Middletown transcript., 1915-01-16
THE COVERNOR'S MESSAGE

Is to BE- hoped they will be enacted INTO
laws.
His frstsugge that 'TheLegisla5
ture employ only such persons as are
actually necessary for the proper con-
duct Of the business of the session;
that the salaries paid employees be in
conformity with those paid for like SER
vice IN the commercial and business es-
Establishments, and if extra pay Is allow
ed for extra service it be in conform
ity with the service rendered, is aimed
at the old custom formerly seen in
every state legislature, Of creating |
a lot Of useless offices with fat fees for
nominal services as rewards for politi-
cal henchmen. The Governor speaks the |
sentiment Of the awakened people that
such graft will not longer be tolerated
in Delaware.
The Governor wishes our rural public
schools to be consolidated. as is now
being done with great advantage both
to the scholars and to the treasures
of thirty states.
Any one who has read the the late
Psssr Twitmyer's description Of the
condition of some Of the coun-
even in New Castle County,
approve the Governors
Pper to transport at
hse tEie, scattered country
certain central schools, than
for these groups of half
GLARS the whole costly appara-
sir education-in a word, it is
heaper to carry the scho-
be schooIhOuse than to carry
Dollhouse to the scholar.
Governor declares rabies has be-
prevalent throughout the state
menace to our citizens and the
hal industry of our State" Thirty
Ears ago mad dog was rarely
Been in this state-now it is common,
and st. Georges Hundred has in recent
years had several severe outbreaks of
this dreaded plague.
The National Government experts
say that rabies is yearly increasing,
and is a threatening evil for the whole
country. Having made an exhaustive
study of rabies in Europe and America,
the writer. can speak with authority
upon the subject.
In his Judgment, the Governors re-
cOmmendation Of a dog license law,
while useful, does not 60 far enough.
The Legislature should make law re-
quiring all dogs at large to wear muz-
zles the whole year instead of sixty
days as is generally locally required by
the various town ordinances.
England and Germany had for many
years. wholesale outbreaks of rabies
and the disease was fast spreading
when it was suppressed by muzzl'
law. Three times upon the repeals o.
this yearly muzzle law, these outbreaks
were renewed. Now that dogs ar,
muzzIed the whole year, rabies is al
most unknown there.
The so day muzzle law is base
upon the popular error that rabie
chiefly affiicts dogs in hot weather
whereas official statistics show tina
such is not the fact, the Winter an
Spring months showing slight exces
over Summer months.
But in the meantime, the Governor
suggestion that all dogs be registere
with Clerks of the Peace at cost of
dollar and that all others be killed, wi
help abate the nuisance, inasmuch 1
il will greatly lessen the number {
worthless ours running at large, whiC
class of dogs, being poorly fed al
housed, are the more liable to contra
the disease, and from their migratOl
habits more apt to spread it by infec
ing other dogs.
II will also be benefit to the Owne
for tits often fact that the measu
of a mans poverty is the number
poar dogs he maintainsl
Alnother valuable recommendation
hAt the shad industry be eneourag
IS this state. It is in a sad decline, and
lhese days Of the higher cost of 70
products, wherein the nursery rhyr
Of the "cow jumped ever the mOOl
has become fact 50 far as the pr
Of beef Is concerned, It behoOves t
Legislature to hasten the remedy viii
win restore this cheap and delicio
fsh substitute widely famous as t