Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1926-01-16
Local Energy And Initiative Incum-
bent Upon All. - Loyal Citizens
Should Lend Support
OTHER TOWNS ON SHORE
REPORT MUCH PROGRESS

The special committee appointed to
draft tentative constitution for q
local Board Of Trade met this week
concluded their business and win SUBJ
NIT their draft to the whole commit
tee at near date.
In the accomplishment of this work
they were helped greatly by informa-
tion obtained from the Constitution
and Bylaws of the Salisbury Cham
Der of Commerce and also by those
governing the local organization eff
fected some time back.
Pocomoke people should be up and
doing and watch every move being
made. Local energy and initiative
are incumbent upon the community,
and Indifference is going to be costly.
The members of the Berlin Board
of Trade held meeting in the Munich
pal Building Monday evening for the
purpose of considering the part their
community would take in furthering
the program of the Del-Mar-Va East
ern Shore Association.
The plans Of the organization were
outlined by G. M. Freeman and H. G.
Andrews of Salisbury. They pointed
out that only those communities which
had live, aggressive local organiza-
tions would reap the full benefit from
the work which the Del-Mar-Va East
ern Shore Association proposes to do.
The members of the Board of Trade
were unanimous in their opinion that
as first step in advertising and pub
licizing the Peninsula they would
place themselves in position where
they could, as part of the general
program, advertise and publicize Ber-
lin. y"
Among the speakers at the meeting
were d. Frank Fooks of Snow Hill,
chairman of the Worcester County
Membership and Finance Committee
which is acting on behalf of the Asso-
citation, E. /. Oswald, the County
Farm Agent, also Of Snow Hill, Craw-
ford Bounds, the Rev. Mr.. Verbryke.
Senator Orlando Harrison and DR..
Bowen, 80 years old and dinnerly ac-
claimed the poet laureate Of the Pc
|ninsula.
All the business men in the meeting
expressed the view that the Del-Mar-
Va Eastern Shore Association could
claim support on business basis as
in publicizing and promoting the Pc
ninsula was neither philanthropy
nor charity. The Rev. Mr.. Verbryke
said that in his opinion the program
Of the Association if successfully car
cied out, would make far better
schools, better churches and better
highways, and what was equally i'm
portant, better communities.
Doctor Bowen told Of his nation
wide travels. He said that he had
met Eastern Shoremen in every part
of the country and he had never met
one of whom he was ashamed. he
also said that no Eastern Shoreman
ever forgot, "the rivers, bays and
billowing ocean beaches of his home
land" and always returned to them
sooner or later.
Senator Harrison pointed out that
interest in the Del-Mar-Va Eastern
Shore Association was not confined to
any one community but that Sussex
county on the one hand and North
ampton and Accomac on the other
vieing with the counties in Maryland
in their eagerness to promote the in
terest Of, the Peninsula as a whole,
being confident that the promotion
work done would be reflected even in
the most obscure community.
C. M. Freeman, representing the
Norman Sartorius, B. F. Sturgis, w.
H. Walters, and H. M. Walters. Mes
danes M. L. Veasey and J. N. Clogg
were kept at home by illness. The
other two ladies present were, Misses
Annie Blaine and Margaret Crockett.
Two visitors graced the occasion, Mr..
and Mrs. Ballou, Mr.. Ballou being the
past-president of the Scranton, Pa,
Rotary Club.