Evening Star Newspaper, December 28, 1928, Page 24

CARUSI ASSAIL BUDGET METHODS Board of Education Chair- man Says Commissioners Do Not Understand Problems. Criticizing the method of guenunx public school estimates to the Bureau of the Budget, Dr. Charles F. Carusi, chairman of the Board of Education, yesterday protested that the District Commissioners “do not know and un- derstand conditions in the schools.” He further declared that the school system alone among other municipal activities in the District has been “a victim of systematic neglect,” which he blamed largely upon the apparent in-|soun mmissione ability of the Col ers to pass effectively on the vital needs of the schools in pruning the annual estimates. His criticism was made at a luncheon meeting of the public schools committee of the Washington Board of Trade in the City Club, at which the proposed second five-year school building m gram, about which school officials conferred with the Commissioners earlier in the day, was explained to the business men assembled. Frank Ballou, superintendent of schools, and Henry Galligan, chairman of the Board of Education's legislative committee, also outlined the hopes and - tions under such a program and the manner in which the board had worked out the five-year plan. Trade Board Advice Asked. As in the case of representatives of the civic associations, the school officials put up to the trade board the question of taking a definite stand as to whether in addition to the sum necessary to provide for the current expenses of the school system for 1931 there shall be added $3,000,000 for buil and gcunds. provided, of course, that the tal is not in excess of one-third of the total revenue of the District from all sources. They likewise asked the trade board committee to go on record as to whether or not the District Com- missioners shall transmit public school estimates to the Budget Bureau with such recommendations as the Board of Education makes. It was the practice of the Commis- sioners in eliminating such school items as they deemed fit to make the District budget meet the other needs of the city that drew caustic comment from Dr. Carusl. ‘While the trade board committee re- served action at this time, Chairman ‘Thomas P, Littlepage was authorized to appoint a subcommittee of five mem- bers to make a report on the two prop- ositions submitted after conferring with the Commissioners and others interested in the welfare and advancement of the Dr. Carusi outlined the previous struggles of the Board of Education to keep the school system on a parity with other municipal activities. “It is not on a parity now,” he declared. Refer- ring to the * tic neglect” to which, he charged, the schools have been subjected, he said present condi- tions are apt to continue as “Congress 1‘cm:.mt likely to see the light for some e.” Dr. Carusl stated that the Commis- sioners had “turned deaf ears” to the plea that a third of the District reve- allotted in we were not interpref ly wishes of the citizens of Washington,” Carusi stated, “so we put the question up to a recent meeting of civic repre- sentatives.” 1;1‘: explained mt;hn the Bo::d of fi:\; cation, agency charged supervisionr of the public schools, and Homal stem 1o meck 1, puskng the me g budget into final shape. "T&l Commis- sioners do not know and understand conditions in the schools,” he added. “The Board of Education does know these conditions and necessities, where- Soves o "be ety mpressed with move y r them.” . Unless the civic and business 1- s e Dufiy, st 1) ems _invo! sc system, he warned, the system still will be confronted with mt obstacles, and the public will derive no benefits under the pi five-year building program. “The only way to get school buildings,” he said, “is to get the Com- missioners to forward our estimates to the Budget Bureau. We are prohibited by law from asking for anything not included in the estimates.” Dr. Carusi and other board members told the committee that they welcomsd any expression from the Board of Trade, whether favorable or unfavorable. “We want to know what your board wants,” Carusi said. Supt. Ballou declared that the five- year building bill was founded “on a d basis of facts” and that in pre- paring it the Board of Education “mag- nified the school assets and minimized !hewlhbflluu to keep it within the tax Tt " It may not be an ideal program or provide for all the needs of the next five years,” he sald, “but we belleve it is sufficiently elastic to take care of sit- uations as they develop.” “If we do not have a second bill, we will be doing as we did five years ago, W. | with no plan to work upon,” he added. The old method he described as “a hit or miss” plan for securing buildings. Two Plans Are Favored. The Board of Trade committee went on record as favoring two separate prop- ositions put up to it by the school of- ficlals. It voted in opposition to the principle laid down by the Budget Bu- reau in a proviso in the District appro- priation bill that the $300,000 it allowed for the new Business High School be made available only if the present Busi- ness structure at Ninth street and Rhode Island avenue be used, when