Smyrna times., 1925-04-22
fIVARE TEACHERS
ASSOCIATION MEETS IN DOVER
. onFLL DECLARES FIGHT FOR
,uoOLS HAS JUST BEGUN"
,,ding Program May Figure Large
y YIN n Next Campaign-Smyrna and
Vicinity Send Lively Delegation

Vicinity Send Lively DelegdtlOh
.Tbat one battle does not win a
- and that undaunted by the
.-,norarv ~ set back of a school build
= = nrogram, the friends of this pro-
IA : legislation have just started to
:.Itn was asserted by DR.. Joseph H.
HsI president of the Delaware
,.Soa Auxiliary Association, Satur-
n afternoon before two thousand
.,onIe attending the fourteenth an
ri convention of the State Parent
r.,eber Association in Dover. Quite
lively delegation from school dis
rts around Smyrna were present.
There will be no stepping back,
a.rs will be no retreat, we are going
continue fighting for schools for
n children of Delaware until we are
M white" DR.. Odell declared. He
gunded the battle cry for the con-
auanee of the fight for a school
hiding program during the next two
rar, intimating that the question
Tg be an important campaign issue,
Nh friends of the school building .
,Sglam working to have elected to !
as next General Assembly only men, |
xy Of that body favOring a school /.
hiding plan. "POlitics or political I.
utes," he declared, "will not figure F.
h this important issue; the para
wnt question asked candidates will
EDO you favor a school building
mEam?" 1.-TWO or three important
5nfcant movements" he said, "have
snl place in the history of the State
but the most important of these is
hat thousands of men and women
g7e Voluntarily banded themselves
gather to help the children of the
Sate without having a whip cracked
Ter them or without any other mo-
i've than a purely unselfish desire to
sTe." Dr.. Odell declared the spOn-
0rs Of the proposed legislation had
bot been defeated. There is no de-
feat in this war;" he declared, "nO
isfeat in the war to give every child
IN equal opportunity, to erect build
ings that shall conserve and not ruin
the childhood of the State, to erect
buildings that shall be adequate work
shops for well-trained teachers. Let
the dead past bury its dead, the fu-
aFe belongs to US; there may be
pause, but we are forever dedicated to
this work"
Dr. Holloway and DIR. Mitchell Talk
Dr.. H. V. Holloway, State super
Hendent Of public instruction, also
expressed regret that the school bill
lad failed in the last Assembly, but
'ealled that compared with the his
ay Of similar bill two years ago,
'ien school building sponsors found
@1 houses opposed to it, the P. S.
llFOnt plan had a remarkable victory
the Tooth General Assembly. He
also said that there was no doubt but
nat the Legislature which will meet
ID ls27 would see that the building
NOgram was carried through to vic
9y. DR.. Samuel Chiles Mitchell,
PRESIDENT Of the University of Rich
anond' spoke on the rural home and
lie IN general in the country dis
lcS. The founding Of a home is
We most divine act in human expert
see he said. at makes little diff
'Ience what sort Of home people live
~ What really counts is the people
'ao live in the home. Books, pic
.lieS Of real art, flowers, cheerfulnes'
'lu comfortable surroundings are thu
l'SI vital elements of the moderr
u'ne' he declared. DR.. Mitchell
"iLnended the unusual progress
-4ue IN this State since he left it
IeSslng particularly the new Viii
Iag.on Public Library, the COmmo
''e McDonOugh school in New Castl
"'h'y, the States wonderful high
'ayS and Delaware's general appear
..e ol prosperity. In passing refer
Ns 70 the school building program
Pald tribute to the work of Pier
uuFont, terming him one of tn
d0ced. . . nos ''i Pi'
association Gains 1900 Members
= gain Of more than 1900 member
,' = recorded in the past year by tn
Se%lauon, Mrs. Robert E. Levi
III, NY president, declared, in present
ia ner annual report to the cOnver
l3oo. Inc paid-up membership is no
81. -'o' sne added, which represents
No., No. VI 10 per cent over the figure n
'..'eu =, last year. The afternoon Sc.
opened with an invocation by d
M. = r. cnrelfenstein, pastor of the Pc,
49,. HS.hurch, and this was followed
o',ag o,,ung Of prizes in the State sor
pss .'' Dy Mrs. John B. Cleaver.
mS,'..l announced that 43 songs had bee
81. Sl,'ted 0 in the contest begun by IL
lsSss Committee last July. The fc
p6,a ~ We're declared winners: Fir
4 ~ y oi $l5, to Mrs. Dallace M.Moo
d sio viola association; second pri
1 ~ q 70 Mrs. Lavinia c. X. RoscC
s"e Dover acooo;o4;o, o.I A.;