Milford chronicle., 1919-07-18
EDUCATING EDUCATORS

Summoning Delaware to line up witt
the forward-looking States of tn
Union and democratize her governmen
by recasting and simplifying its who'll
scheme of administration, Charles A
Beard declared before the teachers a
the Delaware College Summer Schoo
last Monday night that "the burdens
of government have grown beyond the
strength of mere common sense, anC
that if we are to have a really demo
cratic government We must adopt the
American solution" of "business-like
organization and methods accompanied
by democratic responsibility"
Such a solution would require in
( Delaware as elsewhere, said Professor
Beard, scientific research in govern
ment, training for public service in
our institutions of learning. and above
all. application of our business tai
ent", in which, as Professor Beard
/ sees it, Eve are supreme" to "the bus
mess Of government"
Extraordinary interest was manifest
ed in the utterances of Professor
Beard, inasmuch as he is Director of
the New York Bureau of Municipal
Research, which last winter sent its
STAFF of experts to make a survey Of
county, State and municipal govern
ment in Delaware, under the auspices
of the Defense Council, with view to
sweeping reforms.
Professor Beard was followed on
Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons
by Chester C. Maxey, also of the Bu-
reau OF Municipal Research, who dis
cussed the proposed reorganization of
county government in Delaware, in
the light of the history and origins of
county government in this country.
Mr. Maxey took part himself in the
Delaware Survey as a field expert of
the Bureau.
The outstanding feature of the Del
aware State Survey conducted by the
Bureau, which is an organization of
experts formed originally in 1907 to
investigate the operations of the gov
ernment of New York City from nom
partisan angle. was the discovery of
III offices, boards and commissions
engaged in rendering services to the
people of the State, which had sprung
up during the course of two hundred
years without reference to any unified
plan or purpose hydra-headed ad-
structure which scarcely
deserves the name of organization"
The Bureau in its report proposes the /
of this medley of agen- I
cies into nine great departments which |
can be watched by the people and .
held directly responsible to the gov /
arnor of the State.
Yesterday evening NJ. Bates Stevens, /
superintendent of school of Maryland, /
delivered an address on education. /
Tonight DR.. Russell Conwell, Pres
dent Of Temple University, will de-
liver his celebrated lecture, ACRES
If Diamonds" Mrs. Friedewald has
continued her delightful interpreta-
ions Of modern literature throughout
he week.
Next week, on Monday, Henry Rob-
nson Palmer, editor of the Providence
Journal, will address the teachers on
The Newspaper as an Educational
force in the Making of Democracy"
IN Wednesday evening W. W. Ellis
VOrth, publisher of Roosevelt's books,
will deliver an illustrated lecture on
Theodore Roosevelt, American" On
'riday night DR.. George D. Strayer of
University, President of the
Iational Education Association, will
iscuss the educational problems of
delaware in the light of those of the
alton. During this week Miss Eliza
-ellas, president of the Russell Sage {
Ollege at Troy, N. Y, will give the 7
eachers a series of talks on person I
lity. +