The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-03-26

ef1ce there are reasons. One IS that the cart is being put before the horse. Before the departments are reOrganized an investigation should be made into certain of them to find out what Is the matter with them. For example, the State Highway Commission and She State Board of Education. Another step which would create attention would be q complete overthrow of the present system of representation in the General Assembly with 8 consequent re- rlOvaI of the small town leeches of the state from the financial blood system of the body polite. The only convert made to date by the Governors appeal for atten- tion and interest to the reorgarl- ization proposals is the Connec- ticut Association of Manufacturers. That conversion does not mean a thing. The spectacle of certain type of sinner hitting the sawdust trail is a knock rather than boost to the cause of The Better Life. There are other things of more vital importance to the well being of the state than making over its departmental system. r
 Subversive Movement
 There is subversive movement going on under our very noses and we scent it not. There is a plot matching and we remain url- aware of its existence. I don't know what the handspring of the movement is nor the identity of the he& which Is. matching the plot. But propose to tell about them, to light the beacon fires of publicity, to sound the tocsirl of warning, and by so doing hope to rouse 8 people snoozing in an ignorance which invites disaster. There Is a scheme on foot to break down and or destroy the military strength of the state. If son1e- thing is not done about 1t, we will awake some fine morning to find ourselves at the mercy of any and every foe. The saddest feat ure of the entire business is that upright, intelligent and loyal legislation are ui1knowingly doe ing the work of destruction.
 The Honey Boy, Acts
 Recently the stace senate, be- guiled into acquiescence by the seductive argument of Senator Joseph Honey Boy Cooney of Hartford, passed a bill which would abolish the special prose- cutors of truants attached to the State Board of Education. Meas ured by the yardstick of logic Honey Boys" argument was url- ailswerahle. He said that there were enough local prosecutors to bring runaway school boys and girls to the bar of justice with out the State Board of Education taking on additional hired hands to get the cron in. The state pocketbook would be in money if the hired hands were fired and the lot of the triiants would be made no easier.
 Unconscious Contributor
 T know Senator Cooney was inspired by the noblest motives and I am sure that the taxpayers of the state owe him a debt of gratitude for looking after their welfare. He would be the last man in America to contribute to or condone the subversive move ilient to which I have alluded. And yet in his childlike innocence he did that very thing. When Honey Boy" can be fooled, 1t is time to awake from our lethargy. Man of Mars
 Among the prosecutors to be knocked off one name stands out i'm six-feet four-inch prominence. 1t Is that of George R. Sturges of Woodbury. Now if MT. Sturges was just an ordinary lawyer; if he was the mere legal mouthpiece of the Department of Education: if he was solely Prosecutor Plenipc- tentiary of Truants for the State Board of Education; and if he was an everyday, common or garden variety of Justice of the Peace I would not be so wrought up over his case. But he is a soldier;