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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-27
NINE HIGHWAY
 l JOBS PLANNED
Commissioner Macdonald Calls for Bids on PrO-
 gram of Work

Highway Commissioner John A. Macdonald has called for contrac- tors bids on nine town aid road projects, involving nearly g 1-2 miles of surface improvement and the construction of two bridges. The work will be done in the towns of Glastonbury, Lyme, Prospect, Shell ton, Sprague, Trumbull, Voluntown, Windsor oLcks and Woodstock.
 Largest of the new jobs will be that in Glastonbury where 2,800 feet of Chestnut Hill road will be paved with waterbound macadam, Orchard Lane road will be treated with 1,118 feet of rolled gravel, and 20-foot reinforced concrete bridge and approaches will be built on Was suck road. The Prospect project also calls for waterbound macadam pavement, measuring 3,812 feet, on the back Waterbury road and the Straitsville road. Alternate bids on 2,042 feet of bituminous macadam or asphaltic concrete on Bridge street and Coram avenue in Shell ton; and 1928 feet of bituminous macadam, measuring 1928 feet, and 2,317 feet of bituminous macadam gutters will be built on five sections of road in Windsor Locks.
 The second bridge will be a cor rugated, metal arch span over Gravellly brook in Woodstock. The Woodstock project also includes re- pairs to Spaulding bridge and Will COX bridge. The other projects en- tail gravel surfacing on varying lengths of road.
 Sealed bids will be received from contractors at the headquarters of the state highway department in the state office building Hartford, un- til ? p. nl., Monday, October II.
 The work announced by Commis- sioner Macdonald is briefly described as follows:
 Town Aid Projects
 Glastonbury-About 2,S00 feet of waterbound macadam on Chestnut Hill road, 1,118 feet of rolled bank run gravel on Orchard Lane road, and 20-foot reinforced concrete bridge and approaches on Wassuck road.
 Lyme-About 7,O5O feet of rolled bank run gravel on the Grassy Hill road.
 Prospect-About 3,812 feet of wa terbound macadam on the Back Waterbury road and the StraitSville road.
 Shelton-Alternate bids for about 2,042 feet of bituminous macadam or Colprovia process asphaltic con- crete on Bridge street and Coram avenue.
 Sprague - About 6,101 feet of rolled bank gravel on Franklin road, Pautipaug Hill road and La Croix road.
 Trumbull-About 4,509 feet of rolled bank run gravel on Porter Hill road and Broadway.
 Voluntown-About 12,871 feet of rolled bank run gravel on Wylie School road.
 Windsor Locks-About 1926 feet of bituminous macadam and about 2,3l7 feet of bituminous macadam .gutters on five sections of road.
 WoodStock-A corrugated metal arch bridge at Gravelly Brook and repairs to Spaulding bridge and Wilcox bridge.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-27
Buyers Boost Market Higher To Open Week
Bonds Steadier-CottOn Futures Made Advance;
 Railway Shares Were Very Prominent in Upturn

gomery Ward, Western Union, American Telephone, AtchiSon, Southern Pacific, Pennsylvania Rail- road, Baltimore & Ohio, and Good year.
 Chrysler opened 2,500 shares at 91 up 4 and General Motors on 2,000 shares was up 3-8 at 45.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-27
RATHER HIDES IN BUREAU

Bixby, Okla. (Ul.j-A rattlesnake reared its head when l0-year-oll Imogene Combs opened a dresser drawer in her farm home east of here to get some clothes. Mrs. M. A, Combs, the girls mother. aided by other members of hte Combs family, tossed the drawer outdoors and kill ed the snake.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-27
N. '. Bank & Trust Stocks
 The R. Y. Griegs Co.
MACHINES CHANGE MONEY

London (UP) - Machines which give within a second of a coin being inserted and a ticket immediately after, are the latest London Pas senger Transport Board inovation. After secret tests, 27 of the machines were placed in the service at Pic cadilly Circus. They deliver tickets and give change 25 times a minute.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-27
BY ARTHUR N. sUvERKRUP Limited Press Staff Correspondent


