Evening journal., 1919-10-06
ENMITY TOWARD
new LAW STIRRED
BY POLITICIANS
Continued from Firsf PAGE

their local school affairs. All the school
officers are now appointed by the gov
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 at home in order TO 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 20 cut corn. It was either keep
their boys home or lose their corn.
Looks Ike 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 go 10
school $50 days. but Mr. DUPONT was
down here the other night and he said
the state board had decided not 10 en-
force the law. What right has Mr..
does Il say that II Mr.. dupont doesn't
want TO enforce n he doesn't have TO-?
] II he can suspend the law 10 please
some people That proves that few men
are running this whole thing TO please
] themselves and few OF their friends 4"
! The people have no rights. although
they are taxed. Taxation without rep
resentstion Is what we fought against
once and 10 looks like we would have 10
do II again.
The people are paying more thxes
and are getting no schools. Down in
Cedar Neck hundred Sussex county,
schools are closed because Superinten>
dent Hardesty won't furnish teachers
He sent teacher to one 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
and had been One teacher. A few
years ago she got married and stopped
teaching. She agreed 10 teach this
year to help out the people. But Su-
perlntendeDt Hardesty wouldn't hire her
because he said she wasn't qualified un-
der the new law. although she was one
Of the best teachers Of that community.
New the school IL closed because OF
this law, although the people are paw
ing higher taxes Instead OF getting
better schools they are not allowed to
have any"
These are some Of the arguments al
vanced by leaders OF the opposition 10
the new school law. They are repeated
over and over, with a violence OF en-
phasis which Is very impressive. Ask
ed where they got all this information
the leaders answer. II heard this from
farmer who lives out there" or II
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-
terman there, clerk IN a store.
group Of men IN n cigar store-if they
were against the new school law and
why. your correspondent was given the
same arguments. Asking where they
got their information. they named as
their authority the leaders with whom
your correspondent had been talking.
And so one traces a series Of tales
against the new school law back 10 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
TO give the new school law
bad name. 10 attribute TO u vices n
doesn't possess and make charges
against Il and those who are re-
sponslbie for its enforcement which
are wholly false.
II Is more than OF passing interest
TO 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" crowd I'm
this community TO go 10 Dover the day
the Supreme Court heard arguments
upon the laws unconstltutlonality 10
assist In augmentlng the rumble"
which the Georgetown politician pre-
ticted the judges would hear on that
day. This IS OF more than
passing interest because Il proves
heir opposition TO the new school law
the opening Of the schools
and any opportunity on their part 10
Judge the law by how It actually op-
crates. :.
II is because OF these methods that b
he community heresbouts is pref
ldiced against the new school law.
Your correspondent did not find any
me, with some few exceptions, against
he law who, when questioned. said
IFS opposition was due 10 any inius-
ice or hardship the law has worked
lpon him personally. Always was his
opposition based upon the awful
hings he had heard about the law,
low II was working hardship upon :
ONE farmer In some other neighbor- y
lood, or upon the people Of some !
chool district other than his, or be- !
suse OF waht he had heard the law o
would do to him some time in the fu- !
ure, or because he had heard the .
eschers were getting no more money d
nd a lot OF high salaried Jobs were
eing created for favorite few. On e
he whole. the people themselves are d
lot against the new school law be- 4
ause OF any real personal grievance q
hey have against 10. The friends OF
he law are correct in their opinion
hat most OF the opposition Is due to
opulsr ignorance OF the law and its v
rovisions. V
The exceptions 10 this. noted above, 4
re some heavy taxpayers who are wsg- n
1g war on the schol law because Il in a
reases their taxes. One Of the most :
avage critics OF this character Is
lch landowner and farmer close by in
ussex county. But he Is unalterably
pposed TO any improvement which
osts money. He has perslstently
ought good roads. He is fighting some
roposed government work on the
nore. He has no children. He frank =,
....s he rorarde a. ac a hfc, bopdod Il