The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-30

as an attorney supposedly quali- fled to tell Connecticut dairymen how to handle milk. He made . few well-tlmed shots at MT. Pol. okoff's "fellow travellers"
 Farmer Bingham of Salem Four Corners, currently a state sena- tor, spoke feelingly in support of the provisions thrown out by the House, and Bingham likewise drew the fire of the Middlebury COW jockey. Bingham had made the error of attacking suburban lawyers"
 There's . move afoot to increase the wages of representatives to the General Assembly, the new rate being $65O. The proposed new amendment provides for five cents . mile in travel allowance rather than the current rate of . dime. We're for this reduction. Right here in this valley we have watched one representative roll past In a new motorcar packed to the running boards with other rus- tic law.makers who rode with him as guests to and from Hart ford. Ten cents 8 mile Is too much. Lets ec0n0mixe and act sanely. As for the increase In wages, lots of representatives would gladly pay for the privilege of attending the General Assem- ply.
 Our trap shop is one of the luckieSt industries in Connecticut. To date, the management has found 1t unnecessary to employ any of these newly -minted 200- hour mechanics. Unlike our na- tional defense industries, the Haw- kins Company employs men train- ed by actual labor over a period of years.
 There's Myron Pierce, for in- stance. Myr0n can take roll of stock, a couple of blocks of tool steel, and . wrench and, before you've had . chance to remark about the weather, he will have a stream of tacks pouring out the 0thsr end of . machine. Myron learned tack making the hard way and his tacks arc perfection It. self.
 There's Frankly Bowers. Frank also learned the hard way and 1t makes little difference whether its Q heat-treat job or the hand- ling of an intricate power press, the job is done just Q little better than required. If we could have trapS built by Bowers stationed along the far-flung coast of Brit ain, Hitler's stooges would think twice before stepping ashore, One of the Frank Bowers traps would jump right up and catch a Mes- serschmidt plane on the wing,
 Take Dell Chandler No school on earth could have taught Dell what he knows about manu- facturing. He begins in knowl- edge where the others leave off. He can whittle out trap, fire boiler, patch q tin roof or repair a turbine. It took him years to win this skill but he Is the type of man who remembers and he never forgot Q lesson.
 Two-hundred hour mechanics are the grief that We must endure until the cruel war Is over. They come from everywhere and they claim to know more about the mechanical arts than did Ell Whitney himself. If we could give each and every one of them about 1000 hours on Q tumbling barrel job, following graduation, they might know enough to be fair helpers to guys like Pierce, Bow CTS, and Chandler.
 Whip-poor- shoes, sometimes known as moccasin flowers are In full bloom. Here's . chance to get your girl a genuine orchid without spending . weeks wages. You'll find whlp- -poor-will shoes in shady woodland and in acid soil. They are usually delicate pink. Only one flower grows to q stalk and the plant shorn of its flower does not bloom the next year.
 "He went to turn out the COWS when he suffered and died of apoplexy." That's the wording of local dispatch recording the death of one Lawrence Burnosky, a Polish Yankee who worked for Rill Wilcox at the Pierce Hollow