Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1935-12-27
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Democrats Pen

Well, Sir, the old year is dying and
a New Year will soon be born, guess
I've got to say something about 1T,
but it's only the way of all things.
Existence ends with one thing, be-
gins with another. The years roll on
and we roll with 'em. Some OF US,
like snowballs, gather size and weight:
others melt away like a lump of sugar
in a coffee cup, and are no more.
They tell us the infant '36 will soon
be here. Wonder what he's going to
grow into. If he's going to turn out
to be like his predecessor, blest If l
want to make his acquaintance very
warmly. 1 don't know whether it's
all indignation or not, but 1885, et. al,
haven't loked so good to me. And I
don't believe it's all imagination eth
err. If any you people want a look at
my coal pile, you'd see at once that
the depression was not the subject of
fairy tale. Likewise my pocket
book, looks like an elephant had step
ped on it. However, I've managed to
get enough to eat, place to sleep,
and shoes on my feet-for all of which
I'm eternally thankful.
Now, Hope Franklin Delano Roose-
yelt will hunt around in his attic and
find some other kind of deal other
than a new one. I'll take an old one
that's lain away in the garnet for
years-m otheaten maybe-but I'd
prefer it, I think to the ones he has
fished up and called "new." I guess
that's because old ones would fit my
age better.
There's one deal, hope, Delano
will get thrugh all right, tho; that's
his plan to help the victims of infant
paralysis. That's a noble work. But
I'd like to whisper in his ear that I
believe Pocomoke has the same OPP
portunity that Georgia has. I'd like
to tell him that down on the Eastern
Sho', there's a we'll of warm flowing
water-been flowing from an appar-
emily, inexhaustible source through
a three-inch pipe, and this gushing
stream is turned into the Pocomoke
River, where it serves neither to swell
it's tide, increase it's currents, or add
nourishment to its fishes.
1 believe it's health-giving. I be-
ieve it's curative. I believe it could
be turned to account, and I wish the
President could see it. Maybe he'd
let some of the millions he's getting
for Georgia, seep through to Worces-
ter. Right on the bank of the river
is this artesian well, and it could be
sent through baths with changing ma
terial every moment, making it SAM
tary automatically. What an oppor-
tunity is lost! not only for helping the
afflicted greatest point-but in
bringing Pocomoke into the public
eye.
Can't some of you people help out
in this cause? Send the President
Christmas present, and then make
him feel under obligation to return the
favor-any method to get him inter-
ested, and maybe you can get him to
consent to two birthday balls a year,
one for the Pocomoke baths.
But seriously, this matter is worth
considering. Few people outside OF
the city know of this natural phenom-
enon, and some inside the city do not.
Down at the old pumping station
three-inch pipe arises about four feet
above the old wharf. An ell on this
pipe turns the flow into the river, and
I believe powerful curative agency
is woefully disregarded. A bath
house built on the banks could be sup
piled with a steady flow of water
through it's walls, and the sanitary
problem thus solved.
Here's wishing it may be turned
to use. And here's wishing that in
1886 this column may find something
sensible written in it, and not half
the time filled with humor strained
to the bursting point. I hope that in
the coming year things may take
better turn; that taters and onions
will bring a better price; that Snow
Hill and Berlin will get couple more
by-passes around Pocomoke so that it
will be necessary to put spy-glass
on one of these fine towns to see
where she's at. That every thing
will be lovely and the goose honk
high.