Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, July 14, 1921, Page 7

Jersey Man Advocates Tax ‘“Fazation” was the subject of an In- salle by Andrew E. Kenney who s president ¢f the Somerset County. N. 1. tasation board and also a member of ization of county boards, t the weekly luncheon of the Norwich terestin, he state gr Rotary club held ot tel, Wednesday. Mr. Kemey, who is in the sabject of cverybody-#poke of ¢ big preblems in civic c¢id not esnsider it a system all ation TS everything. nd school expenses. The qu 1 b for? nsider t —— —— T i 3 e, 4 [} H R— | e [ | e—— | e | mors for our mol elfeve that meney raised by tax than the majority s enterprise ta: is own and A the same here er; W Jersey we have several boards to ake care of the taxation a stand Norwich has both a ci estion comes, A large amount of the o s monsensical and unfalr when we at we pay $50 for school the Wauregan ho- of equalization. horoughly versed tion, said that i one of the but said he ns has no doubt the vhere, Just? 1 under- and town| good f: that is large. What do we tax n taxatlon we ~ot erty oaly income of ut we have mere in spending this| cent. of th whether he have In a hun- remedy is equalization. more for folly, pride and foolishness than we do in tax- es. In paying a $160 tax we pay about and education and $50 for the other things such a8 poifce and fire p(nteetlon. but we make more fuss over this $100 than all the sther things that the average man pays for. The main difficulty, I believe, i that The average tax-payer asks, ‘Do I pay moro than my neighbor?™ Is what I pay And in the percentage of cases urder the présent System there is te bs said for the man. The assessor who is eiected by the people is more or Jess influenced by the tvoter, so that th, a lttle is sliced off his list. Thers fre two cofievete €xamples in this fame town. On. man owns valued uwt $100,000 and paying an ineo— Another man owns a lits tle cight room house valued at $3,600. But the man who owns the $100,000 prop- s about § per cent. of the e property while the Iit- tie follow has to ecash in about 20 por income from hls property s in the house or whether he rents it. This !s what causes a large amount of dissatisfaction and the only property A way I should sguggest wihich has ‘ NORWICH BULLETIN, THURSDAY JULY 14, 1921 worked out favorably in other places is in basing the tax rate on the earnin~y of a property. Of course this would not apply to all cases but it would make a much more equal taxation tham the pres- ent- way. A large number of people object te a large tax list and seem to pre- fer a high tax rate on low valuation. People shoull get back of a movement to get proverty up to a falr valuation if everyone is to pay a just tax rate. It may come hard at first but if the average man knows he is paying ne more than his neighbers he will gei used to-it. This i3 a_matter that should have tie con- sidetation of every citizen in vour town. Mr. Kenney who was brought here by C. F. Welis was gi#n.a rising vete ,of appreciation for his talk. There was a vefy large attendanmce at tie meeting at which Lucius Brigss, president of the club, presided. Louis A. Wheeler acted as song leader. Two de- lightful solos were remdered by Henry J. La Fontaine and there were soveral quartete sclections and a ditty dedi- cated to George W. Carroll sung at the meeting. Seeretary Weymouth read a conunud Rication frem ths international se acknowledging the receipt of a contribu- tion from the local club to the Public Reiief Pund. - An invitatlon was received from Sceut Executive ¥. A. Benton the law in any sense 3s it is a wellj the members ‘of the Rotary cluf to make| established rule that a law ‘is con-lc to the Bdinburgh convention, was read by the seeretary. ¥F. Russell Smith, chairman of the en- tertainment committey, announced that the first three meetings daring August ‘would be in charge of ‘Charles- J. Twist, John J. McAuliffe and Timothy C. Mur- phy. . Mr. Murphy is 2t present in Col- | orado where he has attended several of the Rotary meetings ir. the west. -The meeting cfosed with the singing of the Star Spangled Banuer. PROSPEETS SEEM SLIM FOR JITNEY OPERATORS There is small probability that jit- neys will be operating in this state aft-| er Thursday exeept on those few lines! where the public utilities commission has granted certificates under the law pass-; ed at the recemt session of the general assembly. For the past few days therei has been some talk to the effect that the} . jitney's could keep on rumming while the appeals which several operators have taken were awaiting a hearing before the superior court but as the day on which the new law goes ‘Into effect approaches the prospect of jitney rides in Con- necticut diminishes rapidly. A s mple appeal to the supapior | court will ‘not act as a suspension of