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pays in federal taxes S12.80 Il
year. With state and local taxes
his total bill is $205 year. Out
of every weeks pay of twenty
dollars the tax collectors get four
dollars. q ..... :.
Take the truck driver who
earns forty dollars a week. He
pays SIT year in federal taxes
and a total of 1881 for all taxes.
Ninteen cents out of every dollar
he earns goes to pay the cost of
government. ... 49,.
But that is not the wnoic story.
Even these all-pervasive taxes
are not meeting the cost of the
government. As | have said, the
federal government will raise
this year by taxes only 30 cents
of every dollar it spends.
The other forty-tive cents it has
to borrow. Now the American
people are going to have to re-
pay that borrowed money in the
same way they have to pay the
rest of the bill. On the stagger-
ing total debt of this country, VIC
are already paying a billion doll
ars a year in interest alone.
The Democratic party rode iE'
to power in 1892 on a torrent of
bitter words. They accused the
Republican administrations of
waste and extravaganza in its
four and one-half billion doll
ar budget. They promised to cut
that budget by twenty-five per
cent. Instead the New Dealers
have spent more than half as
much money as all previous adj
| ministrations in the one hundred
a n q fifty years since George
Washington took office.
And so, l ask you: do we have
to cut our national spending back
to the borders of sanity? Can
there be any doubt fthe answer
How difficult is the task? The
New Dealers say they can't
solve the problem. l agree. They
never tried. Their whole philo-
sophy is defeatist from begin
ming to end. They haven't tried
to- balance the budget because
it is not h e easy thing to do.
The easy thing to do is to spend
and spend and tax and tax and
run up debts id ever larger
debts which become burden or
coming generations. That is the
easy thing to do. But now it is
time to try the had way. I know
it can be done. ....
1t was done in my own office
The year before | became Dis
} trict Attorney of New York
county, the cost of public pro
secution in that county was one
million one hundred and fifty
thousand dollars. Now | coulo
teasily double that budget.
could spend two million dollars g
year in the administration OF
that office. And the job woulC
l be lot easier. But the people OF
| New York can't spare that kline
of money for public prosecution
t They can't spare half that much
money. SO we cut that budget
/ from one million one hundred
2 and fifty thousad dollars to eight
r hundred and eighty six thous.
and dollars. And the next year
] it was cut to eight hundred anC
t twenty nine thousand dollars
r that was a reduction of % pei
Z cent. 1t wasn't easy-it was the
= hard way. 49,. 49,.
2 1t can be done in the county
1t can be done in the state. Last
D year the Democratic administra-
ton of the state of New York
s taking their cue from Washing
t tor, proposed enormous increas-
es in taxes and spending. With
e out cutting one penny from t h G
j relief of the needy, and without
e impairing a single essential ser
| vico tho popuL1ico,, 1or,.1, t,,,o
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olilIi'S Nv lHe SICK device OF
challenging others to show it
how to balance its own budget.
But no one can tell what q New
Deal budget is until after the
money is spent and it is too late
to do anything about it. Every
budget estimate of deficit by
this administration has been too
low. Except for one year every
estimate has been too low by
from one to three billion dollars.
Every budget of the New Deal
has been made worthless by that
overpowering urge to spend.
Since June 30, 1888, it has in
creased the number of govern
ment employees supported by
the American people from five
hundred and seventy thousand
to nine hundred and thirty thous
and. -. ..... .. $50.
Such are the staggering re-
suits of bureaucracy run wild.
And so it is with every item of
government expense. No effort
has been spared to find new
places to spend new money.
But even waste of money is
not the greatest offense of this
administration. The crime of the
New Deal is it's denial of human
opportunity to millions of people.
The New Deal stands condemned
because of its policies have pre-
vented the employment of nine
million Americans who want
to work. The total cost in human
misery can never be counted in
dollars. 1t can never be included
in the dollar totals of the burd-
ems to be carried by our children
and our grandchildren. 1t can
only be know by those who have
suffered in our own time. Per
haps it is best known by the
young men and women who have
reached maturity durig this per-
iod. go. ....
There mas been a startling de-
cline in the number of young
people getting married in this
country. Compared with the
period of 1922 to 1928, the num-
Der of marriages has fallen off
fully twenty-five per cent by
1888. O n out of every four
young couples who would nor
mally have married has been
denied that opportunity by eco
nomic conditions for which this
administration must be held res
ponsible. 80. ..
There is a net increase of half
a million new workers each year
in this county. Where are they
going to get Jobs? They are 60
ing to get Jobs only if jobs are
created. Why aren't new jobs
bein created? ..
In this Industrial society jobs
are made by providing plant and
equipment with which men can
make goods. A capital invest
ment of from four to eight
thousand dollars is necessary to
Great one industrial job.
Contrast the situation today
with that in the decade of the
1920's. From 1920 to 1929 the
federal deficit was cut eight
billion dollars while thirty-seven
billion dollars of private capital
was raised and invested. In the
1930's government debt vert up
twcntY--four billion dollars and
less thar eleven billion dollars
of private capital was raised.
I'm the 1920's four and a half
dollars Of private capital was
put TO work for each dollar Of
reduction in the national debt.
In the 1905 only fortyfvc
cents of private capital was in
vested f or every dollar of in
crease in the national debt. The
flow of private capital has been
choked while government h a S
been spending huge sums Of
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-04-25

