Milford chronicle., 1931-01-16


wine Saiilearium where the dust
from cinder road now in use per-
meates the wards of tubercular pa
tients. That the Highway Depart
ment should be empowered to make
such improvements seems preferable
! to apprOpriating funds to institu-
! tiOnal commissions to have the work
done. l recommend an amendment
to the present highway act that will
permit the State Highway Depart
ment to perform work of this kind
when in the judgment of the board
it is warranted and desirable.
An adjunct of the Highway De-
partment-the highway pOlice-have
functiOned notably well in the past
year. To the force is generously
conceded part of the credit for
the encouraging record attained in
1880 when highway accidents were
reduced 10 per cent with an estimat-
ed increase of IA per cent in traffic
The scope of the work of this police
force has become so general and
their value to rural communities
has so increased that instead of be-
ing known as highway cops, local
term for the members, this branch
of service should be elevated to a
higher rank, and more particularly
to incur greater respect for the
States agency for the enforcement
of law, I suggest the General AS
sembly officially name this body of
men "state police"
State Operated Gasoline Stations
In conjunction with the attorney
generals efforts to end the appar-
ent discrimination by oil companies
against Delaware motorists in the
sales price of gasoline, I ask that
you give the Highway Department
to establish and operate
one or more filling stations in each
of the counties. am frank to say l
of the State entering a
business in competition with that
done by some of its citizens but 1
view it as more unjust for $4,000
owners of motor cars to have to pay,
in comparison with prices asked
Tor gasoline in nearby states,-
what is equivalent to a 66 per cent
Increase in the Delaware tax on this
County Highway Bonds
l suggest the State continue to
ooH after the. county road and
bridge bonds as it has done since
927, the interest to be paid by the
Department and those to
,e redeemed in the next two years
o be retired by the general fund
When the Legislature next meets it
) my hop that you will find the
tate debt entirely likuidated and
efficient money in the sinking fund
D permit the shifting of these fixed
harges from the State highway
md and the general fund to the
mixing fund.
Industrial Schools
The three industrial schools in
lie State are largely supported by
Iuivalent of 40c or, in the case of
ew Castle County, soc per child
ly, towards the support and educa-
ON of children committed to them.
/ 1880 these payments amounted to
2,443.90. l recommend and have
indicated in the governors bud
It for the ensuing biennium that
e State alone support these
hools with the expectation that the
wing will promptly revert to the
nefit of all who pay taxes to the
unties.
Each of the girls industrial
hools obtained from the preceding
gislature, appropriations for ad-
,ional quarters which have since
ell built and provide a long felt
mt. The buildings themselves arc
credit to the schools and to those
10 planned and created them.
to the Industrial
lools, as you know, are made by
justices of the peace throughout
State and the Juvenile Court in
lmingtOn. In so far as | can learn,
statutes granting to them this
hority make no distinction be-
zen those children of average
ntality and those who are decid-
y deficient mentally. AS a result
h of the schools has some chill
Il of pitifully weak minds who
a decided handicap to the insti-
ions and might better have been
t to Delaware Colony. TO correct
condition, every child before
ng admitted to one of the indus
i schools ought to be examined
the State psychiatrist, and those
h intelligence quotas below a set
It, confined elsewhere.
he Ferris Industrial School for
S needs your help. In five years
population has increased 173 per
and the States appropriation
ards it's support less than q per
!. The management through
essity is too economical, for as
losed by the new system of cost
)unting the meals cost less than
cents per child.
ne of the most serious problems
his school is the inadequate wa
supply, which caused grave con-
to the trustees last summer
an expense that was not con-
plated Something will have to
lone to permanently remedy it.
ne need of additional buildings
/ understand the
tees are coming before you to
lest this year $150,000 to finance
ilding program. 1t has my whole
ted approval and / hope may
i've yours. There must b an