day 1t they have made, out that Whe! that use of the Boy Scout camp at Beach Pond | stitutivral until it is deelared upcon- for two days, August 1 and 2, A letter | stitutional and Motor Vehicle Com- > o] from Willlam G. Park, the local delegats missioner Robbins B. Stoeckel, who is m! ioner Alsop barri neys from the highw Commissioner Joseph aslo a member of the newly state pelice commission, said Wednesday that the policc department would emforce the law to the hest of its ability on the coes into effect. Stoecke!l also said that the insvector of the motor vehicle department wWould co- Operate with the state pelice in every way to enforce the law. ‘When™ asked whether he thought an injunction ' comld be taken of the jitney men to halt the operation of the law, Commissioner Stoeckel said that he did not belleve such an injunc- tion could be ebtained. Members of the public utilities com-{ mission were notsat all apprehensive of the outcome of the deeision which so_many jit- of thi Alsop peinted the commiss¥n were acting under a state law which elearly defined i thority and he said that the com- n was not undertaking to enforce the law in amy way. “Enforcement belongs to another de- partment of the state gevernment,” said Commissioner Alsop. we asked what effect an injunc- ! tion would have, the commissioner said e did not see how one could be ued against the commission a3 it had refuse to grant certificates in “Now if ereatea “The law says that jitneys shal not ate without certificates. said any ioner out by any ‘state. Com- - EVERYBODY knows the high quality of our Clething — and the mere fact that our Suits have been radically reduced should be incentive enough to bring a great crowd to our Store. We’re ready for you—ready with values you haven'’t seen in a long, long time. Our entire stock without reserve grouped into 3 Big Lots for Final Clearance — K u p p e n heimer, Clotheraft and other well-known Suits $18 (Were to $35.00) Suits $28 - (Were to $45.00) Suits $38 (Were to $55.00) i P TOMORROW this Store starts its great July Sales! They bring saving opportunities which have not been possible in years. Radical reductions on our present stock, make these values so alluring that they cannot be ignored. \ These Sales, renowned for years as opportunities for economical buying, now present the highest quality appargl at prices below those of many months past. SHIRTS $1.35 Hundreds of our finest Madras Shirts taken from our higher priced lines and placed in one group—values to $3.00 SHIRTS $1.95 Bates-Street Shirts — Every one, of them-—such qualities and values you # have never seen—Always $4.00. SHIRTS $4.95 Finest Silk Shirts, in a splendid array of colors — Silk Broadcloth, Heavy Crepe-de-Chine and Jerseys. All sizes—regular prices $7.50 to $10.00 121:125 MAIN STREET - UNION SUITS 95e. Made of fine Crosshar Nainsaok, in Athletic style—regular $1.50 value. UNDERWEAR 79c Famous Chalmers Balbriggan Comb- ed Egyptian Underwear — regular $1,00 quality, SILK HOSIERY 55¢ No man ever has too many pai}s of Silk Hose. These are exceptionally fine quality. All colors and sizes —~» regular $1.00 grade, L EE—.‘E—Dfl most likely to have trouble of this sort. { Lialpin of the University of Wisconsin intg which every hen that {Ja | il. S. Bickford, Gossville, N. H... | Krnest H. Scott, Farmiugton, Conn. 1413 mey drivers attempt to operate with- out a certificate they aré simply wvie~ lating a plain law of the state and that is all there is to it. In any cwent, this gommission hag aone its duty under the law.” ‘The public utilitles has adout 30 ap- plications for certificates which have been filed since the last hearing was held and further hearings will have to be held on some of these. Others ean be decided on the basis ef decisions made by thé commission. It was pointed out at the office of the commission that in case on appeal is taken to the superior court on the jus- tice of the finding of the commission in a particnlar case, the result will have no bearing on the gemeral situation throughoyt the state. Within a few days the state motor ve- hicle commission Wil send to the police officials of every eity im the stato a summary of the law and Commissiones Stoeckel sald that he expected ade- quate co-operation from all lecal police authorties to make the restrictions of the law effective. et ais Meanpwhile, with the prospect of no jitneys after the 14th of this montp dg- veloping. to n eertainty, the general nub- lic is becoming more and more interested in the posnibility of lower fares en the trolley cars. When quertioned as to this in ‘New Haven President Storrs of the Connectiqut company said that he could hold out no hopes for an imme- diate reduetion, though he could prom- ise an improvement in the service mow that the “unfair competition” had been climinated. President Storrs