Milford chronicle., 1921-08-26
AUXILIARY SEWERS RE-
LATIONS WITH BOARD
IN LETTERsSENT ON MONDAY DR.. ODELL
CHARGES STATE BOARD FAILED TO
COOPERATE WITH AUXILIARY.
HOPE TO ADJUST BREACH
DR.. HOLLOWAY, SECRETARY OF STATE
BOARD, HAD WRITTEN AUXILIARY
PREVIOUS TO SENDING LETTER.

In letter addressed to DR.. H. v.
Holloway. secretary of the State
Board of Education, Dr. Joseph H.
Odell. president of the Delaware
School Auxiliary Association, has
broken all relations with the two or
ganizatiOns.
Through the transaction it is pos
sible that Wilmington schools may
benefit to a large extent in securing
necessary repairs to buildings in that
city.
The letter, sent Monday to the
State Secretary, follows:
August %, 1921.
State Department of Public Instruc-
tiOn, Dover, Delaware.
DR.. H. V. Holloway, Secretary.
My Dear DR.. Holloway
Please allow me to review the sit
uation as it exists between the State
Department of Public Instruction and
the Delaware School Auxiliary AssO-
citation. On Saturday last, August Goth
l felt compelled to notify the State
Department of Public Instruction that
unless a basis of cordial cooperation
could be found by this morning, Aug
ust 22d, should have to break off re-
lationship with the State Department
of Public Instruction. This message
had to be conveyed verbally and by
telephone through you as Superinten-
dent and Secretary because l had no
opportunity to give it directly and in
person to the members Of the State
Department. 1 held myself and my
colleagues in readiness to meet your
board under the impression that the
meeting, held in Wilmington on the
22d, was partly for The purpose of
finding some basis of cooperation. At
the close of office hours today have
had neither formal nor informal word
from you or any member OF the State
Department of Public instruction. !
For the past seven weeks the Del
aware School Auxiliary Association I
has tried and tried vainly to obtain .
some formal consent from the state
for us to cooperate in
furthering the educational interests of
the state. We have been subjected not
ONLY to delay but to humiliation until
cur patience is exhausted. We have
offered to do certain things for your
board and for the rural schools of Del
aware, and your board has made no
response. In the meantime we are
carrying heavy overhead charges and
thus wasting some of the funds which
Mr.. Pierre S. du Pont placed in our
keeping for the purpose Of providing
better education facilities for the
school children of Delaware. AS the
executive officer and President of the
Delaware School Auxiliary Associa-
ion I feel that it would be morally
wrong as being extremely bad busi-
less for us to continue this policy any
Onger.
Permit me to enumerate:
l. More than a month ago we Of
cred to build rural schools to the
-alue of approximately 100000 and
resent them when completed and
quipped to the State Department and
ertain special school districts. In
eply to this offer you have thus far
iven tardy consent to our building
hree or four small schools. We can a
ot proceed on this basis because our
verhead charges would be out of all o
roportion to the amount of cOnstruc- t.
ion undertaken.
2. We have offered to continue the n
-Ork of pupil enrolment and turn all b
f the results over to the State with Il
ut cost. Pupil enrolment ties in very
losely both with the attendance cam r
align and with medical and dental o
of school pupils. For the b
lst named-medical and dental work h
I'VE have available $4,000, which, S,
ith the amounts furnished by the W
hild Welfare Commission, the Am e,
rican Red Cross and the Delaware cl
Society would make
possible to safeguard the health W
nd improve the school progress of N
lie pupils of the State. We regard et
lese three phases of work as inter "
,lated and that the value of any one Jc
them is greatly lessened if all are
Ot put into effect at once. W
8. You have our written assur- pl
Ice that everything we do is to be pi
me under the authority and subject "
the direction of the State Depart in
ent of Instruction, and that in no W
ay do we wish or contemplate any tn
eakening or transference of the
'wers of your board. To put the mat
bluntly, there are certain things
eded for education progress IN Della
Ire, and your board does not possess IS
e money or the facilities with which tn
do them. We have offered what you Sc
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