Evening star., 1928-12-31

The total estimated cost of the pro-
gram was $5,750,000. and the program
was designed so that merged with the
remaining items in the uncompleted
first building schedule it forms vir-
tually a $10,780,750 program.
New Child Labor Law.
The new child labor law probably
was the school systems chief COM
pleted contribution to the District dur
ing 1928. 1t was passed by Congress
and approved by President Coolidge
May 90, to become effective July L. In
brief, the law restricts the employment
of all minors for certain hours. No
boy between the ages of 18 and 81 years
may be employed as a messenger be-
tween midnight and am, while no
girl may perform such work between
7 pm. and am. The youngest at
which a child may work is 10 years,
but then only in the distribution of
newspapers on prescribed routes outside
of school hours. There are special re-
strictions and allowances for employed
boys and girls. between the two ex-
treme ages too numerous and now too
widely known to need repeating here.
building opening of 1923 was held in
connection with the new Mckinley
High School at Second and T streets
northeast. At the close of school last
June the entire student body of the
old Technical High School, at Seventh
street and Rhode Island avenue, march,
ed, band playing and banners waving,
to take possession of the then uncom-
pleted new building. A brief ceremony
was held in the dark auditorium of
the new school while workmen were
pushing their operations to make the
building ready for the opening of
school.
New CoIored High School.
The other senior high school which
figured prominently in school news dur
ing the past IL months was the Car
doza Business High School for colored
pupils. A strictly business high school
had not existed in divisions 1913 prior
to this year and the founding of such
an institution in the old M street High
School Building, vacated last Spring
by the Shaw Junior High School, which
then moved into the old Tech Build
ing, marked new era in the education
here of colored youth. The first student
body of the new school was the business
practice unit of the Dunbar High
School, and as that student body in
creases a new building will be provided
for the school, A site for the proposed
structure is included in the second five
year building program.
The Gordon Junior High School, at
Thirty-fifth and T streets; the Garnet
Patterson Junior High Cchool, at Tenth
and U streets, and the Frances Junior
~. nj Tr1yo 1fxy-
streets, also were opened as new build
ings during the past year The first
held it's initial classes october /, after
its student body had been organized in
neighboring elementary schools. The
Garnet-Patterson opened october is,
when scarcely completed, while the
Francis, opened the first of the present
year when the second semester was
begun, was dedicated March 20.
Having decided late in 1927 that lee
lures on the i'll effects of alcohol, given
in the schools by speakers for the
Women's Christian Temperance Union
to augment the regular course of in
Struct!on, would be prohibited in the
future on the grounds that prohibition
had become political and controversial
issue, the board was called upon early
this year to reaffirm its stand. Later
the W. G. r. u. sought to have re-
consideration of the boards decision
and in June actually submitted leaflets
which it planned to distribute in the
schools, to the school authorities for
their approval. The approval was re-
fused
Ninteen hundred and twenty-eight
witnessed the appointment of two new
members of the Board of Education.
Mrs. Philip Sidney Smith was made a
member to fill the vacancy created by
the resignation of Mrs. Lillian Y. Her.
ron because of ill health. Mrs. Smith
will serve until June 80, 1880. The
second new member was Mrs. Henry
Grafton Doyle, who succeeded Mrs. |
Howard l.. Hodgkins.