Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1927-12-09
APPROVE WORK DONE BY
DEL-MAR-VA ASSOCIATION
VAST MAJORITY FAVOR ITS
CONTINUANCE WITH ONLY
II VOTING "NO"


ed by the Del-Mar-Va Eastern Shore
Association shows a combined vote
of y58 business leaders who approve
of the work done and believe IN It's
continuance, as against Il who on
number of the leading questions Vo-
ted no" This total represents tad
ulation of the vote cast not only IN
the five central counties but in all OF
the counties into which the ballots
were sent.
In the five central counties, Wor-
cester, Dorchester, Somerset, Sussex
and Wicomico, the issue presented
was whether or not the Association
should be continued during the
three year period beginning January
l. 1928. In the two Eastern Shore
counties of Virginia and in the nor
thern counties of Cecil, Queen Anne,
Talbot, Kent, and Caroline, Md, and
Kent and New Castle, Delaware, the
questions concerned themselves with
whether or not the various sections
outside of the five central counties
desired to affiliate with the Assocla-
ton and if so on what basis. All
questions were not answered in ev-
cry instance, accounting for dis
crepancies in individual question
totals.
Replying to the question as to
whether business interests were ben
Gifted by Association activities, vo-
tiers in the five central counties
registered 5O4 Eyes" and 81 mo-
Asked if marketing problems
could be handled better through one
central organization, such as the
Del-Mar-Va Association, than indi-
vidually or locally, voters in the two
Virginia counties and the seven nor
thern counties went on record with
329 favoring the Association hand
lin gthis subject with Is opposed. In
these same counties 367 favored con-
tinuing the advertising and publicity
of the Association and its continu-
ance. Twenty-Five voted against 1t.
AS to whether communities not
contributing to the Association
should be included in future public
ity and advertising, voters in Virgin
, ia and northern counties registered
approximately a twenty-five per
cent objection. Their vote was 2OS
to include those not contributing
and 1853 opposed to their being in
, cluded.
Again, in the northern and Vir-
ginia counties the question as to
whether the Associations Traffic
and Transportation Bureau, as now
operated, is a benefit to the whole
Peninsula, 235 voted Eyes" and IL
voted no" Asked whether the ser
vices of this Bureau should be plac-
ed at the disposal of shippers and
communities, irrespective of theil
support to the Association, 292 voted
Eyes" and 144 voted no"
In the two Virginia counties the
voters were asked whether the Eas-
tern Shore of Virginia Chamber OF
Commerce should renew its affilia-
ton with the Del-Mar-Va Eastern
Shore Association and cooperate in
meeting the problems which require
Peninsula-wide action for solution
One hundred and eighty-five voted
yes" and 20 were opposed.
An outstanding feature in the re-
turns is the frankness of those eX-
pressing their opinion upon practi-
cally every phase of the activities of
the Association. These expressions
range from the statement of an eld-
erly resident of Seaford, who, look
ing backward sixty years and look
ing sixty years into the future is
satisfied that the Peninsula is,
through natural causes, advancing
quite fast enough" 10 the view ex-
pressed by a wealthy resident of the
northern section that "only through
organized effort can the Peninsula
ever hope to come into it's own"
This man adds that so far as organ
ization is concerned, the Del-Mar-
Va Association would seem to be
our only hope"
A second outstanding feature, in
the minds of the special committees
who handled the votes, is that a
large majority of the ballots came
from non-members of the Associa-
ton. There were but $50 original
members when the Association was
organized and while a majority of
these replied to the referendum the
bulk of the vote came from non
members.
A further striking fact, mentioned
by the special committees, was the
return from Talbot County, Md,
where several months ago the
County Chamber of Commerce sever
ed connection with the Del-Mar-Va
Association. Talbot made the second
highest return in the referendum in
the northern counties. There were
43 ballots voted there with but four
voting against the county continu-
ing with the Del-Mar-Va Association
to promote the Peninsula as a whole.
About sixty per cent of the Talbot
vote carried with it constructive
suggestions.
Edwin H. Brown, Jr., chairman of
the special committee in the north
ern counties, said that the Talbot
County return gave evidence of the
vote coming after very careful con-
s1deration of the ballots and that
greater interest was displayed from
that county than from any of the
other six in that group.
sussex County returned the larg-
est vote of any of the fourteen
counties, with 245 ballots. Of this
number 226 voted for continuance of
the Association, and eight voted
against it. Representing business in
terests in Sussex there were 1879
ballots declaring the Association
had been of value to Peninsula bus
mess and twelve that it had not.
The third question, which asked
whether the Association is operat-
ing as a direct or indirect asset to
local communities, and whether con-
tinuance would promote community
development with greater progress
by operating with the Association,
brought a vote Of 204 Eyes" and 12
mo-" in Sussex.