Evening star., 1929-12-15
CITIZENS TO MEET
TO ADD IMPETUS IN
SCHOOL MOVEMENT
Kidding City of 0verCroWding
in Portable Buildings is
Gatherings Purpose.
CONFERENCE is PLANNED
TO FURNISH INFORMATION
Definite Program Is Urged to Meet
Growth of Pupil
Population.

A citizens mass meeting to give i'm
petus to the movement for more ade-
ouate facilities for the public schools of
| Washington, where many sections sun
suffer from overcroWding in portlble
buildings and "stagger" school hours, will
o'clock in the auditorium of the E.
| v. Brown School, Connecticut avenue
and Mckinley street.
| Sponsored by the new schools COM
mittce of the Chevy Chase Citizens AS
sociation. the meeting was called for the
purpose of serving as clearing house
| of information as to the imperative
needs of the school system as whole,
rather than any individual section.
with this in view, the committee yes
! terday issued an open invitation to all
sections of the city interested in the
proper development of the schools and
| the alienation of congeSted conditions
! to send representatives to the rally.
| Representative M Clyde Kelly of
| PENNSYLVANIA. a stanch friend of the
public schools, will preside. The earnest
| ness of the movement is indicated by
| the large number of special guests VINO
will attend. including Commissioner
| Proctor l.. Dougherty members OF Con-
gress and DR.. Frank w Ballou, superin-
! tendent of schools. Right Rev. James
E. Freeman Bishop of washington also
! has given his support to the movement
and will attend in his capacity as chair
man of the board of incorporators OF
the new Episcopal Home for Children
Will Discuss Budget.
From these officials and others in the
schools and affiliated associations the
situation confronting Congress in the
1881 school budget will be discussed
from a dozen different viewpoints.
Overshadowing all other problems
Immediately affecting and handicapping
the school system. in the opinion OF the
Chevy Chase committee, Is the need OF
building program for the future that
will be commensurate with the steady
and sometimes rapid growth of school
populations in suburban districts. Rea-
sons for shortcomings of the five-year
school problem and methods to present
convincing facts before Congress also
will be given special attention at the
meeting.
Additional guests and speakers, in
dicating the wide range of discussions,
include Senator Gerald P. Nye of North
Dakota and Senator Burton K. Wheeler
of Montana. Senator Nye is particularly
sympathetic with the desire to do away
with the old portable buildings which
continue as one of the chief bones of
contention in the whole school problem.
In addition to Supt. Ballou, the view
point of school officials will be pre-
sented by Mrs. Marian Wade Doyle,
member of the Board of Education, and
H. w. Draper, supervising principal,
first division Miss M. E. Given, prin-
cipal of the E. v. Brown School, will
present conditions in that still over
crowded school.
Others to Speak.
Others who will attend and speak in
the interests of parents and associa-
tions affiliated with the schools and
working in their behalf are: Mrs. r.
Harvey Sargent, president of the
Women's Club of Chevy Chase; Mrs
David Meade Lea, president, board OF
lady managers of the Episcopal Home
for Children; Mrs. Pyke johnson, presi-
dent of the Chevy Chase Home and
School Association w. A. Jump, preSi-
dent of the Broad Branch Home and
| School Association, and Arthur Adel-
man, president of the Citizens Associa-
ton of Chevy Chase. Miss Given of
the E. v. Brown School will act as
hostess.
The new schools committee of the
Chevy Chase organization, which is
sponsoring the mass meeting, consists
of ]. Francis Moore, chairman; S. Won
Ammon, secretary-t Atwood M.
Fisher Alfred T. Gage, DR.. Manly
Michaels and Fred S. Lincoln.
During the past three years the
Chevy Chase committee has conducted
q highly successful campaign to better
school conditions in that widely popu-
| lous area and has co-operated with other
subsectionS in obtaining necessary new
| buildings. Despite all efforts, however
the pine obsolete portables to take care
| of the overflow from the crowded E. V.
Brown School are still in use.
| While commencing the 1881 budget
as one of the most generous ever al
| lowed by the Budget Bureau in its
| history and a great improvement in
other respects over last years, the COM
| mittee feels that much remains to be
| done before conditions in Washington
| schools approach the ideal sought for
| the National Capital. One of the out
standing needs, it was emphasized, is
| to supply the municipal architects
office with the necessary funds to en-
| ploy adequate personnel to rush to
| completion buildings already authorized.
Budget Satisfactory.
So far as Chevy Chase is concerned
the new budget was declared to be salts
| factory. in that it provides about all that
could be expected from Congress. 1t
| contains a recommendation for 5000, 900
IN construct a brick school building on
the Broad Branch road site authorized
last wear and now being acquired
through condemnation proceedings.
Another item of 100000 is provided for
a school site in an area west OF Con-
necticut avenue.
The opening of the new Ben w.
MIrch School on Grant road early in
FEBRUARY will do much to relieve condi-
/ tions in the E. v. Brown School, and
that section is fortunate also IN pros
poets for the Alice Deal Junior Hlgh
School. now in course OF erection IN tne
Reno district. When completed TINS VIII
relieve all elementary schools OF seventh
and eighth grade pupils.
! The new schools committee OF CheVE
! Chase feels that its success IN acqulr-
ing NEEDED improvements can be dupil-
! Gated by other sections where conditlohS
! are acute. and ways and means 10 prlhg
| this about will be considered at Weones-
days mass meeting. The commlttee
was said to believe that Congress would
be literally inclined to sections Where
relief is imperative, once all the Iacts
and circumstances are laid before those
! in charge of the school program.
1T is the duty of citizens not onIy III
Chevy Chase but throughout WaShlng-
-. Il l.