The Washington herald., 1922-12-22
WILL TRY BACK
DO0ROF HOUSE,
SAYS classic
Citizens Committee Of Five,
Denied Hearing, viii Pre-;
sent Brief on D. C. Budget
BUILDING TO BE STRESSED
Members Believe Salary Bill
and Compulsory Education
viii Be Assured of Attention

viii Be Assured OF Attention
"If we can't get in the front
door, we'll get in through the
back" r
This is the attitude of the citi-
zens' committee Of five, as sx.
pressed yesterday by Henry H.
Classic, chairman.
REPORT Is DRAFTED.
The committee named to represent
$50 civic organizations of the Dis
trict IN presenting their plea for bet.
ter schools before Congress was de.
MED q hearing on Tuesday when the
chairman and DR.. Milton Fairchild
went to the Capitol.
The committee spent four hours
yesterday preparing a written re-
port. which will be filed with the
House committee which has been
conducting hearings on the bill car
rying District school appropriations.
WILL STRESS BUILDING.
The building program for District
schools will be stressed. the COM
mittee believing that the teachers
salary bill and the compulsory edu-
cation bill will take care of them
solves. 1t has been pointed out pre-
viously by the citizens committee
that legislation providing for a large
increase in the physical equ u.pment
of the system Is essential. and they
have cited numerous instances Of
''deplorable" overcrowding in a ma
jor ty of d strict schools.
The meeting yesterday was held In
the offices Of Classic. and was in ses-
sion from e to s p. m.
The committee will emphasize the
plan of making Washington schools
''demons'rat on" schools for the en-
tire naticn
DIR. Fairchild, member Of the
committee. has been particularly ac-
two in Hr'r~i-~ out this np'nt.
RAPS PRESENT SYSTEM.
The stand taken by tho COM
mittee on the portable building
and the double shift system has
been most emphatic. and II has
pledged itself to the proposition
of "A seat for every child. full
day instruction every day in the
school year" At previous meet
ings of tho committee. Mr.. Classic
asserted that the portables are
little better than pig-stys" and
absolutely unfit for human habi-
tation.'
The report. it is hoped, will be
in the hands of the chairman OF
the congr ssional committee some
time today.
The committee of five expressed
regret" yesterday, at its inability
to appear before the House sub
committee on appropriatSns and
II declared that although it would
be unable to get a verbal hearing.
the committee in some manner
would be heard. Members Of the
committee present were: Henry H.
Classic. Mrs. Giles Scott Rafter,
DIR. Milton Fairchild, and Dr..U. ].
Daniels
HEARINGS COMPLETED.
Establishing the record of the
shortest hearings on a District Of
Columbia appropriation bill in the
history of the city, the House sub
committee on District appropria-
tions yesterday completed formal
consideration Of the SIS, 900 900 city
budget after a session lasting only
four days.
All that remains for the commit
tee to do before submitting its re-
port to the committee on appro-
priations, Chairman Louis c. Cram
ton announced. is to make a trip
to inspect sites for repairs and
openings of streets. The commit
tee also will view several school
buildings and Fairgrounds.
While committee members would
not reveal whether they had raised
or lowered any Of the items passed
by the Budget Bureau. it was in
timated that in the main they re-
manned unchanged.
PLEASED WITH BILL.
Representative Madden, chairman
of the appropriations committee,
declared last night that the present
appropriation bill was more salts
factory to District officials than
any previous budget.
"I would like to impress upon
the people of Washington that the
men on this committee are school
men," Madden said. I'VE have not
denied any one his rights. We
have had the officials who are in
terested in the several departments
before the committee and have
gone thoroughly into each item.
OF course, we cannot please every
one, but I believe the District Of
ficials will concur in the statement