The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-10

wise puSS turns up his nose at all food except red meat. Prepared cat foods interest him not at all, the finest milk doesn't register. The family is in the dough and Tommy yowls for red meat in large chunks.
 Local attention is focused on the lawsuit between two ROxburians. It seems that Mieszslaw Labecki sues Johnny Pokrywka for $75O0 for injuries sustained in wood argument. Labecki, so the story goes, cut over the line and MT. Pokrywka chopped him up with an axe. Labecki got his wounds bound up and hired a lawyer. It looks like a real contest all around. Those Roxbury Yankees aren't fooling.
 Cutting over the line on a wood job is so common that we know a lot of men who founded their for tunes that way. Using an axe on a neighbor is an unfriendly act. Axes are mean weapons and we're surprised that peaceful Roxbury has anybody within her environs mean enough for that. Over here we may shoot folks, but we sell dom use an axe in personal ar- gument. Fists and Shotguns are safer.
 A New York tabloid screams that U. $. fighting planes are inferior to the British ships and far below the standard of German fighters. What we want to know is, if your Uncle Sam's planes are so low grade, why does Great Britain place orders here and beg for even the out t-mOded Flying Foztresses? They wouldn't by any chance be trying to set up an alibi, wOud they? Maybe the U. s. ships are going to be used to just swarm under the Nazi craft, while Bri- tain saves her own superior craft?
 Tabloid editors usually operate on the old Chinese plan of curing a child in convulsions by soaring the kid to death. Tank fighting ships, afloat and aloft, can lick their weight in wildcats Or bald eagles. But you've got to put them aboard who will fight. Back in 1917-18, we had little experience with European aircraft and made the discovery that a Tank on a barndoor with a handful of rocks could fly and fight the pants of most Englishmen ap@ nearly all Germans. (The superior attitude of certain of our late Allies grows painful, at times.)
 Smoky JenSOn has handful of those lottery tickets and wonders how he can get his money back. This region has always been 8 great paradise for people peddling worthless paper. Leading citizens used to buy and sell Nancy Gold Mine certificates just as if they had value. They got their friends to invest and they introduced the agent to the minister. We figured their failure to check up on phoney mining stock was just the result of greed. We never expected Smoky to be taking chances on anything because Smoky is careful.
 Workmen are replacing roof on one of the larger buildings at the new State Training School. MT. Joe Keech is mourning the loss of two of the school pigs.
 Garagemen have their troubles. When Charley, head of the Oxford Auto Co, finds business too press Ing, he retlres to the pond behind his garage and catches . few fish for dinner. The biggest catch of the last season was . snapplng turtle. Johnny Walker, at Cedar Hollow Filling station, was asked Co test an antl.freexe solution Che other night that consisted of . mixture of three popular brands Of frost preventative.
 Local youth are flocking to the American Brass plants in Arlsonia for c slice Of that National Dee fenpe buainesa. xs this Reeps up.