Evening star., 1923-01-12
PLEA TO PRESIDENT
| FOR D. c. SCHOOLS
Civic Bodies Will Urge Mes
sage to Congress Stating
{ Present Situation.
COMMITTEE APPOINTED
Hearing Before Senator'S Will Be
Requested-Would Restore
Items in Bill.
COMMITTEE APPOINTED

Instructions to arrange for an ap-
peal to President Harding TO recon-
mend, in a message to Congress. a
special consideration of the school
needs of the District of Columbia
were given by representatives OF the
civic bodies of the District TO the
permanent citizens central commit
tee on school appropriations, an or
ganization formed last night by those
who attended the school conference
at the Franklin School, 18th and X
streets northwest.
The new committee was formed as
the result of a resolution proposed by
Or. Milton Fairchild and adopted by
those present at the meeting. The
committee will consist of seventy
nine members, one from each of the
civic organizations in the District,
and it's duties will be to assist the
board of education in seeing to lib
eral school appropriations for next
year
The representatives of the citizens
welfare organizations and parent
teachers associations at the meeting
declared their intention to request, as
4 body, that the subcommittee on
District of Columbia appropriations
of the Senate appropriations COM
IllIIeG grant IL nearing ~ the ClllLcIlS
committee of five which was refused
that body by the subcommittee in
the House. The citizens committee
of five intends, if the oral hearing is
granted, to present to the Senate sub
committee the matter expressed in
two resolutions adopted last night
Gist of Resolutions.
One resolution requests Congress in
the name of the children of the Dis
sentative civic organizations of the
city and in the recognition of the
right of the children to have a good
education, that all the items originally
recommended by the board of educaL
tlon and by the parents of the chill
dren be duly restored and included in
the District of Columbia appropria-
tions for this year.
The other resolution petitions Con-
sreSs with special earnestness" TO
restore and include in the school ap-
preparations for this year the full list
of items stricken from the House an
preparation bill relative 10 the public
schools of the District of Columbia
Henry H. Classic, chairman of the
citizens committee of five, made a
report of the work of the committee
since its organization on December D
He told of the refusal of the House
subcommittee of the appropriations
committee to allow the citizens com
iHlIISS INC IiSHl oL an oral nearing
and of their offer to receive a written
plea.
Mr.. Classic deplored the whole sys-
tenn which makes the District of
Columbia dependent upon Congress
iST its finances and declared that it
was Shame that municipal appro-
priattons should have to be submitted
TO the national Congress. which must
consider things in "A national light
and not local light. In speaking
of the bureau of the budget Mr.
Classic quoted Representative Walton
Moore, and said:
Il think 1t is perfectly incongruous
to place the bureau of the budget
made up of officers from outside of
the District, in charge of the business
of making and submitting to Con-
Sress estimates for municipal mat
ters. | think these estimates ought
to be made up and submitted Just as