 Calexico, Cal, September 27. - The worlds largest irrigation canal will be completed within the next two months, at least by November l.
 Engineers in charge of the exca- vation of the O,0O0, 900 project said their work now is in its final stages.
 When completed, and water is turned into the big ditch, the therat of disastrous summer drouth, and equally disastrous Colorado River floods forever will be eliminated from the Imperial Valley - melon basket of the United States.
 The flood control feature of the canal will operate in connection with that other gigantic project of the Southwest-the Boulder Dam.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-27
HANDCUFFED MAN CAUGHT

WiIilmantic, Conn, Sept. T-- (UP)-New York police notified To- cal authorities today that Harry Ereshena, 20. Mansfield, who es- capped here last week wearing hand cuffs and minus 8 shoe, had been captured in that citly while riding with truckload of chickens.
 Ereshena, paroled from Cheshire reformatory, was arrested Tuesday while allegedly. attempting, to bur- Slarize a department store.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-27
KILLED NEAR CHURCH

Laocnia, N. H., Sept. 26-UP)- Mrs. Estelle Gray, "A. was killed by an automobile last night as she stepped from South Baptist church into the street.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-27
ARIZONA PSYCHOLOGISTS UNCOVER ~ 7OO- YEAR OLD SUN WORSHIP CENTER
 OF THE PUEBLO INDIAN CULTURE
-Acn,e TeIephOtO
BY CARL McCLUNG United Press Staff Correspondent

Kinishba Fort Apache, Ariz. Sept 27-(UP)-Linking the prehistoric dweers this ancient pueblo with highly cultured civilizations of the Salt River and the Little Cobra do finds of expedition being shipped from the ruin to the state at the University of Arizona
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-27
MORE ABOUT TAXES
-----MoRE ABOUT TAXES -- By John I. Flynn Spectre Of Taxes To Finance Unavoidable Spending Puts
 Brake On Business Boom
BY JOHN T. FLYNN

New York, Sept. 27 - We have now seen that the government has paid out billions of dollars in re- covery and relief expenditures to millions of people who are custom CTS of our business men and that all of these billions have thus promptly made their way into bus mess. We have seen also that the government has obtained all of these billions by borrowing them at the banks.
 Now we can see what the effects of this have been.
 First, it is perfectly obvious that this has produced a powerful lift in business. Men have gone back to work and they in turn, drawing wages, spend those wages with the merchants. And the profits of bus mess have returned.
 Second, certain psychological re- suits have taken place. One is that the great majority of people accept this all at its face value and say fatly that we have recovered. This creates confidence in their minds and puts them in spending mood
 Next, a large number of more observing people have concluded that this immense infusion of gov erntnent credit is the prelude to 8 considerable imitation. They believe that the forces making for imitation once set in motion are too power full to be easily or quickly checked. If imitation comes they believe, rightly, that prices will go up, wages will go up and that, therefore, the value of the dollar will be reduced. This makes them hesitant about lending money. Instead 1t encour- ages them to put their money into stocks-equities which have a bet ter chance to rise with the imitation. This has created very large de- mand for so-called good stocks.
 
 Biggest" Boom
 Was Predicted
 The presidents money policies have produced the same effect. The president has devalued the dollar, cutting down its gold content by 40 per cent. Many economists and many investors believe this is an in- evitable force pressing toward infla- tion. It has resulted in the influx of FIVE BILLION DOLLARS in gold, another energy working for infia- tion.
 Then there was, beginning in September, 1886, a very influential school of financiers and economists who decided that the spending program, plus the governments resolution to avoid taxing as much as possible, plus the governments borrowing policies which required an easy money market would have three effects:
 1. That we could be assured of easy money for some years.
 2. That the government spend- ing had primed the pump of bus mess and that we were about to see a tremendous expansion of the heavy construction industries.
 3. That great shortages have piled up in houses, commercial building, plant machinery, rail- road equipment, utility facilities and that these would surely re- suit in taking advantage of the easy money market and the ris- ing tide of business to make large security offerings and embark on extensive building programs.
 Altogether, they concluded we were on the eve of the greatest boom in history. And they sold this idea to very large number of in- |
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-27

