Smyrna times., 1908-03-04
SONS OF DELAWARE
HOLD A BANQUET
FINE TRIBUTE PAID TO
DELAWAREANS.
B. A. HAZEL of Smyrna, Presides
Over Delightful Affair in
Philadelphia Wednesday.

Philadelphia, Feb. 27.-The Sons of
Delaware last evening held at the
Roosevelt, 2027 Chestnut Street, the
first of the regular quarterly meetings
of the current year. The meeting
was followed by dinner. The usual
good cheer which characterizes the
gatherings of this vigorous organiza-
tlon was most pronounced. After the
dinner, which was most beautifully
served and thoroughly enjoyed, our
esteemed and inimitable Chairman,
President Hazel, informed the meet
ing he had treat in store for us, in
the way of some speeches, and this
promise was fulfilled. The first
speaker was Franklin Spencer Ed
monds, ESQ.,, member of the Board
of Education of this city. After few
preliminary remarks, pertinent to the
occasion, he told something about the
work of those whose duties are to ex-
tend edcuation among our people. One
of the great problems, he thinks, for
the teacher to solve is the problem of
finance. A certain educator had said
he would pay $40, 900 a year to a
teacher competent to fill this position,
but, " added this educator, "any one
capable of filling that position could
not be hired at price; his qualifica-
tions would be worth annually many
times the amount named" Mr.. Ed
monds, while deploring financial pan
les, which have followed each other in
persistent regularity in periods of six
teen and twenty years, since the fOun-
dation of this government, said that
in his judgment they act as educators
and trainers of the different genera
tions. The lessons of the panic of one
generation were necessary to their
successors, and hence their repetition.
1t is his hope, however, that the
school teacher will eventually, by his
increased facilities, be able to impart
to the young this knowledge, which,
up to this time, has only been OBJ
tanned by these disastrous upheavals.
Avery D. Harrington, Esq, Gives Address.
Mr.. Edmonds was followed by
Avery D. Harrington, Esq, member
of the Board of Public Edcuation and
Chairman of the Committee on Ele-
mentary Schools, which Committee
has under its jurisdiction A, 400 teach
ers in the Elementary Schools, to-
gether with the teachers of music,
drawing, sewing, cooking, kindergar-
ten, physical culture, special schools,
nurses and attendance officers.
George Alfred Townsend on Delaware.
Mr.. Harrington was followed by
George Alfred Townsend, commonly
and favorably known as "Gath. "
His address was as follows: 1.-The i'm
proved condition of the educated anc
commercial classes is shown in theil
many societies, of which the Sons
of Delaware in several states takes
rank like the small diamond it re.
sembles. The territories of Penn OF
Delaware follow the secession Of
Rhode Island from New England, anC
precede the secession of the west from
Virginia, and the seabord south anC
of Vermont from New York. AS al
animated nature begins in the eel
and the ova, with their energy O1
protoplasm, 80 our great Union is {
stall of separations, the secession'
being like the relays upon the tele
graph wire for the promotion of th'
Union. Thus, a philosophical view
of our Civil War might consider Sc
cession an activity of Union, for i
caused the cells of growth to becOm
uniform which previously had becom
divergent. Want of magnamity afte
the Revolution settled the Canadian
States, which are British emanation
from the American cell, and cause
the clash of arms in our fourth Presi
dency. From Delaware went tn
Loyalists, who might have been a
good Republicans as Chew, Key, o
Dickinson. Delaware as a transi
state has been called to my attention
a subject ulIlculC W 4AolilS' O0Ne'AS
those who have gone away are tn
only authorities, and the records be
hind do not relate their transit. Tn
Middle States were a second and thir
growth from adjacent peopling. CO
lonial and sectarian connections cause
a new intermingling, and thus Me-
Workers., Marylanders and Virg!niar
resettled Pennsylvania and Delaware
There are no records west of tn
Chesapeake on the Revolutionar
maps. Washington went down tt
Peninsula to Rock Hall while Pres
dent, to lay out the City of Washing
ton. The Bassetts and Miffiins can
up from Virginia. Mexican, Rea'
Dickinson. Comegys, Tilghman, Cla.