spoke in Mortified tones. you amt
goin to start him in claimin' race
where anybody can buy him II
they puts up the claimin' price
$500 This here colt of ourn pc
worth ten, fifteen, mebbe twenty
thousand"
1--WE hope he Isl she smiled.
"He's sho worth moren $500!
Some mans goin' to claim him.
sure!'
Sherry Bond smiled in superior
manner. ooh, no, they won't! He's
been entered in both races. The tact
that I chose to send him out IN q
$500 claiming race, worth only $70o
to the winner tells everybody tnat
he hasn't class-is only a clalmer,
after all. Everybody'll think he's
running in his right group-no-
body'l claim him. And weal win,
Sam-we must win, for we're broke.
We've got to get that $700 If we
want to start for Louisville and the
Derby"
miss Sherry?" There was a ques-
ton in the old mans voice and deep
concern.
eyes, Sam?"
II happens to know Mr.. Whar-
tons stable thinks mighty nice OF
Pepper Boy. If you starts him IN
that claimin' race they gonna claim
him, sure!"
"Bosh, Sam! Don't you know that
Mr.. Wharton is friend Of mine?
He wouldn't do that!"
"Wouldn't he? He been racin' five
years-you been racin' five months
-leastways you been gettin' ready
to race five months-you amt never
started a horse"
"That'll be enough, SAM"
"Yesm." The colored mans head
dropped. Goodnight, Miss Sherry
if YOU don't need me no more
Goodnight" She left the stable
quickly. The old fellow shook puz-
LED head as he watched her move
off into the nights gloom.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-04-25

Have YOU ever noticed the reac-
+ion of your house-plants TO the
first spring days? Plants that nave
shown little or no growth all winter
will suddenly perk up and put OUT
new foliage and buds. This I pelleVe
is due to the fact that in addltlon
tn the natural call of the season, Is
the decrease of the drying neat
which prevails in most homes all
winter.
II is difficult to furnish sufficient
and regular moisture to plants that
are growing in ordinary flower pots.
The water seems to evapOrate before
II can be absorbed by the plant'
Horticulturists tell us we can over
come this dryness by occasionally
immersing the pots in water untn
the dirt is completely saturated
This is quite a task if you have a
number of plants. However, some
nIants such as the Saintpaulia or
African Violet and the Gala Be
xonia should always be watered
either by immersing the pot or Dy
keeuing the pot in deep saucer
or other container which may De
filled with water. They shouia
nayer be watered from the top OF
the flower pot.
The women of the northeastern
mart of Vermont seem to have over
come this matter of moisture ano
evaporation in growing their house
plants. This part OF the state is
occupied almost entirely by GARY
farms. Every bit of available land
is used either for pasture or mead
ows. Landscaping and flower gar
dens as we know them in Connectl-
cut. are the exception rather thar
the rule. Flower gardens are US
ually a small bed enclosed with
high fence of chicken wire. Here
whether in the rural districts OF
the small village the love of flow
ers is expressed with house-plants
And such plants. Every
sunny window is filled to capacity
with luxuriant plants in full bloom
Gorgeous clusters Of Geranlum
Gloxinia that are like immense bou
Duets, Tuberous Begon1a VIII
blooms the form and size OF roses
And every one of these plants ar
growing in tin cans. Large thrift.
clumps of the finical Gala Begonl'
growing in tin pans and batteret
saucepans. But the beauty OF tn
poisoning plants carry the ey
away from the unsightly containers
Taking a hint from these Vernon
women I have tried growing plant
in tin cans and find that there
far less evaporation of moisture an
a much better growth OF tines
plants than of those planted in tn
glazed or unglazed flower pot:
would seem there is a market 10
a metal flower pot of attractive dc
sign, or as nearly rust resisting ma
terial as possible and at a pric
that would permit their general us
by home growers of house plants
A friend in Goshen writes M
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-04-25
IN q S1Dih Start of Romance and Racing Thrills
Bet on Love
Story of Girl Who Played Mans Game and Loser Heart
Her Best Friend Her When Horses Racedfor Glory

