Evening journal., 1919-10-15
RESENTS ACTION
OF some OFFICIALS
Continued from First nOge.


the Code. 1t depnives people Of the
right Of local self-government and turns
their schools over to the control Of
men who do not live in the districts
and. therefore, have no personal inter
est in the district. II the people OF my
district would elect me trustee / would
serve. But l won't serve by appoint
ment from somebody here at Dover.
This man is serving Kent county as
an official, and he is making a good one.
But it never occurs TO him that II his
theory were carried out, people I'm every
other part Of Kent county except the
hundred I'm which he lives could claim
he didn't know what they wanted and
he had no personal interest I'm their
AFFAIRS. because he does not live In the
same hundred they do,
what could / do as a trustee any
way, under the new codeg II leaves me
with no power. cannot select teach
er. ] cannot say a word about the local
tax rate. cannot flX the school term.
The most can spend Is 50 year.
Let me show you how this new
code Is depriving people Of the right TO
have any voice in their local school
affairs. They are 10 have a new school
building for the smyrna district. The
people are 10 pay for It. So they picked
the site where they would like TO see
it erected. Eighty per cent. OF the
smyrna people agreed on the site ana
appointed committee 10 wait on the
State superintendent and tell him or
Smyrnas choice. When they called on
him at his Office he listened TO them
and then Informed them that they had
nothing 20 say regarding the site. I'll
decide that when the time comes, he
told them. Do you call that representa-
tive government, Isn't that depriving
the people Of their rights and centering
a lot OF power in the hands Of a man
that oughtn't be centered in him or
any other man? That's what is max
ing people determined TO get rid Of the
code. lt takes away all their rights,
but IL makes them pay the bills.
And then, in the face OF this treat
ment, people are told by school officials
that they have no interest in their own
The nearest / have come 10
getting i'm a night i'm years was when
"A school official down I'm the county be
low Dover told me and some other men
in Dover the other day that we didn't
think as much Of our children as We
did Of our hogs and cattle. ] wish now
! had whipped him. and there are
others He would better stay away
from here and keep his mouth shut
from now on
"This is how much I think Of my
children. ! drive one Of them three
and One-half miles 20 Dover every day
IN order 10 get him IN the Dover school
In addition ! pay special tuition.
drive two others two and one-half
miles in Just the opposite directian
That's twelve miles a day I travel lust
in order 10 give my children the best
schools I can find for them And either
myself or my wife have TO do it, too,
every day. DO you think that's treat
ing my children better than my hogs
Do you think we are going TO put up
with school officials who insult us lust
because we stand for our rights?"
Then you think it's not so much the
School Code as IL is the officials who
are administering it that the people
object tO?"
No. I won't agree 20 that, because
the people are sore at the law, as well