Evening star., 1920-10-19
USE Of DISTRICT
. SURPLUS. REVENUE
uSCHOO[SU [SURGED
RedN3hentded se,2s7. 600
i HaE-and-HaIf Plan, Be
! Expended in Building.


surplus revenue of the District on
ths basis of the half and-half plan
under which it was collected, which
w6uld make a total of approximately
$9.297. 900. to inaugurate Immediately
a comprehensive school building pro-
gram, was urged last night in reso-
luton adopted at meeting OF the
school committee of the Washington
Board of Trade.
Members believe that in the prob
lem of the financing of the school
building program-a vital need OF the
city-should be met by this unex-
pended surplus revenue to the credit
of the District in the national Treas
ufy along with the same amount con-
tributed by Congress under the half
and-half plan. The opinion was that
if Congress had appropriated enough
money to take care OF the urgent
District needs in previous years there
would not at this time be any sur
Plus; but. inasmuch as these needs
were not met, the District should be
able to collect its own tax money 10
make needed improvements.
Substance of Resolution.
The resolution follows in part:
Congress. the Districts legislature.
has in recent years, and especially
during the war time, permitted GER
tain vital municipal needs to accumu-
late unmet through failure to ap-
propriate in successive years to
''The need of additional school build
jngs to house the school children, in
creasing largely in number every
year, is among these accumulating
unmet vital needs, with the result
that several millions of dollars beyond
that which can be spared from current
revenues are needed to supply quickly
ADEQUATE school housing accommoda-
tions for the Districts $4,000 pupils
The Districts share Of the money
required under the half-and-half law
for fo n.Hi additional school buildings. has
been raised by taxation during these
years, but through failure OF Con-
gress to appropriate in full on the
half-and-half basis it remains nm
expended as surplus. an equitable
credit of the District In the National
Treasury.
Amount Stated by Auditor:
'The auditor of the District reports
that this accumulation of unexpended
surpluses of District tax money now
amounts to $4,648,S66.69, equivalent
to s9.297, ,333.3S of available District
revenue under the -and-half law.
in accordance with the terms OF which
this tax money Was collected
Congress is now about to meet
these lated.unmat. needs Of re-
cent years by larger appropriations
than can be supplied from current
revenues.
"The Board of Trade therefore Pc
titions Congress to recognise and rem
der available as immediate District
revenue the $S.zs7. .333.38. which it
would have appropftated under the
law If it had me& these. municipal
needs in successive years AZ they &C.
cumslated: and that scoagrsss appro-
pirate from this %, ,2S7, 35a.38 Of avail
able District revenue such sum be-
yond that supplied from current reve-
nue. as may be required to construct
quickly and fully these necessary ad-
ditional school bufldings@
Further suxxextian. -
1he resolution also -asks that
through Representatives Of the Board
of Trade, appointed by EffS -presidenf,
the cooperation of the Commission
ers and civic organixations Of the Dis
trict be solicited in accomplishing the
objects set forth in the resolution.
resolution was adopted by the conn
mittee urging that the Tubercular
School. situated at Bladensburgs road
and r street northeast, be moved to
more suitable location; that the $20,-
900 appropriated by Congress for a.
sewerage system for the school be
held up. and that trans
the children otherwise than
on the street cars.
The cars to this school," said Dr.
Chapman. run only every half hour
If child is few minutes late he has
to stand on the corner waiting for the
next car. The building. which is sit
uated In 6wampy ground and near the
District dump has only four rooms
and was built about forty years ago.
1t has no sewerage and no cellar. The
cots in the sleeping room are only
six or eight inches apart. The food
is not what it should be and there
is practically no medical supervision,
in spite of the fact that the children
attending school are SICK
DR.. Chapman said that there was not
the slightest criticism of the teachers
at the school; that they were doing
their best with the limited facilities
at their disposal
Swanpy Ground U.Aealthy. :.
Some objection was raised by men,
bers of the committee to moving the
school into the city, but 1t was agreed
that the swampy grounds and prox-
unity to the dump were unhealthy to
even people in the best of health. and
that the school should be moved to q
more suitable location.
The committee also adopted q reso-
luton urging reduced fares on the
street railway lines for school chill
dren. the rate to be six tickets for q
quarter.
Roy c. Clafiin. chairman Of the COM
Wittee, presided.
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