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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-01

amounted to $146,0O0 a year, and one in December to $185,000. A household electric rate reduction ef- fective in May amounted to $78,0O0 a year.
 Reductions made in 1888 saved customers approximately $670,000 8 year, household users being the principal beneficiaries. For the 10 years 1880 to 1899 inclusive, the total effect of rate reductions amounts to approximately $3,500,000 annually, based on the volume of sales at the time the reductions were made.
 Improvements $1,96S,OOO
 Expenditures for improvements and additions amounted to $1 ,962 ,898. while retirements and abandon ments amounted to $811, ,524, so that the net increase in the property ac- co,mt was $1,151,374.
 Total taxes amounted to $2,O82, ,189, an increase of about $l88,000, or almost 10 per cent over 1888. MT. Campbell pointed out that federal, state and local governments derive impressive support through the company, and that change from private to public ownership would necessitate 8 substantial shift in
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-01
AUTO AGE BRINGS
 ECONOMIC CHANGES
Improved Transportation Facilities, Fuel Breaks
 Down PrOVincialism

L. V. Butterfield of Waterbury, speaking at a convention of the Petroleum Industries Committee in Bridgeport, Wednesday, attributed most of the tremendous social and economic changes in the United States during the past 30 years 8 direct result of progress in transpor- tation, and continued on saying that progress in highway transportation had been expedited by the availabil- ity of low-cost high-quality products of the American petroleum industry.
 Mos. of the tremendous social. and economic changes which have taken place in this country in the last 30 years have come as direct result of the phenomenal growth of trans portation, said MT. Butterfield. "Provincialism, in the broader sense, practically has disappeared. The man on the farm is no longer iso- lated; the Saturday drive to the nearest town is no longer the event of the week. Towns that were for merly a days journey from each other are now but short jaunt. New market places are opening, old ones are changing, some uneccnomio ones are disappearing, still others have grown until they completely have erased the boundary lines of political divisions, so far as everyday living is concerned. Today almost our whole national economy is built upon the rapid, uninterrup- ted flow of goods and people.
 MT. Buterfield pointed out that progress in the petroleum industry in providing efficient and economi- cal fuels, lubricants, and other pro- ducts had made possible Americas progress in transportation.
 Typical of the service rendered by the petroleum industry, he explain ed, is that no new model of any oil- or-gas-using engine or vehicle is made available for use but that there is an immediate and adequate supply of fuel and lubricants of the right sort ready to serve its needs.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-01
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morning to extend greetings to all his friends. ..
 Contributions, telegrams, flowers and messages of congratulations from friends from all sections of the state will be part of the honor be- slowed upon Dr. Reed Sunday.
 Dr. Reed assumed the pastorate of the Grace Baptist church on the first Sunday in March in 1901, shortly after his graduation from the Virginia Union university, The ological department, at Richmond, Va, ill 1900. He has watched his membership grow from a mere handful to its present number of approximately 600.
 Erects Churches
 Dr. Reed has built and paid for two churches during his pastorate. The first, a beautiful little frame structure that served his congrega- tion for 28 years and the second, a beautiful, modern equipped edifice that now adorns the corner of Kingsbury and Savings street. This church was built in 1931-33 and completely paid for at the time of its dedication in January of 1884 The approximate cost of the church was between $90,000 and $l0O,000. This is believed to be an accom- plishment no other Negro church in the country can share.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-01
THEY KNOW "HOPPY"

More than two-thirdS of William Boyd's fan mail comes to him ad- dressed: "Hopalong Cassidy, Holly wood. Calif."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-01

Dealer is a self-styled progressive and liberal person who has appar- ently forgotten all spiritual existence or hereafter and proclaims only the material.
 The meeting last evening was att tended by persons from various parts of the county and plans were com pleted for the open mass meeting which will be held in the Commun- ity Hall, Canaan, next Wednesday evening.
 Hardenbcrgh Presides
 George B. Hardenbergh, president of the Canaan organization, presid- ed, and Miss Anita Rassiga acted as the secretary. Joseph L. Parsons, member of the State Senate in '20- 3i-'33 was the other principal speaker. MT. Parsons is chairman of the Republican Town Committee of Canaan. Parsons spoke on the importance of efficient cooperation to make a political party successful. He carefully instructed the gather. lng how the Young Republican Group can work with the regular town committee TO make the slight Republican majority we have in this district Of three to one to jump to five to one"
 Ryan said in part, ''The New Deal Is spending over one million dollars every hour, according to It's own estimates, It will spend another nlne billion dollars tbls year and for every dollar that the New Deal spends ' receives only fIfty.lIve cents h revenue, ID other words every dollar the Neg Daal spends means our nRslonal deficit Increases by f0Flysflve cents,
 Apparently the New Dealers are 0f Inc 0Dlnlon that the American people are eIlllaP unable 0r nnHills lng ie realize the significance 0i ihls eveg lDeFeaslng debt The New pealeEs wenld have you believe nlai llley AFe sB0aklng the Fleb to belp the peog", peD'l von believe M
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-01
Rev. Dr. Reed Marks
 39th Anniversary
Pastor of Grace Baptist Church Assumed Duties Here
 March 1, l9Ol-Erected Two Churches Here

