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The Problem of Selecting Commissioner

i he Problem OF Selecting Commissioner
The resignation District Commissioner George
up to the President opportunity to select bonahd
resident the District familiar with District affairs acceptable
to the people the District operation
of the District recognize the Importance having this
Office filled without delay There confidence among leaders
that experience
particular difficulty in finding qualified acceptable
for the Office.
AS the voees unrepresened District Columbia
theory entirely outside politics there
ton politician Commissioner For many years
Of Commissioners maintained bipartisan
for the resumption of the plan having
civilian members of opposite political faith.
The other writer stated it
District Commissioners their
the beginning administration This
in instances but not accepted practice The of
civilian Commissioners is during
long line Of the bipartisan boards only recognition the
in the national administration
dent of the board the member of the prevailing political
party
civic workers the recognition President
of this old and tmehonord bipartisan will
Of igibes which he has in all probability explored
The enthusiasm with which the citizens
orally have hailed the appointment of Dave" Pine
justice of the District hope
will meet the wishes of these voe unpresented
in the same in selecting Commissioner
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On Capitol Hill
A Weekly Report on
D. G. Legislation
Tax Bill.

The House tomorrow will devote
its time to consideration Of District
legislation and indications are the
only bill to be called up will be the
one to revise the local revenue law
to provide for a combination retail
sales tax and q tax on personal
incomes In excess Of $4,000 a year
Bearing the number H. r. 1880
the bill was reported favorably by
the District Committee at a special
meeting Wednesday by an S-to-6
unrecorded vote,
District Of Columbia Supply Bill.
The House subcommittee in charge
Of the 1941 District appropriation
bill finished work on the measure
during the week and expects to
report 1t to the House Tuesday
Reports indicate the subcommittee
has trimmed about 81 ,000, 900 from
the $40 300, 900 figure recommended
by the Budget Bureau.
Subcommittee Action.
The Public Health Subcommittee
last week approved two bills:
H. r. 1855 to modernize existing
law regulating the practice Of den.
tistry.
H. r. 8692 to regulate the practice
Of podiatry.
The Police and Fire Subcommit.
tee ordered a favorable report or
one bill, H. r. 8846, providing fol
the voluntary retirement of police
and firemen after Is years service
Committee Action.
The full House District Commit.
tee last Monday ordered favorable
reports on three bills and placed
them on the House calendar. They
are:
H. R. 1862, to provide for elimina.
ton of old-fashioned outdoor toilets
H. R. 1912. authorizing the Capita
Transit Co. to erect waiting room
and comfort station at Commodore
Barney Circle
H. r. 8792, authorizing the Com.
missioners to accept and erect In thu
municipal area memorial fountain
to members of the metropolitan
Police Department.
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Extra Care Urged to Avoid
Vacation Accidents
PIT. A. Head Asks Precautions
Against Injuries to
Pupils This Week
BY MRS. c. d. LOWE,
President. D. c. Congress of Parents and Teachers

Another vacation approximately
children will be free Of their school duties this
Will travelling
driversas well chdn--wl necessary
through the period with minimum of traffic accidents
it precautions necessary.
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Taylor Street Overpass
To Open on April 20
Span to Replace Bates Road
Will Eliminate Last of
D. c.. Grade Crossings
CIVIC NEWS.

The $222433 Taylor crossing
Ohio Railroad tracks wooded section behind Catholic University viii
be opened officially 20 Whehurst highways
announced yesterday.
The 700foot concrete and steel structure
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Civic Problems, ,CivicBo
Problem of Picking Commissioner;
Budget Reductions Seen
BY JESSE C. SUTER,