GOVERNMENT spending lifted business out of the depression V Why should not continued spending about continued % the industrial examined by John T. Flynn writer NEA Service and The Waterbury Democrat this concluding article of his
 series MORE ABOUT TAXES
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-27

moment when it should have strged on.
 (2) As a result of discussions the country suddenly became conscious of the means by whic hit had re- covered. In other words, the gov- ernment borrowing program came to be more generally understood. The warnings of economists and others for several years began to sink in.
 (3) It has also suddenly been driven into the minds of business men that this vast flood of credit, which drove business forward, is now a burden. It was credit. It is now debt. It must be stopped, they say. But if we stop it, what then? What will take its place? If we stoy using I. O. us we must. use cash. That means taxes.
 Of course they would like to see spending stopped. But it can't be just stopped overnight. We have created a machine which must be kept running and if dismantled at, all, must be dismantled slowly. Moreover we have driven the whole economic life of the country to a much higher price level. We have to keep 1t there. And behind all this looms the ominous word-TAX- ES
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-27

More than one-third of Italy's alcohol Is now obtained from sugar heet9. " .....-.-.-l !. .uI
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-27
PRETTY WEDDING
 IS HELD TODAY
Fellowship Night to Be Observed - Assembly
 Held at South School
OAKVIILE

Oakville, Sept. 27 - An attrac- tive wedding took place this morn. ing at 800 o'clock at St. Mary Magdalen's church, when Miss Madeline Ursal Vaicekauskas daughter of IT.: and rMs. Joseph Vaicekauskas, Of French street, be- came the bride of Joseph Donald Masi, son of MT. and Mrs. Donald Masi of French street. The church was prettily decorated with palms, ferns and cut flowers The organist, Mrs. Maud Donahue arranged special program of we'd ding music.
 e'sB Rev. Thomas McGarry, pastor performed the ceremony and nup- tial mass which followed in the pres ence of a large gathering of rela- tives and friends.
 The maid of honor was Miss Dora Filipone, and the best man, Alfred Rinaldi.
 The bride wore gown of white satin, princess style, with train, high reckline, long sleeves, puffed at the shoulder and tight fitting to the finger tip. She wore long veil of tulle, caught in cap shape with 8 crown of orange blossoms, and car- ried a shower bouquet of white roses, lilies of the valley and swan sonia.
 The maid of honor, Miss Filipone wore a gown of changeable moire, princess style, puff sleeves. She wore a silver colored hat, and silver shoes. She carried bouquet of deep pink roses and delphinium.
 The brides mother wore black silk dress with a corsage of garden ias.
 The groom's mother wore a green silk dress with corsage of gardenias.
 A reception was held at Quakers Inn, Watertown avenue, after the ceremony. About three hundred guests attending.
 The brides gift to her attendant was a bracelet with blue saphires. The bridegrooms gift to the best man was a birthstone ring.
 MT. and Mrs. Masi left later in the day by motor on a wedding trip to Canada. The bride wearing @ moroon tweed suit with accessories to match. Upon their return they will reside on French street.
 Fellowship Night
 Fellowship night is to be observed at the Union Congregational church Thursday evening, October 7th, sponsored by the members of the Fellowship committee. The elected committee are: John Mclean. chair man, Mrs. John Mclean, MT. and Mrs. David Roger, MT. and Mrs. Robert Whiteside, James Florian, Miss Ruth Clinton, and Miss Esther Ericson. Stunts and games and @ general good time is being arranged. This has been a time of good fel- lowship each year. A special invita- tion is extended to all those who have joined the church during the past year.
 Briefs
 Minstrel rehearsal at the Union Congregational church hall Mon- day evening at 7:3O o'clock under the direction of Grover Baldwin and Sumner A. Libbey. The young people of the parish who are inter- ested should report at that time.
 Oakville Congregational church is | for the devotional per- od over WATR Monday, Tuesday | md Wednesday morning at goo a. n. .,a...
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-27
Question of Texas Demands Action