Rev. Dr. Isaac w. Reed of High land avenue, pastor of the Grace Baptist church since March 1, 1901, will celebrate the 39th anniversary of his pastorate of that church, next Sunday morning.
 Rev. Dr. F. w. Jacobs of Bridge port, pastor of the Messiah Baptist church, will deliver the anniversary sermon. Rev. Dr. Reed will be as- sisted at this service by his elder son, Rev. Jonathan E. Reed, assist ant pastor of the church who was recently ordained at the First Bap- tist church.
 In Ill Health
 Dr. Reed, although he has been practically confined to his home the past three years because of his health, will be present Sunday
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-01
ACCIDENTS DUE
 TO NEGLIGENCE
Personal Element Figures in S59o of Mishaps Says
 Safety Expert

Personal negligence causes ap- proximately 85 per cent of accidents in the United States, Gilbert E. Teal. safety engineer of the U. & Rubber company, told the Industrial Foremen's club at safety forum in the Y. M. c. A. last night.
 MT. Teal's talk was followed by a demonstration of resuscitation by the life-saving crew of the Connec- ticut Light & Power company. Supt. of Police William J. Roach and Pa- trolman James Little, chief statisti- clan, also gave talks.
 Sound motion pictures on safety were shown by MT. Teal. He said
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-01

Miss Bettye Bristol, S4 Elliott street.
 George Gentle, 245 Bishop street. Louis Marriman, 2l sprague street. Mrs. Ethel waldron, Daniels Place. s... Q. Herbert Edward waldron, 6 Dan- iels Place.
 Reaflrmation of Faith Henry Ernest Liebeck, 86 Giles street.
 By Letter MT. and Mrs. James R. Burton, 26 Terrace avenue.
 MT. and Mrs. Walter A. Hall, 88 Yale avenue, Middlebury. Norman Reed, 15 Hewlett street. Miss Dorothy Jeanette Tyler, 88 Fai1view street.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-01

Earnings for the year showed large gain. The earnings, exclusive of subsidiaries, amounted to $3.3o per share as compared with $3.03 per share the previous year.
 Rate Reductions
 Rate reductions during 1889 repre- sented total saving to customers in the amount of $409 900 a year. A commercial rate reduction in May
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-01
PUPILS CARRY WATER

Emporia, Kansas = tUP) Rural children still carry lunch boxes to school as they have always done, but recently they have had to carry water bottles as well. The trouble was the drouth caused many shall low wells on country school grounds to dry up and teachers were forced to ask the children to bring their own drinking water.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-01

the tax burden, attested by the fol- lowing figures:
 Payments, municipalities $776,082
 Payments, State of Conn. 359, 9,281
 Payments, Government 946,826
 AOvtbA P9gVOAtAVO
 Rural Lines Built
 In accordance with the policy of extending electric distribution lines into unServed territory as rapidly as possible, 396 projects aggregating 168 miles of line were constructed during the year. Over the past 12 years, 1923 miles have been built, with the result that electric service is available to 84 per cent of the farms in the company's territory.
 Hydro- Electric Generation
 Because of stream flow lirnita- tions, the effective use of hydro electric power, particularly in New England, is restricted to those cus- .omers whose needs can be met by it, the report states, and 1t follows that the. source of supply for the balance of the customers must be steam plants. The market for New England water-generated power comparatively speaking, has di1nin- ished sharply during the past de- cade, because of changed social and economic conditions. These cir cumstances have reduced the ef- fective use which can be made of this power, with the result that there now exists a surplus of hydro capacity generally throughout New England.
 Capacity Sufficient
 Conferences with the Nationa, Power Policy committee headed by Secretary Ickes are discussed in the report. It is stated that the com mittee's inventory of possible war emergency loads and capacity neces- sary to meet such loads developed facts showing that there was suffi- cient capacity, including estimated war emergency loads superimposed on the probable 194l peacetime peaks.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-01
HORSES HAvE FREE RANGE

