Milford chronicle., 1933-12-22
Friday, December p, 1888

primary school at the present time
This was definitely decided wher
Governor c. Douglass Buck vetoed
Representative Burris' bill which
provided S250,000 for such a build
ing in this city. The Chronicle, af'
ter carefully considering the matter
from all angles, cannot condemn or
criticise the Governor for his action,
The bill as passed carried the fol-
lowing section, known as Section Al:
''That this Act shall be taken to be
a supplementary appropriation Act
and the funds hereby appropriated
shall be paid out of moneys appro-
priated and set aside in the year
1888 in a special account in the Far
mers Bank of the State of Delaware,
known as the State School Building
Account in accordance with Section
1 of Chapter 1870, Volume SO, Laws
of Delaware"
In other words the act when it
reached the Governors Office provid-
ed that the $25O.00O should be taken
from the $1,O0O,0OO which had been
appropriated at the regular session
of the General Assembly last win
ter. During the months which had
passed following the enactment OF
the law, the State Board of Educa-
tion has alloeated the monies to
ether districts. The approval OF the
bill by the Governor would thus
have created confusion and prob
ably disrupted the entire building
program. so far as the present ap-
propriation was concerned. At the
time that the Governor announced
the veto of the Milford bill he also
approved the bill providing for a
new high school building in the
Fourth Senatorial District in New
Castle County. This bill carried an
appropriation for $S75, 5,OOO-but un-
like the Milford bill made an en-
tirelv new appropriation and did not
divert funds already appropriated.
There is no person or organiza-
tion more disappointed that Milford
will not get the school at the pres
ent time than the publishers of the
Milford Chronicle. We cannot, how
ever, censure the Governor for his
actions. 1t is apparent that the bill
was faulty drawn in that the monies
were taken from the wrong fund.
When the General Assembly con-
venes in March, Representative Bur-
ris will again introduce a bill pro-
viding for an appropriation for this
Milford primary school. We believe
that the Governor will approve the
measure should it reach his desk in
the proper form. The Chronicle can
not, however, fail at this time to
draw the attention of Milford citi-
zens to the fact that the State Board
of Education has allocated monies
for a second new school building for
the Town of Georgetown, which ap-
parently is not needed-and by
many residents of that district is
not wanted. Persons in a position
to know say that the present build
ing in that town is ample to take
care of the needs of the district.
Some of the proposed consultations
for which the new building was said
to he needed, have already failed of
approval by the voters.
Under the present plan of provid-
ing funds for the operation of
schools. persons who should know
say that the present enrolment of
the Georgetown schools will not pro-
vide an allotment sufficient to oper-
ate two schools in that town. We
have no desire to iniure in any man
ner the county seats schools-but
just raise the question as to why
districts badly needing buildings are
Disseminated against by
the State Board of Education and
Holloway. In the
very near future the Chronicle will
have a series of pertinent questions
to ask those in official authorityrrso
far as school matters are concerned.
The time for quibbling has passed.