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Evening star., 1939-09-12

PACKARD 1888 ''IHU" 4-dr. touring sedan:
beautiful green finish heater equipped
very low mileage: appearance and mechani-
cal condition are equal to new: price re-
duced TO S195 today only PACKARD
a4th and NJ sts NV RE 0145
Evening star., 1939-09-12

STUTz 1928 BIB. town car. black nttls
used; stored for past three years. in per-
feet condition Excellent for hacker;
$4,000. See Mr. Jefferis, Evening Star
Garage, s41 End st. s.e.. or National 5000.
Evening star., 1939-09-12
BUSINESS PROPERTY FOR RENT.

A DESIRABLE AND ATTRACTIVE BUS1-
ness or professional location on the second
floor of 1363-1365 Conn. ave-. at a MOD
crate rent
EDWARD KOHNER.
SO2 Woodward Building
National 4493.
Evening star., 1939-09-12

dan: paint, tires. motor and general con-
dition of this fine Car far above the aver
age; low in price at S495; terms to suit you
present car in trade. MCKEE SERVICE
CENTER. HG12 Wis ave n " Wis R1R1
Evening star., 1939-09-12

PLYMOUTH 1888 P. C. Model coupe; in
unusually good condition: very economical
car: priced at only S145; terms. STAND
ARD MOTOR SALES. 1908 14th st. NV
Evening star., 1939-09-12

PLYMOUTH 1898. 2-door sedan: original
gun-metal finish like new, low mileage by
one careful owner, 5 very good tires. clean
interior; splendid and economical car for
only 500. L. p. Steuart. Inc, 1925 14th
st NV Decatur 44O2
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-04-07

Boys in nearby Maryland or Vir-
ginia, however, who do not have
holiday from school throughout the
week may arrange to take the les
sons at hours convenient to them.
Glasses will enter the pool each
day, during the course of instruc-
ton, on the hour from am: to
8 pm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-04-07
'Learn-to-Swim'
Plan Endorsed
ByMaj. Brown
Y. M. G. A.-Stur
Campaign Praised
As Safety Factor

The boys "Learn-to-Swim Cam
paign," to be conducted April 10 to
IS by the Central Young Mems
Christian Association in co-opera-
ton with The Star, was declared
yesterday by Maj. Ernest w. Brown,
superintendent of police, to be IAN
outstanding contribution to the
safety and health of the youth of
our community"
Declaring he wished to Endorse
and commend most highly" the
program of the campaign, Maj.
Brown said:
II am sure that the annual Learn
to-Swim Campaign has been
contributing factor in reducing water
casualties during the summer sea-
son, and I wish to express to you
the appreciation of the Metropolitan
Police Department for this splendid
program"
Adds Safety for Others.
Maj. Brown emphasized the value
of swimming both for ones own
safety as we'll as for the safety of
others, adding: THE inability to
swim very often endangers the lives
Of others. for even a good swimmer
finds it hazardous to rescue ter
rorized non-swimmer."
Boys who wish to take advan-
tage OF the opportunity to learn
how to swim must register by noon
tomorrow in the boys Y. M. c. A.
building, 1882 G street NV, where
they will receive swimming instruc-
ton In the boys pool E. Holt
Neese, boys swimming instructor
at the "Y," and William T. Fry,
associate boys work director there,
have an ample corps of instructors
and assistants and have arranged
to instruct $50 boys.
Another Course for Colored Boys.
Colored boys who want to learn
to swim must register by noon
tomorrow at the Twelfth Street
Branch Y. NJ c. A., 1916 Twelfth
street NV. where they also will be
given instruction by a corps of
experts.
The campaign will be conducted
during the Easter holidays so as not
to interfere with school programs
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-04-07

Final Reports Due Today
In Bows Club Drive

Final reports on the Metropolitan
Police Boys Club campaign to raise
$4,000 were to be made at lunch
con meeting today at the Cosmos
Club. Volunteers have already raised
$68,50O and the last reports are ex-
pected to push the total nearer the
goal.
The money subscribed will be
used to maintain the work of five
club units and the summer camp at
Scotland, Md, during 1899.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-09
CHEMICAL GROUP
 MEETS SATURDAY
Connecticut Valley Sec- ton to Hold Dinner
 in Springfield

