Milford chronicle., 1928-06-15
POPULAR IGNORANCE is CAUSE
OF OUR TROUBLES

and colleges is one of the landmarks
of our calendar. The Importance
which people place on it is seen by
the way they give money to it. Edu-
cation is usually the biggest bill in
the tax assessment. The taxpayers
may growl, but the people have put
their hands in their pockets and
have increased the school appropri-
alton enormously. And there is no
general disposition to cut down the
outlay for education in Delaware.
When the parents see how their
young people have grown in knowl-
edge, ability to do things, initiative,
manners, and general civilization,
they say it has all been worth while.
They advise their friends to put their
boys and girls through the schools
and give them more education if
they can, and not begrudge the
money.
In spite of whatever faults one
can find in educational theories,
popular ignorance is the cause of our
troubles. If everyone had ample
schooling, we should not elect so
many incompetent people to govern
us. Work would be done more eff
ciently, disease and poverty could
be largely abated. The schools
show us how to use the tools of
life.
The young people are charged with
certain faults. But these faults are
due principally to home neglect. If
there is failure in school, it is be-
cause students have failed to CO.
operate.
The schools open up the ways of
knowledge. This wisdom can't be
forced into people, as you fill a pit
cher with water. It has to be ap-
propriated by hard personal effort.
And in the main our young people
have worked, and their resourceful
minds show that the schools are do
ing their job. 1t could be wished
that the homes of Milford and Della
ware could do as well.
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FOR BETTER MAIL SERVICE
There are few public utilities more
widely used in any given community
or throughout the entire country
than is the postoffice. And there is
none for the effective operation of
which it is more necessary than it
is in the case of our mail service
that the individual should have some
knowledge of how it is conducted.
Many people think the activity of
the postofice is confined to the col
lection and delivery of letters and
postcards, with an occasional parcel
thrown in for good measure. They
would be surprised to learn how
much of it's attention is given over
to other lines-to the insurance of |
mail matter, collect-on-delivery SER
vice, registry division, and money
order and postal savings system.
Except that it should reach its
destination as quickly as possible, it
is to many of us a matter of little
concern as to what happens to a
letter when it has been dropped into
the nearest mail box. How many
and what kind of operations are nee
essary by how many persons before
this letter is finally delivered into
the next county or across the con-
tinents, is a question to which we
give very seldom even the slightest
thought.
Some day an expert in such mat
ters will calculate to a nicely how
much in hours of work and money
might be saved to the nation in the
course Of year if the sender of a
letter would be only a bit more care
ful in addressing it and putting his
return address on the envelope.
When we learn how much may be
saved in this manner, we shall all
be surprised beyond measure. Thirty :
million pieces of mail matter go to ]
he dead letter Office each year. If
t were more widely known than it {
S, to what extent this adds to the
'ost of our mail service, every let s
er-writer in this country would see
he necessity of taking more pains {
n addressing letters.
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PAY DIRT :
A bit of yellow ore or a squirt Of
lack liquid from the bowels of the '
arth will attract thousands eager to
invest their capital and labor in the
ope Of reaping fortunes. A Iumor t
nd the rush is on. d
What is true Of the gold rush and {
be oil boom is true of communities.
let the outside world know that in b
Delaware it will find good wages, f
rosperity, unusual business oppor-
1nities and industrial advantages .
nd it will buy its own ticket.
Why do not more communities O
AXE this lesson from the gold rush?
Tany can trace their growth in pop 4