The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-18
By ROBERT RUARK

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 Norfolk, Va, Sept. 18-None of the figures quoted in this story can be called correct, which fact in it. self should be the tipon on the widest, most incoherent sector of our land = Norfolk, Portsmouth, Newport News and the other sister municipalities of the buzzing war area which lnonopolizes this portion of the Atlantic coast.
 Norfolk is nuts completely in- sane with an influx of War-spon- sored humanity which has suc- ceeded in completely demoralizing this part of the country. Norfolk is a beehive, a subway jam, an over-crowded tenement and size- able section of the violent ward in. madhouse.
 s'TOO LITTLE" IS
 WARTIME COMPLAINT
 The recipe for this condition was conceived by Mars, and stirred into the pot by Adolf Hitler. The for mula is simple; you take quiet, small community and flood 1t with twice its holding capacity, like pouring two pounds of sugar into one-pound bag. The result is chaos, toppedo with 8 cherry of hysteria.
 Norfolk has an immense housing problem. Norfolk has its racial problems. Norfolk has too little food, to olittle transportation, too little water and electrical facilities. All of Norfolk's problems are shared with its related bulging hamlets, scattered about Hampton Roads and the James river.
 War brought prosperity to this area, and sinking behind it came all the problems that attach them- selves to a booming town. Think of it: Concentrated in a few square miles are the shipyards at New port News, with a weekly payroll of around $1,250,000: the popula- tion of a sizeable city in the Nor folk Navy Yard at Portsmouth; likewise in the naval base at Nor folk, and the associated hordes at Langley Field, Camp Pendleton, Ft. Monroe, Ft. Eustis, the Coast Guard base at Little Creek, the ammunition, Supply and fuel depots, the anti-aircraft units and Ft. Story.
 COUNTY POPULATION IS MORE THAN DOUBLED
 Norfolks population has bounced 63 per cent in two years, and cor responding increases have occurred in the neighboring cities. In War wick county, on the other side of Hampton Roads, the increase has approximated 101 per cent.
 Where do all these people live? They live in tenements and apart ments and trailerS and tents and temporary housing units. They sleep in shifts of three, on gray wrinkled sheets that never lose the moist imprint of human bodies. They cram themselves into housing units to such an extent that Baby bulgeS out of the window. They sleep in parks and on pavements and sometimes in hotels-if they know the manager.
 Their coming has caused such a water shortage that there is not enough for bathing, let alone the watering of grass and flowers. A two-million dollar pipeline is in process of construction, to give the area sufficient water for it's normal needs.
 MUSHROOM SETTLEMENTS MAR LANDSCAPE
 Transportation is one of the major problems. Since Norfolk, Portsmouth and Newport News all are separated by bodies of water, the supposedly simple act of going and coming looms as major tac- tical problem. Ferry tolls are high, and the operation of an auto when you can get the gaS-runs into staggering expense.
 One almost must have priority to get space on bus. Fights are common.
 There is too much money, too much liquor, and too many sources of friction. The simple loading of bus is the occasion for profanity, hard stares, and occasional ruckuseS that pay of in blood and broken heads.
 Norfolk Newport News Hamp- ton will be an immense eyesore after the war. Temporary housing units have mushroomed until it is almost impossible to move with out seeing scabrous settlements of shoddy, t tossed- together temporary apartments and dormitories. On s4sa SSe.UY,orE News side something