Evening journal., 1909-02-15
Monday, February Is, 1909
THE SUSSEX COURT HOUSE.

It He demand for the improvement of the
n Sussex County Court House continues
The Milford Chronicle hopes that the Demo-
cratic members of the Levy Court will be able
to force the Republicans to join with them in a
plan to remodel the present county building.
For twenty years, says the Chronicle 'the
Grand Jury has condemned the quarters set
apart for the meeting of that body and the
judges have been forced to sit in a room reek-
ing with filth and spittle" The Chronicle con-
tnues: THE stairs at the sessions of the court
are sight to be seen to realize their impossible
condition from sanitary standpoint The
ord rooms of the building are without hreproof
protection and sufficient room or accommoda-
tons for the Levy Court itself is not afforded
by the present building. Democratic members
of the Levy Court arouse the Republican MEM
bers to a sense of their duty, or put them on rec
ord in the matter of at least respectable county
building at Georgetown"
This is a rather remarkable appeal on the part
OF our energetic Milford contemporary, because
il is usually the Republicans who are progress
sive and the Democrats who hold back on al
legged pleas of economy. But often when the
Democrats get chance to practice that economy
Of which they are fond of talking, they fail to
safeguard the treasury.
la this instance-the improved Court House
in Sussex-we should think that both parties
would agree.
AS the Chronicle says, the Grand Jurors for
the past twenty years have called attention to
the condition OF the county building and the
judges have occasionally spoken about it. 1t is
fair to presume then that the Grand Jurors dur
ing that period must have represented a large
proportion of the responsible taxpayers of the
county unless the same men appear over and
over again on the jury
Therefore, there must be widespread senti-
ment in favor of an improved county building.
During the past twenty years conditions in
Sussex have changed No county in the State in
has made ac t,1t4ch &C
Sussex. The farms better than they were,
the land has increased in value and there is more
wealth than ever in the good old county. Some
of this wealth should find its way into new
county building. Some Sussex members of the
Legislature have been active in supporting
State Improvements. They are heartily sup
porting the measure for a new State House
building at Dover and yet the need of a new
county building in Sussex is far morc, pressing
than the call for new State Building at Do
yer
It is mentioned that the records which are
kept in the county building have no adequate
protection against fire. This certainly should be
remedied.
While we notice that some of the Sussex
county papers favor the improvement of the
Court House others do not seem much inter
ested in the matter. And yet the demand for
an Improvement of the building is very strong
and Il viii doubtless increase. Sussex certainly
shotid do something in order to secure better IA
eilites for the conduct of her county work The
MISSIONS of the Sussex court, believe, are usu-
ally we'll attended and the court room is a relic
Of the past entirely unsuited to the present day.
Let person drive over the roads in MANY
parts of Kent county during this weather and he
will be conyerted to the movement for good
roads. In front of some of the best farms of
the county the mud is deep that it is almost
impossible to travel Perhaps, if the govern
ment should notice the bad condition Of these
he he
messengers, the good roads movement would re-
ro;~r