Evening star., 1939-03-23
More Civic Leaders
To Be Sounded Out
On D. {. Budget
Addison and Lusk
Favor Keeping Sum
Within $4,000, 900

Another group of civic representa-
tives is scheduled to appear today
before the House Subcommittee on
District appropriations to discuss
various items in the 1910 budget.
More than score of civic leaders
appeared before the subcommittee
yesterday afternoon. Among them
were Francis G. Addison, Jr., presi-
dent Of the Washington Board of
Trade; Rufus S. Lusk, president of
the Washington Taxpayers Associa-
ton, and Charles I. Stengle, presi-
dent of the American Federation of
Government Employees.
Subcommittee members said both
Mr.. Addison and Mr.. Lusk urged
that the. appropriation bill be kept
within the s47,600,OOO figure ap-
proved by the Budget Bureau. Mr..
Stengle made plea for increased
pay and improved working condi-
tons for staff nurses and the GUS
todial force at the District tubercu-
losis sanatoria at Glenn Dale, Md
Others Who Testified.
The other witnesses, all of whom
testified behind closed doors, in
cluded Adelbert w. Lee, president
of the Randle Highlands Citizens
Association; Jacob Baker, president
of the United Federal Workers of
America; A. j. Driscoll, president
of the Midcity Citizens Associa-
ton; Mrs. Wilbur LaRoe, jr., of the
Forest Hills Citizens Association;
Mrs. Olive w. Sweeney, assistant
secretary of the Neighborhood Coun-
cils. of Washington; Leo A. Rover,
former United States attorney for
the District; T. G. Parkman, chair
man of the Legislative Committee
of the District Vocational Associa-
ton; Mrs. Robert Griggs of the
Woman's Club of Chevy Chase; Mrs.
Harry D. Wood, chairman of the
North Randle Community Citizens
Association; Mrs Robert Furniss
of the Mckinley High School
Parent-Teacher Association; Jesse
Pawling of the Sixteenth Street
Citizens Association; Hector Lazo,
chairman of the City Wide Citizens
Committee of Junior High School
Parents, and group representing
the Voteless District League of
Women Voters which included Mrs.
F. G. Fishback, Mrs. Howard Leland
Smith, Mrs. David Cushman Coyle,
Mrs. Alfred Klein and Mrs. Allen
Moore.
Various items in the budget, rang
ing from public schools to traffic
lights and conditions at Gallinger
Hospital, are understood to have
been discussed by many of these wit
nesses. Their testimony will be
made public when the 1910 District
appropriation bill is reported to the
House.
Asks School Item Restoration,
Mr.. Lazo urged on the committee
restoration of $38,937 to provide II
assistant principals and eight as
sistant clerks for the junior high
schools. He pointed out that the
basic law of the District calls for
an assistant administrative officer
in the junior or senior high schools
when enrolment reaches 1000 and
that there be second clerk in the
office when enrolment reaches 1900
There is need for this help in IL
OF the II Junior high schools here,
he told the committee. The Board
OF Education has repeatedly asked
for these clerks and administrative
officers but they have not been al
lowed by the Commissioners or the
Budget Bureau, he declared.
The burden on administrative and
clerical workers in the junior high
schools here is greater than in any
city OF the country for which there
are reports, he said.
The U. F. w. urged a shorter work.
ing day for Gallinger employees, who
now are on duty ~ hours.