Evening star., 1937-03-25
JUVENILE COURT
BALCONIES BEFORE
SENATE D. c. GROUP
Proposed New Law Among
Several for Discussion at
Meeting Today.
FEDERAL AID HIGHWAY
INCLUSION is ANOTHER
Sunday Bowling After 2 PM,
Child Blindness Prevention,
Detective Split-Up Listed.
BY j, A. O'LEARY.


The proposed new Juvenile Court
law and a variety of other local
measures were expected to be taken
up by the Senate District Committee
this afternoon Chairman King
called the meeting for o'clock.
The committee probably will not
have time to consider all the bills
pending before it, but hopes to act
on all that can be agreed upon at this
time.
Among other measures that may
have a chance for consideration are
Chairman Kings proposal to include
the District in the Federal aid high
way law; the bill to allow bowling
alleys to operate on Sundays, with
the opening hour fixed at 2 pm; a
measure to prevent blindness in in
fants and the bill to divide the detec-
tive force into two salary groups.
Court Bill May Get Hearing.
It is expected a hearing will be
view of series of amendments that
have been discussed by Senate sub
committee since the measure passed
the House. Supporters of the bill
have expressed opposition to the
amendments, believing they would
seriously impair the main objective,
which is to get away from the crimi-
nal form of procedure in juvenile
cases by making it a chancery or
equity tribunal.
In connection with the proposed
ir rclusion of the District in the Fed
eral aid highway law Senator King
has received report from the De-
partment of Agriculture, which ad-
ministers the highway grants through
the Public Roads Bureau.
Although the report starts out with
the statement that the relationship
between the Federal and District
governments is different from the
relationship between the Federal
Government and the States, it adds
that the department will interpose
no objection" to provision being made
for the District on the basis recon-
mended in the Jacobs report or on
such other basis as Congress may
determine. The department suggest
ed the bill be amended, however, to
take effect in 1889, because the Fed
eral aid fund authorized for 1888
has been apportioned.
Urged Inclusion in Act.
The Jacobs report recommended
%r;o Lo %ha
Hayden Cartwright Federal aid high
way act of 1884 on basis similar
to the States, with the exception
that the minimum limitation upon
the grant to each recipient of one
half Of l per cent of the aggregate
appropriation should not apply to
the District, because "it has no
sural roads"
The States began sharing in Fed
eral aid highway grants in 1916, but
the District was excluded During
the depression Washington shared
temporarily in emergency highway
allotments for unemployment relief,
but when resumption of the normal
road-building program was author
lied on the matching basis Washing
ton again was excluded. Although
Congress not long ago included the
District with the States in Federal
aid for railroad grade crossing elini-
nation, Washington will have COM
paratively little grade crossing work
to do in future, nearly all of its
crossings having been eliminated.
In responding to the District Com
mittee on the highway bill, the letter
from the Agriculture Department dis
closed the Budget Bureau had given
the department permission to transmit
Its report. The department stated:
Upon reference of this bill to the
Bureau of the Budget, as required by
budget circular 1856, this department
was advised under date of March 10
by the acting director thereof that
there would be no objection on the
part Of this Office to the presentation
of your proposed report to the COM
mittee'"