Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-01-08
SCHOOL BOND ISSUE
|ND0RSEO BY WOMEN
Proposed ST. 900 Loan Ap-
proved at Public Meeting
Yesterday Afternoon.

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Twenty women, wives and daughters
NJ some Of the largest taxpayers IN New
Castle county, were in nttendniirr at the
second luncheon meeting Of the New
| Caetle county Board of Education IN the
du Barry room Of the Hotel d,i Pont yes
terday afternoon, where proposals Tor The
| floating Of n bond issue Of 81 100000 Tor
school improvements in the county were
| discussed. Tho women went on record
| ~ heartily in favor Of cooperating with
the county Board in ta endeavor to float
the Loan
Representatives Of nearly every school
district IN the county reported on the
deplorable condition ~ the schools and
each wna in favor II the necessary changes
| which must be made in order to Isovlde
adequate and Wholesome snhools for the
safe housing If the achoo children
Probably the most interested person
| at the meeting wss Pierre 3. du Font,
who arrived from New York 10 voice his
opinion on the matter. MIR du Pont, who
| has already placed st the disposal Of the
| board a quarter million dollars, spoke On
| the bond issue This proposition he
said, 'has my personal indorsernent and
also approve the project ns an important
etep touards the betterinent Of the county
| SCHOOLS
Explaining 10 the women the bort pos
Mbie manner IN which to fioat the bond
isste, MIR. du Pont continued.
Everybody present is well satisfied
that good schools are needed. and
peciaily I'm New Castle county. Phere
is one phase of the question that iH
In everybodv's mind How will we
pay this million dolnrr7
ali
haps few individuals IN The county
who could undertake 10 pay this
| amount alone. ia Il too great bur
den for our county or is II reas son
atle7
Il have p theory that when there
| is a public movement IN favor of any
| thing. the movement itself will provide
| The funds. n people really want any
| thing. they win flnd the fneanH 20 Get
| a. We all want these schools ard
we eli realize that they are needed. and
| that will ind a WAY 90 nay the bill.
| There ia M doubt about fhiu
Ten Years ago n anyone had aug
/ gestatl that Delaware could take
| part IN raising war funds that We did
| we would have said /, vas Impossible.
| We would have said ten wears ago that
| II was Impossible to Hpend ns much an
roads as we have If, ten wears ago.
ann1eone had said that the United
States cnuld undertake bonded debt
of thirty four billions If dollars. We
would have said y was Impossible. n
the war. We undertook the burden Ia-
cause We believed Il was worth IN
dertakina Good rcHds were buIlt. he
rause We believed they were worth
building. The ga me thlne rertaiuiv
going To he true In our - huus
4 want 20 cali your attention 70
another interesting point I happened
10 he looking over list Of The auto
mobiles IN Use IN the United States
II appeared on that list that Cailfor
nla and Iowa led all the states IN tho
number Of automobiles per capita In
/ both Rtaatep there 81 one automobile tn
every sis perHnnH. That rnsans that
/ the entire population could be esated
! in their automobiles at une time. Mr..
| gnaid Just called my attention ~ the
/ fact that California has recently
PASSED new law regulating state
/ expenditure Of $50 per child FOR the
elementary schools These two states
have been crtravngnnt In buying auto
mobiles. and then have gone in and
spent enormous sums for schools.
"rf we want "a do IL. we can do
tho same thing Those communities
have done THE thing simply because
they wanted 10. We also can carry
on
Delaware Ia about midway in the
use of automobiles. | cannot sec any
reason why she should not be nt least
midway I'm the schools. This bond Is
sue will not raise t any further than
| that SO we are only going M 20 our
extravagance in automobiles, which we
surely can afford.
we have in this county people Of
wealth. but by contributing altogether
/ we can pay this bin very easily.
Quite recently we have had n drive
/ to help the children in Europe. | un-
derstand they raised something over
! 500 900 for this purpose. This bond
issue will mean only about SOC, 900 per
year.
Il think. If YOU will all carry that
kind of a message to the people of
your communities. and make them be
lieve that what we want to do we can
do. II will help "A whole lot. Even If
you can't pay the bill yourself. there
are people in the county who can.
Those who cant do. can pay, and those
who can't pay. can do, and If they will
all do what they can, we certainly can
win out There is no question about
IT,"
Miss Ella w. Johnson of Newport, a
| trustee of the board, presided at the
meeting. George L. Medill, president of
the County Board of Education, opened
| the meeting, explaining its purposes aud
what the bond issue will mean 10 both the
| children and the schools.
! Other interested persons present were
Mrs. W. S. Hilles, Mrs. J. B. Cleaver,
Mrs Theodore Ferguson, Miss Eta VIII
| son, Miss Ruby Miller, Miss Ina Barnes.
Miss Agnes Medill, Miss Phyllis Mason,