Evening star., 1943-10-11
D. Committee
Gets Reporton
School Cadets
Proportionote Strength
Greater Than lo42;;
Four Bills Endorsed

Despite reduction of 1863 male
pupils in senior high schools, the
Washington High School Cadet.
Corps is proportionately large this
year than last October, according
to a report read to the House Dis
trict Committee today by Robert
L. Haycock, acting superintendent
of public schools.
The report was compiled at the
request OF Chairman Randolph, who
some months ago revealed he plan
ned to sponsor legislation to make
compulsory for boys in the senior
high schools the training in military
science and tactics offered by the
cadet corps.
Before MI. Haycock submitted his
statement the committee favorably
reported and ordered placed on the
House calendar four of the five Dis
trict bills recommended for ap-
proval by its Judiciary Subcommit-
tee, headed by Representative Nc
Gehee, Democrat, of Mississippi
List of Approved Bills.
L
l. Tighten existing law covering
the sale of tax certificates issued
against properties on which taxes
are delinquent.
2. Make illegal the carrying In
the open a dangerous weapon.
3. Bring within scope of the
Traffic Act bicycle riders and street.
car motormen.
4. Allow the Commissioners to es-
tablish automobile parking facilities
ON District -owned property acquired
for other purposes. Action was de-
ferred on the fifth bill recommended
by the subcommittee-one that
would fix penalties for So-called
dog g-naping,' the wiilful' setting
out of poison to destroy dogs and
injuring a dog without reporting the
accident to the police or the pound
master. The delay was suggested
by Chairman Randolph after several
members expressed an opinion on
the penalties prescribed in the meas
ure are 100 drastic.
Cadet Corps Figures.
The report of Acting Superin-
tendent Of Schools Haycock showed
that as Of October this year, the
enlisted strength Of the Washing
ton High School Cadet Corps is
1922, whereas in the same month
last year it was 2.456, which, when
compared with the pupil loss repre-
sents gain of 2.35 per cent. The
pupil loss, of 769, he said, was only
offset by a cadet loss of 1874.
Mr. Havcock. however declared
the record was disappointing in view
of efforts of school officials to en-
courage enlistments in the cadet
corps.
In breakdown of the statistics
Mr.. Haycock showed that in october,
l943. there were 1856 male students
in the eight white senior high
schools, of whom 1853 were in the
cadet corps. and .40S in the three
colored high schools of whom 754
are cadets. In the same month last
year, the ratio was:
Male students white high schools
1891, cadets 1895.
Male students colored high
schools 1442, cadets 76l.
The gain in the white schools he
placed at 226 per cent, and in the
colored schools, O76 per cent. making
a Gain in all high schools of 2.35 per
cent.
Five Show Outright Gain.
Only 5 of the II high schools, ac-
cording to the report. showed an in
crease in cadet enlistments. COM
pared with pupil loss These are
Central, 2 per cent; Mckinley, q
per cent; Roosevelt, 81 per cent:
Cardozo, 33 per cent, and Dunbar,
Is per cent.
Chairman Randolph submitted to
the committee correspondence from
Clarence A. Arata, executive secre-
tary of the Washington Board of
Trade, and George E. Keneipp,
chairman of its public school4 COM
mittee. indorSing a plan of COM
pulsory military training for male
students in the senior high schools
during the three-year academic
course.
A delegation representing the Pat
terSon school headed by Joseph
Bockavoc, 199 Chesapeake street
SW., protested against the failure
of District officials to remove a
house and barn on the school site
to provide playground facilities
Engineer Commissioner Charles w.
Kutz explained the District had no
funds with which to do the work.