Among outstanding civic events Of the week passage
by the House OF Representatives Of the wnne bill
o. the District OF Columbia to the Federal
nous confirmation by the Senate of the United
States District Attorney David A. Pine
Court and Police Court Judge Edward States
District Attorney and the resignation George Allen as District
Commissioner
Reorganization Of the District practically
out OF the picture during the week on
the report OF the House District Committee sales tax
and income tax bill Efforts of subcommittee experts
and business and labor leaders continued salts
factory solution OF the rotax unemployment
vision problem AS to this early
be OF benefit to both employer poye no.as suitable
local conditions as is locally desired
The National Capital Park and Planning its
regular monthly meeting Thursday Friday purchases
Alley Dwelling Authority projects zonng problems
Vernon Memorial highway Alexandria,
grade separations into the National Airport Gravey
the matters taken day. Friday besides
tour OF the points OF greatest ac congestion
Fort drive the commission considered pending legislation affecting
its work architects plan for the first
tension OF Anacosta parkway north of Benning
horoughare plans to relieve traffic congestion including
ration at Scott and Dupont Circles consideration
Nothing tangible known regarding the forthcoming
trt appropriation bill for the fiscal 194l Reports
that the budget figure Of
to avoid estimated deficiency.
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Business GROUPS
Six Gatherings
Slated for Week

The following businessmen's asso-
Citations are scheduled to meet this
week:
Tuesday, March 26.
Columbia Heights Luncheon,
Sholls Cafe, 1927 Fourteenth street
NV, 1915 pm.
Northeast-Luncheon, Continental
Hotel, North Capitol, between D and
E streets NE, 1915 pm.
Wednesday, March 27.
Cleveland Park-Luncheon, Up
town Restaurant, 3433 Connecticut
avenue NV, 1890 pm.
Thursday, March 20.
Northeast-Regular meeting,
American Security g. Trust Co.,
Eigth and H streets NE.
Central-Luncheon, Hamilton Ho-
tel, Fourteenth and K streets NV,
1915 pm.
Friday, March 20.
Central - Membership dinner
party, Lotus Restaurant, 7E Four
teenth street NV, $50 pm.
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Home Town Man Makes
Good in His Home Town
L. p. McLachlen
And Washington
Both Profit

(TDeltth ina series OF sketches
OF officers and directors OF the
Board OF Trade.)
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The annual room representative
luncheon will be held April 18 at
noon. Mrs. A. l.. Weinberg, chair
man, will be assisted by the 70 room
representatives, representing every
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The following businessmen's asso-
Citations are scheduled to meet this
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Randle Highlands- Orr.

(see PIT. A., Page CO
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been the scene Of fatal accidents.
Elimination of grade crossings
has always been foremost on the
platforms of northeast civic groups.
For many years the Michigan Park
group, along with the Brookland
association and the Northeast Con-
ference, campaigned for erection
OF the 1896, 800 overpass at Michi-
gan avenue, over the B. & o. tracks,
which was finally finished In 1887,
Construction on the Taylor street
construction began May 10, 1889.
The $222, ,433 contract was let to
the H. R. Dickens Co. Of Phila-
delphia. Plans were drawn up by
the bridges division of the District
Building, under the supervision of
Municipal Architect Nathan 6.
Wyeth.
Regarding the final attainment
OF one Of Michigan Parks greatest
aims President Hurley said yester-
day:
'Inasmuch as our neiehborhood
has had the doubtful honor ~
housing the last two grade-crossinss
IN Washington-at best, outmoded
oeatn traps-we are doubly graft
ned at the removal of q situation
wnlcn was a constant worry to
every resident Of this area. When
we gather to dedicate this edifics
on April 20 our feeling viii be- mors
tnan Just pride Of ownership, it viii
oe genuine feeling Of relief that
automobiles are the largest thinrs
we nave 70 dodge. Traffic IN ~
enough WithAsi$ Ioo.s..~ll..- - ~~~
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Whitehall School
To Open September Is

The Whitehall Country School will
open September Is at Bradley
boulevard and Wilson lane, Edge
more, Md, as Gay school for boys
and girls from 4 to 8 years old, and
beyond the third grade as school
for girls, preparatory to any desig
mated secondary school.
School trustees have purchased
part of the Mclean estate, "a acres
and a mansion house on a knoll in
a grove of old oaks. This property
was formerly occupied by the Landon
Lower School.
The classrooms are all on the
second floor, with room for art, craft,
and music, and a large indoor play
room for bad weather. The grounds
include play space under large trees
for the very young. prepared fields
and tennis courts for older children.
and there will be an opportunity for
riding and skating under instruction,
1t was stated. In general, scholastic
work will be done in the morning
and other kinds of activity in the
afternoon. with hot dinner and rest
In the middle of the day. Trans
portation will be available.
Mrs. Henry S. Pitts, the head
mistress, has for II years conducted
the Brush Hill School in Milton,
Mass. The staff, all college grad
uates. includes Miss Elizabeth Laws,
Mrs. Mary McKechnie, Miss Frances
Blakeslee, Miss Jane Woodman. Miss
Kathleen Mayors, Mrs. Lucie Bar
bour, Nine. Hector Allard, Mrs
George Blackwell and Miss Elizabeth
Loomis.
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Doyle
Continued From First Page)

