The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-14

We've heard that the test lanes are manned by Republicans, and if that's true, perhaps 1t explains trouble experienced by one of our local Democrats. This gentleman drove over with his two bits all ready to buy sticker and he got turned down flat. He asked what was wrong and they gave him 8 bin of particulars that cost him four dollars. That man was mad.
 Why" he said, "I've seen the time when I could've bought five votes in this town for four dol- lars, and it cost me that much just to get a sticker on my wind shield. The old windshield was plenty good enough. It only had two bullet holes in it and you could see out of one corner per- fectly all right"
 Sometimes 1t pays to resign. When you resign, they can't fire you. Ed and Edna Warner re- signed from Uncle Jim Cassidy's farm in Bethlehem the other Sunday while Jim was at church. They just loaded up their belong ings in two washtubs and hiked upStreet to another farm. It was Edna Warner who estimated that Uncle Jim's barn held 400 tons of hay when it burned. The esti- mate was eagerly accepted by a non-farming reporter and print ed. That barn held about 40 tons only. Any figure heavier than that is not reliable.
 Frank Rant. Shepaug River boy, has won his wings at an Air Corps flying school in Alabama. Frank got his early training try ing to stay aboard a Ford as it bounced along the old town road beside the river We expect Frank home on furlough soon.
 This town is always inventing
 
 water butts have long been a source of income to automobile spring manufacturers, and now we have Ed COer road shoulders. These new shoulders, invented by our First Selectman, are warrant ed to keep all the moisture in the center of the highway, so that when the water freezes q perfect Iy smooth surface is obtained. The best showing of these shoul- ders is on the new Shepaug Boulevard.
 Just as anticipated, that new highway along the Shepaug in- fluenced a certain infiltration from our neighboring town, Rox- bury. That Roxbury game war den got clear through to the Housatonic and made at least one arrest for illegal bass capture. Rumor has it that the bass in question were so hefty that they broke the warden'S scales, SO he measured the fish and hauled the offending angler into our court. Testimony at the trial suggested that the man was honest enough and, while the bass were reported slightly shrunk as to length, they were a paunchy type of fish that weighed heavy and offered good eating.
 Lots of our COnservatiOnistS are that way. They figure that little fish doesn't tally very heavy from the standpoint of breeding stock, but that an old lunker will repro duce fast. Eating an undersized fish doesn't prevent the old timers from raising a flock. Many a short trout or bass has been caught here but most people put back the old tough naOssbacks to keep the streams stocked. Any way, little fish are tenderer than an old whale that's fought until all his muscles are hard.
 It's a screWball world when Q latrine columnist lands connmis- sion as lieutenant commander of the U. S. Navy and the son of the nations vice-president mourns, "f guess my mother is about like most mothers and would have liked to have seen me deferred" (from the draft). The real trouble with Sonny Wallace ls that he doesn't know very >many American matheTs. Most American mothers consider it .