The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-07-24

Horton, has gone to the Farm ana Home Week festivities at the Uni- versity of Connecticut. While rak- ing hay on East Hill, horse kick ed MT. Horton and broke his leg; that explains why he failed to, attend. We tried to get Smoky Jenson to enter for the wood- chopping contest but Smoky claims it's too warm.
 South Britain,s recently formed All Club thought some about sending a Representative but the parents discouraged the idea. The girls canned beets last week and that put a crimp in their budget. Thus far, only one parent has shown a desire to tntrude and to take a hand in the formulation of policy for the All. This lady thought her daughter should have sbeen elected boss. The other chil- dren had ideas of their own. They won out.
 The jolliest dogs in Southbury are at Ragland Kennels. Here, . litter of cocker spaniels are busy from dawn til dusk.
 The Dies committee has discov- cred Communist activity in the New York W.P.A. Writers project. The committee claims that Reds are securing information that may eventually be used to wreck the metropolis and to cause panic among the citizenry. Unless the New York Reds are more efficient than those employed in Connecti- cuts Writers project, there is small cause for concern. AS an example of Connecticut's contribu- tions from the social-minded and under privileged, we quote: "The State Farm for Women, the Yale Engineering Camp and the Rocky Neck State Park are game pre- serves" (That amazing informa- ton came from New London, near the U. s. Submarine Base and Coast Guard Headquarters.)
 The Dies committee may even tualIy get around to an investiga- ticn of Communists and their &C., tivity throughout New England, but if the committee ever tries to make sense from anything thus far produced by Connecticut's ethnic gropers employed by W.P.A. they may be as bewildered as the Yale University Press that re- portedly sponsored" project called "The Peoples of Connecti- cut" Our last correspondence with the Yale printers indicates that the taxpayers will have to wait for an indefinite period be- fore reading "The Peoples of Con- necticut," which they have paid for.
 To use any information furnish ed by Communists or anybody else, it is important that such in- formation be accurate. Connecti- cuts Writers project once em- ployed an architect" to describe, date, and locate old house. This authority located his own house in the wrong township and got paid for it.
 Speaking of revolutions, South Britain's hellgramites have start ed sprouting wings and are plan ming to stage an air attack on black bass. Lloyd Fowler cap tured two winged hellgramites on McCarthy's porch last Saturday evening. One of them bit him severely. He planned to save the male as a speciment, but the creature ate a hole in'a . paper bag and made it's escape. We have managed to keep the other one alive and intact.
 Bill Schlieke claims those bugs aren't hellgramites at all. He says our bugs are bigger, and meaner. The dictionary shows a cut of a winged hellgramite with spurs and full set of horns. When Joe Evarts comes to town next time, we're going to ask him about it. Joe knows. Our bets are that the bugs Lloyd caught are just old- settlers, grandfather hellgramites that have grown up here in a peaceful atmosphere where there are no Reds. Whatever they are, thasr <ar, l,ita lilra Sar,n Hill