Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-02-07
OPPOSED TO CHANGE
Columbia Heights Citizens Pre-
fer Present School System.
RESOLUTION PLEDGING HELP
Address by DR.. H. W. Wiley on Food
Adulteration.
SCHOOL CITY FEDERATION
Explanation by Mrs. Paul Of the
Nature and Effect Of tho
Organization.

School legislation, the school city and
food aduteration were the main topics of
interest before the Columbia Heights Citt-
zens' Association last night at the Savoy.
The committee on education and school
facilities brought in a resolution pledging
support to the present organization of
schools, which was adopted without dis
cusslon.
Mrs. Daniel Paul. president Of the Wasi.-
ington School City Federation. explained the
nature and effect of the school city organiza-
tion In bringing discipline into the most diff
cult schools. and invited the citizens associa-
ton to cooperate with the federation in
introducing the system into the local
schools.
II. W. Wiley of the Department of Agri
culture made a plea for the introduction
by an aroused public sentiment of ethical
principles into commercial life extending
to the enactment of laws which will pre-
vent the consumer being sold anything
other than that for which he asks.
Action was also taken by the association
TO make provision for opening alleys in the
squares and blocks in Columbia Heights.
Or. ]. M. Miller offered a resolution re-
qucsting the railway company to obtain
legislation TO enable 1t to make a loop at
INSW 1OTk avenue, I0tn ana streets, IN
order to save time in making the turn for
the return trip. This will obviate the
necessity Of going to the Peace monument
TO make this turn. The resolution was
adopted.
Seven new members were admitted to the
associa ton: They are: James w. Stow,
Fl. Virgil Easterly, Charles H. Ball, James
+. West, Frank G. Butts, DR.. G. A. Willis
and Capt. Fred w. Mitchell.
Mr.. William Tindall, secretary to the Dis
trict Commissioners, who had been invited
to speak, was on account of the limitation
of time, requested by a unanimous vote to
make the main address of the March meet
ing.
Violation of Food Laws.
In giving his views on the violation of
the food laws, DR.. Wiley said If the people
of this country would hesitate little and
think of what they were eating every day
in their food, they would perhaps starve
themselves to death in their effort to avoid
contamination from disease.
He spoke particularly of patent medicines
and their misrepresentation through the va,
rious advertising media of the country. He
said that perhaps half million men were
lost in the civil war, but volunteered the
statement that more than a million infants
had been sacrificed to the various concoc-
tons known as soothing sirups and pain
killers.
But" he continued, there have been
more than twice this number killed by i'm
pure milk we 90 not know anything about
the milk we have left at our homes, or the
condition under which 1t is produced. There
are thousand and one possibilities which
might have combined to make what ma
ture intended for a food the most yirile
poison that chemistry can produce.
I'VE read about some wonderful remedy
Which has been vouched for apparently by
thousands who have been cured, and who
willingly transmit the preparation to other
sufferers The medicine does not cure. it
deadens the sensibilities to pain and the
only relief to be had is from the constant
use of the nerve deadener. The use of al
eoholics In patent medicines is so extensive
that the sale is heightened by the intoxicat-
ing effects Of the medicine"
Report on Education.
The report submitted by the committee
on education and adopted states, In part:
AT Its January meeting the association
referred to the committees on education and
school facilities pape: submitted by Mr..
Stocking, who had requested that such
reference be made.
The paper recited that thorough reor-
gaElZation of our public school system is
proposed by Senator Culloms bill fncl,ld-
Ing the adjustment of salaries to members
of the board of education; that a compari-
son of the school statistics of Washington
with those of Cincinnati, Milwaukee, De
troit and New Orleans seems to show that
our board of education Is not getting full
service out of the teachers; that the high
schools are favored to the sighting of the
grade schools, 1.500 pupils of the latter hav-
ing only one-half-day sessions, and that
teachers and school buildings Doth grade
and high) are excessive in number: this
committee being requested to report upon
the facts by way of resolution showing
whether or not 1t desires the passage of the
Cullom bill.
Features of Cullom Bill.
1--WE beg leave to note few features Of
the Cullom bill, as follows:
ut proposes that the members of the
board of education shall be appointed by
the President. no qualification as to previous
residence In the District of Columbia being
stated; that the board shall report directly
TO the President; that the superintendent
shall have had at least three years expert
ence as superintendent of schools; that
every principal and director shall take an
examination in order to be continued In the
service, and that there be consolidation of
our public schools, such schools and school
sites thereby rendered unnecessary to be
abandoned and sold
1T has not been the policy here as In
densely populated cities, to have immense
school buildings of eighteen to thirty rooms
each. to serve large districts. On the con-
trary, the popular local policy approved by
boards of education, the Commissioners and
the appropriation committees of Congress
has been to construct small, two-story
buildings of eight rooms each locating them
so as to accommodate the people in their
respective neighborhoods. This not only
places the school very near the home but
also tnsures the greater comfort and safety
OF little children.
Neighborhood Fairgrounds.
Another consideration for preferring the
small school buildings is the growing local
sentiment in favor of establishing neigh