The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-03

FOX close to Nature realize that a hard-hit deer will often run to water. Charley the Fisherman has found as many as seventeen drowned deer in the Housatonic in a single winter. That's wasted meat and lots of it. Think of all the hams on seventeen deer. think of the nourishment thrown away because somebody didn't hold close enough or shot too soon.
 Deer shooting is illegal but that doesn't stop, a lot of people from taking a chance. The ward ems know it and that's why you see so many of them along the country roads at night. lacking deer accounts for most of the kill ing and the jack-lights are im- proving. One captured outfit had head-harneSS light that just about tops anything we've heard about yet. The batteries, carried on belt, provided juice enough to locate a lost dime on Squeak Street; the light itself would shine bright enough to make 3 town report clear.
 Speaking of deer hunting and game wardens, there's gossip about a flock of Woodbury sports who fell afoul of the law just the other evening. One man took his wife along to drive for the party and another has a record for il- legal kills that makes the Raggies up at Salisbury and Canaan jealous.
 Just the other night we heard resident of Squaw Rock con- plain that We've got six deer on our hill and sixteen game ward ems. The boys ain't decided which to hunt first" 1t does make it complicated. A man after meat first has to find out just where the game protectors are circulating.
 O1AJO, GllC Ibuooldll an ard resident of Rocky Moun- tain, has been bustling around New York getting ready for a big new show. Watch Variety for news of the billing. Cock an ear for the music from a three corner banjo. Pete will be playing soon.
 Seeking new bookings the WPA orchestra has hit upon the idea of playing for the mentally i'll. They have discovered that psy- chiatrists approve of music for the insane so the first spot chosen was the Newtown State Hospital. We haven't heard from Dr. Moore as to the effect yet, but none of the patients escaped.
 This idea of relief music for the relief of the unfortunates unable to qualify for WPA is all right, but we like the plan suggested by one of the Cottage H farm boys on our training school here better. An un- signed reported at Cottage H writes. Since the farm boys have come here, most of them
 have been digging post holes and are still digging them. There is a great healing power in digging. . however sulky and rebellious one may be at the start, sensitiveness creeps up the handle of the shovel into the hands and body and legs until one is at peace again"
 We like that idea. It's better digging post holes than listening to relief fiddles. It's more pro- ductive and it keeps the cows in. If we had more people like that kid who wrote about the healing power of digging post holes. we wouldn't need any more WPA or chestras to play to dizzy minds. Carry on Cottage H! More power to all post hole diggers.
 The Cottage H Bulletin, editors George Smith and Wm. Sherwood, proves we've real newspaper people in our training school here. Smith drives mules, when he isn't writing the Bulletin or digging post holes, and it takes a clever guy to associate with hard-tails and live until deadline. Bill Sher- wood drives a pair of horses, "one brown and one black" (We'l bet
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