said that whep the fare was raised from 7 to 10 cents November 1, 1920, it had pro- duced just about enough revenue to pay expenses. He sald that he hoped that] the company would mow be able to turn its attention to the matter of reducing rates and that it would depend on the amount of patronagze the ecmpany Te- ceives. SIX STORRS HENS DIED FROM HEAT LAST WEEK Last weelk’s exceedingly hot weather was not conducive to good egg Droduc- tion. As a mattr of fact; there were six deaths due to heat prostration, in- cluding a White Rock and a Rhode Isl- and Red from Connecticut, a «leghorn and a Light Brahma from Massachusetts and two Leghorns from New Jersey and Pennsylvania. - Mild cases of hegt pros- tration can be treated by applying cold water to the head and keeping the bird in a cool, quiet place. It is better, however, to prevent this trouble by seceing that the birds are not overcrowded in hot weather and that they are provided with an abun- dance of matural shade. Breeders who are trap nesting their hens are the ones r this kind of poultryman Professor es the best remedy consists in car-{ , on very hot days, a pail of water shows the| sign of being affected by the heat can be promptly “ducked” as she is Te- noved from the trap nest. During the 36th week of the laying the hens at Storrs were expected a li%tle more than 2,800 eggs, but tead they dropped to 3,594 eggs, or & yield of a little over 51 per cent. They are still 6,000 eggs ahead of the average for the last six years and beth the man- agement and the contestants are anxious to see them keep the pace and set a new high mark for the year. Obed G. Knight's pen of White Wyandottes from Bridge- ton, R. I, was in first place for the week W 5 cggs. Two pens of Leghorps en- tered by W. E. Atkinson from Walling- ford, Conn., and the Yates Farm from Orchard Park, N. Y., tied for second place with 54 eggs each. Two additional Leghorn pens owned by Jack Trevethan of Vineland, N. J.,, and - Orchard Hill Farm at Sandy Creek, N. J., tied for third place h 53 eggs each. Two pens of Leghorns from Elizabeth, N. J,, another from Irvington, N. J., and one from Cooperstown, N. Y., all tied for fourth place with 52 eggs each. The four leading pens in each principal varieties are as follows: Plymouth Rocks. W. H. B. Kent (Barred), Cazeno- via, N. ¥. ... .o 1484 Rose Farm Kato- nah, N. H Jules F. Francais (Barred Rocks); Westhampton Beach, L. I . es ¥. Macdonald (White Roc! East Pembroke, Mass. ....c0000 Rhode Island Reds, Charles H. Lane, Southboro, Mass. 1492 358 lienry P. Walker, Hudson, Mass.. 1348 1. 8. Chapin, Longmeadow, Mass,. 1341 ‘White Leghorns. L. E. Ingoldsby, Cooperstown, N. Y. 1505 Hollywood Farm, Hollywood, Wash. 1498 Jack Trevethan, Vineland, N. J.... 1436 of the Rock 1283 ), + 1147 Other Varieties. Obed G. Knight (White Wyan- dottes), Bridgeton, R. L........ 1627 H. P. Cloyes (Buff Wyandottes), Silver Lane, Conn. ........c.e.n A. E. Hampton (Black Leghorns), Pittstown, N. J. .......... Harry D. Emmons dottes), Plymouth, Conn. _— 7|chine valued at $25, preferred by Reb- Charles AT GROTON CANDY STOEN Another successtul raid in Groton wag ‘mads on liquor selling esiablisn. menis by the Groton bond was diaced at $1,000 and Kavagery at 3500 for appearance in town cowst. * Some time ago tie police resch tip frem a woman that the place liguor selling establishment, but the lice @id not discover cause. place the owners under arrest until day night when ap empleye of the wold hotél at Eastern Point was to come out of the pieae appavently un- e he threw a fit es it was . and « was only through medical zttemtion be was saved from becoming possibly serl ously ill. ‘ With this informatiow the poliee wem! to Assistant Prosecuting Atterney Mer- ris Lubchansky, who made out search warrants for the candy store and garese. After watching the place for an heur the police, armed with the search warrasts, entered the place and began their searc.. First they found in an old range 3 bot- tle of alleged ligiors. In the store reom in the rcar, underneath a plle eof tin plates pots and other utensils, 13 quart bottles of alleged whiskey, which bore the famous Old Green River labels and 2 gallon of alleged liqguor was found in an olve oil can. A jug of burnt sugar and a gallon can of allegsd pure alcohsl, full; and another gallon can party filed. were discovered in another pace, Behind a counter a pint bottle of Italian Fran- sicos Bitters, which bore on its label, 35 per cent. alcohol, was found. Also thera was a barrel which contained five galloas of alleged wine. The police reperted that all the alleged liquers taken averag- ed hetween 35 per cent. and 150 ppeof aleohol in tests they made, The accused offered mo resistance upon their arvest. WINDHAM COUNTY DOCTORS HOLD LIQUOR PRESCRIPTION RECORS ‘Windham eounty, as rural a county af the