Milford chronicle., 1925-02-27
FORMER DELAWAREAN
SEES STATE CHANGING
No Longer Satisfied With One
Horse Shay, Our Residents
Are Demanding Better
Things, She Says.

A letter received this week at thu
Chronicle Office from a former res
ident of Delaware who now resides
in Minnesota, tells of her interes
in the Diamond State and of how
conditions here are rapidly changing
for the better. The letter is interest
ing in that it shows us how we are
guaged by persons not in the midst
of our everyday life with its many
problems. The letter follows:
Rochester, Minnesota
February, fifteenth,
1925.
Editor, Milford Chronicle,
Milford, Delaware
Dear Editor:
If these words are in keeping with
the splendid columns of your paper
('The Milford Chronicle,) kindly
publish them.
In the days when the Teachers In
stitutes where held annually at Mil
ford Delaware, the writer remem-
bers having heard the late L. Irving
Handy. in one of his eloquent ad-
dresses, make statements similar to
these: Fellow Teachers, the world
is yours for the asking. Ask what
you will and it will be given you.
Don't be satisfied with the Littles Of
life, Expect the Bigs, Demand them
and in return give your best" Fur
ther he said: 81 can sit in the Penn
sylvania Railroad Station at VIII
minton and tell in a glance the
trains that are going to Washington,
D. C.. and those proceeding to Del
mar. Washington expects and de-
mands good looking, well equipped
trains, and she gets them"
Sometime in the past two years
an Editorial appeared in the Milford
Chronicle urging the people of Del
aware to negotiate with the Rail
road Company for better train SER
vice.
The writer, a Delawarean, reads
the Chronicle with intense interest,
scrutinizing its columns so closely
that she could tell you Off hand just
who lost a bull dog last week or who
had corn for sale. She CLEANS from
its columns and through occasional
visits to her native state, a chang
ing Delaware. No longer is the state
satisfied with Indian trails, district
schools, and the one horse shay. Del
aware is asking and demanding bet
ter things. She is realizing that her
greatest asset, her greatest crop, is
her children, and that their proper
training, is her best investment.
What Delaware achieves in the next
century depends upon what Oppor-
tunities are given her children To-
day.
Out here in the beginning of the
great North West we hear and read
a great deal about crops. Until the
rust, coming from the common bar
berry bush, laid waste the wheat
fields Minnesota was one OF the
greatest wheat producing states in
the union. In recent years her hll-
sides and valleys have been trans
formed from waving fields of grain !
to wonderfully fine grazing lands |
dotted with finely bred cattle. The |
income from the latter exceeds the |
Droceeds from the former by far.
Cheese factories and milk stations
are very numerous and the farmers, +
MANY of whom are of the thrifty
Swedish descent are very prosper
Ous' Minnesota too has awakened TO
the fact that her greatest asset Is
her children To satisfy ones self OF
this truth is but to look around one
The rural schools are, in the main,
abandoned, and for miles around the
smaller towns, as well as the cities, II
we see the country children housed 4
in enormous motor busses on their i
way to the, big well equipped high Ii
schools. II
In this city, of $4,000 inhabitants,
the child is assured a fine training I
from kindergarten land let the f
writer say here, that the child who In
misses the kindergarten instruction
these days fails to lay the first I'M s
portant) stones of well balanced l
foundatiOn) to the Jun q
ior year of college. Just recently the v
worlds finest high school was com
pleted at Hibbign, Mimi, at COST OF {
81. $50 100000. Hibbing is a mining 4
town, having at its feet one OF the
richest iron ore mines in the world, z
Hull Rust Mine" the largest ore n
pit in the world. The state of Mime a
sofa is known throughout educa- o
.ional circles as one of the most pro- o
gressive; but even Minnesota has
surpassed herself in this high school +,
This structure has IlICy-
our class rooms, two chemistry if
'ooms, two physics rooms, two draft 81
ng rooms, two art rooms, two cook et
ng rooms, two bookkeeping rooms
hree lecture rooms, three sewing h,
ooms, one biology room, one geology W
DOM, one junior college study hall,
ne automOtive shop, one forge shop,
ne machine shop, one foundry, one
lectrical laboratory, one music
oom, one typewriting room, one nor ]
lal training department, one print st
hop, one cafeteria, six laboratories, of
ne swimming tank, two gymna- b
ums, and one library. The mural
the soft rubberized Al
oors, the lights, the statuary, give n
sense of a cathedral more than L
.hOol The auditorium has an organ
at cost $26,0OO.OO.
Rochester is a world famed city.
these lines find the press the Sil
ritter may, at some future date, re- Il
te to the Chronicle readers a bit SCI
her history. ent
FLORENCE EVANS FREED ins