"Nothing-but the girl-oWpel
thinks Red Soldier might nose Pep
per Boy out. She's got to have
money. So she's starting her colt
In the si..-furlong claiming race M
stead. Thanks he's sure thlng
there"
"What! Then listen to me-put
in a claim for Pepper Boy tomor-
row. Be sure to do It'll"
A moments silence. Then, Il
don't like 1t, sir claiming girls
one horse-it amt"
Don't tell me what to do, Ed!
If girl races, she's got to take
the same chances as men do"
A long silence. At last came the
answer, "All right"
Paul Wharton smiled with salts
faction as he Graded the phone.
sherry would try to play a mans
game, would she? Well, she'd
learn a few things.
Ito Be Continued
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o,,t-adiacent land which they had
expected t. lease had been gobbled
I'D by q rival concern. SherryS OUT
fit was laying shovels down, calLng
it a day forever. A holding which
had been worth $4,000 a year to her
now was worth exactly nothing. ana
she owed everybody: the !anoloro,
the telephone company. the ngnt
and gas company, and-yeS, tne
feed man.
She had to have money now
not a month from now. Wen, she
shrugged, that was the beauty OF
racing: it was a cash business-n
YOU won. If you did win a race, the
winning amount, in cash, was ready
and waiting for you IN the secre,
tary,s Office one minute later. All
YOU had to do was to send winner
to the barrier.
Racing opened on the eastern
circuit tomorrow. She had done
what many horseman did-en-
tered her colt in two races; one
IS 900 handicap; the other, a cheap
Claiming race. She'd start him
where She thought he had a sure
chance of wilmington at least q
fighting chance. Gould Pepper BOY
win tomorrow? She took down from
a shelf book filled with calablstlc
signs and jargon: 6. mace me
mile in 1:4O-plenty OF late 1901.
For a long while she pored over
race records.
She knew Pepper Boys time IKE
her own name. Only that morning
She had clicked 1:41 mile.
Not so far away, stars were nov
ering over Park Avenue. A young
man in white tie and tails stepped
briskly' from his car, took the sa!ute
If his caped doorman, Evening, MI
wharton" went inside and was car
RED inward by a muted elevator
Ten minutes later he sat behind 9
Queen Anne desk, the lights OF
Manhattan cleaning through null
lioned easements. He opened VOL
ume crammed with strange sympoE
and lingo: Sc. mile WORKOUT AL
1:41-handily." oL
The girl and the man-each
studying the workouts Of the other,
colt.
Finally the girl Strengthened, lalc
down the book, called: SAM! q
brown face came out of the nlgnt
bony elbows hooked over the nall
door. 'You call me, Miss Sherry.
"Sam, think we can beat that pit
bav colt of MI. Wharton's-Red SOL
dier-tomorrow? Nothing else car
, touch U.S." a., ,,;+,
i, wool. frowned. miss Sherry, am
goin' to do that colt no good, glvln
, him a hard race tomorrer. He am
, ezzxactly ready" ,,
"Answer my question, please"
colt amt never started IN a rea
! race-but we got good chance
the Jockey gets him OIL, tast-nKe
He thought moment, adoee
"Yes'm, if you insists on runnlI
O him. I think he can win-but he
r shore have to be rid hard. He
: trainin' for a route-that be SIX
+ furlong sprint tomorrer."
: The girl nodded. Got to her zee
d "And if he has a chance OF beatln
+ Red Soldier in the Handicap, the
he certainly can win that clalmln
= race-first on the program-san
u distance, and eight pounds lie:
d weight and no fast competition
n Miss miss Sherry" The groo'
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-04-25