and Van Ness Schools. In an audi
torium such as that at the Lafay-
cite, children may gather where
there is excellent lighting good
ventilation and proper heating, and
they may there learn many things
that through lack of facilities the
children in the Cranch School can
never have the opportunity to learn.
There are sanitary toilet rooms on
the main floor instead of in the
gloomy basement. There are play
gorund facilities
Costs Are Higher.
Let us consider the per capita
maintenance and operation cost of
a school like the Cranch as COM
pared with a school like the La
fayette. The per capita cost in the
Cranch School for maintenance is
$1,000, exclusive of the educational
per capita cost. For this per capita
cost in maintenance and operation,
the children receive poor heating
poor ventilation, poor toilet facilil les,
very little playground opportunity
and no auditorium. The per capita
cost for maintenance and operation
at the Lafayette School is 1920,
which provides clean, sanitary
building with modern facilities. In
the interest of economy and eff
cheney. therefore, the expenditure
of public money for a replacement
of these three schools by modern
up-to-date building is decided ad-
vantage.
Another group to be replaced is
the Brent, Dent, Lenox and French.
The Dent School has cement play
ground which is as hard on the eye
as it must be on the little bodies of
of the children who play there.
The toilet facilities are old and the
toilet rooms are dingy and dark.
Men are now repairing the plaster
which is badly broken. The Dent
School as of October 27, 1899. had an
enrolment of 259 pupils. The cost
of maintenance is 1886 per child
and as in the Cranch School there
are no advantages of an assembly,
gymnasium or proper playground
facilities and other modern educa-
tional needs
French School Costs High.
The French, building of only
four rooms, has no playground
whatsoever 1t is used entirely for
occupational classes and the main
tenance cost is $38O7. 1t should be
noted that thi3 apparently excessive
cost is due to the fact that this
building houses occupational classes.
which type of maintenance is always
more expensive. 1t seems waste of
public money in this modern age to
house children in four room build
ing in which the maintenance cost
alone is S3807 per child.
The replacement of the Brent,
Dent, LenoX and French Schools is
further necessitated by the fact that
the Alley Dwelling Authority now
has housing development nearing
completion which will bring many
more children to this neighborhood.
Although there was no appropia-
tlon in the current Appropriation
Act to replace any of the schools in
Divisions 1913, it is hoped that the
next Appropriation Act will make a
beginning of this program. The
Board of Education requests re-
placement of the Morse and Twin
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Paul Lynch Will Direct
John Carroll School

The John Carroll Boys School, a
day and boarding elementary school,
will open tomorrow in Silver Spring
under the direction of Paul ]. Lynch.
The new school is located in the
15-acre wooded grounds of the Falk-
land Manor on the East-West high
way in Silver Spring.
A feature of the school program
will be health as matter of prime
consideration. A resident nurse will
be on the staff to check the boys
health daily.
Mr.. Lynch, the headmaster, re-
ceived his degree from Catholic Uni
versity, while Miss Mabel Powell who
heads the primary division, holds
certificates from Oklahoma and
Illinois. Mrs. Ertha S. Glow is the
householder and nurse.
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College Of Law Opens
Fall Term Wednesday

Washington College of Law will
begin its 45th fall term with the
opening Of classes Wednesday in all
divisions.
Registrations have been received
during the past week and the large
returning classes as we'll as the
entering students will be greeted at
the initial session by Dean Grace
Hays Riley.
The college was founded in Febru-
airy, 1896, by DR. Ellen Spencer
Mussey and Emma M. Gillett, to give
women an opportunity to study law
Dean Riley announces that there
is available at the college a scholar
ship for men sponsored by Sigma
Delta Kappa Fraternity. The
scholarship covers one semester's
tuition at the law school, and is
awarded on the basis of scholastic
ability and financial need.
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Record Attendance
Seen at Fishburne

