Reader’s opinion of re-printed column remains the same
Kindly afford me this opportunity to stand with the Messenger staff in wishing Miles Davin a speedy recovery from illness. In the present-time absence of penning by Mr. Davin the re-printing of a so-called “favorite column” appeared in the Jan. 4-10 Messenger.
The column topic read “The poor often much happier than rich.” Initial reading of the original column did prompt me to submit a letter of rebuttal against the premise that living poor is good.
In view of the fact that the column is reprinted as a tribute, my words have fallen obviously as rain on a duck’s back.
But I have come to accept such as being characteristic of Greene Fiefdom.
My rebuttal to the original printing countered with a stanza in a song popular long ago as follows: “Ask a rich man, he’d confess, money can’t buy happiness. Ask a poor man, he will shout, he’d rather be miserable with than without.”
The aristocracy of Greene Fiefdom possesses the wanton insolence and arrogance to celebrate the poverty of others as a blessing upon the poor.
Once again, [I wish for a] speedy recovery [for] Miles Davin…As an eighteenth century English poet once wrote, “Hopes springs eternal in the human breast. Man never is, but always to be blest.”
Paul Lagojda
Cumberland Township