Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-16
D. C. SCHOOLS FACE HARDSHIPS
IF APPROPRIATION BILL FAILS
Without Specific Legislation, New Build
ings May Stand Idle, Lacking Furniture
and Equipment for Glass Work.

Severe hardships are in store for the
District public school system II Con-
gress, unable to pass the pending appro-
priation bill for the District, enacts a
continuing resolution" which does not
carry specific legislation providing funds
for certain sorely needed items in the
school system, 1t was demonstrated in
survey Of the situation today.
Without specific legislation, new
buildings would stand idle and useless
for lack Of furniture and equipment.
High school children would be obliged
to buy textbooks and supplies for an
other year. Schools now under con-
struction might be abandoned tempo
rarily If the funds remaining from ini-
tial appropriations are exhausted.
New school buildings, designed large
ly to eliminate many of the Districts
portable schools, would not be started,
and sites for buildings proposed in the
future would remain unbought, while
prices increased and their availability
recedes before the increasing private
building program which gradually re-
uuCeS the area ~ open lana.
Schools Affected Named.
The schools which remain idle follow
ing their completion this Summer In
clude the Eliot Junior High School, at
Seventeenth and street northeast, the
furniture and equipment of which is
estimated to cost $42,70
The Park View twin additions also
would be useless when completed for
lack of the $l2,400 worth of furniture,
scheduled for them in the pending bill.
Similarly the Buchanan four-room and
gymnash addition, to be furnished at
cost of $1,000, and the Eaton assembly
gymnasium, to be equipped at cost
of $4,000, would be empty when COM
pleted, unless specifically provided for
in a continuing resolution. These fur
niture and equipment items, which
would be lost If the current bill fails Of
enactment, total $65, 900, and the money
would remain available until June 80,
1882.
Senate Held Item Important.
So important did the Senate regard
the free high school text book and
supply item that when 1t approved the
appropriation bill it asserted the $240,-
900 would be available Immediately. "
In other words, contracts could be let
for the delivery Of the books and sup
plies on the day President Hoover would
have signed the bill AS 1t Is now, how
ever, 1t is possible that the item will be
lost entirely and that parents will be
obliged to dig in their pockets for
another years supply of books, paper,
pencils, drawing instruments, chemicals
and the sundry articles used by high
school students in the various courses.
The Wilson and the Miner Teachers
Colleges, which have operated during the
l929-30 academic year as colleges, with
normal school STATS, would be obliged
to continue as normal schools, despite
legislation which made them colleges,
until money to provide them with pro-
fesSors and presidents Is Forthcoming.
Eight professors, at $4,000 per annun1,
were included in the pending appropria-
ton bill as it passed both House and
Senate, and yet, unless specific language
is carried in a continuing resolution
which might be adopted, the two teach
ers' colleges" will worry along with
normal school faculties, even though for
the first time a four-year course looms
in the immediate future.
The Wilson and Minor Colleges also
were to be remodeled and reflnished at
cost of $4,000 in preparation for their
operation under new status. This work
would go by the boards under an ordi-
nary continuing resolution.
Schools Partially Completed.
Schools already under construction
which cannot be completed until further
appropriations are made include tine
Charles Eliot Junior High School, which
Is slated to receive 100000 from the
pending bill. The new Roosevelt High
iyINt ic RI
Business High School, is awaiting $780,
600, which would be added to the $780,
900 already available, before its con-
struction can actually be inaugurated.
The Alice Deal Junior High School in
Reno is slated to receive 100000 to
continue its construction. This build
ing, however, is not yet actually under
way. but work Is expected to begin
momentarily.
Appropriations for new construction
which would be lost include $4,000
for the four-room addition, including
assembly hall, gymnasium for the Con-
gress Heights school; 100000 to begin
construction on the proposed $500, 900
colored platoon school on the Northeast
Washington site; $4,000 to begin con-
struction on the 100000 new colored
junior high school to adjoin the platoon
school; 100000 for the four-room ad-
dition with ssembly-gymnasium for
the Deanwood School; 100000 for the
eight-room addition to the Whittier
School; $4,000 for the 10-room and
gymnasium addition to the Stuart
Junior High School; $4,000 for the
proposed eight-room school at Broad
Branch road and Northampton street;
$4,000 for the proposed eight-room
school IN Wesley Heights; 100000 for
the four-room initial unit for the school
at Tenth and Franklin streets north
east, and 5000 900 for the 12-room adj
ditlon to the Anthony j. Bowen School.
This list of schools represents one of
the heaviest new construction programs
proposed for the school system in recent
years and was designed specifically to
hasten the elimination, or, at least, the
limitation Of portable schools.
Sites May Be Lost.
Site which will be lost unless provided
for, either by the passage Of the bill
or In specific language Of continuing
resolution, include one for q proposed
eight-room building in the Burleith-
Glover Park section, another for an
elght-room building west Of Connectl-
cut avenue and north of Jenifer street,
one for junior high school in the vi
entity of Minnesota avenue and Nine
tenth street, in addition to more
ground for playground purposes or for
future construction adjoining the
EMBELLISHMENTS School, the Anthony
j. Bowen School, the Harrison School,
Geddings School, Grant School and the
Morgan School.