WAYNESBORO, Va, Sept. Is
Tomorrow Fishburne Military School
will reopen for its sixty second ses-
sion with an enrolment that will
break all past records. The compile
ton last spring of an extensive build
ing program affords facilities for
larger student body for the coming
session than ever before.
Col. Morgan H. Hudgins, super
intendent, announced today that his
staff of instructors will remain the
same as last year with two excep-
tions. Kelley K. Davis of Waynes-
boro, Va, will be added to the de-
partment of mathematics and Julius
E. Waller of Schenectady. N. Y. will
fill a vacancy in the modern
language department as instructor
in French and Spanish.
Tomorrow will be given over to
naturalization and classification of
both new and old students, and the
regular schedule of classes will start
on Tuesday.
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P. w. A. Aids Nations Schools
To Extent of Billion Dollars

Over a billion dollars worth Of
new and improved schools built
with the aid of P. w. A. funds have
brought Americas educational
facilities to the highest level in the
Nations history, P. w. A. officials
said yesterday.
Reporting to Federal Works Ad-
ministrator John M. Carmody,
Public Works Commissioner Col.
E. w. Clark said that in seven years
P. w. A. has aided in the construc-
ton or improvement of 12,700 educa-
tional buildings, including lib public
libraries, at total cost of 81 1872
397,l33. Of this amount 1852 ,394,-
465 represents the cost of educa-
tional projects in the current P. w.
A. program, and by the time Amer
ica's student army of 30,000,000
enters the Nations schools this
month all p w. Adult schools will
have been virtually completed.
Educational projects in the P. w.
A. programs have added $500 class
rooms to the Nations supply, accom-
modations for 100000 students.
New or improved schools Of all
types from small rural buildings to
colleges and universities have been
erected in almost every section of
every State in the Union as we'll as
the Territories. Toward school and
library construction, P. w. A. has
made direct grants of s48l ,526 sos
and repayable loans of 500. .106 ,070.
An interesting result Of the large
scale school building program Of
the past seven years and encouraged
by P. w. A. has been the growth
of the consolidated school district
plan IN almost every section of the
country. Groups of primary and
secondary students, heretofore scat
tered over wide rural area, are
now, with the aid of better high
ways and bus service brought to-
gether IN one new modern school.
This has made for better instruc-
ton and the lowering of county
taxes. Through the construction of
100 consolidated schools with P. w.
A. assistance, P. w. A. estimates that
$50 obsolete one-room structures
have been replaced
Another outgrowth of the school
construction program aided by
P. w. A. has been the increased use
made by communities of the school
buildings. Where not so many
years ago schools were used five
days a week and only during the
daytime and primarily for instruc-
ton, now with P. w. A. provisions
for auditoriums, gymnasiums and
other facilities they are being more
widely used for adult education, and
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Faculty Changes
Are Announced al
SidweII School
Earlier Starting Time
Chosen for Grades
J Through II