YegkR, oaI,-lUpl--Old Dobblns around haFe apparently know the lRg, When one 0f them wandered onto the highway eld Inade cells tact with Henry peGlATks Anl0s mobile, Il gAA necessary aflerEaFd 10 send Dhclark lo lhe hespllal and hls eaar 70 the FapaIF Shop ghlle old Debbn departed lnldep blg eEn power, he aamagen ean be asked bepallae lNlaaF q law Daaksfd ln lAe 'Dea lhe county "A hlllI open range and fences are lles required,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-01
MRS. PREUSSER
 GUEST SPEAKER
Noon Club to Hear Address on Alcohol and Its Elf.
 fects Sunday

Ladies Day will be observed at the Sunday Noon Club at 11:45 o'clock next Sunday in the chapel of the Second Congregationai church. The speaker will be Mrs. Henry E. Preusser, New Haven County president and also vice. president of the Women's Christian Temperance Union. Her subject will be "A Demonstration On Alcohol. What It Is And Does."
 The following persons have been recommended for membership in the Second Church and will be re- ceived at the communion service next Sunday morning:
 Harry E. Bristol. 54 Elliott street.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-01

Continuing his bitter attacks against the spending policies of the New Deal, Edward J. Ryan, of Thomaston, speaking before the Young Republican Club of Canaan Wednesday evening, charged that there can be no real recovery so long as the New Deal remains in control of our government.
 Ryan, considered to be the most outSpoken opponent of the New Deal in the state, said, That New
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-01

that education seems to be the an4 swer to the control of accidents.
 The speaker was introduced by Alan c. Curtiss, of the Scovill Mfg Go, who also spoke on safety meas ures.
 Arthur V. Purinton, "" secre- tary, announced the opening Q fly- casting course at the Y. tonight. He invited the foremen to attend the exhibition of the Springfield cola lege gym team tomorrow.
 English women war workers have. a new game played with Q football.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-01
Earnings Reported
 By C.L.&P. Company
President C. L. Campbell Announces Operating Ex-
 penses, Achievements of I030 in Annual Statement

The annual message to stockholders of the Connecti cut Light and Power Company by L. Campbell president dscloSes that total operating for 1889 $19 7O3 330 increase of five per cent 19S8 Mr. Camp bell reported that household electric use showed increase of 10 per cent in klowatt hours but there propor tionate gain in this category because of rate reductions effected late in 1898 and early in 1939
Evening star., 1940-03-08
Hatch
Continued From First Page.)

be possible for a Governor, by q
simple act Of the Legislature, to
bring large numbers of employees
into that exempt classification.
The Senate modified in two re-
spects yesterday the bills application
to the States. One was the O'Ma-
honey amendment, providing that
Federal agencies could withhold
from State only twice the amount
of the salary of an employe found
engaging in political activity. The
other was the Danaher amendment,
giving employees the right to a court
appeal before dismissal for political
activity.
The Senate again refused, how
ever, to repeal that part of the origi-
nal act which bars Federal workers
from taking active part in political
campaign. The second effort to ac-
complish that was made by Senator
Adams, Democrat, of Colorado, and
defeated, AZ to IS. This roll call
reflected greater strength overnight
against softening the restrictions of
the law. On the previous day SIM
liar motion was beaten by the close
vote of A to Al.
Senator Neely, Democrat, Of West
Virginia is preparing to take the
floor this afternoon in support of his
more drastic substitute for the pend
ing bill. The Nicely bill would re-
quire the States to adopt merit
system approved by the Civil Service
Commission before they could con-
tinue to obtain Federal-aid funds.
He said he would discuss conditions
in West Virginia to show the need
for a stronger measure than the
Hatch bill, which applies only to
those State employees paid in part
from Federal funds
Thomas Would Curb Appointments.
Senator Thomas, Democrat, of
Utah also may may present this
afternoon his amendment to pro-
hibit appointment of any person to
the Federal service who has been
politically active within the preced-
ing two years. He has explained
his purpose is to put the office
seeker under the same restriction
Evening star., 1940-03-08

