Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-21

subcommittee that there are at present
166 first and second grade classes on
part time. With an average of IS pupils
to class, he computed, $50 Wash
| ington children are receiving less than
the full quota of instruction.
Mr.. Casey demanded to know how
| that situation can be corrected, and
i Haycock told him that the five-year
school building program was designed
! to do away with part-time classes By
1880 and that delays in that program
meant delays in relievingsthe part-time
situation.
Explains Part Time.
M. Casey wanted to know if the full
appropriation called for in the bill
under consideration would relieve in
full the part-time class situation. Mr..
Haycock said it would not, because
some of the items of construction still
remain of our five-year program
beyond the estimate of this year now
in the bill"
You speak of estimates" Mr.. Casey
said; lis this the estimate you originally
asked for or the estimate presented by
the budget?" Haycock told him it was
the Budget Bureaus estimate, and ex-
planned that it was about $l000,000
less than that originally presented by
the school board. Mr. Casey then
wanted to know if the school boards
original estimates had been granted
would the appropriation have been
large enough to obliterate part-time
classes. Haycock said it would not
DR.. Ballou explained that only the
completion of the five-year building
program and the resultant appropria-
ton of $3,500,000 would have ended
part-time classes
Asked If there was any reason why
the school authorities did not ask for
sufficient money to end the part-time
condition, Mr.. Kramer answered that
I'VE have budgetry limitations" adding
that the board originally sought ap-
preparations between $13,000,000 and
$14,000,000
Budget Estimates.
DR.. Carusi then explained the meth
DDS and steps by which the school
boards original estimates were pruned
in the following statement, containing
figures quoted from memory:
Last Spring the Board of Education
prepared estimates for approximately
Sl5,000,000. About $10,00O,O00 was for
the expense of public schools. and
S5,000,000 was for what We considered
to be urgent building needs At a con-
ference with the District Commission
erS, where the tax rate and other mat
tiers were discussed, I agreed on behalf
of the board that we would cut our
estimate down to $4,000, 900, and that
we would submit a formal estimate
from the Board Of Education this year
for $13,000000 instead of $15,000,000.
That was done Then, when the esti-
mates were forwarded to the Bureau
Of the Budget, the commissioners in
transmitting the estimate sent $4,000
900. In other words, they cut 81 900 900
off our reduced amount of $13,000.000
and put that $l,000,000 in what they
called supplemental estimate So that
our estimates, when they finally reached
the Bureau of the Budget were for
$l2,000,000, when we had originally
submitted $15,000,000.
THE Budget allowed us a total of
approximately $12,00000 1t is true
that they took some items to make up
that $12,000,000 out of the supplemental
estimates that the commissioners had
prepared and sent to them. and on
the other hand left some items of cor
responding amounts out Of the regular
estimates"
Carusi later corrected himself, de-
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he should have said $l4,000,00O.
Child Labor inspectors.
The question of child labor law in
spectors occupied but little time of the
hearings and was dispatched in a quick
interchange of questions and answers
by DR.. Ballou and Mr.. Simmons. Dr.
Ballou told the subcommittee, in re-
Spouse to the chairman'S queries, that
in May, 1928, there were 18 employees
in the department of school attendance
and work permits and that no addi-
tons were made to the staff for the
school year of 1929. although the new
child labor law, specifically requiring
two inspectors. now actually is in effect |
Explaining the need of the inspectors,
DR.. Ballou said: Several years ago,
the superintendent of police withdrew
two policemen formerly assigned to SUI
perviSe the enforcement of the child
labor law Since that time there has
been no systematic inspection of vari-
Gus establishments employing young
people. This request for two child-la-
Dor Inspectors, who may also work in
terchangeably in school attendance
work and census enumeration, is to re-
place the Two policemen and to make
suitable provision for the enforcement
of the child labor law.
'The report of the Bureau of Eff
cheney recommends this additional per-
sonnet Moreover the law itself Spe-
officially provides that the Board of
Education shall appoint at least two
child-labor law inspectors"
In the matter of the new Business
High School and the proviso which the
Bureau of the Budget attached to the
item for the beginning of its construc-
ton, that the funds be appropriated only