commercial catch is ob- tained, 1t is a species of smelt. ID the New England district, 1t is ap. piled to small immature herring.
 Q. What is a poltergeist?
 A. A ghost or spirit that makes it's presence known by any kind of a chatter, such as knocking. or moving objects around. Jt-
 Q. In which state is the town of Santa Claus7
 A. Indiana. & f ----- a.ttI
 If yOn want a copy of our bHl- letin SEA FOODS, writct to Tine Waterbury Democrats Washing ton Bureau, enclosing five cents in postage stamps.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-03-04

Those old age pensions will have to start a good deal earlier in life, if industry in general refuses to hire men over 40.