The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-07-22

gypsy moths who might have been caught in the belts of bagging.
 The other day, stranger was scratching arotnd just when one of our citizens drove up the hill from Roxbury. Using . strong glass, the man was carefully seeking moths, eggs, or the tracks of moths when our friend stopped and passed the time of day. Right away, the stranger launched into sales talk. Have you property near here?" he queried. =. "Why yes," our man said. "Then you should be pro- tected; you should guard against inc festation; you should take precau- tions now, lest your century-old giants of the forest catch an illness and become but dreadfully gsunt skeletons of trees reaching bare limbs toward the sky!"
 Well, our man thought that this gent was just another representa- tive of the Department of Agricul- ture, the U. s. Forestry Service, or the w. P. A., SO he turned of the motor and listened. The man made of toward his own car and soon returned with some specimens" that he claimed to have captured in The Wood of The Burlap Bags. "There!" he said. "Just look at the horns on 'em! Just look at those grind- ing teeth! Why, Mister, if l hadn't come along just when did and caught these creatures, your woods would probably have been devastat- ed within twenty-four hoursl" ... Thanks" said our friend, Thanks for saving my forest"
 "But 'tain't saved!" warned the peddler. "'Tain't saved 'tu we spray every tree!" Our man saw he was trapped but he put on . stiff front and tried to get away. "Nope," yelled the peddler, 9TH your woods is bathed in our super spray they ain't safe!" By that time, the native had got his motor turning over and he just tramped on the throttle and escaped. The peddler went back to collect bugs off the burlap-wrapped tree trunks in Lyme's pasture.
 Lloyd Fowler, Republican Regis- trar of Voters, says that everything is a racket and it sometimes looks that way. The only difference be- tween merchandising methods en1- ployed by Charles Bridgewater Thompson and the current cagey gentry is in honesty. When Charley sold anything, it worked, and 1t was sold honestly. When Charley or- dered Q carload of rifles shipped to 1700 Main street, Bridgewater, Con. necticut, the woodchucks just mi- grated. They knew those rifles would be sold and that their hides weren't worth . dime. Thompson always claimed that almost every body was honest and that's why he made such a success of business.
 Take Thompson's American Per. fumo:. There was . scent for you! It smelled like 1ilies.Of.the. valley, roses with dew on them, and lilacs from the old backyard plus a suggestion of skunks' cabbage and garlic. One breath of American Perfume would have made Hitler into a peaceful, honorable Demo- crat, (or Republican,. One whiff of that potent fragrance would have wiped out the toughest bevy of gypsy moths in the county.
 Smokey Jenson claims that he has just little American Perfume in the bottom of a bottle. We're going to investigate and, If that scent hasn't eaten of the cork and evaporated, maybe we can find 8 chemist to unravel the formula and restore the recipe to mankind. High prices of gasoline are dis couraging the manufacture of pri- vate automobiles in Italy.