Evening star., 1929-12-19

one days debate" he added, "but we
haven't got the money, they tell us, to
make this the best school system in
the country"
Commissioner Doughery spoke briefly
about the size of the 1881 budget for
the District to show the steady in
crease in the estimates in the past few
years. The needs of the District are
growing rapidly and with them the
needs of the schools" he said.
Two Millions for New Houses.
Mr. Dougherty explained that in the
new budget there is provision for
S2,7l0,000 for new school buildings.
1T will mean in Chevy Chase that
you will have new eight-room builo-
site will be acquired for another ele-
mentary school, and expressed the
hope that the Broad Branch Schooi
and the Deal Junior High School in
the Reno district would be completed
without delay.
Mr.. Dougherty congratulated the new
schools committee for its success in OBJ
tanning needed appropriations for the
Chevy Chase district and declared the
to the Commissioners and other officials.
Looking to the future, DR.. Ballou Su-
perintendent of schools, said that the
new type of 16-room buildings could
readily be expanded to "a rooms and
that in due course of time these build
ingS can be enlarged to take care of in
creased school population.
THE school officials" he said, "are
confronted with the problem of getting
the schools away from the main arteries
of traffic, because Of the restricted use
of the city streets. 1t is increasingly i'm
portant that new schools should be
erected where there is less menace from
traffic"
Referring to the delay in the COM
plttion of the new Junior High School
at Reno, DR.. Ballou said no one was
to blame for it. That school, when oc-
cupied, would take the seventh and
eighth grade pupils away from the E.
V. Brown School.
He declared further that he was look
ing forward to building a school west
becomes acute again and expressed his
belief that the general outlook for the
schools was optimistic.
Building Program Explained.
Reviewing the work of the new schools
committee for Chevy Chase, Chairman
Moore said the building program ini-
tiated few years ago had accomplished
the securing of grand total of $l,205,-
52l in appropriations for Chevy Chase.
The program included $l85,000 for the
Ben w. Murch School; purchase of a
tract for the Deal Junior High and fur
ther land acquisition estimated to cost
SIPS, 900: 100000 already available for
the Deal building, with authorizations
for total expenditure of $500.000; pur-
chase of over IL acres for the school
and community center on Broad Branch
road at a cost of $l35,521 and an item
OF 100000 in the new budget for school
site west of Connecticut avenue.
THE brick school for Broad Branch
and the land west of Connecticut ave-
nue. must be included in the appropria-
ton bill as 1t paSses," Mr.. Moore said.
OvercrOwding Is Keynote.
I'VE hope that as result of this as
sembly that the high purposes of our
committee will be felt throughout the
entire District and that the often ex-
pressed ideal-a sea for every child in
a modern Schoolhouse-will be reached
in the near future in every section of
Washington. We believe that with the
continued support of these Government
officials, backed by the people of Chevy
Chase and all other school areas in the
city, these ideals will be attained"
Mr.. Lincoln, speaking en- behalf of the
committee, said that the keynote of the
whole school situation was "overcrowd-
ing" All complaints received about the
school system, he declared, could be
traced to that condition. More school
buildings sizes up the whole situation"
he said.
President Adelman, president Of the
Chevy Chase Citizens Association, well
coined the guests. They included Mrs.
Marian Wade Doyle of the Board of
Education; II. w. Draper, supervising
principal first division; Mrs. David
Meade Lea, president, board of lady
managers, Episcopal Home for Children:
Pyke Johnson, president Chevy Chase
Home and School Association; Mrs.
Leslie B. Wright. president Ben w.
Murch Home and School Association,
and w. A. Jump, president Broad
Branch Home and School Association.
Il find myself unable to believe that
the statements were made at the E. v.
Brown School as quoted in the morning
press" said Chairman Simmons of the
House subcommittee on District appro-
priations today. IF they we're, then
suggest that before further speeches are
made those who make them should
spend little time investigating the
school building situation in Washing
ton"