The February meeting of the Con- necticut Valley Section of the Amer ican Chemical society will be held at the Springfield Turn verein at 4:30 p. m. Saturday February II. Chairman Philip s. Barnhart will preside. The nomination of Joseph s. Chamberlain as Councillor will be voted on at this meeting. A dinner will follow the meeting.
 Dr. Clarke E. Davis, production manager and vice president of the Virginia Dare Extract Company will speak on "The Modern Wine Industry" Dr. Davis graduated from Michigan State Normal Col lege in 1909 and later received his Ph. D. degree at Columbia Univer- sity. He taught chemistry at Mi- chigan State Normal College, Utah College, and Columbia University from 1907-1920. He was chief chem ist and consulting chemical engineer for the National Biscuit Company from 1917-1929, and was production manager for the same company from 1929-1932. He has been con- nected with the Virginia Dare Ex- tract Company since 1882 and has been vice president since 1884. His research work has included de- termination of the freezing point curves and densities of denatured alcohol-water mixtures, jell strength viscosity and surface tension of gels and sols. He has investigated va rious characteristics of shortening and has worked out a chart of in- dicators useful for PHI measure ments.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-09
COMMUNISM Vs DEMOCRACY Editor Atlantic Monthly French War Heros Official Visit War-Torn Chief Factor StruggRu "Reds" Country Months Before Italian Legion

proof against fatigue, eager to keep going the last day as the first. They did not have the equipment at the disposal of our (French) units in action; however, they knew enough to make the best of what they had"
 General Duval has praise also for for the Moroccan troops in the Na- tionalist service. "It has been said, he writes, "that the native troops represent an element of barbarous savagery. Our own experience, how ever, has taught Us that Moroccan troops, under European leadership conduct themselves in a way beyond reproach. The high degree of d<s- cipline in the Moroccan regiments, might well have been an example to the anarcho-syndicalists of Bar celona."
 Anti-Aircraft
 General Duval finds that infantry is still supreme in battle and notes that the greatest advance in mate- rial since the World War has been in anti-aircraft artillery. Spain has been 8 proving ground for many new weapons. Some of them, like the soviet tanks captured by Gen. eral Franco's Moors with army blankets and bottles of kerosene, failed in action. It is notable that neither side has employed gas. Milf tary tactics remain fundamentally the same, varied only by the ex- treme ruggedness of most of the Spanish battlefronts. There has been greater use of infantry in pro- portion to artillery support than was the practice in the World War Nationalist practice has been to use light artillery as accompany ing guns, the gunners usually open ing on targets in direct sight. Air craft has been employed principally for bombing, to assist the infantry in clearing strongly fortified posi- tions and for distant reconnais- sance. Nearly all planes are used in formation; the individual flyers of 1914 are rare, except such extra ordinary officers as Major Garcia Morato of Franco's forces who, or one occasion, is cited as having en- gagged single-handed more than g score of Russian planes, shooting down three and escaping with g whole skin.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-09
GRACE WHITE
 BEFORE BOARD.
Welfare Superintendent to Outline Departments
 Appropriation Request

Miss Grace L. White, superinten- dent of welfare, is expected to ap- pear before the board of finance at the 4 o'clock meeting today to out line the welfare departments re- quest for an appropriation of $250. the city's share in a WPA clean ing project which employees more than score of men and women. Currently, one of the cieaning crews is engaged in fumigating and re- habilitating the office of Controller Sherwood L. Rowland and that of ficial has had to use the outer of flee during this week.
 Another matter, contingent on the presence of Commissioners John H. Goss, who has been out of the city for the past month, is the petition of Mir. Rowland for an audit of the tax collectors accounts. The controller, at various times, has told the board that his limited staff" was unable to conduct more than limited audit" of the tax collectors office for 1888; that he felt there should be an audit cov- ering the years 1930-38.
 The commissioners are agreed, In substance, on the matter but await ed the return of MT. Goss to deter mine ways and means. An audit for the length of time proposed by the controller would cost an estimated $75, 1000 to $100,000, it was predicted.
 Before MT. Rowland the office underwent annual audits provide by charter.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-09