Question of Texas .t.. Demands Action
 Thus the mind of the country stood and thus the price structure of goods and stocks stood. Had there been no European or Asiatic scare this must have brought about a stock market decline soon any. way. Stocks went down because they went up too fast and they went up on series of false assumptions.
 They will probably go up again a little more slowly and then topple again. But in the meantime is 1t not quite plain that the nation must now settle down a little sober ly and meet these grave questions of taxes and national credit before they go so far Chat dealing with them will be impossible?
Evening star., 1937-10-31
NEW MODEL CARS
ACCLAIMED BEST
Head of Washington Auto
motive Trade Body Praises
New Models.
BY OSCAR COOLICAN.
President Washington Automotive Trade
Association.

Association.
Those progressive minded thousands
who will visit the Automobile Show
this week will find awaiting their in
spection fascinating and still further
improved cars Without exception
each one of the 1888 cars is better
than the model which it has replaced.
The motor car industry's greatest
guaranty of the future is the fact that
automobiles long ago Joined food,
Evening star., 1937-10-31

groups. The well-posted shopper who
makes survey of the entire market is
better able to make a wise selection in
the price group which best fits his
purse.
The time element can make or break
sale. This is appreciated by many
motorists in the smaller cities, where
it is not unusual for prospects to take
week end trips in demonstration cars.
If the prospect isn't welded to the car
by this process he knows for GER
tainty that he would be making a mis-
take by purchasing it. Or at least he
thinks he does. Maybe the car has not
been representative of the entire line.
perhaps it wasn't adjusted to do its
best.
If the trip is too long the prospect
may feel that he has imposed upon the
dealer. This isn't conducive to care
full selection The prospect may feel
obligated to buy the car even though
he doesn't like it.
Moderation is preferable. The DEM
ostration shouldn't be confined to a
whirl around a too conventional course.
Fifteen minutes isn't time enough to
Judge any car. Even half hour is
rather limited. The concensus prob
abuy would pick an hours time as
about the right interval for getting a
line on what car will and will not do.
This should include starting the en-
gine cold, If possible, and some traffic
driving.
Evening star., 1937-10-31
Bureau of Roads
Aids 22,OOO-Mile
High,cayP Program
Most OF Work, Done in
80, Was in CO-Operd.
ton With States.

More than $4,000 miles of highway
of all classes were completed under
the supervision of the Bureau of Pub
lie Roads in the fiscal year that ended
June 80. BY far the greater portion
of this work was done in cooperation
with State highway departments and
under detailed State supervision. In
this class were II ,401 miles of road
financed in large part with special
emergency funds and 1857 miles Of
regular Federal-aid work.
Notable progress was made in the
Federal program of elimination of
hazards at grade crossings in which
1,149 crossings were eliminated, STA
were protected with signals or other
devices and 1876 separation structures
were reconstructed. The Federal bu-
reau points out that this work is i'm
portant because it includes many of
the most dangerous crossings on
heavily Travelled routes that have
heretofore been neglected because OF
the large cost.
Payments of Federal funds to States
on account of the above work totaled
S337,747,071. At the close of the fis-
Evening star., 1937-10-31
Use the Spare and Save It.

Disuse brings rapid deterioration to
tires, the Keystone Automobile Club
points out. The spare" should be
shifted to a wheel at regular intervals.
Evening star., 1937-10-31
DIVERSION DRAWS
FIRE OF OFFICIALS
Nearly $1,000,000 in Taxes Paid
by Motorists Here Used for
Non-Road PuSnoses.

