Evening journal., 1909-01-14
EMPHASIZE NEED
OF EDUCATION
Speakers Tell HOrtiCuIturiStS
Good Men Are Preferable
to Good Fruits


The Peninsula horticultural Society |
elected officers this morning There
also was an inspection Of fruit
The Board of Trade OF Wilmington, |
this morning sent the following letter TO
the society, which was received with
enthusiasm:
Peninsula Horticultural Society,
In Convention in Wilmington, Del. |
Gentlemen:
At the request Of the directors of the
Wilmington Board Of Trade, 1 am hand
ing you receipt for ninety dollars $500.
which is in full payment for rent Of your
convention hall. Please accept this re-
ceipt with our compliments and best
wishes
Your program is very interesting and
shows your activity and progressiveness
in the development Of horticulture on
the Peninsula. We are proud OF your
efforts and accomplishments and wish
you the very greatest success in the good
work in which you are engaged You can
always deepnd on the cooperation and
support Of the Wilmington Board of
Trade for we are very much interested
IN the welfare Of the entire Peninsula.
Looking forward with plasure to the
time when you will favor Wilmington
again with your annual convention, we
remain,
Yours very respectfully.
r. j. Maclean,
President
In reply President Shallcross said the
letter and receipt were received by the
socity with a great deal Of satisfaction
and pleasure. and that this was the first
time I'm the twenty-five years history Of
the society that they had been recog-
nized in such a manner. He said they
had been well treated in Wilmington and
that In leaving they would have a very
friendly feeling for this city.
Necessity For Education.
At yesterday afternoons session dis
cussion was devoted to the education of
the farmer and his family. Interest was
divided between a very optimistic adj
dress by the Rev. Dr. Hiram W. Kellogg.
OF Grace NJ. T. Church. and to an excori-
alton Of Delaware's educational system
by Professor A. r. Spaid, superintendent
OF county schools. Professor Harry Hay
ward director OF the Delaware College
Experiment Station. and Professor f. d.
Sanderson, director OF the New Hamp-
shire Experiment Station. were other
speakers. Professor r. w. Sylvester, pres
ident Of the Maryland Agricultural Col
lege and DR.. George A. Harter. president
OF Delaware College, who had been in
vited to speak, could not attend.
Good men rather than good crops was
the ideal presented by DR.. Kellogg.
Good men. that's the great thing, after
ALL" he said IF we fail to raise good
"a 80
the standard OF manhood Is to be raised
in America it must be done by the farm
er. The farmer with his newspaper is the
man who has more time than the business
man to consider some of these great ques-
tions before us, and that is the reason
you balance the morality in our life. I
want TO warn you against a thing / be-
lieve to be dangerous, the drift toward
that which is known as the practical, that
which makes the farmer educate his son
merely for a producer. To educate the
son to raise good crops and to make
money is too often the thought Of the
parent. We are judging men to-day too
largely by the salaries they get. We need
men who will give us a better standard
and 1 believe such men are nllng our
halls Of education to-day.
This standard Of manhood must be the
test Of all our institutions to-day It is
as true with the schools and the church
as il is with the farm. And 1 say that
the church has no right to ask the trust
Of this generation for past or creed. ex-
cept that the church inspires men to be
men. =
There are few things we need more
than the protection Of the children. Ignor-
ance must be destroyed. And no law
passed in Delaware has been so signin-
cant to the welfare OF this state than the
truancy law passed two years ago. urge
you to enforce it. There Is no state that I
know OF that is so rapidly growing broad
and cultured as is Delaware and because
OF this growth ! imploro you not to for
get that the standard OF manhood must
be your test"
Good People the States Product.
Professor Sanderson echoed DR.. Kel.
logg's optimism. Il lived in Delaware
some years ago" he said. "and I have
not been anywhere in the United states
where have found better people and
greater demand for information and cuI-
ture. Delaware Is peculiar in that Il
stands for the very best Of things"
Professor Hayward urged that educa-
ton be provided, not especially for "the
bright particular star, who Is here to-day
and gone tomorrow but for the ordi-
nary farm boy who Is TO remain a Della
warean. I'VE are primarily an agricul.
ture state" he said. "and It IS incumbent
J upon us to provide education for the
. boys .and girls who viii make our state
what It is to be 10 or Is years from now
I Especially. II we want good farmers
should we educate the girls in order that
s they can make good wives for our farm.
4 ers and provide good attractive ones fol
S them"
= Professor Spaid sounded a note Of pessi-
mism when he presented the few facilities
r for education offered by Delaware Penn,
e sylvania gives s2sS for the education oi
every man. woman and child In that
State" he said. Delaware gives si32 o0
for education. when II It gave 2sS fol
every man. woman and child as doe:
Pennsylvania, It would appropriate s4Oo'
0o0." He believed that the school district