Tended the national Governments
right to attach the Hatch bill string
to the Federal money 1t gives the
States. If the Public Roads Admin
istration has the right to say the
States must make Federal-aid high
ways certain width and Of certain
standards. 1t also has the right to
follow its money into the States
Evening star., 1940-03-08

and say It shall not be used for
political activity" the Narylander
contended.
He made the argument while
Senator Pepper. Democrat, Of Flor
Ida was speaking against the policy
involved in the legislation, without
questioning the Governments legal
authority to adopt It.
Evening star., 1940-03-08

sports events and personalities for
the Post-Dtspatch, died today Of
heart disease. He was rs.
Known as sport Salad" the coll
umn last appeared February 27,
when Mr.. Davis was taken i'll.
Starting as an anonymous con-
tributor Of quips and parodies to the
newspaper, Mr.. Davis, then q clerk,
Evening star., 1940-03-08
STAR WASHINGTON D. C, FRIDAY MARCH 1en

that now applies to the ONCE
holder.
Although an effort may be made
by opponents to send the bill back
to committee just before a final vote
is reached, Senate leaders predicted
early today such a motion would
not carry.
In Yesterdays debate. Senator
Iydings, Democrat, of Maryland de-
Evening star., 1940-03-08
His Heart in IT,
President Says
OF Hatch Act
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
President Roosevelt assured
his press conference today that
his heart was in 1t" when he
signed the Hatch Act forbidding
Federal employees to engage in
organized political activity.
Senator Chavez, Democrat, Of
N. Mex, Mr.. Roosevelt was told,
remarked recently that when
the President signed the meas
ure his heart was not in 1t.
The Chief Executive said 1t
was evident that Senator Cha
vez's heart was not in 1t, but
his own was.
Evening star., 1940-03-08

was induced to join the Post Dis.
patch as daily columnist in 1911.
Born in Alton, ILL.,. the son Of q
steamboat master, he was graduated
from Shurtleff College there be-
lore coming to st. Louis.
Surviving are his widow, q son and
a daughter and a brother, Henry B.
Davis Of Vincennes, Ind.
Evening star., 1940-03-08
|. {. Davis Dies al IS;
Post Dispatch CoIumnist
~ the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
ST. LOUIS, March 81. G. Da-
Wis, who for 20 years wrote q COL
umn Of jingles and comments on
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-05-13
Parties Honor
Miss Comfort
Events for Bride-Elecf
Continue This Month

The days of May are busy
ones for Miss Jeanne Com
fort, daughter of the A. B.
Comforts, whose marriage to
Mr.. James Windsor Rawlings,
jr., will be an event of the
last morning of the month,
and each passing week holds
in store many parties in her
honor.
Nearest at hand is the din
ner party in Seattle for which
Mrs. Kenneth Elliott, sister
of Mr.. Rawlings, will enter
tain at her home in Widemere
Heights, Saturday evening.
A few close friends and men,
bers of the families have been in
vited for the occasion.
On Thursday afternoon a party
is planned at the Arthur Middle
ton home. Mrs. Middleton enter
tanning for luncheon with Mrs.
John Steele and Mrs. L. L. Thomp-
son. The party will be handker-
chief shower and afternoon of
bridge.
Miss Jay Foss is entertaining in
Miss Comforts honor at a cock
tail party in Seattle on Sunday,
May 10 and on the 26th Miss
Geraldine Haycraft will be hostess
in her honor.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-05-13
Sororiiies Elect
New Officers

This week Kappa Sigma Theta
and Alpha Beta Epsilon sororities
elected officers who will hold Of
flee during the first semester of
next year.
New officers for Kappa Sigma
Theta are Miss Florence Mclean,
president: Miss Janet Robbins,
vice president; Miss Helen Folsom,
recording secretary; Miss Doris
Lister, corresponding secretary;
Miss Martha Mcneil. treasurer;
Miss Shirley Horr. historian; Miss
Marjorie Simpson. sergeant-at-
arms, and Miss Marie Mulligan,
inter-sorority council representa-
tive.
Miss Anita Wegener is the new
president of Alpha Beta Epsilon
sorority. Other newly elected Off
GERS are Miss Doris Wittren, vice
president; Miss Patricia Keene,
corresponding secretary; Miss
Esther Sandstedt, recording secre-
tary; Miss Patricia Smith, treas
urer: Miss Blanche Haynes. pledge
mother; Miss Betty Pyle, sergeant
alarms, and Miss Rosalind Hart
man and Miss Mary Katherine
Lincoln, historians.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-05-13
Shower Held for
Miss LuCkenbihl
Miss Ethel Cory Is Hostess
To Twenty Friends

