Evening journal., 1920-07-14

nAthe July number OF "old Colony
Magazine" is an interesting article on
<DelasNare-by Governor John &. Towns
md. who Is a member Of the National
|Adyisory Board Of the Old Colony
&Club. II is the leading article i'm the
4 9meAgazine under this heading. ''SOme
d Eiltle Known and Interesting Facts
tAboalt Our Next-to-the-Smauest
Estate" by Hon. John G.. Townsend,
j., Governor Of Delaware. The ar
3ucle follows:
'Nve may get just as mulch fun and
tprO1I out OF living In "a Slate whose
1t-lal annual inoome up 10 1919 was
less Man million and a half dol
3 airs. asNini-a State where the financial
E0yerturIf in the public treasury
n amounts to many millions. It's 800
<square muh's and 10000 people can
<oe Just as' iwell governed and Just az
X1rasperOus. There Is even consider
3 able advants go TO the average citizen,
<NhO in Della ware comes much closer
o the real problems and advantages
~ cHizenshi p than in larger states.
Xlhe whole Slate Is OF necessity
1 home" 10 n i'm. and because of rs
I'pall area and population a very
broad range OF interests and activities
mall TO one inan or woman
Delaware didn't pass the suffrage
/Irendment. FOR which many az us
i Earnestly h,Dped and worked. but the
ENomen OF the State have contributed
thcir share. like the men, over a wide
He'd Of activities. They are good
ports and i,,in with the men In re-
Harding exper tence TO public affairs in
ii hl small Sta 90 OF Delaware as an
xsset for serv tce in what all believe
VIII be the best years Of out state
hood, from i92p on.
ADelaware n rs the distinction OF
<laying started J Is reconstruction pro-
8ram before the war. AZ the begin
hing Of 1871 enough public sentiment
Il ad orystaluzed lbo support an income
<av for Increasing State revenue;
*nOre equitable taxation for school
q #NrpOses, itnd an inheritance tax for
Educational and road purposes. A
Iilryaay OF state etiunatiOn was auth
4 rized- a mi uimum salary for teach
Il rs and teach ers' expenses at the sum-
ner school W. Is provided by the State:
State High way Department was
Nreated
N "As these i'm proafements had grown
~ OF "a very general conviction on
ie mart OF the people, they are the
est and most deflnae Indications that
rogress in the State will go sOundly
I nd steadily ahead in spite OF draw
HckS and oven temporary ceAudckS.
n can't be said that a real advance
kAs any easier road to travel in Della
VI sare than in other States. We have
Sll the usual ups and downs. once
n aving decided 10 advance in the
Handling OF state problems, however.
se may disagree about the methods,
S ,it the State l'orges ahead. and Just
low there is probably no Statewhich
as similar promise 81 the State Of
Delaware in an lf the things which
make for healthy happy and useful
itizenship.
"Heallh. education. Americaniza-
|Iion, the special care Of children.
Hood roads, agriculture, industry,
labor and capital, and government,
n .ate and local, are being actively
eaH with. Concentrated on these
F. problems are steadily growing groups
citizens who may lose today, but
n in tomorrow, on every essential
/,oint OF their various programs. on
ne whole they are winning, and what
ii -fr groups we may choose TO work
3 NTH or support. life is never dull
mong the great body OF citizens Is
erested IN the development Of the
itate.
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