Evening journal., 1919-10-06
ENMITY TOWARD
new LAW STIRRED
BY POLITICIANS
contInned dom FIrst page


ernor and the state Board Of Education
hires all the teachers without consult
ing the people who pay the taxes"
THE law Furnishes farmers who keep
their boys al home In order 10 save The
crops. A woman from Dover has been
down here and has preferred charges
against three or four farmers and a
widow because they kept their boys
home 10 cut corn. II was either keep
their boys home or lose their corn.
Looks like a lot Of rich men were try
ing 10 break up the farmers and then
step In and buy their land cheap"
THE law SAYS children must 60 10
school $50 days, but Mr.. dupont was
down here the other night and ne said
the state board had decided not 10 en-
force the law. What right has Mr..
dupont TO do that2 Where in the law
] does 10 say that n Mr.. dupont doesn't
want 10 enforce ~ he doesn't have to7
n he can suspend the law Ia please
some people that proves thst a few men
are running this whole thing 10 please
/ themselves and a few Of their friends
"The people have no rights. although
they are taxed. Taxation without rep
resentatlon ls what we fought against
once and u looks like we would have 20
do II again.
The people arc paying moro thXes
and are getting no schools Down I'm
Cedar Neck hundred Sussex county
schools are closed because Superlnten,
/ dent Hardesty won't furnish teachers.
] He sent a teacher 20 ono OF the schools.
| but the people wouldn't have her be
cause she was too young and didn't
/ know anything. Superintendent Har-
desty said he couldn't get anyone else.
| The people got a woman who had
| taught In that neighborhood for years
land had been a fine teacher. a few
years ago she got married and stopped
I teaching She agreed 20 teach this
year 10 help out the people But su-
{ perlntendent Hardesty wouldn't hire her
because he said she wasn't qualified I'M
der the new law. although she was one
OF the best teachers OF that community.
New the school Is CLOSED because OF
this law, although the people are pay
Ing higher taxes. Instead Of getting
better. schools they are not allowed 10
have any"
These are some OF the arguments al
vanoed by leaders OF the opposition 10
the new school law. They are repeated
over and over, with a violence or en-
phasis which Is very impressive. Ask
cd whero they got all this information
the leaders answer, IL heard this from
a farmer who lives out there" or 81
picked that up on the street the other
day" or Everybody will tell YOU that"
Going out on the street and asking
people ne met,-a farmer here. an oys-
ternsan there. a clerk I'm a store.
group Of men In n ciEat store-if they
were against the new sohool law and
why. your correspondent was given the
same arguments Asking where they
got their information. hhey named as
their authority tho leaders with whom
yeur correspondent had been talking.
And so one traces a series of tales
against the new school law back 20 a
few leaders. who, In turn. give as their
authority the people on the street.
In other words, the methods Of the
scandal monger are being employed by
a few political gossips in this com
munlty 10 give the new school law
bad name, 10 attribute 10 it vices it |
doesn't possess and make charges /
against 70 and those who are re- /
sponsible FOR It's enforcement which /
are wholly false.
II Is more than OF passing interest |
10 know that your correspondent |
learned that these few men who sit In /
the center OF a web OF intrigue and /
weave these tales against the school |
law and It's operations were most ac-
tive In drumming up" a crowd IN /
this community TO go TO Dover the day |
the Supreme Court heard arguments |
upon the laws unconstitutionality 10 /
assist in augmenting the rumble"
which the Georgetown politician pre-
dicted the judges would hear on that
memorable day This Is Of more than
passing interest because Il proves
their opposition 10 the new school law
antldates the opening OF the schools
and any opportunity on their part TO
judge the law by how It actually op-
crates.
II Is because Of these methods that
the community hereebQuts Is pref
udiced against the new school law.
Your correspondent DID not fnd any
one, with some few exceptions. against
the law who, when questioned, said
his opposition was due TO any inius-
tice or hardship the law has worked
upon him personally. Always was his
opposition based upon the awful
things he had heard about the law.
how 10 was working hardship upon
some farmer IN some other nelghbor-
hood, or upon the people OF some
school district other than his. or be
cause OF waht he had heard the law
would do 10 him some time in the fu-
ture, or because he had heard the
teachers were getting no more money
and a lot OF high salarled Jobs were
being created for a favorite few on
the whole. the people themselves arc
not against the new school law be
cause OF any real personal grievance
they have against g. The friends of
the law are correct In their opinion
that most OF the opposition Is due to
popular Ignorance OF the law and its 4
provisions.
The exceptions TO this. noted above,
are some heavy taxpayers who are wag-
ing war on the schol law because II in
cresses their taxes. One Of the most
savage critics OF this character is
rich landowner and farmer close by In
Sussex county. But he Is unaltersbly
opposed 10 any improvement which.
costs money. He has perslstently
fought good roads. He is lighting some
government work on the
shore. He has no children. He frank ,
~ says he regards it as a hlgh-handed
outrage 10 raise his taxes In order 10