Evening star., 1924-02-20
URGES 5-yEAR PLAN
NScHOOLB building
PetWorth Association Favors
!, Proposal Made by Senator
Capper's Committee.

! A resolution urging that the Fed
Grafton Of Citizens Associations CON
slider the wisdom of taking up with
the Board of Education the matter
OF preparing for introduction to Con
Sress" bill based on the Capper
committee report on a five-year
building program for schools, was
adopted by the Petworth Citizens As
Sociation at meeting last night in
the Petworth School.
schools committee introduced the
proposal, explaining that for major
school building operations one year
was insufficient time to complete a
preparations would run out at the end
of the fiscal period, whereas under
) tho five-year building program the
\ school improvements could be ar
Z ranged in a manner similar to that
/. Followed out in river and harbor
: work.
II. Reports on Legislation.
The association approved a number
of reports. introduced by w. L. Cute
Illus. chairman of the legislative COM
mittee, on separate pieces of 1egiSla-
tion. Among these were the blue
sky bill, for regulation of stock
SaleSmen: the Norris Zihlman bill for
the utilization of Great Falls in gen
Grating electricity, and Il bill for the
OptTlnS ol d lulIOT street nOGln OF
Florida avenue between 9th street
and Georgia avenue on a line of V
street or thereaboutS, so that street
car traffic of the Washington Railway
and Electric could be moved there
J from Florida avenue. In the last in
stance the organization reaffirmed a
proposal previously made.
a Attempt to gain approval for the
House resolution which would change
the method of capital punishment in
the District from hanging to electro
cution resulted in a debate. The mat
ter was finally laid on the table.
Mr.. Taden introduced a resolution
on the Reed teachers salary bill,
pointing out that a second bill. intro
duccd by Representative Keller of
Minnesota, had neither the approval
of the District Commissioners nor of
the bureau of the budget. He en-
phasized the need of taking definite
stand on one of these measures. AL
though the Keller bill. he said, con-
tained salary schedules in most in
stances some hundreds of dollars in
advance of the Reed measure he felt
that the latter had the only chance
of passing, and if that failed he ex-
pressed the fear that salary increases
for school teachers would have to
await Il new Congress.
As 4 result, the organization adopt ed
q resolution favoring the Reed bill
y high school teachers a salary range
of from $1,S00 to S2.S00 be substituted
for the one coptained in the bill,
which makes $500 the maximum.
with the same minimum figure, and
that for grade 3 high school teachers
the range be from $4,000 to $4,000, in
stead of from s2,70O to $4,000. as con-
tanned in the bill. The proviso was
inserted, it was pointed out, because
teachers of this grade. under the new
hill, receive very little increase in
salary, If any at all.
:. The public utilities committee of the
association was instructed to protest
a raise in bus rates from S cents to
30 cents at the public hearing to be
held in the District building next
week, and that the Public Utilities
Commission was to be informed that
the association is opposed to any in
crease unless it was shown to be alb
Solutely imperative. The organization
expressed confidence that the Utilities
Commission would do all possible to
safeguard the interests of the public
President 7. 5. Tichner presided