Milford chronicle., 1947-07-04
OLD FRIENDS PASS from the active

OLD FRIENDS PASS from the active
business picture and new ones take their
place On Monday Clement B. Hallam and
William F. Metten were retired from active
service with the News-Journal Papers in
Wilmington. A few weeks ago Clarence }.
Pyle retired from the same organization. 1t
is with feeling of sorrow that we see these
old friends of long standing pass from the
newspaper publishing scene. We have known
each of them for almost forty years, and
have found them to be men of outstanding
character and ability. Their passing from
the business stage of their chosen vocation,
to be succeeded by younger men, is to be ex-
pected. Their successors are all men OF
proven ability. With their retirement from
active participation in the newspaper publish
ing business in Delaware, we believe that the
present Editor and President of the Milford
Chronicle is the dean of newspaper publishers
In Delaware, when actual years OF ownership
participation in publishing a newspaper is
considered. For over thirty-seven years he
has directed the destinieS of this newspaper
and it's commercial printing department.
Younger men are being trained in this office
to replace him, and others of long service, as
the time arrives for their replacement The
men who guide the destiny of a newspaper
may retire-but the newspaper must go on
and on. This is the tradition of newspaper
dom.
ACCORDING TO A Nationwide survey
just completed by the New York Times, and
published in full last Saturday morning, the
State of Delaware is well up among the lead
erS in the matter of teachers pay. NOtWith-
standing the outcry on the part of some of
the more radical teachers last spring when
the teachers pay increase bills were before
the General Assembly, the Times survey
would seem to prove that the law as enacted
was fair That this seems to be true is indi-
Gated by recent statements of school authOri-
ties that the scarcity of Delaware teachers is
gradually being reduced As we looked over
the list prepared by the Times we were more
than impressed with Delaware's attempt to
play fair with the instructors. The list by
states is published in another column of this
newspaper 1t should be read by all persons
interested in our school system and the future
welfare of our children. The Times has per-
formed national service in the compilation
of the report.
s. THE WILMINGTON Journal-Every Eve
ming last Friday published an editorial titled
"Shore-Sighted Delawareans," which voices
the thought that the Chronicle has broached
from time to time over period of years.
Boiled down to the simplest of statements it
is this, Delaware is not part of the East
ern Shore" The Journal-Every Evening
editorial follows in full:
"SHORE-SIGHTED DELAWAREANS
SIN idle moments we have noted with some
concern the rise and spread of misconcep-
tiOn In lower Delaware. Nobody will make a
violent issue of it, since it is innocent and
natural enough. Yet there's chance it could
be source of some embarrassment to those
who state publicly, for instance, that their
Delaware businesses are the Largest on the
Shore" or "The Eastern Shores Finest"
Their genuine belief seems to be that Della
ware is part of the Eastern Shore.
No Marylander or Virginian will ever agree
to that. The fact is that centuries of bound
aries and tradition have fixed that the East
ern Shore comprises only that region of two
states bordering the eastern shore of the
Chesapeake. That's just it. Your true East
ern Shoreman is too self-assured to be self
assertive-but if pressed on this point he will
ask with smile: docs Delaware touch our
bay anywhere"
Delaware of course, like many states, has
shoreline. We like to call our beaches and
resorts the Shore But the term as we use
it does not apply to whole counties as in the
rest of our peninsula. Delaware and the
Eastern Shore are good neighbors living side
by side in what is called, for want of a better
name, the Delmarva Peninsula. We don't
need to claim to be something we aren't.
If we don't look out we may expose our
selves again to bit of libel that used to be
current in Eastern Shore circles. Delawareans
were called 'Red-Bellies" We got that way,
it seemed, from our humble custom of crawl
ing through the sand to get into Maryland" !"
1t is time for all Delawareans to wake up
to the fact that Delaware is Delaware Under
no stretch of the Imagination can it be
termed a part of the Eastern Shore" The
counties of Maryland and Virginia laying east
OF the Chesapeake Bay comprise the Eastern
Shore. This is logical and sensible name
for those sections of the two states. But
Delaware at no point touches the Chesa-
peake. 1t does border on the Delaware Bay
THE west shore of the Delaware Bay. We