The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-05-28

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 Under a May aSrd, 104O date line, "A Tax Payer of South Bri-
 tain" has written this column as follows: et
 "Just Q short time ago, asked
 our South Britain Constable why
 10 allowed speeding down tho
 Main str9et. His answer whs that
 hG received no pay for the work
 he had done. A number of tax
 payers in our village cannot rec
 ceive pay for his work. We would
 suggest running sydney Plat,
 Gordon Scheilke, Hubert Mitchell,
 os' soutlfF Britain: Albert Lock-
 wood, John B. King, and Carleton
 Tyler, in the viiiage of so,ithbury;
 Herbert Wbllg, Harold Davis, of
 H0uthford, al business men. Nom-
 inRte two from this group for seiectmeri. That will establish c liberal Republican examination.
 And make South Brithin look diff. 'fhrent. And let our South Britain Constable place men in office that will pay."Fp '' N'N''
 There it Is! I have the letter
 here to prove it and will be glad to show it Co anybody interested. People are thinking, these days,
 even # they cannot write very good English, and when the tax- payers start thinking seriously, maybe w6'll enjoy cleaner poIitics,
 potter churches, safer highways, and civic Improvements. The day of avoiding Tesp0nsibl bllltles is past. You are either an efficient public
 servant, or you arc marked down for censor, by the voters and tax payers. Folks have won prlxes for tho expose of finagling before now. ''''' v"
 It is very plain that my corres- !, pondent who failed to sign her name is Q Republican and, In her zeal to improve things locally, cannot quito forget her political 0armarkings. We believe that
 better balance in local politics would accomplish, exactly what this letter writer desires. We be- liepe that Democrats should have at least q small voice in tho civic affairs of this township. The minority party should have . reps rebentative on the Hoard of Tax Assessors, on the Board of Relief, and on tho School Board. We believe that appointments should Do so arranged as tb reduce the number of relatives on q given board to q minimum. Nepotlsm is Q mighty dangerous thing in Pub- lie Ofiice. Perhaps some other pubiIc-spir. ited taxpayer will suggest . bet- ter balanced list of prospects for town office. Perhaps somebody could prevail on Ike Platt to run for Town Representative, Oliver Gilbert to enter the contest for Constable and Lloyd Fowler to point for A court Job where his knowledge of the statutes would be usefuls s' Q" <
 Running Q township within the budget is difficult. Payment for law enforcement is necessary, im- pcrative. How lax such enforce Ihent has been in the past was plain on Saturday last when the state police had about 20 truck drivers before the judge for mos tor law violations. During the trials, most truckers driving through Main street slowed down to 70 miles per hour. This morn ing, all hands are racing against time again.
 Up the road in Woodbury, the town pays Q constable and motor violations are promptly punished. We would not want reputation like Woodbury's, but we do believe that a schedule of payments might Do arranged SO that our constable could give the town . day or two . week and slew down some of these outsiders who have ruined the nerves of dogs, kids, pussycats, and our aged cltIzenry. We've got slgns ngw. Let's have a few aF- rests, or warnings, lIf a con- stable running for recollection cared Co donate few hours . day ]