The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-28
By DresO PedrsOa

just as couapanionabae as the people whom we had always known who lived down the street or across the city.
 one day my next door neighbor, Bob Mccormick. turned to me and said, T hate to think about the end of the war coming, because when 1t comes you and will quit driving downtown together X0uI have your car and I'll have mine and we'll only see each other occasionally. That's too bad.
 Yes, that was too bad sAnd that was only one of the incidents of neighborliness which we had developed as result of the war and which we might lose again All along the streets where you and live, there are housewives who nave 1ormed little shopping clubs who have either ridden to market in a car owned by one of them, or who have all walked together to the shopping piaSsss doing their shopping jointly visiting as they went along, discovering something Tn life that naa not been there before.
 How many women improved their figures as they walked to market! And t1nk WllaS VlcCoy Sah 1ciAS did for the men!
 Like Drew Pearson will perhaps be away from Washington when this column is printed away on m a short vacation While am gone, someone VIII pc moving my lawn. During the war had to mow my own lawn couldn't find anyone interested n sa1Ig care of my particular little piece oi propersy ana strange thing happened found that could mow 1t as well as anyone else that could mow 1t quickly and that could learn within short time exacty how each particular section could pc nesS moweu @ v develop the best cut of grass And founo out also that when moved it myself, not only improved the lawn, improved my own digestion n, tsil myself that I'm too busy to do it when can hire someone else for the job suppose tlag my wife will miss something, too because she used to walk to market and carry her groceries back home m 8 basket. .,s
 As for myself, shall reflect upon the fact that an automobile salesman used to be able 10 sen me a new car each year. thought must have one Surey a car that had gone past 15 or 20 thousand mies would no longer be reliable, even if that entire ds- tance had been upon city pavements. But when the war came learned that automobiles will go 5O,0OO or 100000 miles and still be pretty dependable as means of transportation.
 And tires, too used to believe that 8 tire that had gone past 10000 miles had practically worn out its life And yet my car had set purchased m May of 194O. They now have gone more than 5OooO miles; have been recapped twice. and are stM pretty fine looking tires Five years of service and stu gooo
 Maybe that's typical of the lessons of thrift we needed to learn during the war-lessons that as great nation we need to retain as the years roll along Our children too had 8 few little lessons m thrift For example through the public schools there were great groups of youngsters out gathering up waste paper sorting it into bundles carrying It on their backs to central collecting point; and turning it in as their contribution toward winning the war hope they do not have chance to forget some of those lessons of thrift that they need to remem- Der as long as they live, their future lives are 10 be happy. ~ , ,.., resources As a people we have always been little wasteful. perhaps because resources have been so great All through the war years for example We
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