Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-17
PARENT TEACHER
CONGRESS MEETS
Association Urges Land De-
veIopers to Set Aside
Playground Plots.

A resolution urging real estate COM
panies to set aside adequate land for
Fairgrounds and parks in proportion to
every square foot of land laid out in
new building lots was passed by the
District of Columbia Congress of Par
Teacher Associations at its annual
State convention yesterday afternoon at
the Burlington Hotel.
A CODY of this resolution will be for
warded to the Washington Real Estate
Board and the Public Parks and Play
grounds Commission for consideration.
The association went on record as
favoring a reasonable code OF social
ethics for teachers and parents, both in
the schools and in home life, for proper
influence of child students, and reso-
luton also was passed upholding the
standards of the home. The resolution
stated that the homes should come be-
fore any social, educational or welfare
association. Proper care of children in
the homes was stressed particularly.
This resolution will be the main sub
iect for discussion at the annual con-
vention OF the national congress, to be
held here May 4 to II.
A resolution asking the Board of
Education to consider some plan for
relieving elementary school teaching
principals of some of their routine
clerical duties, to enable them to give
more time to their schools and specific
communities was passed by the associa-
ton. All four resolutions passed will be
referred to the national congress.
Chairmen Make Reports.
Reports were made by the various
State chairmen, the most important OF
which was the report made by Mrs. r.
T. Wyche, chairman of the thrift COM
mittee Mrs. Wyche discussed thrift
work accomplished by the students, and
described the small deposit boxes which
have been established in the various
schools throughout the country. In her
report Mrs. Wyche said that there were
IL local banks holding money saved by
the pupils using the small school bank
method. She declared that in the So
schools here having the small deposit
boxes students have saved total of
$50. 64419.
Mrs. W~che explained the immediate
need of teaching the smaller children
in the elementary schools methods OF
saving money and the benefits to be de-
rived. Mrs. Wyche declared they also
should be warned against the destruc-
ton of flowers, trees and plants.
More than 800 delegates are expected
to arrive here to attend the national
convention, which held its last session
here in 1921. Reports on various phases
of work of the local congress. embrac-
ing welfare activities i'll the home,
schools. church and community, will be
taken up at the national convention.
Congress Subjects.
A number of we'll known sneakers are
scheduled to talk at the national con-
gress They will point out the practical
reforms affecting the organization, such
as improvement of juvenile court proce-
dure, establishment of more adequate
Fairgrounds and gymnasiums for school
children, enactment of domestic welfare
legislation and improvement of general
school facilities.
The District congress was organized
in 1905 with % charter members, and
now represents 80 parent-teacher asSo-
Citations.
Three supervising principals attended
the luncheon meeting which opened the
session yesterday. They were Miss
Janet McWilliams, Miss Adelaide Davis
and Henry Draper. Principals of junior
high schools present we're H. E. Warner,
Hine; Chester W. Holmes, Langley: H.
P. Stafford, Mcfarland, and Mrs.
Agnes l. Kinnear, Columbia. Elemen-
tary school principals present were Miss
Florence Mortimer, Miss Blanche Faw-
cett, Miss Louise Duganne, Miss A. L.
Galesky. Miss Susan r. Craighill, Miss
Gertrude Young, Mrs M F. Gore, Mrs:
Marguerite Conway, Miss H. NJ. Knigh-
ton, Miss A. M. Clayton and Miss Mary
Draney.