Evening star., 1920-04-08
EDUCATION BOARD
TO ALLOW USE Of
SCHOOLS AS POLLS
District Primaries of Any Po-
IiticaI Club May Be Held
in Buildings.

ture can be used as polling places FOR
the District primaries OF any political
party. This decision was reached yes
terday afternoon by the board Of edu-
cation when 1t approved an informal
request Of tho Bryan Democracy Club
to hold primaries In the school build.
Permission to use tho school build
| inEs ae polling places was requested
| by Deets Pickett and William V. Ma
| honey Of the Bryan Democracy Club.
In reouesting the use Of the % schSoi 100
Mahoney declared that in previous
years the District primary. elections
1 "have been more or less OF joke"
| This year, he said, I'VE want to dig.
nifty them and make them honest and
clean by holding them in school build
ings."
During the meeting Of the school
| board DR.. John Van schaick, 1r.,
| president, made several efforts to IN
ject the proverbial pep" into the
proceedings In opening the meeting
"I1et the Senate Investigating commit
tee come to order" At the conclusion
Of the proceedings, the school board
head remarked: "We will now retire
to Secretary Hines office for secret
session."
Also" he continued. 'at midnight
tonight We are going to hold secret
conference under the old elm tree on
Bladensburg road by the swamp
Resolutions Inaorse Thurston.
Then the school board was given
another shock when Secretary Hine
read resolutions adopted by the
Brightwood Citizens Association and
the Hubbard Home and School Asso-
and indorsing the administration OF
| the schools by Supt. Thurston. and
expressing confidence in the super
intendent's executive ability.
AS the resolution from the citizens
association was being read Mrs.
Coralie +. Cook raised the point that
the resolutions were not addressed to
the board.
DR.. Abram Simon then turned to DR..
Van Schaick. saying: I'VE (the board)
Yes" replied DIR. Van Schaick.
they ought to go on the files"
No" interceded Dr. Simon, you
CDR. Van Schaick) ought to frame
them
When Secretary Hine completed
Van schaick. said: Acknowledged.
thanked and filed"
Again the board resumed its
routine business. and indorsed the
opinion of Coroner hewitt that safety
first principles should be instilled in
conducting a campaign on safety first
in the schools. DR.. Van Schaick point
ed out that the parents should CO.
operate with tie teachers.
Fund at Western High School.
Permission was granted the alumni
association Of Western High School
to solicit funds from the students in
that institution to erect memorial
tablet for former students VINO dad
in the world war. The board also ad-
vocated the purchase Of Hoover food
drafts" by school employees to aid the
starving Austrian school children. This
action was taken on the request Of
educational workers in Vienna.
Upon the motion of Fountain Pey-
ton. DR.. Van Schaick appointed DR..
Simon, DR.. J. Hayden Johnson and Mr..
Peyton on a committee to investigate
remaining the Phelps School. colored,
after one of the leading negro educa-
tors. Roscoe c. Bruce, assistant su-
perintendent of colored schools. is to
sit on this committee.
Communicate from Allan Davis.
principal of Busi ness High School,
urging. that principals be given in
creased wages, and from the Associa-
tion for the Prevention of Tuberculo-
sis requesting increased salaries for
medical inspectors of the schools.
were read and referred to Supt.
Thurston. In his letter Principal Da-
from the House District appropriation
bill of higher salary provisions for
principals of high schools.
At the conclusion of the board meet
ing several board members. with DR..
Van Schaick. studied the plans of the
new Phelps School, which is to be
erected on Vermont avenue between
T and y streets northwest. Those alb
sent from the board meeting were DIR.
Charles P. Neill. Mrs: Susie Root
4 4 u
Changes in personnel approved by the
board are as follows:
Appointments-Mrs. NJ. B. Barton
teacher second grade. Van Buren,
School. probationary; Mrs. E. r. Bell
sasond Mrs srade ansdon
teacher class 4. Lenox School. tenn
porarily; DIR. f. B. White, teacher
class 5. Junior High School. Temporal
rily: Mrs. D. H. Primm. teacher third
grade. Wilson Normal School. tempo
rarily; Kelly Miller. jr.. teacher class
ga, Junior High School, temporarily
Mr.. Spiros Safradiths. teacher of
music. Americanization work. Webster
| Day School. temporarily: Mrs. II. NJ.
| Broome. teacher class GA, Western
High School: probationary; Mrs. NJ. S
Yocum. teacher first grade. Van Ness
School temporarily; Mrs. X. Y. Mer-
| rill. teacher GA class, Central High
| School, temporarily: 3. A. Yoder
teacher Americanization Night. tenn
| porarily: G. G. Meyer. teacher Ameri-
| canization Night. temporarily; J. NJ
| McGloin. teacher class GA, Eastern
! High School. temporarily; A. c. Trow-
bridge. teacher class ga, Western
High School. temporarily; Mrs. Alice
Moore. teacher class domestic art
departmenO. probationary; f. r. Stew
art, teacher fourth grade, Powell
school, temporarily: A. T.. Dodd, teach
! er third grade, Petworth School, tenn
porariiy; Mrs. A. B. Shepard. teacher
1ourtn grade, Smallwood Bowen
schools. temporarily: M. A. Thompson,
teacher fourth grade. Fillmore School.
temporarily; Mrs. A. G. Orrison.
teacher second grade, Jefferson-Amidon
| schools. temporarily; Mrs. S. K. Bloch.
teacher second grade. Van Ness School,
probationary; G. A. Porter, teacher fifth
grade. Blow School, temporarily; NJ. T..
schools. probationary; M. l.. Hall,
teacher fourth grade. Langdon School
temporarily; A: T. Craig. teacher fourth
| grade. Pierce School, temporarily: Mrs.
| E. T. Fisher. teacher first grade. John
son School, probationary: H. A. Ryerson
teacher third grade. Curtis School, tenn
| porarily; DR.. w. S. Rhodes, dental op-
orator, public schools, probationary
G. III. Kellerman. teacher ga class.
Yoder. teacher fifth grade, Takoma
| School; G. L. Botsch, clerk, class 4.
secretary's office, temporarily: d. F.
Susan. caretaker. West Portable: w. r
Moore. janitor. Tyler School; Robert
1 Smith, janitor, Thomson School: Mrs,
Aurelia Gardner. teacher fourth grade,
+! Park View School. temporarily.
i Promotions and transfers-Mfss r.
II. Brown, teacher GA. Dunbar High
I School probationary to permanant .