Sidwell Friends School announced
yesterday that the school day for
grades through II this year would
begin at 8:45 am. instead of the
usual am.
The change was made, 1t was said,
to allow more time for opening
exercises for these pupils in the
home rooms. 1t also will relieve
homework pressure and provide
more time for pupil-teacher con-
ferences, it was thought, as well as
enable the high school lunch period
to be scheduled at an earlier hour.
School opens officially September
%. New students, however. will re-
port Thursday along with other
students who may have conditions to
remove. The entire school will con-
vene Friday at 8:45 am, but will
be dismissed at noon.
A number of faculty changes were
announced. George H. Sensner.
after 35 years of service to the
school, has requested and been
granted a leave of absence. He will
become emeritus head of the science
and mathematics departments.
Mrs. John E. Fletcher. assistant
teacher in grade four, has retired
from active service. Miss Grace B.
Etheredge, after a years leave of
absence for graduate study at Pratt
Institute, will resume her duties as
head of the art department. Miss
Margaret Able, school secretary,
has been granted years leave of
absence. Allen White, secretary of
the Florida Avenue Friends Meet
ing. will take over the playground
work formerly under William
Klare's direction. Mr.. Klare has
resigned to accept position with
the Bureau of the Census.
Mrs. Allen White will assume
Miss Abbe's duties in the school
Office. Miss Winifred Whitney,
inferno in social studies last year,
has gone to Wellesley, Mass, where
she will teach sixth grade at the
Ten Acres School. Mrs. JaheS D.
Boone. assistant in the physical
education department last year,
will be home room teacher for the
seventh grade. Mrs. Edgar Nye
will be in charge of the ninth grade
home room and will teach classes
in remedial reading and seventh
grade physiology. Miss Frances
Prather has been appointed to sue
ceed Mrs. Boone. Mrs. Walter
Maloney, formerly assistant super
intendent of music in the Kansas
City schools, will teach choral music
IN grades 4 through u. Miss
Helen hartman was appointed dean
of girls at the annual meeting of
the Board of Trustees in May.
Robert S. Lyle was appointed as
sistant to the headmaster at a re-
cent committee meeting Of the
board.
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ing Schools. The Twining School
has eight rooms and an enrolment
of 1874 pupils as of October 27, 1899.
The per capita maintenance cost is
1926. The heat is steam and is pro-
vided for classrooms only. There is
no assembly hall. A visit to this
school with its old floors, drafty
rooms and general dinginess was
made further discouraging by the
fact that practically all the windows
on the rear side of the school were
broken out. 1t is certainly hoped
that when this group of buildings
is replaced that public opinion will
serve to have more regard for public
property than is at present apparent.
Broken windows were also noted at
the Dent School This problem of
replacing broken panes is vital one.
Bundy School for Contrast.
Contrast the facilities offered at
the Twining School with those
offered at the Bundy School, which
is a 16-room building opened in
1886. This school has an audito-
ium-gymnasium which allows for
indoor physical health programs,
assemblies, dramatics, and also for
meetings of parent-teacher aSso-
Citations and other organizations
within the community. The light
ing and heating facilities at this
school are of the highest type
Shops are provided for manual
training and industrial art activ-
tiles, all of which are on the ground
floor. These rooms are bright, airy,
and we'll heated. This school also
has up-to-date sanitary rest rooms
for both girls and boys and splen-
did rest room for the teachers.
Although the playground facil-
tiles, at the present time, are quite
limited, it is hoped that the new
planned recreational center ad-
joining this building will soon be
ready. The per capita cost of main-
tenance and operation is s8.l2 at the
Bundy School,
Advantages of Replacement
A comparison of the figures and
of the opportunities afforded DEM
onstrate clearly the advantages of
the replacement of such old schools
by consolidated modern schools
from the point of view of efficiency
and economy as we'll as proper pro-
vision of more modern educational
facilities for our children.
1t should be noted that the differ
ence in per capita cost of main
tenance and operation between the
Lafayette School and the Bundy
School is due to the larger number
of pupils enrolled at the Bundy
School. The expenditure for main-
tenance and operation is practically
identical. AS of october 81, 1899,
there were GIT pupils enrolled in
the Lafayette School and 500 pupils
enrolled in the Bundy School.
Other requirements are contem-
plated in the program such as the
Peabody, Hilton and Carbery
Schools; the Corcoran, Grant and
Weightman Schools; and the Wall
ker and Jones Schools. This re-
placement program calls for new
buildings to take the place OF "a
antiquated schools.
The appreciation of the COM
munity is due Senator Overton and
Representative Collins who under
took to make a beginning in this
plan. The fulfllment of this re-
placement program will mean that
children will no longer have to
spend the most important years OF
their school life in ancient ediflces
unworthy of the Nations Capital.
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Greet Dramatic School

A new l0-week course OF study
will open at the Greet Academy Of
Dramatic Art october /. Maurice
Greet and Mildred Coleman, direc-
tors of the academy, have just re-
turned from a tour Of the New
England summer theaters, in which
some of their former students were
taking part.
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for town meetings, concerts, lee
lures and other community
activities.
p. w. A. educational building
projects during the past seven years
have accounted for from go to rs
per cent of the total expenditures
for construction in this field, based
on competitive bids and contract
awards. These projects have pro-
vided about a billion man hours of
much needed work to persons en-
ployed at construction sites and in
industries supplying materials for
the projects.
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Stuurt School Registration

officials of the Stuart School of
Costume Design, I'LL Connecticut
avenue NV, announced yesterday
the school is now receiving regis
trations for the fall term beginning
October |.