echoed the sentiment of & large part of the middle class. There were even workers and peasants who had begun to feel that if they had to die, they might as well die with their boots n. The government no longer defended their rights-not even the right to live; they had be- come pariahs. If ever rebellion were a duty, by the very doctrines of the revolution, 1t was then. Speak ing to an American newspaperman in August, 1936, the Republican phil- osopher, Miguel de Unamuno said, The Spanish civil war is a strug- gle between civilization and an- archy.'"
 Italian Legion
 As to the war itself, General Duvals observations have @ novel interest. He takes sharp issue with critics who disparage all Italian troops saying:
 "The Italian Legion, being an in- dependent entity, has come in for special attention. Many fantastic SVOIlCo COllCCI44llS lt d4C Cu4A C4ios It is said to have arrived in Spain fully organized, made up of ele- ments borrowed from the Italian army. Nothing could be further from the truth.
 "The. Italian Legion was organ ized in Spain early in 1887. For the most part it was recruited from Black Shirt ranks after the Ethiop- ian campaign. The rest are men in search of adventure, dreamers, or idealists eager to stamp out com- munism.
 "The Italian Legion does not in army; it has next to nothing to do any way correspond to the regular with 1t. Like the Spaniards, how ever, the Italians have made a good sho, ing in battle. The men are dis ciplined, patient and courageous: their officers intelligent, quick-wit- ted, and eager for action. A study of the Santander campaign shows them men of action, good tacticians,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-09

Heard in passing Mrs. Susanne Fox Druta honors the Tower with ticket for the Second Annual Concert of the Waterbury Chorsters which being held tonight in the Hotel Elton ballroom Mrs Drufa will direct the group. familiar law firm in Connecticut legal cir cles is intact more. Announcement was made m reioined the firm of Cummings and Lockwood after a soiourn in Washington D. C., during which time he was Attornev General John B. Goss and Fred Kellogg were among many Waterburians witnessing the Ice Follies at the New Haven Arena Tuesday night. Incidentally Harris Legge the Waterbury boy who eft this city at an early age to become famous in Canadian skating circles equaed his worlds record Tuesday night at the skating show by leaping over 12 barrels.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-09
LUMBER DISPLAY
 BROUGHT TO CLOSE

Architects, engineers, and con- tractors of Waterbury were among the 125 present in The Elton last night at a dinner and entertain ment which concluded the annual two-day display of the Connecticut Lumber Go. Modern trends in building and construction materials were discussed.
 Speakers included R. E. Donnelly, Edwin s. Hunt, treasurer of the Waterbury Savings Bank, M. K. Douglas, of New Britain, and David Breinig, of New York.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-09

So help me. . At a local eatery the other eve ming during Hull in the busy routine of serving foamy studs the phone suddenly ting-a-linged The bar. tender on duty answered it and this following bit of repartee took place. Hello" Say" said the voice, "Is that the Lone Ranger you're listening to over your radio?" Yeah, why?" said the barkeep. Turn it up a little louder, will you? want to hear it." responded the voice. Who's this calling, =. Who's calling! This is JESSE JAMES,, answered the wit the telephone receiver and quickly hung up The barkeep is still travelling around in fog endeavoring to discover the jokester.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-09
Tall Tower
 Topics
Good Evening.
SPRING ANT HERE
BY THE MAN IN THE TOWER

Chillblains may have you down. You're working the mentho drops overtime, They try to kid you Springs on the way, With the streets all ice and snow and grime Windows may be full of lovely things That hint a breath of Spring, But the garbage pails froze to the ground So how in heck can we sing Of Spring Spring lovely Springl And all those things so nice, When the furnace is burning up oil And the back yards sheet of ice. Are you noting the lovely daffodilsp They ought to make one feel glad, But, honest, Springs long way off, We haven't yet had shad. So wrap up well and warmly, .. It's skiddy, so drive in second gear, There's skating at the old mill pond tonight, And Spring, oh Spring, ain't here!
 FEM. EM.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-09

