Middletown transcript., 1915-07-10
M1DD1ErOwN. DEL. JULY 10, 1915
PHYSICIAN HEAL THYSELF''

THE Transcript quotes in full from
the editorial page of the Evening
Journal, its criticism upon that con
spicuously inefficient body the Whining
ton Chamber of Commerce, for its re-
peated attacks upon the Levy Court.
Had this keen and forcible indict
ment appeared in The Transcript, i
would at once have been retorted tina
it was inspired by its former editor
now a member of the Levy Court.
''If the present management of
the Wilmington Chamber of Com
merce were competent and result
producing, its efforts to meddle in
Levy Court affairs and county poll
tics still would be open to merited
criticism.
when, however, the manage
ment of that Chamber is a money
spending non-producer, lis not sur
prising that its attempt to play the
role of mentor and guide for the
Levy Court is greeted with con-
temptuous laughter by the public.
Before the present management
of the Chamber of Commerce at
tempts to attack the competency of
the Levy Court or any other public
or quasi-public body, it should
qualify as to competency in the
matter of handling the funds of its
members and producing results with
them, particularly in the matter of
obtaining new industries and trade
for our city.
, can organization that is admit
.tAdly incompetent should not at
ssmpt to set standards of COM
potency for other bodies, to the
continued neglect of its own affairs.
1--WE are moved to make the above
=. observations by the fact that the
president of the Chamber of Com
merce has sent another letter to the
Levy Court, renewing the sugges-
tion that Levy Court investigat on
be held.
"In view of the manifest ineffi-
cheney of the Chamber of Commerce
as at present managed, the Levy
Court, with perfect propriety,
might give Rowland for an Oliver
and suggest that the Chamber ask
for committee to investigate it.
self. No doubt such retort would
be highly pleasing to many members
of the Chamber who are far from
satisfied with the results they are
obtaining from the thousands of
dollars that are being spent an
nually.
IF the Levy Court needs investi-
eating, the Attorney-General, who
is Democrat, has the power to do
it. Further than that, he has the
brains back of the power. If the
Chamber of Commerce has any
charges to make against the Levy
Court, let it file them with him. The
commissioners have signifed their
willingness to be investigated by
some competent authority whose
finding will be conclusive. They
are averse, however, to falling in
with the gallery-playing schemes of
crippled civic ostrich that, hoping
to hide its own defects has stuck its
head in the inquisitorial sands and
is wiggling its tail feathers franti-
cally toward the Court House"
No wonder long years of dism
failure have marked the history of tt
purely commercial organization VIII
we find it leaving its own sadly neglect
business of advancing the interests
the city of Wilmington to go on su
quixotic expeditions against coun
officials
Moreover, after reading the Journ
one is surprised at the temerity
dwellers in so thin a glass house as t
Chamber of Commerce venturing
throw stones at their neighbors.
Not in all the years under the varic
protean forms it has assumed, has t
Wilmington Chamber of Commerce be
a success. We think we can guess WI
In the first place none of these bod
have been actuated by real sentime
of civic patriotism-the advancement
the general good of the whole City
Wilmington.