Night blanketed the race track.
The figure of a slim girl-a moving
Silhouette against the gloom
crossed the darkened infield. Behind
her, under pale stars, loomed the
grandstand, ghostlike in the dark
ness-empty, silent, now that It's
$4,000 spectators were gone ana
dreaming of winning fortunes on
the morrow.
A few lights blinked among
stables. Then the door of a tack
room opened-a silver of a youth
stepped out, shut quickly the door
behind him. He stood motionless'
focusing his eyes in the blackness;
"Hey, Ed" He turned. called
softly through a lighted doorcrack.
"That danes comm down to her
one-horse stable all right. Must be
AKIN to start her colt tomorrer."
A tired voice asked: How you
know it's her?"
"Huh! I can name a horse a
mile off. BY its gait. Sam goes for
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fillies wearin' skirts. Besides"
"You better be sure.
Besides, the jockey went on,
faint no other girl on the race track
got that swell a figger. Anyway,
amt no other dame got a horse
stabbed behind us. She's a beaut!
Got big blue eyes"
Heck! You can't see eyes that
far"
"Saw EN- today-close up. Shes
the prettiest dame I ever saw
don't blame Mr.. Warton for beln'
sweet on her.
"Never mind that! You dog her
down the line. Can't maks no mis-
takes this late in the game"
The girl, not seeing the Jockey
in the shadows, moved swiftly to
Poverty Row, far in the rear. She
stopped at an end stable, took out
a pocket flash and threw its beam
on the wood-a closed stall door
streaked with wide cracks. Light
rays must have passed through
those cracks, for disturbed horse
inside.
Get away from that STALL"
The girl wheeled, threw her light
to the left. 1t circled mahogany
colored man with bowed legs, shak-
ing a pitchfork with both hands.
"You-Sam!"
The wizened fellow blinked eyes
slowly lowered the pitchfork, sale
Grossly: Miss Sherry! You know
better-you disturb Pepper Boy-ht
can't git his rest-won't extend his
self tomorrer-"
"He's my colt! I'll Go what wan
to-Anyone been her tonight?"
"That ole big Ed Buster wha
trains for Mister Paul Wharton"
"What did he want to know"
off Pepper Boy be up to hare
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Nature Notes From WOlcOtt
INV Nellie Thomas Badger

that her Christmas Cactus which
blOSsOmed as usual at Christmas
time is again filled with bloom. I
find my own cactus which also
bl0ssOmed at Christmas, is filled
with buds preparatory to blooming
a second time this season. I believe
this is unusual as my cactus is
quite old and never before has it
bIOssomed twice in one season.
During the winter we put out
bread and large seeds for the Blue
Jays, small seeds and crumbs for
the Junco, and SparroWS, and
wrapped suet on the tree branches
for the DoWny Woodpeckers, Nut
hatch and Chickadees. Feeding
this way worked as planned until
the ice and snow storm which came
the early part of this month, when
the Blue Jays became SO hungry
they ate everything, bread, seeds
and suet. In order to protect the
smaller birds, I crocheted some suet
bags, using heavy string and max
ing coarse, open meshes. One OF
these bags I hung to the grape vine
which grows over the pergola in
front of the dining-roo window.
The smaller birds would cling to
the bag and peck at the suet. The
Blue Jay seemed afraid to hang to
the bag and thought I had finally
put something over on Mr., Jay,
Then one morning as was eating.
breakfast, a Jay alighted on the
vine from which the bag was hang
ing. He seemed to be sizing up the
situation. Then he reached down
pulled the bag up with his bill ano
laying it over the vine, held it there
with one foot while he pulled the
suet out through the meshes.
NELLIE THOMAS BADGER.
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race tomorrer-'
80 you told him! He was trick
ing you into talking"
"Nom, he amt tricked this here
feller-no, ma'am! I tells him I
didn't even know Pepper Boy be-
ready to Start-that if he was my
colt-bein' as he's nominated for
the Derby, I'd gallop-"
That's enough! Light the lamp
| in the tackroom."
The girl followed the old fellow
into stall at the end of the row
"a stall with a wooden floor, white
washed walls with pegs from which
hung two saddles and brace OF
bits, and with a ragged but clean
blanket folded over line. The
groom took down a brakeman's coal
oil lantern, lit It, placed 1t on a
lccker-trunk which served as a low
table. Sam looked at her inuuiring-
ly, spoke again a soft voice.
Anything else you wants me Tor,
Miss Sherry? It's here"
He was so loyal-in his Way-that
she was ashamed of her brusqueness
to him. She smiled, said IN d1smls-
sal: 1nank you, 0dIIl, IL CaA you
in a few minutes"
Outside, the silver of a figure
lowered in the shadows Of straw
pile, watching, as the groom sham
bled from the tackroom.
!; For moment Sherry Bond stood
;, still-as Sans footsteps died out
' How to explain to him her desperate
plight-her urgent need of win
ming money, instantly, with hel
colt? He would think she was crazy
or horse-ignorant, starting Pepper
. Boy without a few more strong
workouts under his belt. But SHIT
had to have money.
To her social world Sherry Bone
was smart poSt-deb who, follow
ing the death of her last near rela'
tion-a penniless aunt-had pur
chased fine colt, and gone to tn
races with him. just to see he
colors flash on the track-that'
what her crowd said. Maybe tina
was the reason she had bought Pep
N per Boy, but now Pepper Boy ha
Us to run fast and often-to earn rem
1 money for herself and for him!
10 Only that afternoon she had re
d ceived notice from a small coa
'g company-on whose checks she ha
We been living. Their seam had ru
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-04-25
WHEN NOSE
FILLS UP"
TONIGHT, DO this

