Evening star., 1928-10-17
c. Of c. ENDORSES
SCHOOL PROGRAM
Five-Year Building Schedule,
to Begin in 1880, Backed
by Organization.

Approval of the plan CT the Board Of
Education for the submission to the
next session of Congress of bill pro-
viding for a supplementary five-year
school building program, to begin in
1890, at the conclusion of the present
authorized program, was voted unani-
mously by the Washington Chamber of
Commerce at its first Fall meeting last
night at the Willard Hotel.
resolution TO this effect, presented
by Charles II. LeFevre, chairman CT the
public school committee, declares that
the members of the chamber are COM
mitted to the principle that "our public
school system should afford seat for
every school child in a well built and
we'll taught public school," and that
they indorse 1.-The principle of supple
mentary five-year school building pro-
gram, to be provided for by an act OF
Congress, which will make possible the
realization of this aim"
The action of the chamber also urges
citizens Of the District to give their
full support to the plan for a supple
mentary building program, so that the
local school system may be placed on
par with the public school systems
Of other large American cities"
While urging that adequate appro-
priations prior to 1880 for existing
needs of the schools, the chamber did
not take up the question as to the ad-
ministrative method for handling the
school budget, nor enter into the con-
troversy between the School Board and
the District Commissioners in this re-
gard.
Below Other Cities.
Mr.. LeFevre made the point that the
District is not allotting as much of its
total budget for public schools as other
cities IN the same class He quoted
census reports, showing that the average
expenditures for public schools in 247
cities in 1925 was 37.6 per cent OF their
respective bud Tets, Cities of the sec
ond class, to which Washington be-
longed in 1925, there was an average
of 346 per cent of the total budgets,
whereas in Washington in 1925 the
school budget amounted to but 800
per cent of the total.
washington since the time has
passed the one-half-million mark in
population, and now is a city of the
first class, and its provisions for public
school needs should be raised rather
than lowered" he said.
The chamber also approved the pro-
posal for the establishment of hos
pital school for crippled children, to
be centrally located, having two physi-
otherapists in attendance, and for the
development of a plan for the estab-
liShment of convalescent home for
the crippled pupils adjacent to Gal
linger Hospital.
The proposals were made in letter
from Radford Moses, president of the
Kiwanis Club, which has been inter-
eSted in the care of crippled children,
and were urged by G. Manson Foote.
Back Community Chest.
The community chest plan for the
financing of local charities, now being
organized. was indorsed on recon-
mendation by the charities committee,
NJ o. Chance chairman.
Establishment of air mail and trans
portation connections between Wash
ington and the West through Pitts
burgh was urged in adoption Of re-
port by Jerome Fanciulli of the ayia-
tion committee.
Frederic j. Haskin, an honor guest,
spoke on 1.-THE Story of Washington, -
telling of the work of his information
service in advertising Washington ma
tionally. Rev. w. Coleman Nevis, the
new president of GEORGETOWN University,
was presented to the chamber.
Ivan c. Weld. chamber president,
who recently returned from a three
month tour of Germany as member
of an unofficial commission which
studied agriculture, industrial and
financial conditions of that country,
told of his work with the mission.