Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-20
ASKS CITIZEN UNITS
TO GET TOGETHER
Or. Devine Urges Co-opera-
ton and Standardization in
Promotion of D. C. Welfare.

| Closer co-opera ton between citizens
| associa tons and the city's welfare
| organizations was suggested last
night by DIR. Edward r. Devine. dean
! of the Graduate School and professor
! of social economy Of the American
| University, in an address before the
| Lincoln Park Citizens Association in
the Bryan School. DR.. Devine told
of study of all the local citizens
bodies which he and IS of his stu
dents at the university are making
at the request of the American SO.
Geological Society and the American
/ Association of Community Centers.
which win meet jointly here during
the Christmas holidays.
Questionnaires have been sent to
all of the citizens associations and
the replies are being examined, eX-
planned DR.. Devine, upon which a
report will be based to be submitted
to the two national organizations
when they meet here next week. He
said this report would deal with the
uniqu situation of tn District, which
is without the right of suffrage, and
also might embody suggestions for
the standardization Of the work of
the various citizens bodies in &C.
cordance with the best practices Of
ALL
Gives Praise 10 Red Cross.
Joseph l.. Gammell, president Of
the Lincoln Park Association. praised
the work OF the Red Cross in coming
TO the relief of the people in the
Northeast and Southeast whose homes
were wrecked by the tornado last
month.
Upon recommends ton OF Harold e..
Warner, chairman of the committee
on education. the association voted 10
urge upon the Board of Education the
erection of new junior high school
in the vicinity of the kingsman School
at Fourteenth and f. streets northeast
the acquisition of site and building
OF a new school east of Fifteenth
street and south Of East Capitol street.
so that small children of that section
would not have to walk the long dis
lance to the Bryan School: purchase
of a site for an assembly hall annex
to the Buchanan School and site for
an assembly hall and gymnasium for
the Tyler School; acquisition of two
triangles on both sides of South Caro-
lima avenue between Twelfth and
Thirteenth streets southeast for a vo-
cational school, and the need of addi-
tional accommodations for the Hine
streets southeast, which is over
crowded.
Mr. Warner proposed that plans be
made for an addition to the Hine
Junior High School to connect it with
the Towers School on the same square,
and for the remodeIing Of the latter
school.
Hits Garbage Dumps.
W. II. Lines, representing the Hill
Crest Citizens Association, was pres
emit and pledged the cooperation of
that body with other citizens 0rgani-
cations in the eastern part of the Dis
trict in their effort to have the gar
bage dumps near the Anacostia River
abolished.
President Gammell announced that
the associations welfare committee
would be organized especially for the
purpose of cooperation with welfare
organizations and also to aid in obtain
ing employment for persons in the
eastern part of the city who are out of
work.
The association voted Endorsement of
the proposal of Senator Arthur Cap
per of Kansas, chairman of the Senate
committee on the District of Column