Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-11
COPELAND WANTS
POOR PUP|LSFE
Survey of Schools to Decide
Number Needing Lunches
Asked by Senator.

A survey by the Health Department,
in cooperation with the Board Of Edu-
cation, to determine to what extent
there are under-nourished children in
the local public schools and what steps
might be taken to provide milk and
soup was suggested to the Commission
erS by Senator Copeland Of New York
at the hearings before the Senate sub
committee today on the District appro-
priation bill
The suggestion was made by Senator
Copeland after John is Noonan had
testified to the effect that there is a
considerable number Of such children,
many Of whom, he said, come from
families not financially able to provide
them with nourishing lunches. Mr..
Noonan read newspaper clippings telling
of cases In which teachers have volun-
tarily aided some children to obtain
nourishment during the day. The wit
ness did not make specific recon-
mendation for a particular amount in
the pending bill, but urged the COM
mittee to consider the problem.
Commissioners Suggestion.
Commissioner Reichelderfer told the
committee he had read newspaper
stories on the subject, but suggested
that the Board of Education was IN
position to make a study Of the problem.
Senator Copeland said he thought the
Health Department, which superviseS
health OF school children, shomld make
the survey in consultation with the
school board, and recommend plan
for supervised feeding Of under-nourish-
ed children.
Chairman Bingham and other men,
bers of the subcommittee heard q num-
Der Of other witnesses today, requesting
additional items be placed in the bin,
including the following:
Ernest Pullman Of the Manor Park
Citizens Association asked for $95, 900
more for wing and gymnasium at the
Paul Junior High School; for an initial
appropriation of $20, 1000 10 make start
on the development Of the Takoma-
Manor Park Community Center, Tor
which land has been bought between
Sheridan and Underwood, Third and
Fifth streets, and for several street paw
ing jobs in that vicinity.
Tydings Favors Roadway.
Senator Tydings, Democrat, Of Mary
land, requested $4,000 to extend q
roadway In Rock Greek Park from the
end of Beach DEiye to the District
line, to connect with Maryland high
way for which, he said, Montgomery
AOunby - dDUub W AMnA0 . SRA4SAoN
Senator Tydings also urged the WIDEN
ing of Seventeenth street from H
street to Pennsylvania avenue, to a
width of 20 feet to relieve what he
described as a "bottle-neck" for traf-
nc coming down Connecticut avenue.
Senator Bingham expressed the be-
lief that the traffic difficulties at that
point would not be relieved by widening
south of II street, because he believed
the congestion occurs north. Of H street
to Farragut square.
Senator Tydings also asked for $7,740
to complete the grading OF Eastern
avenue between Bunker Hill and Queens
Chapel road northeast.
Mrs. M. w. Buell. made an urgent
appeal for inclusion of an eight-room
addition to the Tenley- Janney School,
to cost $4,000.
Charles r. Consaul Of the Mount
Pleasant Citizens Association requested
an addition of $125, 900 to the House
item for suburban sewers to relieve
what he described as serious sanitary
condition existing in the Piney Branch
Valley, just west Of Sixteenth street,
when storms cause the sanitary sewers
to overflow into the valley, creating an
Objectionable situation.
Engineer Commissioner Gotwals told
the committee that the portion Of the
work that could be done with the pro-
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