abandoned, as an elementary school for colored puplils. A. J. Driscoll, who presented the resolution, protested that such power should be lodged with the Board of Education. As chairman of the legislative com- mittee of the board, Mr. Gilligan out- lined the so-called teachers’ rest bill, explaining that it would be a good thing for the school system to give teachers a year's leave for study and improvement abroad. Since the bill provides for ele- mentary teachers being permitted such leaves of absence, he sald the maximum salary they could be paid during a year’s absence was $800, the difference in their regular salary going to the substitute. He did not believe it would affect the longevity pay of teachers. Without a dissenting vote, the Board of Trade committee adopted a resolu- tion favoring the bill, which has been pending before the District Commis- sioners upward ot a year. VICTIM OF OWN TRAP. Man Is Wounded by Shotgun He Planted for Robbers. PHILADELPHIA, December 28 (#).— Louis Celleni, whose home has been re- celving considerable attention from burglars of late, mounted a double-bar~ reled shotgun over a picture frame and attached a long cord from it to the door of his room. .If a burglar opened the door he would be the target for both barrels. Celleni forgot the trap when he opened the door. He was taken to'a hospital in a critical con- dition. R R Aerial Traffic Increases. HAVANA, December 28 (P). F %) grea the arrival of a number of private planes carrying Winter visito: 2], 5. MILLIONAIRES THE STAR, WASHINGTO Letter on Way 2 Months Acknowledges 7. O, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1928 Vote News Received in Less Than Second INCREASE T0 30000 s e dential election returns, received in the South African Congo in & fraction of a “Violent Debasement in Cur-|secona were acknowledged in a letter The returns were broadcast from the rency Value” Held Respon- [, The returms were o epenera Koo sible for Huge Gain. By the Assoclated Press. CHICAGO, December 28.—Million- tric Co. at Schenectady, N. Y. The letter of appreciation, which was sent by the fastest travel routes, was received from C. R. Stegall, superin- tendent of the Carson Industrial School, aires have increased from 7,000 in 1914/ NET OVER HOTEL LOBBY to between 30,000 and 40,000 in 1928, Carl Snyder of the Federal Reserve | Bank of New York told the American ' BALKS SUICIDE TRIAL Statistical Association in convention Man, Despondent Because of Fail- yesterday. “Possibly half or more of these (new millionaires) have been created by the violent debasement in the value of the ing Health, Suffers Severe Internal Injuries. currency which has taken place since |By the Associated Press. the beginning of the war,” he said. “A NEW ORLEANS, La, December 28. considerable part of the present nuim-)__y.noc R, Orr, 30, high school in- ber must be due, also, to the enormous rise in the value of securities since the [ structor, of Birmingham, Al war, and to the colossal mlnlgulltlon tempted to end his life by plunging in security values, incomparably the atest gamble the world has ever own. “Years of unusual expansion are paid for by lean years of depression md‘ unemployment, often involving wide- spread suffering. High are brought low, fortunes are wrecked, and worst of all, ess and economic morale of the Nation seriously impair- ed. “When fortunes can be made gam- bling in pieces of paper, of what at- traction are the unique virtues of in- dustry, sobriety and thrift. These are temporarily thrown into the discard, re- luctantly and discontentedly to be re- sumed when the house of cards has crumbled. “The apparent gains of prosperity, or at least of booms, are largely il- lusory and in so far as they are a reality have been, in the past at least, too dearly paid for. Clearly, true pros- perity, that is, the general diffusion of comfort and well being among the largest possible number of the populas tion, is not dependent upon inflation and boom. “Clearly, we do not need a debase- ment of the currency of exchange or a frenzied commotion of speculation in stocks to assure this condition of well being. We have this amply at other times without the attachment of a chxmp-gqe jag.” MAN’S THROAT SLASHED IN ROW OVER TRAIN SEAT Refusal to Remove Feet Leads to Bitter Battle Between Passengers, By the Assoclated Press. NEW ALBANK, Ind, December 28.—James B. MacKechnie, 43, of Brat- tleboro, Vt., is in a local hospital with a slashed throat as the result of a quar- rel with W. H. Davis, 45, of Louisville, Ky, over an unoccupied seat on a Southern passenger train en route here, An altercation ensued when Davis, his wife and young son attempted to use a seat on which MacKechnie had his feet. Witnesses said MacKechnie began to beat Davis’ head on the floor, when the latter drew a pocketknife and slashed at his assailant. Davis was taken to the police station here, but was released when no request to hold him was received from authori- ties of Harrison County, where the fight took place. Skins of wild animals, such as , ocelot, otter and alligator, Honduras are to be offered in this country. 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