Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1940-11-22

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played above hasn't much chance this
year, has he? You see, as this is
"Chooseday", I can look ahead in
stead of in the rear.
The old bird has a specially sor-
rowful countenance this year. Two
Thanksgivings and a Christmas! The
future certainly looks dark for him,
and it won't be long now before his
light is put out, and I've no doubt
Mr.. Gobbler can hear the axe tuning
up on the grindstone.
How-some-ever, so far as we are
concerned, we are just thankful there
are turkeys for Thanksgiving and
other festal seasons. Maybe some
Of us have depleted SURPRISES and
have to substitute a rabbit, an old
rooster or puddle duck. But we
are not an envious mortal, and those
who can afford it, have our best
wishes for the latest Turk they can
find, and if the finders happen to be
close neighbors and have a drum
stick to spare, why our latch string
is on the outside.
suppose there are many things
we should be thankful for. We
should be glad Of life itself; life in
these Autumn golden and russell days.
We should feel the glow of the genial
sun, and partake thankfully of its
hfe-giving rays. Thankful for
health, if we have it; and, if we do
not, thankful for the hope implant-
ed in our hearts for a brighter day
bringing strength and vigor.
We should be grateful for friends
and their friendship-blessings I'M
told. Robert Hall once said, "a
faithful and true friend is a living
treasure, inestimable in possession
and deeply to be lamented when gone.
Nothing is more common than to talk
Of a friend; nothing more difficult
than to find one; nothing more rare
than to improve by one as we ought"
I tell you when a man can have a
lot of friends-about election time, he
can find more voters who are going
TO slip in ballot for him when the
all-important day rolls around, than
1T takes to elect him a dozen times
over. The returns sometimes show
there are friends and friends. I've
known candidates who didn't call
them friends after the ball was over;
they dubbed them some. kind of al
mighty liars. Still they arc good
natured liars all the same; they don't
like to come out and say-''we don't
like you, and we don't intend to give
you the chance to get any of the
plums."
Then, again, there are some prom
isers who think that a little taffy
handed out to a candidate will also
result in a hand-out. And if said
hand-out fails to materialize, then
some changes take place behind the
curtain when the ballot is marked.
And so it goes.
suppose we should be thankful
that these good old United States
are at peace-tho', when you come
to think about it, they are so near
war, it makes gooseflesh creep all
over you. Still if war does come,
we should be thankful somebody's 60
ing to get hurt as bad as we are and
maybe Bladder" Shakespeare once
said: Beware of entrance into a
quarrel; but, being in it, so bear thy
elf that the opposed may beware of
thee" That's a theory of defense as
old as the hills, but it has lost moth
ing of its good sense as it has aged.
Then, again, so far as I am con-
cerned, I've got to eat as any other
human being is compelled to do, in
order to live, even tho I can't eat
turkey. And, -some-more, it
takes money to buy the staff of life.
If some of those people, who have
more money than a country printer
has, would think to pay that little
bill long overdue, thanks would be
emitted more gushingly, and Thanks
giving Day would be more of the real
thing, would contain more of the real
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