Evening star., 1922-05-11

buildings to repairs on old struc-
lures which would entail an expend!-
ture of millions of dollars. were pre-
sented by representatives of two
score civic organizations at joint
conference with school authorities
and members of the board of educa- :
tion last night in the assembly hail
OF the Franklin School. The improve
ments requested by the civic group
representatives, many of which were
included in the District Appropriation
bill now before Congress and stricken
out, will be given serious considera-
tion by the school board when it be-
gins the drafting of the school budget
for the next fiscal year.
Those items eliminated from the ap-
preparation bill in Congress will be
given priority in the Forthcoming
school estimates, Superintendent OF
Schools Ballou explained in opening
the conference. Many of the NEEDS
cited last night, however, probably
will be included in the budget.
Leftover Requests.
1--WE have accumulated group of re-
quests left from last year" said DR..
Ballou. 1.-The only thing for you TO do
Is to keep on making them. and we
will keep on asking for them, with the
hope that We eventually have them pro-
vided."
DR.. Ballou pointed out that the lack
Of funds last year precluded repair work
in many of the schools which officials
recognized as absolutely essential The
estimated cost Of the repairs last year.
he said. was $41s.920, for which only
S60. 900 was available. The amount for
repair work in the pending budget, he
emphasized, is $25o.000.
AS a representative of the Lincoln
Park Citizens Association, Daniel A.
Edwards, former president Of the school
board, made plea for the completion
Of the new Eastern High School by De-
cember ! and for additional funds to
provide for its equipment. He declared
that only about 100000 was left of the
original appropriation for the school,
and that at least s250.ooO will have TO
be obtained through a deficiency ap-
preparation to equip it adequately.
Assistant Principal Urged.
Mr. Edwards also requested that
when the new Eastern is opened
male assistant principal be appointed
to relieve Principal Charles Hart of
some of the extra work. DR.. Ballou
said that the board undoubtedly
would make provision for the addi-
tional officer.
Pleading for a new building to re-
place the Tenley School. Luther L.
Derrick of the Northwest Suburban
Citizens Association asser;0l that
for ten years the residents in the
vicinity of that school have urged
improvement of the school facilities
in vain.
why can't the Tenley School get
anything at all:" Mr.. Herrick asked.
1T is a disgrace for our children in
the kindergarten and first grade to
meet in an old church. condemned
years ago"
Supt. Ballou replied that an effort
had been made to secure an appro-
nriation for a new school in the
pending estimates. but the item was
eliminated
Acquisition of ground lying be-
tween the Petworth School. on Shep-
herd street, to Georgia avenue was
urged by Raymond S. Hart. president
of the Petworth Home and School AS
sociation. Mr.. Hart also requested
that an assembly hall be provided for
the school. that an old portable be
replaced with a new one, and that
domestic science and manual training
classes be established in the school
He pointed out that the Petworth
school children now are forced to go
to four different schools for their
domestic science and manual train
ing classes, while there are facilities
at the school for such purposes.
New High schools Needed.
Urging the construction of two
new senior high schools. George W.
Hodgkins. president of the Central
High School Alumni Association.
condition of that institution, which.
he said. will not be sufficiently re-
lieved by the two new Junior high
schools. There are more than 1900
students enrolled at Central. he said.
or 900 beyond the proper capacity OF
the school
New senior high schools are a ne
cessity," said Mr.. Hodgkins, despite
the expansion of the junior high
school system" One of the new Sc
nior high schools, he said, is needed
in the lexington section, and the
other beyond the Macfarland Junior
High School, at 14th and Taylor
streets.
Additional playground facilities at
number of schools was urged by
Mrs. Lucy r. Swanton and J. Clinton
Hiatt of the Washington Safety First
Association. Fire escapes for the
schools, especially at Central High.
also was recommended by Mr.. Hiatt.
Mrs. Swanton specifically mention
ed the need of more play space at the
Cook, Phillips. Monroe, Morgan and
Jefferson schools, and suggested that
steps be taken to open the play
grounds in the evenings for family
representing the District Of Columbia
Dental Society, stressed the impor-
tance of dental inspection in the
schools. and recommended more than
100 per cent increase in the salaries
of the dental and prophylactic op-
orators. He also urged that the
school dental clinics be increased from
four to eight.
Dunbar Relief Asked.
Placing of the business practice de-
partment of Dunbar High School in
a separate building and making it an
Independent unit was recommended
by Hunter H. Cardwell of the Howard
Park Citizens Association and c. E.
Howard of the Colored Business Mems
Association. 1t was suggested that
the business practice department be
housed in the present Shaw Junior
High School, and that school be given
new building. Supt. Ballou indi-
Gated that he was in sympathy with
this plan. in order that the congest-
ed conditions at Dunbar be relieved.
A representative of the Stanton
Park Citizens. Association renewed
the request that the Carbery, Hilton
and Peabody schools be wired. Miss
Cora Van SAINT, representing the Con-
duit Road Citizens Association, asked
that a new school be erected on Con-
duit road. More play space and an
assembly hall for the Monroe School
was urged by Mrs. Josephine Semia
of the Monroe Home and School AS
ISOLATION.
Location Of a school east of 18th