Along Memory lane. Joe Casaly, former school mate chum is now an artist who rates five star mark on his report cards .. William Wihbey, who in his younger days was daredevil galore soon embarks for the sunny land of Italy to finish his training for the priesthood |. Charles Royce who was the beau brum- mel of the grammar school class still holds that honor at college Ralph Cooke, who always gave helping hand to those in need is still officiating in that capacity in his position at the N. E. Y. Lillian Abel sny pretty since her return from Hollywood to occupy her new job with radio station.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-09

tax has been devised which is roughly equal to the estate tax.
 Taxes levied on payrolls for So- cial Security Act purposes have not been @ large factor in the past. But they are growing, and unless present plans are changed, combined fed- eral and state taxes on payrolls for old age and unemployment insur- ance will bring in more money than income taxes within four or five years.
 People think of tariffs as taxes paid by foreigners for the privi- lege of sending their goods into this country. That is a mistake.
 Tariffs are really a domestic tax, because they are paid for by the buyers of goods in higher prices.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-09

reorganization bill could be passed in its original form. Seventy-seven Democrats who voted against the original bill are back this year. Add them to the 169 House Republicans who probably would be practically solid against the bill, and you get another adverse majority.
 An effort Is now under way to provide a bill which will accomplish some of the streamlining the Presi- dent asked for without raising the objections that the last bill raised A few days ago the House formally revived the special committee on reorganization, under the chairman ship of Representative John j. Cochran of Missouri; and Repre- sentative Lindsay Warren of North Carolina has been working out a compromise plan to present to this committee.
 TRIPLE
 OBJECTION
 Any such compromise would have to take care of three principal is- sues:
 FIRST, Congress wants the right to pass on any changes the Presi- dent might make in the various government departments, agencies
 and commissions.
 SECOND, Congress so far has been dead against the Presidents plan to abolish the office of comp troller general and lodge that of- fice's audit functions in the Treas ury Department.
 THIRD, Congress objects to the Presidents proposal that the Civil Service Commission be abolished, with its duties transferred to a single administrator directly re- sponsible to the President.
 Last year Senator Burton K. Wheeler proposed an amendment to the bill under which no merger or reorganization put through by the President could become effective without affirmative congressional action. The administration refused to accept this, declaring that the whole subject would be thrown open to log-rolling and that no reorgani- zation would be accomplished. CONGRESS WANTS
 PURSE POWER
 The matter of the comptroller general is an especially sore point. Congress only check on the execu- tive, in the last analysis, is through its control of the purse strings. Congressmen feel that unless Con- gress has its own agent to deter mine how money shall be spent. the President could do practically any thing he wanted to.
 Much the same argument applies to the civil service business-that the Presidents original plan would give the White House complete power over all appointive jobs, that Congress would not merely lose its fattest sources of patronage but that the President would get them under his sole control.
 One compromise that is suggested would leave the Civil Service Com mission untouched, appointing an administrator who would simply act as the commissions agent in making changes and enforcing regulations.
 It can be taken for granted that Congress would not permit such quasi judicial agencies as the In- terstate Commerce Commission to be tempered with, and Senator Byrd of Virginia predicts that the Presi- dents proposal for a New Depart ment of Public Welfare will have to he dropped.
 Copyright, 1899, NEA, Service, Nic.)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-09
IF YOU FEEL SUNK Read fhis and cheer up

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-09
DEATH DOESN'T END TAXES
Legislative Notes

Hartford, Feb. 9.-Detective- Lieutenant William F. Pollard Of Waterbury has registered with the secretary of state, under the lob- bying act, as a legislative rep- resentative for the Connecticut Police association. The associa- ton has several bills before the General Assembly.
 The cities and b0r0ughs com mittee will hold hearing next Tuesday afternoon on a bill pro- yiding that elections In the town of Prospect be held biennially. The elections are now held an- nually.
 The legislature will meet on Fridays for the remainder of the session, 1t was announced yester- day. For the past several weeks no Friday sessions have been held, the legislative days being Tues- day, Wednesday and Thursday.
 The motor vehicles committee held hearings this afternoon on two bills, introduced by Senator Edward P. Egan of Waterbury, affecting the registration of busses in the state. A hearing was also held on 8 bill by Rep. Charles Harper of Middlebury, which would set up sliding scale of fees for operators licenses.
 Great interest is being shown in a bill of Senator George T. Gull hane which would merge the de- partment of public works and the state highway department into @ single department, to be headei by a commissioner appointed by the governor.
 Mayor Jasper McLevy of Bridge port has created another furore by sponsoring . bill changing the pension system in the Bridgeport police and fire departments. The bill, first learned of yesterday, was scheduled for Q hearing at the capitol this afternoon.
 Attorney Walter Terrence of Waterbury appeared before the banking committee yesterday to support a bill allowing the Wa terbury Trust Go. to amend It's charter.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-09

