Evening star., 1937-04-08
SCHOOL employees
GIVEN APPROVAL
. ON OUTSIDE WORK
Board Requires Full Atten.
ton to Educational Du-
ties, However.
BAN ON MAGAZINE
SCHOLASTIC LIFTED
Publication Removed From Ap-
proved List in December Due
to "Pacifstic Policy"

School Department employees who
can pursue outside occupations with
out detracting from their principal
duties had the support of the Board
OF Education today, that group hav-
ing placed itself on record yesterday
as unanimously opposed to a bill pro-
hlbitlng such outside employment
Expressing themselves by voting on
a resolution offered by Henry I. Quinn,
board members were reminded by the
sponsor of the resolution that per-
mission necessary for an employe to
work outside Of his school duties never
is given, if it interferes with the de-
mands of the department or unrea-
sonably deprives some unemployed
person OF job.
Magazine Ban Lifted.
At the same meeting, the board
settled a second controversial mat
ter by voting, 7 to l, to lift its ban
on the magazine Scholastic.
Scholastic, removed from the ap-
proved list last December because
of its alleged 'pacifistic policy" was
! then approved for use in English
courses in the schools by vote of
6 to 2. The specification of the Eng
lish department was made following
an explanation by Supt Frank. w.
Ballou that the periodical was pub
llshed IN two lSSueS-one for the Eng
llsh department and the other for the
social science department in schools.
The social science groups here, he
said, di not use the periodical and
hence the English section is the only
one affected.
The objection of the board has
been to two planks in an Armistice
cay issue four years ago, which sug-
gested students should not serve in
war unless it is declared by popular
referendum and that capital as well
as men should be conscripted In case
Of conflict.
Action Forecast
The revocation was not unexpected
as both Mrs. Phillips Sidney Smith
and Henry Gilligan, retiring vice
president of the board, had indicated
at previous meetings their intent to
request reconsideration of the matter.
Gilligan, who with six others had
voted against the magazine when it
was barred, explained his change of
mind as due to a conviction that the
publication had been judged on the
basis of single issue-that of Arnis-
tice day, 1888.
L had understood from the editorial
in the issue of November IL that
pacifism was the whole policy of the
periodical" he explained Studies of
subsequent issues and interviews with
the publisher, M R. Robinson, con-
vinced me that I was wrong"
Firm on Original Objection.
Still insisting that he did not ap-
prove of the pacifstic issue which
had been condemned, Gilligan never
theless declared he found no improper
propaganda In the columns of later
issues.
George M. WhitWell, the lone vote
against the repeal, declared he would
not support the measure because Rob-
inson had given no assurance that the
same thing would not happen again.
When We pressed Robinson on
that point in the hearing last Decem-
Der he evaded the issue" Whitwell
charged. HE might do the same thing
again at any time"
Mrs. Mary A. McNeill, who alone
had voted against the ban originally
declared that it was difficult for an
editor to tell what future policy
would be due to the changing trend of
public opinion.
Although the board reversed its de-
cision, it did not accept the report of
the Teacher Committee, which had
been overruled by the ban. The COM
mittee has recommended not only the
approval Of the magazine, but its pur-
chase out of public funds. The board
would not subscribe to the latter sug-
gestion.
In connection with the outside en-
ployment bill, members were furnished
with a copy of letter from Supt
Ballou to the corporation counsel il
February claiming he had established
definitely the fact that the employment
bill was prompted by a person in the
District against DR.. E. N. C. Barnes
director Of music in the public schools
Barnes also teaches at the Washington
S Musical Institute.
, Rehabilitation Shift Approved.
). The board also approved the sug
, gestion that the vocational rehabilita
ton in the District be transferred from
Y the Federal Office of Education il
= the Interior Department to the Boart
l Of Education provided some provision
be made that the board would not hav
two types of employees under it-thos,
! in civil service and those not.
Unable to take up the school bulge
0 question because of the late hou
when it was reached on the docket, tn
: members called a special meeting
Saturday at 10 am. to discuss it,.
Playground Action Deferred.
Asserting that acceptance of tn
proposed transfer of Fairgrounds from
the District Playground Department t.
the Community Center Department i
tantamount to reversal of the board
previous position under the co-ordina
,, ton agreement, Mrs. Philip Sidne!
Smith asked that the board restate it.
attitude.
Quinn objected, saying he saw NJ
reason to take any action. The ISSUE
1 was postponed till Saturday.
The group ratified the appointment
> Of NJ A. Danowsky, for nearly flv'
years chief accounting consultant IL
3 the child accounting and statistic'
division of the Pennsylvania Stat
Department of Public Instruction, a.
statistician to fill the place left vacan
l when John F. Brougher was promoted
q to assistant principal of Central Higf
a School last. November.
! 12,400 Cars in Country.
8 Yugoslavia now has i2,400 automo
t biles, giving her twenty-fourth plac
In European car statistics.