Milford chronicle., 1915-05-28
HOUSTON,

D Mrs. Herman Marvel entertained Hous
. ton visitors this week
: Mrs. Elva Wilson is with her parents
Mr., and Mrs. Levin Cohee.
Some of our town people were present
at the Baccalaureate sermon preached
by Rev. Geo. Hines, of the NJ P Church
to the graduating class of Harrington
High School.
| Mr.. Beideman and daughter, of near
Frederica, were town visitors on Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Julius Brasure have been
spending the week with Mrs. G. l..
Counselman.
This week Theodore Thistlewood and
son, of Windy Hill, Md, have shipped
here the lumber for their new grist mill
I Mr. ThistlewOOd has secured the rental
of Arthur Dawsoh's house and will re-
move his family there until he can build
a home. He has purchased land near
the depot for the mill.
Almond Wilson has fine field Of vetch
I standing two or more feet high. Its
rank wisteria beauty stands in striking
contrast to most of the crimson clover
fields of this section, which were badly
blighted by drought. Agent Pence sug
gests that the culture of vetch, which |
has greater power to withstand adverse /
conditions, would solve the forage pro-
blem in Delaware
Why not a uniform system OF school
tax? In DR.. Wagner's talk on Tuesday
evening, he hit the Delaware school tax
system a hard blow. In some school
districts of the State as low as IS cents
head tax is paid-in others as high as
So 90; yet it should not cost any more to
educate one normal child than another c
certain man who owns a farm r;Avs |
very little school tax, while the tenant Z
who works 1t and keeps enough stock to +
run It, pays maximum amount. But
)ne says, the man who owns the fartnI
ives IN the city and is educating his
'hildren there; what is the educating of i
lis tenants children to him ~ The prac~i a
ical answer is this Will the mans I
arm be worth more in an educated Gull n
ured community or in a community Z
.here ignorance, and in consequence u
ice, prevail The people of our town
ay almost the maximum rate of tax.
'nlle our teachers receive only minimum is
alaries This would not be so under w
gstem of uniform taxes. 50
Supt. James +. Carroll was presert Of M
le tuesday evening meeting and made RI
4 appeal for higher education Dr M
many years a LEdCleT IN EE
lie public schools of Delaware. and this ar
the fourteenth year of his faithful SER
&c as Superintendent of Kent County
,hools. In all this time in the pbraseo-
gy OF the Shepherd King, he has kept tn,
can hand and pure heart, and now
hile the trosts of life's winter whiten sol
S locks it is most fitting that he makes an
appeal for his side of education.
The writer notes that it seems only an fro
dinary occurrence, for some would be at
eminent married men to be seen out
tn other women than his wife. In Mr.
me cases we note that the victims are Mr.
t girls OF sixteen or thereabout; and i
called decent people say ''Sh hush SUI
Don't say anything" bu,
isn't 1t time to teach morality and M
ncple Isn't it time to begin edu- \
lng the coming generation for right ref
ing and true conscience, honor? Isn't dau
lime to call a halt when this United \
ties leads the civilized world in divorce of /
lt It time to lift yolr voice and lend St.
II efforts in behalf OF the youth; when n
E love dominated by passion alone end
eatens to plunge civilization back into vii
dark agess mo