Evening star., 1932-02-14
Holiday Wants to Know if
They Give District Full
Measure of Service.
CITY HEADS COMPILING
DATA FOR LEGISLATORS
Simmons Forecasts New Group of
Buildings for Wilson Teachers
College.
BY WILL p. KENNEDY.

Representative Wlluam r. HOlaQay
Republican, Of Illinois, at whose request
department heads in the District of
| Columbia government are preparing for
the House subcommittee engaged in
! drafting the District appropriation bill
list of all employees who are doing any
outside work and the nature Of such
employment, has in mind primarily to
see that such outside work does not in
fringe on the duties performed for the
District pay roll.
He does not consider 1t possible to
make hard-and-fast rule against any
and all outside work." he said last
night, and he is mot SO much interested
in preventing some Of those whose Dis
trict salaries are not large from adding
to their income by taking small jobs
that will not interfere with the work
for which they get paid out of the tax
funds as to prevent some OF those in
,, the higher salary brackets from getting
out side pay for work done on govern
ment time"
Repeated complaints have come to
him, Representative Holiday said, that
q number of the highest paid employees
in the District government have been
taking outside professional jobs or
others similar in character to the Work
| they do for the municipal government,
and he wishes to see If they have been
strictly conscientious In giving the DIS,
trict the full measure OF service ana
time for which the District taxpayers
are paying
Donovan to Resume Testimony.
Related to this inquiry is the thought
| that in some offices where from time
| to time new employees are asked Tor,
| careful check-up should be made to see
| that the employees are giving full-tlnle
| service, or if with full-time service re-
| duction in the number Of employees IN
such Offices could not be made without
cutting into the quantity or quality Oh
| the work.
Representative Holiday said there
has also been complaint that many
drawing good salaries from the Dlstrlct
| by engag ging in outside work are picking
IN Jobs that might otherwise be filled
| by the unemployed. so many COM
plants have reached him that ne Ieit
fine entire matter should be carefully
| studied, he said.
The report from the District auditor Is
| on those who are supplementlng tneH
| District salaries with outside remlner-
| alton is expected by the subcommittee
to be presented at the hearing Monday
! afternoon, when District Auditor Danlel
J. Donovan will continue his testimony
fortified by this report. -.
| Prediction was made yesterday py
Representative Robert G. Simmons. he
| publican, of Nebraska, rormer chairman
of the subcommittee, that when the
Wilson Teachers College at Eleventh
| and Harvard streets IS repaired. tne
| recommendation will be made that IL
be turned over to the grade scnools and
| that a new group of buildings be pro-
ylded for the teachers college"
Properties To Be Visited.
The school items in the District bud
get are expected to be reached next
week, at which time the members OF
the subcommittee will be taken on a
personally-conducted tour OF street
and school properties. Representative
Holiday and other members OF the
subcommittee frankly admitted tney
are not sufficiently qualified as build
ing inspectors to pass upon the struc-
| tural weakness Of the Wilson Teacher
College or the Ross Elementary School
where cracks in the walls have been
found. They will require that an en-
gineering report on the actual cond.
ton Of the building shall be presented
to them and will be guided largely by
such report in their decision as to
how much should be spent In restoring
the buildings.
| The extent and cause of the damage
to the vacated Wilson College and the
estimated cost of repair will be revealed
probably early this week when exam
lining engineers are expected to SUD-
nit to Maj. Donald A. Dawson, act
| nj
trict, the most complete report yet mace
on the threatened structure.
| DR.. Frank w. Ballou, superintendent
of schools, ordered the evacuation OF
the school building last wednesday
morning when advised by the Commls..
sioners that initial examination OF
cracks in the floors and walls made
the structure unsafe for human oc-
cupancy."
Construction experts under the direc-
| ton of Harold w. Baker, the District
new director of construction. have been
| working for several days on mass OF
| data to determine all of the factors re-
sponsible for the discovered evidences
Of structural deterioration IN the wilson
Building.
! Repair Cost Put at $4,000.
| When the factors contributing to the
marked settlement OF the front wall are
known the experts will reduce the struc.
ture's needs to money terms. Harold
II Marsh, engineer Of the municipal
architects Office, expressed in his orig1-
nal report the view that the cost Of re-
pair would approximate 5000, but, he
added, 'it Is doubtful whether the ex-
penditure Of such sum would be 1uStl'
fable" The awaited report probaplJ
will answer that question.
Meanwhile, the Wilson Teachers Col
lege student body of 289 and its admin
istrative and teaching stats will go int
the Columbia Junior High School Build
ing-once Central High Schcol-a
Seventh and o streets tomorrow morn
ing.
The situation involving the Ros'
elementary School. which adjoin'
Wilson Teachers College on the west
was unchanged late yesterday. Despite
parallel diagonal cracks in both enc
walls Of this school, District engineer
do not fear q collapse Of any part o1
the structure. They are maintaining &
close watch on the assures SO as to bt
able to order the schools evacuation
the moment they become active
| A possibility that the Ross Schoo
will have to be closed anyway loomet
at the special meeting of the schoo
board last Wednesday. Jere ]. Crane
business manager Of the school system
explained that the Wilson Teachers
College heating plant serves also thu
Ross Building.
Married in Leesburg.