Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-22
ANOTHER STEP IN REMOVING CAPITALS TEMPOS

white chlldren OF the same
Istatus?"
"They did not do as we'll, "
Mr.. Reynolds replied.
SThe principal said Coolidge
has a high scholastic standing,
with its students averaging
above national medians on most
tests. Washington students on
la city-wide basis recently have
averaged below the national
medians.
Asked what effect indignation
had had on discipline and So
cial activities. he said none.
Our social life has continued
in the same way it was previ-
ously."
Problems at Eastern
I A recently retired Eastern
High School teacher, Miss Ruth
Davis. told the investigators
labout increased teaching prob
llems at Eastern since integra-
ton.
Miss Davis. who taught English
lat Eastern for "a years until her
retirement last December. de-
Iscribed difficulties with increased
absenteeism. pupil retardation in
reading, and in maintaining Or
der.
/ She said traffic policeman
who before indignation was only
on duty during rush hours now
stays in the neighborhood all
day. Miss Davis described an
Iincident-which she said she
knew only at second-hand-in
which the policeman had to stop
a fight between colored and
white girls. The fight, in which
she said a white girl had her
face badly scratched, ensued
after colored girls repeatedly
Ipricked white girls in the school
fAdAANAA4OOAu Will Dtllo.
/ Differs With Collins
!, Earlier in the hearings John
Paul Collins. who retired as
Eastern's principal a year ago,
testified in a letter that integra-
ton had created great disorder
and disciplinary difficulty at the
school. Miss Davis was not
asked directly whether she
agreed or disagreed with Mr.
Collins statement. But Mr.
Williams asked her:
did you consider Mr.. Collins
a good school administrator"
eyes. I did," the retired teach
er replied.
/ Miss Davis's testimony diff
4 fered from that of Mr.. Collins
in some particulars, however.
Mr.. Collins said that the school
/ had abandoned dances at the re-
quest of students, that there
were serious sex problems and
other disciplinary difficulties, and
that Negro students Jagged far
behind white students in their
school work.
Miss Davis said. however, that
1.-THE school had a very success
lful" senior prom last June at
tended by both Negro and white
students. She said she had
heard of some sex problems but
added. II never knew of any
myself"
4 Miss Davis testified that some
of her 10th grade colored pupils
sometimes wrote unintelligibly
But she said she couldn't gen.
leralize on whether the average
achievement of colored children.
grade for grade. was higher or
lower than that Of white chill
dren.
Asked whether her own class
room discipline problems had in
creased because of indignation,
she replied no. Sometimes some
students were more irresponsi-
BILE" but this was merely in not
having the proper books and as
Isignments. Miss Davis said.
/ Il had no overt disorder in the
classroom" she declared.
! Col0red Principal on Stand
/ The last witness Of the morn
ing session yesterday was Mrs.
Willie A. Dodson, colored, prin-
lcipal of the Eliot Junior High
School since 1852. She said
there we're more than 900 stu
dents there last year and esti-
mated that less than / per cent
of them were white.
+ The committee brought cut
that Eliot. prior to indignation,
had been transferred from the
white to the colored division.
Mrs. Dodson, answering COM
mittee questions, said there had
been no disciplinary problems
at Eliot after indignation that
had not existed before. Just
1.-THE normal disciplinary prob
lens" she said.