Milford chronicle., 1920-04-30
ious years.:

A0 EANIM4AANA % AAuAA AAG 1kAOUl
fund for 1919 were S437 ,9590l.
1T is a landmark in Delaware his
tory that the State has adopted a def
mite policy OF cooperation with coun-
ties and communities 10 insure every
child in Delaware an education that
Will enable him TO earn his living and
develop his citizenship 1t is emil
nently fitting that the financial in
/ crease which makes this possible is
brought about not by the revenue
from any group or class. but from the
incomes Of all Delaware citizens for
this most fundamental service of the
State"
Referring to the mounting eXpendi-
lures by the State, the booklet says:
In the first place. the actual cost
of governing the State is a very small
factor in the total sum expended by
the State for any given year Any Del
aware citizen who will open a volume
of the Laws of 1919 and go carefully
over the appropriations made by the
General Assembly for the years 1919
and 1920 will find that only a compar-
atively small part of the total amount
is for the expenses of the State gov
ernment.
ne EhAGA iEdnuAa AuA NANSA tenlNG
increase in the expenditures of any
State are these four: % greater in
terest in bettering the condition of the
wards of the State-the feeble-minded,
the blind, the deaf and dumb. the in
digent aged; (2), a new conception of
State aid" to communities for the ed
ucatiOn of the children of the State:
30, extension of State aid" to scien-
nn.a ansa ].
poses; "a efforts to render public
service more efficiency, by making
the salaries of public servants cOrre-
spOnd more nearly to the earnings of
civil trades and professions, and by
enabling the State to study and an
alyze its own history and conditions
with a view to improving administra-
ton
These explain the situation in Del
aware, as in other States, except that
(4) an increase in the actual cost of
government has not, as we have said,
been significant here.
The cost of holding the regular ses-
sion of the Legislature has hovered
around $4,000 for some years, with
little change. The recent advance by
amendment, of the al
lOwance to members of the General
Assembly from IS to $40 per diem. of
course, is a factor in a permanent in
crease in the cost of government at
least every other year.
Salary increases throughout the .
State service-a common cause for the .
higher cost of government elsewhere .
have not been significant in Della (
Aside from the judicial salar- T
les, the $4,000 salaries OF the governor .
and the Secretary of State are still .
the top notch in Delaware State ser (
vice, and they have remained at this
figure for some years.
In spite Of the changed value of
the dollar, Delaware's salaries for
public servants have changed little.
Most of the raises" have been within
very recent years, and they have been
lew and moderate. The chief ad-
Tances have been: Chancellor and
chief justice, from $4,000 to $500;
associates, from S4,S00 to S7,250;
state librarian, from $1,000 to S1,500;
state treasurer, from $4,000 to S3.50O:
insurance commissioner. from $4,000
o $500. The increases in the insur-
ince commissioners salary in recent
ears have marked a discontinuance of
he old fee system in lieu of part of
he salary, a system which in Della
ware as elsewhere is now, happily. al
most extinct"
The following table gives a brief re- ;
lew of expenditures in given fields a
or the years 1917 and 1918: :