state contains; is gaining the reputa< tion of heing the heaviest “regular” Ne quor consuming section of the state, sy the Hartford Times, if the manmer in which some of the country docters of that -section of the state are straining their allowance under the prohibition lsw of prescribing not mere than 100 pimts |in as many prescriptions, may be taken as an index. Returns at the office of Prohibition DI- rector Julius C, Stremlau indicate that Windham couny’ doectors are in a class by themselves in the way they exhaust, sometimes in advance. of the allotted time of three months, the 100 permits for preseriptions allotted them by the pro- hibition director. Eaeh doctor #u the ' state ie ailowed a preseription beek een- taining 100 liquor prescription blanks, | no prescription to exreed eme pint, and ' e styb of the blank remains in the i and is returned with the book ¢e the prohibition director. Meny physicians do not use eme gych & booklet of blanks in a year put eut in Windham county, some of the eegpiry doctors exhaust their allotment im gix or eight weeks. Inguiry has revealed that it is not to be aseribed so myeh to the preference of doctors to preseribe 1!- quor as medicine but that the strong de- mand is due to the “tastes” of patiemts who Insist that ilis be treated omly by a liquor prescription. Consequently tho doctor’s hand is forced. 2nd as the law permits him to use 100 liguor preserin tions every three months, he goeg t! limit thereby aidinz the mental sugge: tion of his patients, Another reason why some rural res!- dents are leaning heavily on the doetor's liquor prescription blanks is thelr ina- bility to procurse many “invigoratinz, cure-all” patent medicines, whose gleo- holic content put them under the ban when probibition went into effect. H Mr. Stremlan has recommended te In- + ternal Revenue Collector Eaton that the internal revenue license of $160 be eol- lected from 30 or more wholesale Mguor - dealers who still have liqguor on hand for ° commercial purposes after July 1, the prohibition department. If this resom- - mendation is carried out it will probebly | mean that the wholesalers who hold Nm- | ited quantities of liquor will sell this In 2 a hurry in order to avoid pa: e 11- L cense fee. They bave been : that the law requires such a MNeemse 1f3 they carry the liquor. . WATERFORD JUSTICE HEARS On charges of theft of a ma- ert R. Doherty of Jordan Village, Caswell, and N. Elbert Geer, both ‘Waterford, ‘were arraigned before Jus- . Raise ¥ine for Passing Trolley Police court fines attached to the¥find- tice Thomts F. Morton in Waterford en | Tuesday afternoon at 4 o'clock, and after * & long hearing, Caswell was found gullty beginning of the new fiscal year in the ; MOWING MACHINE THEFT CASS-: i an;qu Wrestler Wants To Wrestle Zbyszko ing of persons guilty of the charge of |and fined $5 and costs, while Geer was | driving auomobiles past standiug trol-|found not guilty and discharged, due to ® ley cars have been raised from 8 $10 |lack of sufficient evidence to comnect * minimum to a $25 minlmum, 2ccording 0 |him with the offense. Attorney Waller, & a notification which has been sent te|oounsel for Caswell, took an appeal and Prosecuting Attorney Daniel M Cronin {the accused furnished bonds for his ap- © of New London. Prosecuting Atterney |pearance before the court of commen - Cronin today: stated that this new |pleas ruling would be effective at onee and in| <he v the future fil persons found guilty of |¢ne of this charge would find that ¢the expense |Doherty for $16.50. According to the & % out $14 of this gmount | would be considerably larger them in the |and wanted to pay u!. $2.50 past. e St sl umt ’ : Doberty learned of the matter, and took it up with his attorney, Morris B. Lubehansky, who warrants issaed for the two mem. £ Guide for Autos at Bad Turns ‘The state highway department has ‘ev- idently inas a new scheme in an effort to prevent automobile collisions on dangerous cormers oa the trupk line highways. At least there is this Indica- opposite direction. -Foe careless driver may entirely nore this tionary measure, but €he careful driver will doubtless profit by the %] |o0d intentions of the state department ¢ — Suspect Case of Meningitts, Margaret Doty of Niantie, 16 momth: old, was admitted to the contagion wgré at the hosp'tal in New Londen Wedmes- day momning as 2 suspicious meningit!s case. Tne child was originslly & H tlent 3t the Lawrence and Memorial 3 sociated hospitality, where she shemed ¥ 5 symptoms of meninigitis and she was bm- | e ——— mediately ed to the s i o = ward, The case was reported to the - Marin Pleatina, who is aaxious |hezith department. i tor & match with champien Stan- — 2 : slaus Zbyszko, Jacky | SoMmeriie ‘“m-.n-tu,.m‘ e -3 Curley, manager of the Wrestlers o prineinal lb.‘ — : - ., has refused to make the