A total of nearly S1,000,00 of taxes
paid by District Of Columbia motorists
was diverted from the road fund and
spent for non-highway purposes dur
ing 1896, according to Washington I.
Cleveland. manager of the A. A. A.
District of Columbia Motor Club
Basing his statement on Official
Government figures, Mr.. Cleveland said:
The Bureau OF Public Roads, which
keeps an annual check on the collec-
tions and expenditures of State gov
ernments, found that last year 35
States and the District of Columbia
dipped into the road fund to the tune
of approximately s170,000,0oo.
This gigantic sum of money. repre-
senting taxes paid by 100000 motor
lists, was spent for a wide variety OF
purposes having no connection with
either highway development or trafhc
control. Some ss0,000,0O0 was dumped
into the State general funds, s37,000,-
900 for relief of unemployment or
destitution, s33,000,000 for schools and
the remainder for a miscellaneous
assortment of revenue needs.
However deserving are such things
as schools and unemployment relief,
their requirements should be met by
levies on the people as whole and
the costs should not be saddled on the
motorists alone. Motor taxes are spe-
cial levies for a special purpose and
motorists are entitled to a dollars
worth of roads for every dollars worth
Of taxes collected.
1.-THE most tragic aspect Of the d.
version picture is the fact that every
time State government dips into the
highway fund it adds Just that much
more to the traffic hazard. Every
available dollar is needed to build the
maximum of safety into our highways.
for in that direction lies one Of the
most effective solutions Of the safety
! problem"
Evening star., 1937-10-31

proved their less-than-carload busi-
ness through use of trucks in pickup
and delivery service.
When trucks first appeared, their
operating costs per unit, except for
very short hauls under ideal condi-
tions, were higher than those of the
railroads. AS better roads were con-
structed and automotive technology
improved, the cost of motor vehicle OPP
GRAFTON decreased. Motor carriers fol-
lowed by extending the network OF
their lines.
Oppose Railroad Control.
Knowing that the needs Of the coun-
try can be served best by co-ordinated
rather than monopolistic transporta-
ton, shippers have frowned on at
tempts Of railroads to muscle in" on
the trucking industry. Shippers are
cognizant that railroad management
of truck lines would tend to straight
jacket them. destroying their flexi-
bility. The National Industrial Traf-
fc League is on record with the In
terstate Commerce Commission to tht
effect that, to foster the inherent adj
vantages of motor transportation, rail-
road control Of trucking firms shoulc
be limited to operations auxiliary ol
adjunctive to rail service.
Regulation of motor transportation
by the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion and the various State commits
sions must have as its ultimate goa
the preservation of free. flexible
economical highway service. adapted u
the needs of the industrial and bust
ness life of the country. Shippers
as well as motor carriers, have a stak'
in the future Of truck transportation.
Evening star., 1937-10-31
BEST TECHNIQUE
FOR TESTING CARS
Demonstration of New Ma
chine important Part
of Buying.

Does the American motor car buyer
need a demonstration in how to take
an automobile demonstration?
Many automobile men believe that
this question should be answered in
the affirmative. They maintain that
too many rides in the new cars are
merely perfunctory, and that the DEM
onstrations are of no value in helping
the prospect toward a proper selection.
1t is the opinion of many men along
automobile row that the demonstration
ride is often merely the prospects way
of getting what he feels he is entitled
to by way of sales service.
This view is supported by motor
men. who say that often motorists will
insist upon a demonstration even
though they are entirely sold on the
car and are ready to sign on the
dotted line. Nothing that would hap
pen during the demonstration would
make them change their minds. They
just want their moneys worth.
A more open mind on the subject
would result in far greater success in
picking winners. according to the
trades view of the subject. 1t is i'm
portant not merely to try all cars in
the price class selected. but also a
few cars in other price classifcations.
Only by doing this will it be possible
to obtain an idea as to the differences
in performance between different price
Evening star., 1937-10-31
CAREFUL OWNER LIKELY
TO BE BETTER IN PINCH

The man who regularly takes his
car in for complete fabrication is more
likely to be meticulous about the
way he handles his car in difficult
situations than his contemporary who
takes chance on having the steering
connections go dry. 1t isn't that these
steering connections will not with
stand a reasonable amount of neglect,
but simply that the habit of letting
things slide eventually works havoc
with the drivers record. Granted
that some drivers may lean over back
ward in their effort to baby the
car there is little justification for the
fear that too much concern for the
cars welfare may make the driver
less interested in the skill needed to
handle 1t safely. 1t works mostly the
other way. Today's most skillful
drivers-and thus the days safest
know their cars intimately.