The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-20
COMMUNITY GROUP.
 NOT IN POLITICS
Comment of Supt. of Police Carson Brings Prompt
 Denial
Washington Hill

To put it mildly, after reading the local papers yesterday, residents of Washington Hill, at least mem bers of the Community club, were certainly in a state of chaoS.--When they read what was quoted by Supt. of Police Daniel Carson, in re- sponSe to a letter written by tine Community club asking for better police protection in this section ot the city, i. e., that the Community clubs should do something to take care of their own children ir an effort to curb the juvenile de- linquency in the city. No doubt the superintendent's patience was sore ly tried when he passed this re- mark.
 For the benefit of those who may rot have read the article, the superintendent was remarking that the club members should stop being politicians and take care of their own children-who were doing the damage-as in his opinion, children do not travel from one end of the city to another. Without doubt the police department have some thing there, because of course, if the parents do not instruct their youngsters to respect law and order and authorities of the law, then we can expect almost anything of them. Now to expect community club to step in and take care of children, IS little far fetched. Certainly, i'll all fairness to all community clubs, they were never organized to take care of these things. In fact u can safely be said, that no one has ever attained a political office by being affiliated with Washing ton Park Community club--for it is the concensuS of opinion, that the people heading political parties do not feel inclined to recognize any one holding office in these clubs one reason, if one person is singled out, it may cause hard feelings with some of the other members who may feel, they are just as capable as the one so favored. On the other hand, the politicians would rather the friendship of members oi the organized clubs, than their en- inlty; and rightly so. All of this is stated here to correct any im- pression to the contrary Washing ton Park Community Club, Inc, is not a political club-never was, and we hope-never will be!
 Washington Park Community Club have sponsored a boy scout troop for number of years and of recent years girl scout troop of which we are very proud. The boy scouts have troop committee made up of the fathers of the boys in the troop, which all shows the right personal touch such as is needed for its success. The people working with these youngsters certainly have to give much of their time, patience and energy, which should be taken notice of.
 The Community Club, as an or ganization, gives all the help possi- ble, to help those in charge of the | troops to keep the boys and girls interested. This must be help for the parents to keep them interested ln something far from the mischev- i ious side of the picture.
 To cite some of the things that are happening in our midst and not all by our own children, if groWnups give their memories jolt, when we did any cutting up in our youth, you can bet we didn't do so in our own backyards-or at least we tried not to let our parents in on it.
 On Sylvan avenue just last night, one of the neighbors who works on the late shift, left his car parked at the curb in front of his house, and some youngsters living in an- other part of the city, a great ways from Washington Hill, we can as- sure you-was caught in the act of stealing gas out of the car.
 Another incident happened just last week in one of the neighbor-