A miscellaneous sh over
was held last night for Miss
Ethel Luckenbihl, who is to
be married June 7 to Mr..
Clyde Alexander. Miss Ethel
Cory was hostess for the oc-
casion at the home of her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. F. N.
Cory, on So. K st.
The guests spent the evening
hemming and embroidering towels
for the new home. The table for
the buffet supper which followed
was set with purple iris and white
tapers on lace cloth.
Guests were Misses Anita Ball,
Edith Ball, Camilla Batinovich,
Dorothy Birkby, Maryjean Brooks,
Marjorie copeland, dairy Louise
Gonyea, Helen Johnson, Phyllis
Mitchell, Lillian Morisse, Bernice
Morse, Betty Stringfellow, Eunice
Washburn, and the Mesdames Rob-
ert Bramsche, Austin Gibbons.
Harold Heiseerman, Harvey Braga,
Robert Vandenberg, Lyle Cope,
Norman Kelley and the guest of
honor, Miss Lukenbuhl.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-05-13
Woman S Club
Year Closes
Final Tea Friday Honors
Pioneer Women in Group
-Pnotographs BY Turner Richards Studio

The final program and tea
for the year at the Tacoma
Woman's club was held on
Friday afternoon in the club
house. The Fine Arts depart
ment with Mrs. Ellsworth G..
Power as chairman presented
the program pleasing nearly
one hundred women. Mrs.
Ethel Dunseath presided over
the meeting of which a special
feature was the introduction
of nearly twenty pioneer
women active twenty years
ago and still members of the
group and the presenting to
them of red carnations.
AS guest speaker, Mrs. w. w.
Cheney of Falls City, state fine
arts chairman of the w. S. F. w.
c. gave an interesting half hour
with James Mathew Barrie. Mrs.
Lawrence E. McClelland told of
the writers of folk songs of many
foreign countries, Mrs. Charles
Battin and Mrs. w. F. Coors sing
ing the more familiar songs with
Mrs. McClelland accompanying.
Mrs. w. L. Tucker, vice chair
man of the department arranged
the tea table in commemoration
of the golden jubilee of the club
federation. AS surprise for the
pioneer women there was a large
gold birthday cake which Mrs.
Hattie Rooms. one of the pioneers,
was asked to cut.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-05-13
Patrons Named for
New Music Group
Concert Of c. P. S. Sym
phony Sunday Afternoon

A group of prominent Ia
comans has been invited to
serve as patrons and patron
esses for the first annual con-
cert to be presented by the
chestra under the direction of
Mr.. Louis G.. Wersen, Sunday
afternoon in Jones Hall of the
College of Puget Sound.
Those who will be in the
of those who have accepted the
invitation are Messrs. and Mes
danes Everett Smith, S. A. Per-
kins, ]. w. Bixel, Edward B. King,
Mrs. George C. Hastings, DR.. and
Mrs. Edward II. Todd, DR.. and
Mrs. Charles R. McCreery, DR..
and Mrs. Cyrus E. Albertson,
Messrs. and Mesdames Clay
ton r. Chapman, Charles B.
WEIGH, F. w. Power, J. G. New
begin, Byron Scott, Mrs. D. p.
Mason, Drs. and Mesdames S. F.
Hermann, Harold B. Long, Mes
srs. and Mesdames Leonard Lang
low, Dix H. Rowland, John Paul
Bennett, Henry G. Shaw, William
L. Mccormick, Albert H. Hooker,
jr., John D. REGISTER, Christian
Miller, Frederick Wallis, E. T.
Short S. S. Waterman. E. L. War
ner, G. A. Reeves, William L. Ever
son, Ralph Woods.
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The part of Mr.. Box. journeyman
printer, will be played by ar. Cliff
Reeves and Mr.. Norman Gordon
will be Mr.. Cox a journeyman hat
ter. Miss Barbara Johnson will
take the roll Of Mrs. Bouncer, the
landlady. The scene will be enact
ed in rented room.
Mr.. Ted Asberg will illustrate
the timely theme See America
First" with several reels of his
colored moving pictures including
those of Panama, Havana, New
York Worlds Fair, Boston, Niaga-
ra, Montreal, Quebec, Lake Louise
and Banff.
A summary of the years activi-
ties will be given in the branch
meeting and the new members of
the executive board will be intro-
duced.
Hostesses will be Mrs. L. L.
Lamb and Miss Zaidee Bonney. as
sisted by the Misses Helen Chris
topherson, Violet Davies, Florence
F. Dodge, Katherine Doud, Eliza
beth Fitch, Lois X. Hartman, Jes-
sic Lilly, Elsa B. Nessenson, Mary
Caroline Richardson and Sally ST.
cade, and the Mesdames Lyle E.
Drushel, Addison Forester, Alfred
Grau, Homer A. Hartwich, Charles
Morisette, Walter J. Ryan, C. G.
Trimble and Herbert Wetmore.