Milford chronicle., 1920-10-29
MUCH ACCOMPLISHED
BY SERVICE CITIZENS
THE YEARS ACTIVITIES AND RESULTS
REVIEWED BY THE DIRECTOR, DR..
JOSEPH H. 0DELL.

liens of Delaware. What has beer
done and what is planned were dis
closed in a report. made by DR.. Jos.
eph H. Odell. the director. at a meet
ing of the board Of managers, held in
the Public Library Building in VIII
mington.
THE purpose of the society" the
report said, "is to work for the i'm
prOvement of social conditions in Del
aware"
After telling how information had
been disseminated through many
channels. DR.. Odell outlines the work
of the several bureaus. extracts from
these reports following:
'"The activities OF the Americaniza-
tion Bureau for the past year are full
~ described in a report published in
September. Beginning with October,
the stan of the bureau includes nine
women, three Of whom are in the Of
flee and six OF whom spend most of
their time al work In the foreign dis
tricts of the city, teaching the fore
ign women in their own homes and
cooperating with the Board OF Pub
lie Education in an effort to make
the AmericanizatiOn schools of the
city centers to which the fOreign-bOrn
people can turn in every normal need.
Health Bureau-Chester II. Wells
reports a continuance of work on vi
tai statistics, and it seems probable /
that this very tedious, but necessary I
task covering the period from Janu-
ary, 1916 up to date, will be complet- /
ed in the near future. Cooperating /
with the State Livestock Sanitary
Do I'D ho aras
tuberculin testing Of cows is still go
ing on under the direction OF four
veterinarians. No change has been
made in the city ordinance respecting
the milk supply, but many confer
ences have been held in effort to OBJ
tain purer milk. The United States
Public Health Service is on the eve
of making an analysis Of the entire
public water supply Of the State.
The following names have been ;
added to our roll. Miss Helen B. Ban
croft, Rev. Charles w. Clash, Walter .
D. Hoffecker, Mrs. Joseph II. Odell, ,
A. w. Slaymaker Wesley Webb, Mrs. i
F. G. Bancroft, J.. A. deBlOis, Miss !
Reba 7. HOlc0mb, Frederick SOmers T
Price, William ToDkis, Chester II. /
Wells.
I'VE appropriated $500 for sup :
work in the Delaware {
College Summer School. OF the y
mount appropriated there is an un- y
expended balance of S554.54, the cost Il
# the entire serviue having been 81 a
1916. Commissioner Spaid had +
harge of the summer school for col I
red teachers at the Dover College. ii
lis report shows that out of our ST. +,
100 appropriation, S479.S6 was ex- n
'ended and there is a balance of Q
520.14. I,
Work Which the State Should Do S
"One of the purposes of the Service "
itizens is to try experiments and "
make demonstrations. For instance,
be Service Citizens paid the initial
xpense of the tuberculin testing of n
ows. and at the special session of the ii
of 1920 the State made el
revision for a continuance of the "
esting and thus relieved the Service m
itizens. There are other phases of q
ur work which we feel compelled to v,
ring to the attention of the State
trough the proper agencies: O.
"First-During the past two years d
e have provided $32,200 for vocation e,
training in the public schools. This
lould be taken care of in the future iii
Y the State through the budget of the of
tate Board of Education. re
"Second-The Service Citizens made IL
possible to establish the teacher 10
aiming department at Delaware Col III
ge at an expense for the first year te
$3.50, and for this year of S9,250. al
he State, through the trustees of in
elaware College, should take that in of
le future, because it is essential to
lie welfare of Delaware and is far of
syond the experimental stage. te
'Third-Also, we have supplement- a,
the money allowed by the State for A,
le summer school, having appropri- IN
ed $4,000 last year and $4,000 this IN
EAR. as
"Fourth-The extension work was a1
so neglected by the Legislature of tn
l19, and has cost us over $4,000 a M
,ar for the past two years. Al
1--WE believe that the board of trus- M
es of Delaware College will so pre- on
mt these matters to the forthcoming n;
legislature that we can be released fo
ON these financial burdens for other
Id equally necessary work in the is
ate. er
"Fifth-Our health bureau, which fe
wolves an annual appropriation of ce
500, should be taken over by the er
ate Board of Health. w
Delaware Negro Civic League an
THE officers of the Delaware Ne
o Civic League reported on Septem-
II 20 that 81 local branches of the &C
ague nad been fully organized with eT
1873 members. These branches are &C
sited regularly by the field secre- an
ry, and each is pledged to engage in in
me form Of local activity for the te
ucational, civic or social betterment at
the negro people. Allow me to give Sd
le example-The Delaware School tic
lxiliary Association built a school Sc
T colored pupils at Christiana. The co
lristiana branch of the Negro Civic tn
sague, which has "a adult members, ah
reed to do the following things for tn
e school through the teacher, pay au
g the costs by voluntary subscrip- tiN
,ns: The procuring of flower bulbs, er
Irchasing appropriate pictures for to
e walls, providing window curtains co
r the smaller windows of the work wi
ON, buying and installing an oil er
Ove for domestic science purposes tn
school hours and for community tic
q at other times. co
School Operating Deficits
During last May it came to our 90
tention that two of the counties 10
4 several sDaciaI districts in the 70