for 130,000, ,000 people, that the aver age tax bill per person is $100. EVERYBODY
 PAYS TAXES
 Do the one-third of all Ameri- can families and individuals who make only $780 year or less pay $100 in taxes.
 Certainly not. In fact families earn ing less than $1200 a year often pay much less than $1o0 average. The difference is made up by the few wealthier people w''o pay much more. But even so 1t is not true that the rich pay most of the taxes.
 NEXT: Who pays the tax bill and what Is done with the money.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-09
Where the tax money goes

Example: A certain American-made gadget costs 50 cents. A foreign country offers to deliver and sell it here for 35 cents. Congress puts a 15-cent tariff on the article. While the importer literally pays the tariff, the American buyer really pays it by paying 50 cents for what would otherwise have been a 35-cent article.
 Sales taxes, an innovation of the past few years, now mean that buyers pay from to per cent of the cost of every article in taxes whose amount they can see on the sales check. That hits everybody.
 The total of all these taxes, fed- eral and local, is about IS billions of dollars every year. That means,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-09
BY MAXWELL s. STEWART Editor, Public Affairs Committed
 Pamphlets

aAAhRAsSwS
 Everybody hates to pay taxes. But they hate 1t less the more they understand who pays taxes, and for what,
 In many fields, the reluctant taxpayer couldn't begin to buy for himself, with his tax money, the things the same money gets for him when spent publicly. Every taxpayer owes 1t to himself to learn more about taxes, not only for his own peace of mind, but because 1t Is getting clearer all the time that the solution of avoiding depressions and stabilizing business lies somewhere in the combination between sound taxing and controlled government spending.
 Who pays taxesp Everybody.
 Many people think they don't but they do. The small fraction of the American people that pays income taxes, knows 1t. So do property owners when the local government comes around for semi-annual real estate or personal property taxes. The others don't generally realize 1t, but they pay taxes, too.
 BIGGEST SHARE TO i FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
 Every package of cigarets. every bottle of liquor, every gallon of gasoline means that the buyer has paid a tax. But even people who buy none of these things pay taxes-in- directly. They pay them in the form | of higher rents, higher prices for food, clothing, and other necessities than they would have to pay If the sellers of those things did not them- selves have taxes to meet.
 Nearly half of these taxes are collected by the federal govern ment. But more than half are col- lected by state and local govern ments or taxing districts, 175,000 of them.
 About a third of all the taxes col- lected come from levies on property, mostly real estate, though most states also tax property like stocks and bonds, farm tools, autos, cloth ing and jewellery.
 Such taxes average at least 1-2 per cent a year on the true value of the property though of course, the rates vary in each taxing dis- trict.
 The income tax is the most iln- portant source of taxes for the federal government. Though two- thirds of the states have income taxes, they get far less from them than the federal government. Not more than 100000 of the coun- try's 125,000,000 people paid fed- eral income taxes in 1936, very small minority. DEATH DOESN'T END TAXES
 The federal government and all states but Nevada tax property that Is passed on the inheritance from one owner to another. The fereral government taxes the dead persons estate as a whole. Most states tax the person receiving the property. To prevent people from giving away their property while still alive, gift
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-09

touched of more fireworks than last years reor- ganiSation bill, A bitter struggle during W h 1 c h Roosevelt was de- n ounc ed as a would-be dictator ended when the House pigeon holed his propo- sal.
 This time it is likely to be dif- ferent. There is prac tic ally no al. .aSaAA kiaAk q. a