Evening Star Newspaper, September 28, 1928, Page 16

S THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C; FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER e SAY .. SHDOS NEED S5 Officials Discuss Increasing Appropriation Without Recognizing the need of the public echools for increased appropriations to carry out the lagging five-year school ! building program, District officials, it | was learned today, are discussing plans for obtaining about $5,000,000 for the schools without raising the exesting tax rate of $1.70 on $100 of assessed valua- tion. The building program, the officiads | realize, is to be further jeopardized i the next fiscal vear because of the drastic cuts which had to be made in | the school budget to scale down the total estimates for the District to the | figure fixed by the Burcau of the Budget. Instead of a five-y originally intended. it y de-| veloped into a six-year J m. In-| cluding the appropriation ool | puildir gs and grounds for the current | fiscal year, §12.028.250. of the estimated | £20,000.000 needed to carry out the five-year program, it was said, has been provided, leaving about $8,000.000 to complete the program after the prepar- ation of the 1930 budget. The Board of Education, it was pointed out, asked for $3,700,000 for | ihe building program in the 1930 fi cal year, but this figure was reduced by | the Commissioners to $3,000.000. The | Commissioners, however, decided to for the remainder in the 1931 year, out since the original author tion was entitled the “five-year build- ing program act,” the question now confronting the officials is whether a new bill must be prepared to authorize the 1931 appropriations. | Carusi's Statement. Meanwhile, today, the emphatic declaration was made by Charles F'\ Carusi, president of the Board of | Education, that the total ap- propriation_ required for a second five-year school building program would be less than $12,000,000, the amount actually appropriated under the present building program, and that instead of being increased by virtue of a new building program, the District tax rate should be reduced “by 5 cents.” | Mr. Carusi’s discussion of the local tax rate was prompted by reports at- tributed to District officials that if the school system is granted anything like an $8,000,000 appropriation for a sec- ond five-year building program, the District tax rate would be increased ar program as $2.35. “If $12,000,000—which was all of the authorized $20,000,000 we received under the present program—equals a tax rate of $1.70 a thousand, then it is simple arithmetic to compute a re- duced tax rate if the building appropri- ations for the next five years are less,” Mr. Carusi said. He reiterated a statement he made yesterday that until the District’s civic and trade bodies report on the school needs as they see them it will be im- ble to set a definite figure for a second building program. He declared, however, that a second program would call for a total appropriation over a five-year period of less than $12,000,000, “perhaps $9,000,000 or $10,000,000.” Plans Tax Drop. Should the figure drop to $9,000,000, Carusi said, he sees no reason why the tax rate, if it is to be affected by the school appropriation, “should not be made $1.65.” Commenting on District Auditor Donovan'’s suggestion that jurisdiction over the public schools of the District be placed in the hands of the Commis- sioners, Mr. Carusi expressed surprise “that Donovan didn't hesitate a long while before he urged the passage of a bill which was so thoroughly defeated \lxgldse'r. pressure of public sentiment in Mr. Carusi contended that if author- ity over the public schools were taken out of the hands of “an independent | Gage Hats \Felts & Velours 5 to %10 Featuring extra large and small head sizes The Gage Hat is by far the leading and most outstanding popular - price tailored hat made today. A hat well- known to every woman and miss for individual style, com- fortable fitting headsize, qual- ity and long service. All the new Autumn colors. 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We make and mold hats to the head at reasonable prices. \ CREERON 4 12th Sts CHINESE STUDENTS board of gducation” and_ placed with the Commissioners, “the schools would get only what's left after all other Dis- trict_needs were taken care of.” The people of Washington, he said, have a right to ask the question, “Why is it that model Washington, with its white marble place for the Commissioners to work in, and its beautiful broad streets, is obliged to send its children to frame shacks and to part-time classes?” “The Board of Education is required by law to submit its estimates for school needs and for improvement of these unpleasant conditions, and when it does some one comes along and says au-| thority over the schools should not be with that board but with the Commis- Carusi said thing has humor in it for all its riousness,” he observed. “Here two s ago, when the people of Wash- ington were up there in Congress com- plaining of the ‘deplorable’ conditions | of the public schools, I didn't hear a peep out of the Commissioners about responsibility for the schools being theirs. - Now, however, when improve-, ment in the system is becoming notice-'| able, they claim the system as their | own.” REGISTER UNIFORMS| | Designs Filed With Government. Use of Native Materials Sought. GANTON, China (#).—Student bodies which bave their own caps and uni- forms must register their respective de- signs with the government and now the use of native-made cloths is urged by the authoritie The provincial governments of Kwang- tung and Kwangsi have been instructed by the branch political council to in- augurate a campaign in universities and middle and-primary schools to encourage students to practice economy and thrift. As a step in this direction attention has been called to the attractiveness of the native woven materials, which are both low in price and very durable. Recommendations governing the mak- ing of unifgrms e published by the school .’un*l ties as a guide. The color and sfyle of the uniforms are to be chosen by the school officials them- selves and are to be reported to the government for record. Uniforms, caps and badges for students in universities and technical schools are to be of dis- tinctive pattern so as to be readily dif- fentiated from those used by ordinary schools. ARTISTS’ MODEL PLEADS GUILTY TO LARCENY Miss Adelle Abbott, 18, IS Referred to Probation Officers by Judge Schuldt. \ Miss Adelle M. Abbott, 18 years old, who claims to be an artists’ model and said she lived at 3475 Fourteenth street, pleaded guilty to two charges of larceny and three of false pretenses before Judge Gus A. Schuldt in Police Court today. Her case was referred to proba- tion officers, who will report next Fri- ay. ‘The larceny charges against Miss Ab- bott accuse her of taking a pair of ear- rings, a fur neckpiece and a cameras from the Hecht Co. last Christmas eve. ‘The false pretenses papers charge her with buying wearing apparel and other articles on the charge account of Miss Sallie jGravely, 103 Summerfield street, Chevy Chase. that Lelong has designed a beautiful new leather bag cleverly rounded at the top to make handle all in one with the bag itself. We have had these bags cleverly . copied to sell at $4.95— a new low price for an exact reproduction of a bag created by this great designer. (Main Floor.) I see -~ that the woman who de- sires to design her own costumes will find in- spiration in - the new Piece Goods Daylight Section on the Fifth Floor. 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When he sailed two months ago Mr. White created a_ considerable stir with statemente alleged to show Gov. Smith’s record as an assemblyman in | bills having to do with gambling, vice | and prostitution. He withdrew part of | this, only to cable from Paris a denial that he had retracted any of his charges. “Now I'm not going to discuss poli- lics.” he said when ship news reporters cornered him on the President, Roose- velt “I have been away o long time and I don’t even know who is running.” he | added. “I have heard some talk about | Mrs. Willebrandt, is she a candidate? | “However, inside of 24 hours I will have cleaned up my mail and become conversant with the situation: I may let out a whoop then.” “Are you going o vote for Gov. Smith?” one reporter asked. “No, not this time. But I am a great | be observed in admirer of the governor. I will cam- paign for Secretary Hoover, but do not know when I shall start or where I will speak. 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