Evening journal., 1913-06-24


their neighbor's and where their
neighbor grows so bushels OF corn,
they expect in the next year TO grow
100. want = say that this condi-
tion has been brought about lore
through the efforts and more through
the training given at Delaware Col
lege possibly than in any other way
(applause)
Nov the city of Wilmington has
one other duty, one other thing It
should do. Why, the daily papers
come down there and every farmer
on the route gets his daily paper.
The evening papers from Wilmington
are distributed widely all over the
country; the morning paper is dis
tributed widely through the rural
sections of the county; yet, gentle
men Of the Chamber of Commerce,
let me say to you, If you pick up
your evening papers tonight and your
morning paper of this morning and
turn through them for your adver-
tisement, what do you find? You
don't find the advertisements put out
by Wanamaker, or by Lifts. or by
GimbelH, or some others You take
the county papers, the rural papers,
and the only advertisements that you
see In them from the city of VIII
mington are the Security, Trust and
Safe Deposit Company's and the
Equitable Guarantee and Trust Com
pany's and they advertise in every
rural paper, and / venture to say
that there is more money from Kent
/ In, he ffuh Il -
curity Companies than there is idle
money in the county. If a man gets
about two or three per cent. returns
which the Equitable and the Security
advertise, he sends up his money and
they send back a check book and he
checks his money out when he gets
ready. Now If you merchants as we'll
would advertise in about the same
way, think with a stop-off privilege
OF ten days, you will see the Kent
county people come up here.
"Mr. Toastmaster, have made
these remarks in a very crude kind
of a way. / have tried to tell you
people of Wilmington what / believe
to be the truth about 1t, and until
you can let Kent county know what
you have got and until you can take
care Of what Kent county has, there
is not much chance, l say to you
frankly. Of your creating a very big
trade with Kent county. l thank
you"
Colonel Houston Praises Sussex.
Colonel Robert G. Houston, of the
Sussex Republican, was called upon
by Judge Gray to respond for Sussex
county. Mr. Houston dwelt at length
uron the greatness Of Sussex, and
also put in a word for a river front
for Wilmington, as Mr. Magee also
had done so explicitly. y
Mr.. Houston said in part;
"Mr. Toastmaster and gentlemen,
It is with some embarrassment that
arise to address this assemblage
this evening. Sussex County has
been so we'll heard from already, that
It Is somewhat embarrassing, but II
does please me, however, to realize
that the business men of the City of
Wilmington can so much appreciate
a good thing as to take a Sussex boy
and make him President of the
Chamber OF Commerce. l will remind
you that If Il had not been for a
certain Dutchman by the name Of De
Vries, who about in 1880 discovered
what is really now Lewes and estab-
lished a settlement there and by
establishing that settlement estab-
lished the priority of the Dutch
patent, which VIM. Penn afterwards
took, Delaware would have been a
part OF Maryland and instead of be-
ing here tonight as Delawareans we
all have been Marylanders, but why
shouldn't It be so?
Sussex County is a more import
ant part OF the State of Delaware,
am sure, than most OF you realize
There are 1860 square miles of area
In the State Of Delaware; $50 are
found in old Sussex.
We can grow in Sussex county any
thing that any Of the rest of you car
grow. We grow on those stiff lands
corn equal to anything produced by
your lands in New Castle. Now wher
we get into our lighter lands, we FIND
there soil that is particularly suited
to the growth of fruits. SUISSE,
county. with its large area, rich II
history, strong in its development o.
men, is, nevertheless, gentlemen, {
county that is as yet largely unde
veloped. We have vast areas of un
, cultivated farms. large areas of parti
ally uncultivated farms, and yet not
| withstanding that fact, Sussex count!
. is today the largest strawberr.
{ growing country In the United States
/ We have at the town of Seaford wha
| have been informed is the larges
b pea factory-that is canning-in thl
[ United States. You will know tina
, Bridgeville stands the leader II
strawberry shipments. This yea
! they had a poor season.
THAT brings me to this thought
that this peninsula is peculiarly 10
, Gated between the bays, and is affect
ed by the atmosphere from those bays
so that In Sussex county we have
large areas that are affected by thu
same thing.
"As Judge Gray has said, we arr
. people Of a common peninsula, tn
I railroads which cross Delaware reacl
down into Maryland and Virginia, tn
water which rises in Sussex count.
finds it's way 10 the sea through you
state. and so Il is we are bound to
gether. what interests you interest
the rest Of us Why can't Wilmington
with the same patriotism that fills ou
hearts, that makes us true to Mary
land. or true to Virginia. why can
the same love of patriotism be ex
extended over the whole peninsula
for common purpose and for tn
common good.
"Now gentlemen, we need in Sus
sex county. better transportation.
have seen the day when peaches wer
allowed to rot on the ground becaus
thnr wnnldn'f nav the cost of trans