Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-08-23
STATE BOARD AND
SCHOOL AUXILIARY
SEvERs RELATIONS
Continued from page /.

DIR. Odells letter is as follows:
August %. 1921.
state Department of Public 1nstruc-
ton. Dover. Delaware.
"Dr. H. v. Holloway. Secretary.
My Dear DIR. Holloway:
please allow me to review the sit
uation as 1t exists between the State
Department of Public Instruction
and the Delaware. School Auxiliary
Association. On Saturday last, Au-
gust Goth. / felt compelled to notify
The State Department of Public In
struction that unless basis of cor
iial cooperation could be found by
his morning. August 22d. l should
nave TO break of relationship with
he State Department of Public In
truction. This message had to be
onveyed verbally and by telephone
hrough you az Superintendent and
secretary because | had no oppor-
unity to give II directly and In per-
con to the members of the State De-
partment. / held myself and my coll
leagues In readiness to meet YOUR
board under the impression that The
meeting held in Wilmington on the
Goth. was partly for the purpose OF
Iinding some basis of cooperation.
At the close of office hours today |
have had neither formal nor infor-
NAL word from you or any member of
the State Department OF Public In
struction
"For the past seven weeks the Della
ware School Auxiliary Association
has tried and tried vainly to obtain
some formal consent from the state
furthering the educational interests
of the State. We have been subjec-
ted not only TO delay bnt To humilia-
ton. until our patience Is exhausted.
We have offered TO do certain things
for yours board and for the rural
schools of Delaware, and your board
has made no response. In the mean
time we are carrying heavy over
head charges and thus wasting some
of the funds which Mr.. Pierre s. du
Pont placed in our keeping for the
purpose of providing better educa-
tional facilities for the school chill
dren OF Delaware. As the executive
officer and President of the Della
ware School Auxiliary Association |
feel that il would be morally wrong
as, well as being extremely bad bust
ness for US to continue this policy
any longer.
Permit me TO enumerate.
IL. More than a month ago we
offered TO build rural schools to the
value of. approximately 100000 and
present them when completed and
equipped TO the State Department and
certain special school districts. In
reply to this offer you have thus
far given tardy consent TO our
building three or four small schools.
We cannot proceed on this basis be-
cause our overhead charges would
be out OF all proportion to the amount
of construction undertaken.
20. We have offered to continue
the work Of pupil enrolment and
turn all of the results over TO the
State without cost. Pupil enrolment
ties in very closely both with the
attendance campaign and with med
ical and dental examinations | OF
school pupils. For the hast named
medical and dental worh-we have
available $4,000. which. with the
amounts furnished by the Child
Welfare Commission, the American
Red Cross and the Delaware Anti
tuberculosis Society would make 1,
possible to safeguard the health and
improve the school progress of the
pupils of the State. We regard these
three phases of work as inter-related
and that the value of any one OF them
Is greatly lessened II all are not pu,
into effect at once.
"s. You have our written assurance