Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-06-11
$4,000 ESTIMATE
IN CIVIC WORK HERE
Total Amount Suggested as
i Years Minimum for
Efficiency.

The sum Of $4,000 for the work Of
the community and civic center depart
ment Of the public schools of the Dis
trict is the minimum on which the
work can be carried on with efficiency
during the fiscal year ending June 30,
1920, it is declared. An estimate OF
$4,000 is included in the District ap-
preparation bill now before the Senate
subcommittee on District of Columbia
appropriations and an additional esti-
mate for 1000 has been made.
A general statement as to the dis
position of these sums. If granted, fol-
lows:
Salaries.
Central office, for general secretary.
assistants, clerks, stenographers, Ia
borer and messenger (white and col
ored), $4,000.
For special directors of athletics,
dramatics, music, rhythm, pageantry
(white and colored), S11,830.66.
For secretaries in twenty-one local
community and civic centers (thir-
teen white centers, eight colored),
S14.149.
For janitors, engineers, electrician,
firemen, coal passers, laborers in
twenty-one local centers (white and
colored) and general civic center,
S13,292.
For temporary force at general civic
center for summer work. $54s.
Equipment
For general Office supplies and
equipment. including typewriters,
sets. etc. Gfor Central Office. local cen.
ters and general civic center),
$6,4s0.34.
Lighting.
At general civic center-stadium
promenade and indoor track. $1,7Oe;
additional lighting Of auditorium,
$1,000: lighting fixtures for three CEN
tiers, $500.
Special item, for maintenance and
upkeep of automobile, $500.
There are at the present time, it is
stated, nineteen public school buildings
being used as community and civic CEN
'ters by the white and colored people Of
the various localities of the District Of
Columbia-eleven white centers, seven
colored centers and one general civic
center (white), Central High School
By the community use of these nineteen
buildings an investment of about $780,
600 Is made doubly useful to the people
of Washington.
From April 1. 1918, to April 1, 1919,
almost 200 different organizations, asso-
Citations, clubs, societies, etc, met regu-
larly In the community and civic GEN.
ters. In addition. there were several
special patriotic programs of various
natures. The attendance at the CEN
tors from April /, 1918, to April 1,1919,
was 3S6,237. OF this number, there
were 11s.4s4 soldier guests at the CEN
tiers.
In making a request for an increas-
cd appropriation of $4,000 over the
$4,000 estimated in August, 1918. for
It is the belief that the faeil It'll I for
outdoor athletic work and the in
door swimming pool at the general
community and civic center, Central
people of washington. practically free,
during the hot summer months. 1t
would mean greater efficiency in gov
eminent work IL these facilities were
available to all government workers
IL argued. ~
Here are some Of the activities car
rted on in the community centers OF
the District: Gymnasiums (adults),
gymnasiums (children), dramatic art,
domestic art, choral club, French,
Spanish. key punching, English,
z arithmetic. typewriting: dancing. So
cial recreation. rhythmic dancing,
Scouts. Girl Scouts. Government Rec
yeation League, Red Cross. basket
ball, millinery and sewing, community
opera, citizens associations. home and
school associations. community asso-
Citations, story telling, state societies,
6reside talks and games, community
orchestra, community band. motion
pictures. community buying, liberty
war kitchens, war savings stamps.
liberty loan rallies, Homo Defense
League. board of instruction Of
draftees swimming. community sing
ing, hygiene campaign. child welfare,
lunch for registrars dramatic clubs,
community post Office, mems club.
stereopticon lectures. distributing sugar
certificates. addressing $4,000 en-
velopes for sex hygiene campaign,
food conservation meetings, surgical
dressings, first aid, home nursing,
target practice, hair dressing. Band
Of Mercy. radio lessons, piano lessons,
violin lessons. sunrise song services
for men in service, entertainments for
men going overseas, supper parties
for wounded soldiers and drives for
wounded soldiers.