Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-24

the wiring would be done If and wher
funds were secured.
Il am, of course, unable to say who
gave the newspapers the information
upon which they based their statements
1t appears that they received it from
some one in authority in the schoo
building, and as result have conveyed
an erroneous view to the public OF
| Washington.
Il am unable to understand why the
school authorities persist in propagatinc
the impression in Washington that they
desire to do certain things, such as
equip portables with lights, but are un-
able to do so because of lack of appro-
| priationS.
For the fiscal years 1926 to 1880, in
elusive, there has been appropriated for
repairs and improvements to buildings
and grounds $2,529610. This money is
available for the installation of electric
lighting in school buildings. It is not
necessary to borrow from the repair
fund for that purpose-the appropria-
ton is made for that purpose During
the fiscal years 1926 to 1929 1928, O43
was spent from that fund for electrical
work in public school buildings.
Congress Added $4,000.
When the hearings were held on the
1925 b1D you testified that the installa-
ton of electricity for artificial light
ing purposes must likewise be paid out
OF the repair and improvement funds.
That year, Congress increased the bud
get estimates for repairs and improve
ments $4,000.
In the hearings on the 1927 bill
you testified that 10 per cent of this
fund was set aside for emergencies and
that the balance was allotted in the
following order of Importance: %
elimination OF fire hazards; (2) health,
including such items as lighting, heat
items.
Again in the hearing on the 1927
Dill you stated that the program this
year contemplated putting electric
lights In every one of our buildings that
remained unlighted by electricity. So
That item will be taken care of. A
great deal OF attention has been given
In the last few years to that particular
need' and we have adopted a program
tN tne past two or three years, which,
II carried out this year without any nm
forseen demand on the amount of
money available for this purpose, will
De completed so that all the BUILDINGS
Will be lighted with electricity.'
again IN 1927, Congress increased the
appropriation for repairs and Improve.
menC 10000 over the estimate of the
Bureau of the Budget. ''-e
AGAIN on the 1923 bill, Mr. Kramer
teStlned, as you did in 1927, as to the
a!ocatIoh OF funds within the appro-
priationS.
UnSpent Balance Sufficient.
Certainly, when we increased vour
appropriation in 1927 by SIS. 900. we
nad right to expect that what Won
testlfled would be done with that money
would be carried out before the Winter
OF 1879. For the fiscal years 1929 IN
1851 tnere was allowed to lapse an I'M
expended balance in the repairs and
fund of 1881. This fund
Is suInclent 70 have electrified rs of the
without curtailing any other exnendie
ture that was made.
The repair shop advises me that the
cost VIII be about $125 per portable
SO That the total cost of this installa.
SIS, 5000. '0OO anu
In view Of the testimony of vonr.
self and Mr.. Kramer that In the sx.
pendltureS from the repair and i'm.
provement fund that health, INCLUDING
lighting, were second in Importance
only to the elimination of fire hazards:
In view OF the fact that Congress has |
appropriated for that purpose $3.50 600 |
more than recommended by the Blu |
reau OF the Budget in the last five |
years. in view of the fact that there
has been available a total in five wears
OF $2,529.6l0, 1t would appear that |
the portables could have and should
have been electrified. WIZ, then, has
Il not been done?"