Evening star., 1923-09-02
MT. RAINIER FIGHTS
NEW SCHOOL PLANS.
Citizens Oppose Long Dis
tance Which Younger Pu-
pills Must Travel.
Special Dispatch to The Star.


MOUNT RAINIER. Md. September
1.-The regular monthly meeting OF
the citizens association was one of
the most momentous in it's history.
Besides being the meeting at which
officers for the ensuing year were
nominated, other vital issues were
considered. 1t developed in the report
of the school committee that the
county school board had decided to
adopt a new plan to be instituted
when the new school in Mount Rainier
is opened. The plan is to segregate
the larger children of Mount Rainier.
Brentwood and Cottage City In the
new building in Mount Rainier, while
the younger children of the several
communities will be compelled to go
to the Brentwood School. A junior
high school will be inaugurated in
the Mount Rainier School.
Sentiment Opposed.
A pronounced sentiment has de-
veloped over this plan. many citizens
of the town contending it is entirely
wrong to expect the little ones to
walk the greater distances through
the winter months. The school board
has been petitioned to change the
plan that the smaller children OF
Mount Rainier can attend the school
nearest their home. The sentiment as
expressed by the signatories Of the
petition seems to be overwhelming.
but several refusing to sign it out of
a couple hundred homes visited. Ac-
tive members of the association are
questioning the right of the school
committee of that organization to en-
ter into any such plan without frst
conferring with the sociation that
empowered them. The committee con-
tends that IL the people of the town
understood the proposition there
would be but little opposition. The
school authorities say they tried to
expressed by members of the associa :
tion's school committee and those Of
ficers seen in the matter.
A motion offered by a dissenting
member Of the school committee
passed without dissenting vote in
citation has ever had. asking the
school board to change the plan for
the local school so that it will include
as many grades as possible. starting
with the first grade. The chairman OF
the committee has presented this mo-
ton to the board, but as yet no change
in the above plan has been announced.
Sanitary CommissiOn Censured.
A motion passed censuring the
Washington Suburban Sanitary Com
mission for the dilatory- tactics used
by it in remedying the defects of the
local water plant, putting the asso-
citation squareiy behind, the mayor
and council in their demand on the
that something definite
be done to insure -ths, town of Mount
Rainier the use of the spring water
agreed upon when the commission
took over the towns water system.
Although the postal committee ad-
vised against any action on the mat
ter at this time, the association in
structed them to endeavor in every
way to have the postal system of the
town declared a branch Of the Wash
ington Office. The town is now en-
joying the most up-to-date service
it has ever had. ono hearing no COM
plants in any quarter. and 1t was
the expressed opinion of the leaders
of the movement that 50 recently Sc
cured the free delivery service that
for the time being the association
had better let well enough alone.
A canvass of the town was author
lied by the association to ascertain
the disposition of the citizens on the
matter of financing a children's play
ground and establishing a fund for
the volunteer fire department by re-
viving the annual carnival. which
was dispensed with last year after
considerable campaigning had been