The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-20
SOUTH
 BRITAIN BRIEFS
By BILL GARRIGUs

Tommy, George McLaughlin's tolncat, is the wiseSt mocller in town. He has learned how to rattle doorknobs now. The women in the trailer colony hear the <. door -latches jingle. and shufriedly' pat their hair as they swing wide the door. There, instead of a magazine pedlar, stands Old Tim, proud as punch and twice as hand some, ready to accept any stray tidbit offered. George has give the cat reducing exercises since he became Q aan-about- -Trailerville.
 You thought 1t was cold here last winter? Don't. be foolish. Our friend, Sam Pierce, just came back from Florida and is ready to make sworn statements that New Eng land winters are downright mild. Sam got so sick of breaking the ice on the water bucket that he gassed up and came home to thaw out. One cool Florida morn, Sam's thermometer went down to fifteen. Florida neds conditioning.
 The magazine man knows the score. A canvasser who recently had a line of batter about keeping toured the railfence circuit here American markets for Americans, restricting foreign infiltration, cur- rying off some of the present alien hangers-on, If some of our social minded folk could have listened to that mans salestalk for just a moment, they would have immedi- ately started a fire under the tar kettle, loaded the shotgun, and prepared to repell boarders. It's an age of intense nationalism and the type of nationaliSm now popular in the U. s. A. happens to be Americanisrn. The Tanks are get ting their danger up. When the cornbelt, the milk shed, and the tobacco plantations are all listen ing to the same arguments and accepting the theory almost with out question, it's time for city dwellers to prick up their ears. Country people are little slow to catch up but once they've got the drift, they stick tighter than burdock to a lambs tail. Watch for cleaner Alnericanisn.
 The piggery at the new State Training School for Mental Defec- tives has ben plastered and Is now ready for the interior decorators.
 Bulldozers were busy on Sunday at the new state school job. Not so long ago, Southbury got up ill arms about folks laboring on the Sabbath. The German Bunders faced charges for cutting brush and grading.
 Tales of big fish filter in from the trout streams about town. Somebody claims to have snagged 22 inch trout in the Pomperaug, and there are a number of reports of IA inch fish. Local anglers are biding their time until the streams drop to nearer normal flow.
 Prices for bob calves are low and spotty. Lucky folks are get ting as high as four bucks per calf; others take a two spot and grum- ble about 1t. Somehow 1t seems that a farmer. just cannot win.
 About a week ago, resident of Hull's Hill drove to the village and 7 entered Tony's barber shop. Toss- ing his matted naane, the country
 man mounted the chair and Or- deFed. Tony to do his best with what he had to work with. The pile of hair grew; the farmland began to look normal. T0py gave him 2 singe and poured on sey- eral ounces of expensive hair oil to encourage the new crop. Finally the rustic shook himself and arose to make the discovery. that he had fotEOtten to bring his cash. Tony agreed to wait aud meanwhile he is seeking . market for surplus hair. According to reports. that single hair trim would have fur