The Washington times., 1925-01-29

| gained IN W0l&uG IOllOWAA6 aH~
auguration of hot lunches for
the pupils. No gain in weight
was made by 81 per cent of
these pupils while 6 per cent
sustained abnormal losses and
4 per cent made abnormal gains
In weight.
The hot school lunch usually
consists of one warm dish-a
vegetable, milk soup, creamed
eggs, or something similar-a11d
the cold lunch carried from
home by the rupil.
Schools in all parts Of Ohio
now serve hot lunches to the
pupils.
! the failure to act has been laid at
| the door OF Congress.
at is true that the appropriation
| is made for general purposes and
| that the law requires that such APP
preparations be so apportiohed az to
| preclude the need for deficiency or
additional appropriations, but the
| law also provides that such appor-
tionments may be waived or gIdodi-
fled upon the happening of some
extraordinary emergency or unusual
circumstance which could not be
anticipated at the time of making
such apportionment.
"For handling light SHOWS the
regular appropriation ID adequate.
Heavy SHOWS are the exception and
not the rule iii Washington and
when they occur they unquestion-
ably are an extraordinary e1I1er-
gency' or an unusual circumstances
within the meaning of the law suf-
ficient to permit the waving OF the
apportionment and the assumption
OF sufficient initiative on the part
or those in authority to permit the
expenditure of such reasonable sums
as they might deem justified in
clearing the main arteries OF traffic
and later if need be to present the
case TO Congress az a legaIlEed de-
! ficiency."
Public Schools.
The committee disfnisses the pub.
lie schools with the following general
statement in the report, although the
heaviest reduction in the bin has
been made in the school items:
For all school purposes the an.
preparations proposed total So, 130,517
propriated for the current fiscal
year, and s54,754 less than the
budget estimates
The amount recommended by
school officials to the Budget Blu
! reau as absolutely essential for the
coming year is understood to have
been more than $4,000, 200.
For the pay of school officers, at
i tendance officers, teachers and IL
brarians the sum proposed by the
] committee exceeds the current ap-
preparations by $404, $50. OF this
amount $500 is for the pay of
| three additional administrative prin-
cipals, $3.50, 400 is for the pay of
| eighty-six additional teachers, in.
Guiding twenty-four substitute teach.
ers, and the remainder, 1892, $50, IL
to provide for longevity increases.
The bill provides for employment
OF 2,79O administrative and super.
| visory officers, teachers and II.
brarians, az against 2,710 provided
for in the current law. The COM
| mittee failed to provide for di-
rector for the department of school
| attendance and work permits,
though this position is authorized
by law.
New POSlClOnS CFDatcas
Seven additional positions are
created at the school headquarters
in the Franklin school at salaries
totaling $500.
For the janitorial force in the
schools. the committee recommends
an increase of s35,324, of which
| $12, 48O is for the pay OF eleven new
| positions.
The committee reduced the bud
| get item for fuel for schools by
/ $50 900. transferring this amount
| to the appropriation for repairs and
| improvements to school buildings
! to which another SIS, 900 has been
added, bringing the repair fund &c
$3.50 900, as against 5000, 900 Tor the
| current year and $375,0OO recon
| mended by the budget bureau.
1.-THE committee is impressed tha
there is an Immediate need for i'm
nroyed heating and lighting facili
Ties In many of the school build
ings and is proposing that the ap
Droprfation shall be available Inn
mediately," the report states.
&l,19B,OOO For Construction.
The budget estimates include H.,
500 900 70. school buildings and
| grounds. of which $4,000 is foI
land, $1,1s5,0oO for new buildings
and $4,000 for enlarging the heat
ing plant at Armstrong Technical
High School. All but 100000 OF tins
amount provides seats for 1851
additional pupils.
The committee included In the
bill all of the budget items fol
schools. They recommended ap
preparation Of $475 900 proposed foI
q. new junior high school at Fourth
and E streets northeast, however
was reduced to $4,000 by the com
rnittee to commence the construc
ton.
The amount thus saved is pro
posed by the committee to be APP
piled to the purchase OF the site
for a new school near Rhode Is
land and South Dakota avenues
northeast, at $25,000 and for con
struction of an eight room building
on the site at Fifth and Sheridan
streets northwest, 9140. 900.
THE bill makes a big step towart
meeting the school needs" the com
mittee reports, but admittedly fall,
short Of the program advocated by
the Board OF Education with respec
to elementary schools, which calls
for ninety class rooms to be openet
each year for a period Of five years
having in view the elimination o.
all portables, undesirable rooms, o.
buildings and over size and part-timC