The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-16

CA@A v uaiOAM- G#3s1 s&A 3s4$ NE@ cial field artil- Bill Garrigus lery's battle song,
 "The Caissons Go Rolling Along!" He shouldn't have been playing bridge. A guy that could write
 music should be playing poker, stud or draw, without . joker.
 The Caisson Song was written in the Philippines. It has echoed over hill and over dale in China, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and from the castled hilltops of Ger many's Rhineland. Troops cross ing the frontier at Remich heard 1t, Reilley's Battery galloped into action with those glad notes of he-man music spurring them on- ward, and a battery we once knew sang the full eighty verses with out 8 mistake in bivouac and cor- ral halfway around the world. The Caisson Song was something to inspire Sousa, to make red ban- r1ers rustic battle streamers, and to make red-leg recruits polish guns until they shone.
 They don't write music like that today. Guns go into action at the tailend of . truck. Horses are reserved for Mexican Border Ser- vice Or for the show rings. We keep them rolling today behind smelly gasoline motors, but lot of the old files remember when infantry yelled; "Givc way to the right! Make way for the guns" and the 75s rolled through muddy terrain to blast a hole that the army was ready to follow straight through to Berlin The men we knew who sang The Caiss0n Song were always at the right-of -the- line.
 When the government sent a man into Connecticut to help organize and coordinate the U. s. O., & new setup to entertain the troops, the speech making and zack-slapping were noteworthy. When a newspaper reporter asked the government man what agency he represented, the federal en- ploye didn't know. He flashed an Identification card from McNutt's outfit, but he couldn't be sure just whom he belonged to. The re- porter said 1t looks like an over- Aass, %NAV1A 10
 It's all very shush -Shush and Om the Q. T., but 8 British sub- marine was seen limping into New London Submarine Base last week under the escort of . Yankee pig boat. The Chewink, 2 sub tender, sent the shore patrol hunting up members of the crew on liberty. The Navy claimed that there was no disaster. A few hours later. passersby saw the lime juicer painfully chugging up the Thames. (Our report comes from Ledyard Quaker who stood on the bridge and watched the foreigner see.s refuge in our waters. This Quaker chap was on . sub during the last war;
 Tip Hall, South Britain's wan- dering blacksmith, is reported as considering offers to turn marine blacksmith. Tip figures that he can square his obligations as an American citizen by whacking out a few battleship anchors or sub- marine grappling hooks. Maine shipyards report a shortage of blacksmiths, Massachusetts boat builders claim that all their help has migrated to Connecticut. Tip thinks it's time to pick and choose carefully and to have a clause in the contract that will assure con- tinuity of employment regardless of slow periods or Communist la- bor agitation. Striking while the iron Is hot is what Blacksmith Hall does best.
 It's time to clean the cellar and to start hunting up new cider barrels. Don't let some gasoline hoarder get the jump on you. Be sure of your barrel supply now. Barrels will be scarce, come fall.
 We haven't enough Oalies te 10 around. The N. Y. A. has en1- parked on c scheme of controlled migration" and this agency is now bringing in youth from Pennsyl- vania and New York to serve as defense workers in Connecticut factories and to lower the wage scales accordingly. Tinkerihg with a brother Charles l.. Beardslee of Atlantic City. N. !, also several and great grand- children.