Evening journal., 1923-01-22
CLAYMONT
ASKS SCHOOL
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william Frederick and Charles A.
Schneider. No members OF the Clay
mont Board Of Education were in
the delegation.
Dr. 4. r. Brown. President and,
Messrs. Eugene Shsllcro~s and
Minos r. Culver were the members
Of the State Board Of Education be-
fore the Joint committee on educa-
ton. There was a general discus
sion OF most all phases OF the school
law to which complaint has been
made by various members OF the
Legislature and others. including
salaries. rural supervisors visiting
teachers, etc. The hearings will be
continued from day TO day. as
Chairman Holcomb of the House
and Chairman Hardesty OF the
senate are anxious to get first hand
knowledge Of the different fea-
lures before any definite action Is
taken.
Some members have favored go
ing ahead and disrupting the school
organization without any investiga-
ton, although they are said to
have admitted they know nothing
personally about the school situa-
ton.
The further the committee probes
into the matter the more convinced
some OF the members apparently are
becoming thatthe State Board under
all circumstances has been doing
good work.
When the Claymont delegation
got a hearing before the joint edu-
cational committees, following the
hearing of the State Board of Edu-
cation. the proposition of changing
the method OF the referendum TO
give a property owner one vote for
each 81 OF tax paid was not sus-
gested although II had been talked
of on the outside.
What some members OF the dele
CATION did suggest, however, was
that the law be so amended as to
prohibit negroes from voting at the
school bond elections. They con
tend that Il was the votes OF Negroes.
from Worth Brothers steel plant,
who were not entitled to vote at a
general election that carried the
bond issue proposition. Chairman
Holcomb Of the House Committee
told the delegation that not to allow
negroes to vote would unqueslon-
ably be unconstitutional.
The delegation further advocated
that Claymont special school district
be abolished entirely and that It go
back as a rural district. They said
that present conditions would not
MAINTAIN a school costing
more than S250.000, equipped where
as under the present plan the build
ing equipped will probably cost
$500. 900.
The district voted to bond for
$4,000 for a new school, building
ard il is contended that the main
tenance of such 4 building would
send the tax rate above what a dis
trict of less than 1900 persons
could stand. Bids were recently
opened for the proposed building
but the lowest was S34t.0O0. not in
cluding, heating. lighting and other
lntluEnlaAn anu NOhStNAeNAA@A1
bids will probably have to be asked. f,
Senator Thomas f. Bayard came !
TO Dover this afternoon for the first /
time since the Legislature convened. /
He attended a meeting OF the Demo- |
cratic legislative advisory commit I
lee this morning. This committee |
will meet the Democratic steering !
committee of the Senate this after
noon. Senator Bayard made the
rip by automobile and was accom- /,
panied by Timothy J. Mooney, his I
secretary, who is a member of the I
advisory committee. Postmaster /
lanes T. English and Harry T, Gra-
ham.
Mr.. Graham, who represents the
Delaware Automobile Associa~7on,
brought bill to Dover. which Sem
itor Murphy will introduce, provid-
ng that any incorporated city or
own in the state may by ordinance. |
establish zones in brightly-hghted |
sections, within which motor vehi-
lies may remain standing without
lights, between sunset and sunrise.
\ similar bill was introduced in the |
New York Legislature last week.
Former Senator J. w. Robertson.
Of Wilmington, was a visitor a. the