Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-13
BETHESDA DISTRICT.

BETHESDA. Nd. July 13-Revival
of the Bethesda District Community
League and formulation of a program
of activities for the coming autumn
and winter is under way, and much
real work is being planned The
league, organized last fall for the
purpose of giving citizens a regular
ly constituted body through which to
handle disagreements between citi-
zens and the Rockville electric rail-
way, has been inactive since last win
ter.
Among the tasks the league has set
itself to aid in bringing to accom-
pHshment is obtaining adequate in
creases in pay for the teachers of
Bethesda district and of the entire
county. Efforts also are to be made to
obtain new schoolhouse for Bethes-
da If this cannot be done, the league
is to demand that the present build
ing and grounds be put in thorough
state of repair, with badly needed
additions to the schoolhouse, and ade-
quate sanitary facilities.
Efforts also are to be made to have
some special form of communication
ticket adopted by the electric line, so
that teachers in the Bethesda school
Will not be compelled to purchase reg
ular tickets. which include coupons
for fares in the District of Columb ia,
while only using tickets to Bethesda
At present practically all of the Dis
trict of Columbia tickets are wasted
causing the teachers a loss of SO so
month on every Communication ticket
book they purchase.
Representative Zihlman has notified
the chairman of the committee having
in charge the matter of transferring
the two rural mail routes that for
merly operated from the Bethesda
post office back to that office from
,, the Chevy Chase. D. c.. branch, that
delay in obtaining action has been
due to inability of inspectors of the
fourth assistant postmaster generals
Office to handle requests promptly.
Representative Zihlman, in his com
munication, stated that it is expected
the matter will be given attention
in the very near future.
Complaints as to Irregularities in
mail deliveries on the two rural
routes continue to be made. MANY of
these complaints are in regard to de-
livery of letters, parcels, etc, to
wrong boxes. regardless of the fact
that in every case reported the mail
has been properly addressed. Sew
eral instances have been reported of
letter mail delivered to persons liv-
ing several miles from the person to
whom the mail was properly and leg
IDLY addressed, in some cases entail
ing serious inconvenience and even
financial losses. Retransfer of the
routes from Chevy Chase to Bethes-
da has been requested in petitions
signed by several hundred citizens of
this district.
Preliminary work on the Bethesda
district portion of the Montgomery
Prince Georges county and District
of Columbia sanitary sewer system, it
is understood, is to be started about
September l. Bethesda. Woodmont
! Northwest Park. Drummond, Friend,
ship Heights. North Chevy Chase and
Kensington are some of the towns to
be served by the projected sewer sys-
TEN in Montgomery county, the sys-
TEN to connect with sanitary sewer
bia.
Deputy Sheriff Peake of this dis
trict is busy these days carrying out
the instructions of Sheriff Aud to re-
auire all apparently unemployed per-
sons white as well as colored, to give
good accounts of themselves on pain
of arrest for vagrancy. All such per-
sons of both races in this district
are being required to give their name,
age, place of abode, name and ad-
dress of the person for whom they
work etc. If persons questioned are
unable to give straightforward ac-
counts of themselves they are either
arrested and sent to the Montgomery
county jail on vagrancy charges or
are informed that they are not wanted
in the district and had better go else
where Deputy Sheriff Peake states
that this procedure already has re-
duced the number Of persons with no
visible means of support to a marked
extent.