Evening star., 1933-10-11
OPPOSES SCHOOLS.
0UST|NGD Dc. WARDS
Fairfax C. of C. Committee
Will Appear Before Board
Meeting.
1v a Staff CORRESPONDENT Of The Star.


BAILEYS CROSS ROADS, Va, Octo-
ber 1.-THE Fairfax County Chamber
of Commerce is opposed to the recent
action of the School Board in barring
wards of the Board of Public Welfare of
the District of Columbia from the Fair
fax County schools and will have a
committee appear at the next School
Board meeting to ask that the action
be rescinded.
This was decided upon last night at
meeting of the chamber here after sew
eral influential members had expressed
the opinion that the action was dis
criminatory and that Fairfax County
would lose much more if the children of
the county who are attending the Dis
trict of Columbia schools were barred
there than if the District wards were per-
mitted to continue their education here.
Mrs G. Ashley Money declared that
there are far more Fairfax County chill
dren in the District of Columbia schools
than there are wards of the Board OF
Public Welfare in the Fairfax County
schools These children make their
homes here and the people with whom
they are boarded are to all intents and
purposes their parents. she declared.
hence the county has no right to bar
them.
$4,000 Spent in County.
The $4,000 paid annually to Fairfax
County residents by the District of Co.
lumbia is practically all spent in the
county, it was asserted by Wells Sher-
man, who declared "it is pretty bad bus
mess for the School Board to force this
money to be taken away from the
county"
1T was stated that these are not
problem" children, as was stated at
the recent School Board meeting, but
are merely children without homes.
The committee appointed to call upon
the School Board consists Of Russell
White, Mrs. G. Ashley Money and Mrs.
J. E. Staub.
At the request of members of the
local board of public welfare, commit
tee consisting of W. j. Cleveland, presi-
dent, ard LIE Grand Stafford, secretary,
was appointed to appear at the next
meeting of the board of supervisors and
request that body to make application
to the State Emergency Relief Com
mittee for supplemental relief funds for
the coming Winter. Such funds are
available where the local authorities
have done their utmost in unemploy-
ment relief. it was said. and are fur
nished upon receipt by the State COM
mittee of a statement of county relief
resources available or anticipated.
Poultry Taxing Asked.
The necessary legislative steps to pro-
vide for the taxing of poultry as tangi-
BILE personal property was requested in
a resolution introduced by Wells Sher-
man, with the request that it be held
over to the next meeting for action.
The commissioner of revenue has stated.
Sherman said. that chickens are not
assess,ble under the law, hence opera
tors of large chicken farms are relieved
of this taxation to the detriment of
dairymen, whose live stock is assessed.
In spite of present conditions. it was
reported by the Development Commit
tee there is considerable building under
way in the county. The members Of
the committee present reported that
eight houses and two stores are under
construction in their respective sections
and estimated that there was additional
building in sections not represented at
the meeting.