The Washington herald., 1921-02-21
CITIZEN LEADERS
CALL TUBERCULAR
SCHOOL OUTRAGE
Civic Federation Adopts
Report Flaying Condi-
tions at Hamilton.

The Hamilton School for Tuber.
cular Children, on Bladensburg road
northeast. was condemned as ''one
of the worst outrages ever per-
petrated on an American commu-
nifty" at meeting of the Fedora
tion of Citizens Associations in the
board room of the District Build
ing Saturday night. .s
General condemnation of the
school in regard to its sanitary con-
ditions was expressed in a report
of the federation's public health
committee, read by DIR. B. T. Wood
ward, committee chairman. The
report recommended that steps be
taken to alleviate conditions at the
school until n more suitable insti-
tuition be provided.
President William B. Westlake
made the statement declaring the
school an Outrage" in discussion
preceding the adoption of the COM
mittee's report.
The man who put those sick
children out there should be ridden
out of town on a rail-" Westlake
added.
building Was Condemned.
Snowden Ashford, municipa,
architect, who attended the meet
ing, said that the building used
for the school had been closed for
hfteen or twenty years, following
the opening of the Langdon School,
having been condemned as unfit for
healthy children.
Il know a woman who visited
the school to see her child there"
said William Henry White. dele
gate from the Mount Pleasant Citf-
zens' Association. "and when she
saw the awful makeshifts in use at
the school she wept."
Daniel A. Edwards. member of the
Board of Education, told the fedora
tion that. owing to Congressional
failure to provide better conditions
at the schools. the Superintendent of
Schools recently was forced to ap-
peal to the Association for the Pre-
vention Of Tuberculosis for aid in
the matter.
The federation indorsed project +
of the Federal Water, Power Com
missions recommendation providing
for the construction of an addi-
tional conduit from Great Falls to
Delecarlia Reservoir in Georgetown,
ms a means of increasing the Dis
eii'l " dNtE supply.
The proposition was embodied in
A resolution adopted by the Bright
wood Citizens Association. urging
an increased water supply, and
brought before the meeting by
George A. Finch. chairman of the
on law and legislation.
Ask Local Movie Censorship.
The federation adopted the report
NJ a committee, headed by william
Mex. Clayton, to investigate the
need of motion picture censorship in
the District The meeting agreed
hat delegates sent by the fedora
ion to a public hearing by the Dis
.rict Commissioners on regulation of
motion pictures in the city Feb
ruary IS, should advocate "a local
and preferably a CEN
that enlists the co-opera-
ion of the best motion picture
as expressed in the COM |
report.
The meeting refused to commit |
tself IN regard to District Commits |
'ioners Mabel T. Bosrdman and ] |
rhilman Hendrick. recess appoin- !
ees. who must be confirmed by the |
senate.
The federation adopted a report |
providing for the appointment of a
pecial committee ito inquire in the
tatus of the appointments before
he Senate and report back to the |
with such recommenda-
ions regarding their confirmation |
s 1t may in its discretion deem |
dvisable."
The public schools committee or
ne federation. Jesse c. Suter, |