Milford chronicle., 1920-01-09
SENTINEL" HAS ANTI
CODE FORCES WORRIED
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system which others have proposed.
but you are not telling the people in
what particular that system is bad or
where you would change it, or how,
or why. l have waited for you fellows
to get down to tacks, to tell the people
the truth, to do something besides bark
and snarl at those who are trying to do
something, but it doesn't seem to be
in you. / am now going ahead and
give the people the School Code and
try to show them where it is better
than the old laws, and where it is not
so good and might well be changed.
Treading on Thin Ice
In starting its series of School Code
articles, the State Sentinel announced
it realized that it might "be treading
on thin ice" during the course of its
comments. Up to now it has had
pretty solid footing, but it is crowding
State Senator Palmer of Milton, Daniel
J. Layton of Georgetown, and down
State papers against the Code out on
the thin ice. To begin, it said the
new School Code has so much good
in it that to be against it would be
against better education for our chill
dren." This is as different from the
sentiments recently uttered by Sena-
tor Palmer at Milton as day is from
night In that speech Senator Palmer
went all the way against the Code, and
was reported as expressing delight
that he would be permitted to attend
the next General Assembly and wine
the Code from the books.
In its earlier installments of the
Code and its comments upon the new
law as compared with the old, The
State Sentinel clearly shows that the
School Code was given careful and de-
liberate consideration at the hands OF
the last General Assembly, which
again fatty contradicts the oft-repeat-
ed charge that it was rushed through
like race track bill" without giving
the people or the Legislature time to
consider it,. 1t also fatty contradicts |
Daniel ]. Layton's oft-repeated allega- T.
ton that the School Code was intro /.
duced in the last General Assembly 7.
merely to start agitation, but not for 1
the serious purpose of enacting it. /
Young Mr.. Alice in the State Sentinel |
shows the work done on the School |
Code was laborious and painstaking-l
members of the legislature .
do not do with bills introduced "just |
to start something" but not seriously
for enactment.
Hard to Refute Alice
It's going to be very difficult for
Daniel ]. Layton and Senator Palmer
and down-State anti-Sehool Code pa
Ders to refute young Mr. Alice, for he
was a member of the last State Senate
Ind was on the inside" of that group
If Republican politicians comprising
layton, Short, Palmer, and others.
Moreover, it would be very. very EN-
for Layton, Palmer and
,thers to take issue publicly with AL
ee, even were they so disposed land
understood that long-slumber-
ng personal feud makes some of them
o dispOsed) for that would confirm
nd complete an open and serious
reak in the ranks of that Republican
action in which the Allees and Lay
Ons are so prominent
1t doesn't matter what Mr.. Allee's I
lture and final attitude on the School
ode may be; he may even wind up !
DelnS against Il, Dut ne mas done
ne thing: He has administered
tinging rebuke to the Laytons and i
ne Palmers and the Shorts and Laurel !
eaders. He has waited upon them in
ain to do something constructive for \
le public school system of Delaware, G
nd finally publicly classifies them t
5 wreckers instead of builders. That '
an indictment that the public will Y
Ot soon forget and which is going to
equire some sort of an explanation f
ON those against whom it is drawn, O