The Washington times., 1911-10-28
SUPPRESSHREPORT
ON SCHOOL DESKS
TO AVOID STRIFE
Members of Board of Trade
s, Think 1t Best Not to
,r,& Divulge Findings.

In an attempt to preserve peace be-
tween the Muncipal Architect and the
Board Of Education, the public schools
committee OF the Board of Trade Is
keeping a blanket of secrecy over the
school desk report of its subcommittee,
submitted last February to the chair
nan. Aldie b. Browne. by the chair
man OF the subcommittee. Isaac Cans.
The school desk report Is the result of
the Investigation of charges made by
the Municipal Architect, Snowden Ash
ford. and another member Of the COM
mittee that the Board Of Education
had accepted school desks which were
below the standard required by specif-
carelessness or worse in the handling
Of school materials. The charges in.
yolved the integrity OF Washington
furniture firm and Cincinnati firm Of
clared by President Oyster Of the Board
of Education last winter that the in
tegrity. OF the school officials them
selves was challenged.
The investigation, which eliminated
to split the committee on public Schools
Of the Board of Trade. and was the
between the school authorities and the
Municipal Architect. -
IT was generally understood at the
time the subcommittee's report was
refutation of the charges and a cor
responding vindication of the persons
HtstacSKed. y but the report was forwarded
vca 70 cha,smap hsrn hsa Browns and its contents
AT the meeting Of the committee
yesterday afternoon. when the chair
man was waiting for a motion to ad-
1ourn. n. 4 Simpson mentioned the
Ing whether 1t would be included in
the annual report of the committee
to the Board of Trade.
opinion cit would not be wise to stir
the animals up" by making the re-
port port public: He stated that he had
and that Mr.. Cans had said that he
would be agreeable to anything which
the committee might do.
man and acquiesced in the supres-
sion Of the report Those present
were. beside the chairman. Mrs. Car
gohs ns BoyIe sneen csrmodY am A w. Ramssy SGnney
Judge Charles 8. Bundy. Judge Bun
dy was not present when the report
twenty-six members Of the commit
The fear wa. expressed that news
IL the soupsa aeSor with mth shs
cause more talk about the matter than
II It were included in the annual re-
port in the regular way. but the
chairman thought that the least said
the better, in the interest of peace in
the schools. Everyone then agreed to
IA subcommittee, composed of Mrs.
Stephen and Mr.. Yoder. will endeavor
to ascertain whether plan cannot be
devised which will assure the public
school teachers Of a certain pay day
each month. Mrs. Stephen said that
many teachers had complained to her
about the present uncertainty. and es-
pecially about the newspaper advertis-
Ing incident to teachers pay day. She
protested against both and moved that
Q committee be appointed to investigate.
The subcommittee report will not be
included in the annual report.
In the letter will be the report Of the
subcommittee on investigation of the
cost of the schools here as compared
with the cost of those in other cities.
The report was submitted and made
public last May. 1t was approved and
will be included in whole as a part of
the committees report, The report was
drawn by Mr.. Ramsay.
The committee passed the same reso-
luton as adopted by the committee on
parks and reservations, favortng an ath-
lettc field in connection with the pro-
posed Central High School on Colum-
bia Heights.
A. vote of felicitation to former Su-
perintendent Of Schools Stuart and Of
best wishes to Superintendent Davidson
offciais Of the FRANKLIN School for
courtesfes shown the Ramsay subcom-
mittee also was adopted.