Smyrna times., 1928-01-18
DELAWARE CITIZENS MEET AND
DISCUSS PLANS FOR THE YEAR
GATHERINGS TO BE HELD THRU
OUT THE THREE COUNTIES
Bishop Cook Heads Special Commit.
tee to Arrange for Said Meetings
Requests Are Already Coming In

At q recent meeting of the Execu-
tive Committee Of the Delaware Cit
lzens Association held in the Senate
Chamber, Dover, a report outlining
subjects for discussion in a series Of
meetings to be held throughout Della
ware, within the next two months,
was adopted. The plan, presented by
Bishop Cook, chairman of a special
committee to make recommendations
On the subject, will enlist the assist
ance Of prominent citizens in carry
ing a knowledge Of the ideals of the
association to all Delaware. Requests
for meetings have been received to
date from seven committees. The re-
port outlines three subjects that the
committee feels need to be brought
to the attention Of Delaware people.
First, the rapid change that is tax
ing place in the State as the result
Of good roads chiefly, but due also to
telephone, radio and other such agen-
cies. Communities, Bishop Cook
declared, formerly almost isolated,
tinuous communication with the cur
rent Of life from outside their bord-
ers. There is a constant stream of
motor cars up and down the State.
In the past seven years this has work
ed great changes and will continue in
creasingly to alter the character of
the State. The call is insistent that
the citizens should make the largest
and most intelligent use of these
forces. It is fatal simply to drift.
I'm the past the drift has been
from the country to the city, where
the opportunities are greater. But
the city is proving poor place to live
and rear a family. Here is Delaware
uniquely placed, a most attractive
place in which to make a home: a
strip of fertile land capable of inten-
sive cultivation, within short distance
Of great city markets, waiting, it
would seem, just for better under
standing of its advantages on the
part of its own citizens to leap ahead.
Second, the type Of Delaware's pop
UlatiOn. Looking at the State from
its racial aspects" the report con-
tinued, fit is made up chiefly of So
called Anglo Saxon stock Of Ameri-
can origin, with little mixture Of the
foreigner or foreign born. 1t is much
more homogeneous than is usually
found in this part Of the country. It
is almost equally divided in popula-
ton between the city and industrial
element of Wilmington and the rural
and agricultural element in the state.
If these elements contend against
each other, it means a division where
there ought to be close cooperation
and unity. A central city is neces-
sary to an agricultural district: an
agricultural district, necessary to a
CITY center. Fundamentally, their in
terests coincide
"The state is small in population,
which makes the success of an effort
for unity in action all the more feas-
ible. but at the same time threatens
to engulf the state between larger
ones both North and South, unless
there is developed a Delaware spirit
which shall come to be widely recog-
nized because Of the intelligence and
the quality Of its citizens. "Some OF
the smallest nations have most power
fully influenced mankind. Greece
the Palestine Of the Jews, the islands
of Great Britain and Japan are exam
ples. Delaware is small, but it ha;
the chance to develop the highest type
of American life, if its citizens vii
learn To cooperate SO as to make tht
best use Of their opportunities.
This leads to a consideration of I'm
nossibilities in "Adult Education" II
the state. Education" Bishop Cool
insisted, Gin any proper sense is life
long; not simply acquiring lntorma
ton but learning how best 70 adap'
ourselves to THE conditions about US
IVY so use it, forces that life may b
continually enriched and beautitied.
'sThe most important field Is not
then, the schooling Of children, bu
the education of adults who have
in their power to make such change
in political, social and economic If
as their experience may inspire then
IVY undertake. every great socia
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kind Of education in adult life, where
bv conference and comparison Of ex
perience, men and women educat
each other.
"This is what the Delaware Citi
zens Association seeks to start. l
has ~ political plans, no schemes fo
school advancement, no other axe t
grind. 1t seeks simply to provide
means whereby the citizens Of tn
state may discuss their problems-so
cial problems, health problems, prob
lens that have to do with political in
tegrity, care Of dependents, all o
those Of general interest, and come T
conclusion as to what ought to b
done and how to do it. To share il
this, the Delaware Citizens Associa
ton invites all people Of the state"