The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1917-10-12
Communication
Mr.. Editor:


and seIf-esteem are far from being
! one and the same thing. Failures
multiply because men do not study
their aptitudes and engage i'll pur-
suits uncOngenidL The most OF US
/ can win, and Will win, when our TASK
is interesting and profitable. Com
muities are like individuals. Some
flourish and some fail Cambridge
depends upon oysters, crabs, toAa-
toes. and waiting on or serving peo-
pie within and without its corporate
limits. The Neck is independent. II
We haze more than we need, We sell
it in Cambridge. Baltimore, or else
where, and pocket the proceeds. ii
the oysters fail crab laws become
ridiculous, tomatoes too low for prot
it, and peas dry in the pod, we are
fed and clothed just the same. our
mules, COWS, corn, etc, are un1all-
ing. We send our surplus men, Wo-
men, and stuff. to Cambridge, BaItl-
more and elsewhere. Sometimes we
send our best and sometimes we face
what we send. TO Cambridge we
sell what we cant sell where IranS-
p0rtatson is cheaper. Every Commu-
nifty has preferences, and We would
love TO continue Cambridge as our
choice, even when other places
wouit be equally inviting. Cam
bridge ought to consider us more
than ii does. As the farmers buy
automobiles, they discard the pet
ted horse and keep the patient, plOd-
ding mule. and so Cambridge ought
TO be careful what goes to the dis
card, as she begins TO put on lugS.
Even big Baltimore is in tears today
because her surroundings prefer TO
be Independent. We hayseedS are pa
tient. but our backs are getting 100
close to the wall for comfort. Cam
bridge doesn't seem 10 he able to
even school her own children We
country folk are unsophisticated,
and have 10 be dried out before we
burn. bur Squirm like babies with
the cClic when ouT toes are held un-
der q heavy heel We Neck people
are only VaiIing the new assessment
to discover whether our schools and
roads are comparable with other
county communities and while it
may surprise Cambridge. We really
eonsiuer il our county town; our
service station.
IN Cambridge. have ventured TO say
tDat We people OF the Neck are hun
gr.er Tor dollars to hoard than for
edTca,ion for our children. To scut-
tie this SANDER, we can point 20 sew
eral youth away, at Il sacrifice. to
continue schooling. and several 9th
ers. not able to get away, going over
the 18th grade second time because
there is no Sth.
As a saloon. with its usual temp
tatiOns, Will attract customers where
there never was drinking, and turn
out soakS where drunken man
hitherto was unknown. or as toma-
toes were uneaten. little, round, red
things. growing wild, and called love
apples 80 years ago. and today a
commercial necessity, so a graded or
secondary high school in Hudson
will attract, inspire and create a
class of yirile youth paying the the
county fourfoId. My mother raised
geese, and boys so often said her
boys had to pass thru the goSlin
stage-this was her apology for our
sometimes rudeneSS. We geese of
the Neck have been picked, and the
feathers used for the other fellows
nest, long enough. We want the
feathers and giblets and carcasus, ,af-
ter fair commission and tax is de-
Quoted, accounted for, and placed to
our credit During a discussion OF
this question lately in the presence
of Mr.. Dan Cook, liz lis store, at
CornerSVille, he offered 10 furnish
some names of Neck people, residents
in Cambridge and elsewhere, as he
could recall them, and l said do so,
and I'll publish them as an illustra-
tion of our claim.
Here is the test: In Cambridge
Merchants: James Wilson, Sam
Hubbard, Daniel Seward, Olin Le-
Compte, d. B. LeCompte, Herbert
Hearn, Edward Seward, Sam LeCom-
pte, Oliver Spedden, (retired, and
member of the School Board); !;
Hunt Spedden, John Spedden, also
retired; Hamilton Spedden, lawyer.
ana cashier of Peoples Bank; Earl
Hearn, lawyer; John Dawson, doc
tor; Howard Wilson and Thomas
Hubbard, real estate; y. II. LeCom-
pte, capitalist; George James, Police
Justice; Guy LeCOmpte, Notary Pub
lie and accountant; Daniel Marshall,
Singer machines; James Marshall,
shoe maker; James Hastings, miller;
William Thomas, Robert Wilson,
James and William Hubbard, con-
tractors and builders; George Sla-
cum. William Stevens, Sandy Glover,
Elijah Marshall, retired farmers;
George North, William Spedden, mo.
Marshall, statesmen.
John Cook, tensmith; Bun Wright,
A1lnD WRIGHT bl9c SSmlt N :
John Mills, eX-sheriff; Author Trego,
Levin Trcgo. William APpIcgarth,
Lee Wilson, carpenters, beside a
host of beautiful ana acco1HEfi.s I'd,
and wealthy women, now integral
parts Of all the good things Of The
home life in Cambridge. OF course,
Dan Cooks confirmed batchelorhoOo
makes him failure in pointing oar
the noble women who have left us,
and are yet with US in heart. nut
here are some he named:
Mrs. Edith Seward Phillips, Mrs.
Noah Webster, Mrs. DR.. Dawson,
Mrs. ID. H. LeCompte, Mrs. William
Drain. Mrs. Alexander Mitchell, Mrs.
Mollie Spedden. Mrs. Edward Hearn.
Mrs. Sarah Blades, and host Oh
beautiful and accomplished young
women. looking for honor and nus
bands.
Beside those persons still in the
county. Baltimore has become the
home OF many OF our people. He
named the great Spedden shipyard.
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