The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-23
Connecticut Yankee
 Dissects Christianity"
Waterburian Writes in Defense of "Nomads''- Attacks Local Industrial Executives on Big Profits" Report-Man-Made Laws Are "Unjust''

Editor, the Democrat:
 You deserve sincere gratitude for editorial March 20, entitled "No. mads can't be ignored.
 You' have touched the quick of our whole social structure and no more appropriate season for its dis cussion than during our present commemoration of the Saddest Be- trayal, Condemnation and Glori- Resurrection of Our Saviour Jesus Christ.
 The "Nomads" are now and seem to have been always. Their case de- served the serious thought and ac- tion of our worthiest and most cap- able.
 Perhaps like other men, our best have "busied themselves with little things" wars-planes-Ships-c s-com- merce-trade agTeementS-machines while man, the "Nomad", the su- preme creation of 8 Beneficent Cre- ator has been almost forgotten.
 It is necessary to disagree with your assumption implied that the colonists pioneers of this country, were truly restless, hating the sight of green grass beneath their feet, cts.
 '.RestlesGmess''
 The discovery of America by Co., lumbus, the colonizing later, can not be termed the result of rest lessnesS'-accidental was the t1nd- ing for, as we know, 8 short route to India was the object sought and If my understanding of history is correct, for Columbus enjoyed little comfort for his labors. His crew ap- parently desired, whole-heartedly, at least for a few blades of grass beneath their feet. or am I mis- taken2
 Another factor which must in- Auence our judgments relative to your "Nomads" is this-the then known world, Asia, Africa. Europe and adjacent islands, were not Suf- fering from lack of space for the existing populations of that pre- America time. Africa alone held un- known but guessed areas for mans needs.
 Again to my humble mentality comes that jutting, jabbing idea that Americas discovery in itselt (at the tirle) did not create such a world unheaval as our native pride might deSire-the finding of the thing called gold and some other God-given gifts really started Hell apopping. Man not the Nomads only. tossed aside the other fAes of q Beneficent God and adopted some of mans own making, among the most important If not the only one, might Is right.
 It is hardly debatable today, four centuries lataer, that there was any shortage of anything needed for mans well-being in this Hand of Our Lady" from those days of dis- coveyy until now. unless it was 8 shortage, in man himself. of the true Christian spirit. Gold, profits, advantages, seemed the gods of the timeS-it was easier to kill oil your neighbors than suffer their progress; and, by the same token there ap- pears considerable of the same idea prevailing today, with wider applt- cations perhaps. It is easier, for tll- stance, to kill of or let die Gods creature, man, by his own wilfulness or careleSSneSs than to suffer the annoyance of his unwashed pres eilce too near our machine kept estates. There certainly is no lack of space in such conditions, but there is lack. q serious shortage. when man, Gods supreme creature Is allowed to rest by the roadside, while the road is maintained to 3 strict standard of perfections.
 Gods Creature
 MT. Editor, let us not forget that first things come first. Man Is Gods Prime Creature made to His image and likeness. There is that little old five-cent Catechism intruding again. and say, perhaps, there is, our wacky reasoning. We have shut out of our minds and hearts such things as that little book and its logic and substituted what?
 Here is another contradiction often pushing itself into my view maybe you have seen the things too; our '.Nomads"s Gods creatures