The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-06-18
SOUTH
BRITAIN
BRIEFS
by BILL GARRIGUs

Everytime we turn around that
defective hospital up the road
costs more money and Is booked
to open later. The latest news
puts the cost at $7,250 900. Broken
down, this checks $5,250,000 for
honest construction, and another
$4,000 for WPA work.
Have you ever stopped 10 think
how many planes that would buy
TO save civilization with? Has II
ever occurred TO you that we
could put pretty decent army
into the field with that money?
Wouldn't the safety Of America be
enhanced by the expenditure of
such q fund for national defense?
Smoky Jensen clipped that news
release showing the $7,250,000 and
came over to borrow o pencil to
figure out on o per capita basis.
Smoky figures that It's pretty
stiff to make the normal citizenry
of Connecticut land America) pay,
such o bill for the maintenance Of
mental detectives who, In most
cases, are In the families Of the
foreign born. According TO Smoky,
Just the interest on that jack,
alone, would pay for some much
needed deportations and start q
real probe OF WPA.
II was mighty lucky we could
get all that government assistance
In building our defective hospital.
Originally, and not figuring on the
losses sustained from WPA lar
ceny, that plant was booked TO
cost the taxpayers exactly $780,
600. Lots Of taxpayers gave q gasp
and fadcd-out when they heard
that figure. We wonder what they
think now? We wonder II they
would again favor reorganlSed
state government, the Merit Sys-
tenn, and the acceptance Of federal
handouts? And we wonder how
they will vote In 1910?
Sailor Drakely, hospital-corps-
man from the Brooklyn Navy
Yard, Is home on furlough and the
citizenry Of Woodbury. and South
bury often see the youEgster, IN
shore-going whites, seated along
side genial Bob Drakely, chief
wire tester for the @. L. 81 p
Company, making the rounds Of
the rail-fence circuit. Bob knows
every light pole between Tophet
and KettletoWn, every transformer
between the Housatonic and the
Weekeepeemie, but he won't have
o thing on the kid In q year or
two. According to all signs, Uncle
Sans sailors will soon be blazing
q trail through the white water OF
hostile seas, and Sailor Drakely
will cut his eye teeth In faraway
places.
Not TO be Outdone by the Bullet
Hill moppets, children from South
Britain School staged q picnic on
the Pomperaug Flats last Thurs
day.
Elliott Bronson, huntsman. has
successfully eliminated the skunk
that pestered George Mclaughlin.
Elliott used O rock and managed
to score at the first shot, The
slight odor resulting from the
slaughter blew away before noon.
Rocks are better than dogs for the
elimination Of skunks.
Critics OF this column sometime
complain that we knock more
than we boost. That's unfair. II
It's true, we want more cheerful
news and more compliments about
the next door neighbors. The best
we can do 10 10 report the news rs
it reaches us, and we've Quilted
down many q riot by considered
advice 10 the yeomanry. Just the
other day, we Quilted down Pur-
chase Hill hired man. He claimed
that Hitler must be bombing New
York, because there was another
evacuation Of children from the
city 20 the Primrose Corner
Country. We showed him that the
kids were simply Bullet Hill cali
dren on a picnic and he inisnedi-
ateIy felt better, safer. and far
happier.