Milford chronicle., 1925-04-24
PARENT-TEACHER
CONVENTION HEARS
OF FIGHT FOR SCHOOLS
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only clean-cut issue. He urged the
parent-teacher associations to organ
ize themselves so that they may be
better able to carry the fight to the
polls at that time.
Dr. Holloway Regretful
DR.. H. V. Holloway, state superin-
tendent of public instruction, also
expressed regret that the school bill
had failed in the last assembly, but
recalled that compared with the his
tory of a similar bill two years ago.,
when school building sponsors found
both houses opposed to it, the P. S.
du Pont plan had remarkable VIC
tory in the Tooth general assembly
He also said that there was no doubt
hut that the legislature which Will
meet in 1927 would see that the
building program was carried
through to victory.
The principal speaker of the al
ternoon session was DR.. Samuel
Chiles Mitchell, president of the
University of Richmond. DR.. Mitchell
who formerly held a similar posi-
ton at the University of Delaware,
spoke on the rural home and life in
general in the country districts.
DIR. Mitchell commended the I'M
usual progress made in this state
since he left it, stressing particular
w the new Wilmington public IL
brary, the Commodore McDonough
school in New Castle county, the
states wonderful highways and Del
aware's general appearance of pros
perity. In passing reference to the
school building program, he paid
tribute to the work of Pierre S. du
Pont, terming him one of the great
est men Delaware has ever produc-
ed.
George S. Williams, as head of the |
Face the Facts" program of the |
Delaware State Parent-Teacher as
sociation, told the annual meeting
of the association that in a survey
of 1.O44 Delaware families made in
the last show showed that two per
cent of the families have running
water in their homes, "a per cent
drawing their supply from pumps
and the remainder from Old-fashion-
ed bucket wells.
The average size of these families
is five members and their homes av-
erage six rooms. All but % of the
| .O44 families get along without help
in the household while only about
five per cent of them hire help regu-
larlv for their farm work. The sur
vey revealed that but two per cent
Of the families have heating systems
in their Easements and that SO per
cent of the families light their rooms =
with oil lamps.
In SO per cent of the homes the
mother of the family makes the
clothing for all it's members. Also, in
with clothing and fur
1ishings, Mr.. Williams reported that
more than half of the families slept s
between heavy blankets all winter
md without washing them from fall 7
% spring; that 62 per cent of the
homes had rugs nailed to the floor, n
where they collected dust and
germs for many months" and that ]
"A per cent of the families slept on I
Gather beds, which Mr.. Williams de- /
cribed as decidedly unhealthy both t
rom a sanitary standpoint and from {
he viewpoint of comfort. In 46 per b
.ent of the homes cold meals are
erved at night, when warm meals \
re necessary for the children.
A gain of more than 1900 members !
vas recorded in the past year by the I
association, Mrs. Robert E. Lewis, I
tate president, declared, in present 1
ng her annual report to the conven-
ion of the association in Dover. The L
Daid-up membership is now 1926,
he added, which represents a gain
f Is per cent over the figure report
d last year z