Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1937-03-05
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from the
Democrats Pen

Well, Sir, did any of you people
read about those school children over
on the Western Shore, who made
protest about the roads which they
said were nothing but mud, mud,
mud Then they decided to go on
Shutdown strike"
Now, that's what the headlines said,
and the first thing that struck my
noggin' was, what place to sit-down
in-roads that were nothing but mud
mud-mud. But you can't always tell
what children will do. You remember
the little tad whose infant happiness
for a moment or two, was blasted by
some untoward event-similar to
those which frequently render youth
full days dark and dreary. He could
think of no way to meet the situa-
ton; so, in flood of tears, he declar-
ed he was going out into the back
yard and eat worms.
So these scions of trans Chesapeake
ian culture threatened to get rid OF
muddy roads by a sitdown strike.
Poor little things. What would their
mammas have to say when their
young hopefuls came home, after be-
ing sent off in the morning all dress
ed up neat and clean? Maybe some
of you ambitious parents can answer
that question better than I can. l
rather think some punishment would
be inflicted in the neighborhood of
that coporeal part of the sit-downers
which they used to pull off that "sit-
down strike"
Now, if some of the children in this
benighted part Of tn world, the Eas-
tern Sho,' had thought of such a
scheme, it would have been laid to the
utter ignorance of the off-shots of
morons, clam-diggers, psalm-singers,
pistol-toters, -guzzlers, Bible-read-
ers, nigger-haters, back-woodsmen,
and all the rest of humanity inhabit-
ing this Cis-Choptankian section of
the worlds lost regions; there would
probably have been no notice taken of
it whatever; it would have been laid
to the eternal, everlasting, and hope
less ignorance of a class of beings
hardly worth the name of human.
The idea of using muddy roads for
a sit-down strike! I'll bet the ma
jority of the parents would have pre-
ferred their offspring to go out into
the back yard and eat worms. They
would have been easy to get rid of
"a dose of ipecac or castor oil, ac-
cording to the preferred order of go
ing, would have been the program.
Speaking of these sit-down strikers
seems to me that form of protest
would sometimes be found very in
convenient, unless the strikers carried
their seats along with them-I mean,
of course, chair or a camp stool or
a cheese box, or short bench or a
cushion or something life that.
'Taint always possible to find a COM
Portable place to bestow onself for the
duration of a period desired by strik-
ers.
And ! was just thinking that some
of these young bloods would be in luck
If some of the strikers should hap
pen to be pretty working girls. The
boys might offer their knees to the
highest bidder, and some young lass
might like the looks of 'em and bid
them in for the whole session of the
sit-down strike. Then, I am sure, the
romance of the situation would drive
out all ideas of the economic side of
the strike. And if all the strikers
could be Of this age, the contesting
corporations would not be in need of
any strike breakers. Economies would
merge slowly and naturally into e.
rotics.
l don't know what we are all COM
ing to or going whichever you
want. Strikes are the fashion, these
days. Even Franklin Delano has gone
on strike against the Supreme Court
This tribunal won't give him what he
wants, and when he wants, and he
wants to know the reason why.
hope the U. S. Senate will tell him to
go way back and sit down.
Mr.. John T. Riley has returned
al WI L.