HERES MIGHTY GOOD NEWS =. If your
nose "closes up" at night and makes
breathing difficult, put few drops OF
Vicks Va-tro-nol up each nostril.
RESULTS ARE so GOOD because Vicks
Va-tro-nol is expressly designed for
the nose and upper throat, where
transient congestion often hinders
breathing. You can actually feel it
20 to work bringing relief.
TRY IT ToNiGHr-enjoy the comfort
Vicks Va-tro-nol brings.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-04-25

Twenty miles away-in Manhat-
tan-the chap at the Queen Anne
desk picked up his phone, reached
his trainer in the tackroom of his
table.
ed? Wharton. I've been through
all the records tonight. The figures
say that little black colt is our main
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-04-25

competition tomorrow"
Listen, Mr.. Wharton-every-
things goin' to be hunky -dory to-
morrow-Pepper Boy won't be start
ed in the Handicap-I've just found
out-five minutes ago."
whats this? What happened to
the colt?"
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-04-25
By Charles B. Farmer
Here's a Brief Synopsis Of the Story


But
ckwisf
Feppa hoy
Knuc
this tod N
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-04-25
RYTHMEERS GUESTS
AT LIONS MEETING

A concert was given by the -Four
Rhythmeers, a quartet, at meet
ing of the Waterbury Lions today
at The Elton.
The monthly quizz program was
also conducted.
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Chapter |
CAST OF CHARACTERS

SHERRY BOND-sOciety girl
owner of race horse, Pepper Boy.
PAUL WHARTON-rival own
err, determined to teach Sherry
that racing is not a wOmans
game.
SHEP GRANT-yOung gentle
man rider.
WILLIE BOND-Sherry's uncle,
d turf adviser"
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Caboose
Glorified
Rides Again!

The caboose has achieved gran
deur at last. Though It may still
be referred to by veteran railroad
ers as a crummy, q cage, the
clown wagon, the monkey house.
the hut, parlor, hack or dog house,
this much imaligned tail-end unit
Of q freight train has felt the
touch Of modernization and gone
deluxe.
According to the Pullman-
Standard Car Manufacturing
Company the newest improve
ments in caboose construction are
embodied in an order for Is Of
these units built by the company
IN its Osgood Bradley plant In
Worcester, Mass, for the New
York, New Haven and Hartford
Railroad.
Instead Of the hard bunk,
smoky stove and bucket of ice
water which characterized the
chief appointments Of the old
time caboose there are in the new
units modern refrigerator, run
ming water and a real range,
which Is q combination Of a pot
bellied heating stove and fiat
top cooking range.
The modern caboose, designed
by Pullman-Standard engineers,
represents q compact unit, with q
desk for crew work, a desk cush-
toning pad to protect the person
at the desk from sudden jerks
and bodily injury, and a deep
tufted bunk for comfortable rest.
The caboose Is of steel and is spot
and arc welded throughout.
Though it may have a hard
time shaking of some of its affec-
tionately disrespectful sobriquets,
the end-car masterpiece of freight
car modernization is as up-to-
date IN comparison to the old
time freight car ONCE as is the
strsamlined passenger car to its
counterpart Of twenty years ago.