Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-30
President CaruSi Says He
Can Have No Sympathy
With Citizens Action.
SCHOOL LAWS DECLARED
VIOLATED BY PROTESTS
Next Move Put Directly Up to
John Burroughs Association
of Residents.


| seventh and eighth grades are trans
ferred to the Langdon School and the
Langley Junior High School, the Board
! OF Education has definitely decided on
| the step, and will not reconsider its
action, 1t af1Fned YESTERDAY.
There was considerable discussion at
the board meeting yesterday afternoon
| on the question OF whether strike
actually had been threatened. PreSi-
dent Charles w. Carusi said he was re-
| liably informed through the newspa-
perS that 1t had and John M. Kemper.
representing the John Burroughs Citi-
zens' Association, maintained that it
had not and that the press reports were
grossly exaggerated.
Carusi said that it did not matter;
that the board would consider the mat
ter in the regular course Of business,
despite the request of the citizens that
action on the recommendation Of DR..
Frank w. Ballou, superintendent of
schools, be deferred until the OPPOSE
ton could present its case.
Transfer Already Made.
Kemper protested again, and Ballou
answered him. When the time came
for discussion of the transfer itself It
was found that this had already been
done seven months ago.
The board ordered that letter en-
bodying this information be sent the
citizens association by special messen-
ger, to be delivered before the protest
meeting tonight
The. question of whether there will
be strike was thus clearly put up to
the parents of the children, with the
board standing uncompromisingly for
the transfer.
The request Of Kemper seemed to
arouse the ire of the board president,
who said that the parents of the school
children had done q thing with which
he could not have any sympathy. They
had threatened violation of the law
compelling school attendance" he said,
and asked: What effect will It have
on the minds Of these children to be
made instruments of defiance to au-
thor1ty?" He said statements such as
those attributed to the Burroughs citi-
zens are greatly to be deplored and were
Ill advised, since 1t so Influenced the
board that now it would not grant their
request for hearing, despite the long
standing policy Of the educational body
TO hear parents on such occasions.
Citizens May Sue.
The Burroughs Citizens Association
may sue to restrain the transfer of pupils
Of John Burroughs to the Langdon
School and Langley Junior High School,
william E. Rabenhorst, president Of the
association, declared this morning.
rms VIII be decided at the meeting
tonight. According to printed notices
sent members, they will consider ways
ana means Of avoiding a strike.
In statement today Mr.. Rabenhorst
commented on yesterdays board action:
The Burroughs Citizens Association
on three separate occasions passed reso-
lutions protesting against the plan of
scnooI authorities to transfer the
The third occasion was as long ago as
November, 1929 =. We ASSUMED
that transmittal of these resolutions to
tne board was equivalent to a request
Tor hearing thereon, but we have not
even received an acknowledgment.
Chairman Gives Report.
A preliminary report Of the advisory
committee on vocational education of
the Board of Education was pre-
sented by its chairman, John B. Col
poys of the Central Trades Union. edi-
tor OF its oficial organ, the Trade
Unionist.
The report embodied most OF the for
mer. request Of the trade union for
vocational education In the District. It's
nigh light was the request that the
S0osAN oOh IAAC ECuCIdI 6OATQ IOT VOCa~
tional Education to assign a trained
man to make survey of the Situation
here and confer with the Committee
before the final report of that BODY is
rendered. The Board Of Education
agreed to do this.
Among the recommendations of the
committee were that the Columbia
Junior High School be made available
Ior use by the vocational classes now
CAI
the report stated, was never intended
for school building and lacks ade-
quate heating facilities; that the Com
miSsioners urge Congress to include
the District in the Smith Hughes act
for vocational education, and that there
be provided two modern buildings for
Inc trace schools, one for white chill
dren and one for colored.
DR.. Ballou told the board that the
transfer OF classes from the Abbott to
the Columbia Junior High School viii
be completed by February /.
supplemental estimate of $242 $40.
pursuant TO the free-text book bill passed
by both Houses of Congress and await
ing the Presidents signature, was rec
commended by DR.. Ballou and Endorsed
by the board. It was stated that the
body is not yet ready to say what adj
ditional personnel will be needed for
the handling of the books.
To Cooperate With ID. C. Heads.
The board decided on a policy of CO.
operation with the District Commits
sioners in the moving of the Garfield
School in order that the highway plan
may be carried out. It is estimsted
that this work will cost $4,000. De-
tails of the source of this sum were not
touched upon. The building is to be
moved to the rear of the property where
and Alabama avenue southeast.
The following recommendations of
the committee on buildings, grounds and
equipment were approved: That one
portable school building be transferred
from the Takoma School to the Whit
Whittier School; that the board rescind
the order to transfer two portables from
the Wilson School to Twentieth and
Rosedale streets northeast, and that the
offers OF the parent-teacher association
to present a set of Compton's Encyclo-
pedia and subscriptions to nine maya
zines to the Gordon Junior High School
and playground slide, a china closet,
q set OF encyclopedias and q duplicat-
ing machine to the West School be ac-
cepted.
As some members Of the board
thought children might bring undue In
fluence on their parents to attend meet
ings OF parent-teacher associations, a
recommendation for the approval OF an
offer OF the Barnard Parent Teacher
Association Of a prize Of IS to the room
having the greatest humber of parents