The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-11-15

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 Hymie Levi and Judge Harold HicOck are reported to have locked horns several days after election over a political issue. Blows were exchanged and harsh names flOated on the breeze. Hymie made a pass at Harold and Harold closed in and upset the bee-keeper. All Kettletown and Bullet Hill heard the shouting. Charley Perry'S Devon cows covered in the shelter of the pasture near the Town Pound. The bout ended when MT. Hicock dragged his tor. mentor along the road by one leg. Our reporter will bet Hymie's side of the story after the next husk. ing bee.
 Another result of election ap- pears beside Squaw Rock Road, where a town road gang unwit- tingly dumped gravel, stones and other debris on the newly seeded meadow of one of our most highly respected Democratic neighbors. Most of the town road gangs are Republicans. It's a mighty poor display of sportsmanShip trying to spoil seeding. Most good Republi- cans are still trading with Demo- cratic merchants and haven't been short-changed or short-weighted yet. Decency and fair play de- mands the immediate rehabilita- ton of this damaged grassland. If there is any extra fill available, perhaps we should have 1t carted into that mudhole on the road to Little York.
 When the Ku Klux Klan kept the peace in this vale. things were on a more equitable footing. People were better sports. If one of our Democrats discovered a Re- publican telephone in the voting place, the Republicans just moved 1t without any hard feelings what. ever. A few more crosses were bur- ned on Rattleshake, a few parades were held in night-shirts, and then everything went back to normalcy. Nobody dumped any gravel on good hay fields when the Klan rode the Pomperaug Valley.
 Of late years, people have got- ten so worked up over politics that it's mighty hard to keep them in line. One of our. leading towns men accused Lloyd Fowler of being a Democratic Registrar of Voters just the other day. Every body knows that Fowler would die for the Grand old Party and there's no man in the township more faithful or trustworthy. Oliver Gilbert, our Democratic Registrar, attends to his knitting just as reasonably as Lloyd does.
 What everybody is wondering now Is, who will mOw the grass on that piece of property at Bridge Plaza recently fenced-in by . newcomer to South Britain? This fence encloses certain lands seeded by the State Highway Department graded with the taxpayers money and of little use to anybody. It looks like a corral for kosher cattle and is hardly in keeping with the architectural beauty of either our boat shop across the stream or the fencing maintained by genial Ed ScovllIe along nearby Skunk HOl- low Parkway.
 The village needs an improve. ment society or a more active zoning board. We need fewer No Trespass" signs and more dang ling iatch-stTines. The best people We know are those who never owned . flower garden without inc viting the kids in to pick ,osIes. or who planted melons for the fun Of watching children scratch their names on the fruit. It pays 10 be nelghb0rly. in the country
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