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10 THE. SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., DECEMBER 8, 1920—PART O E. . HARRS COUNTERS - SHHONS CHARGES ;. Architect Declares Only One/ ~ School Project Has Been Unduly Delayed. ZLibert L. Harris, municipal architect, ared last night that only one of 17 ccts cited by Representative Sim- 2s in his speech in the House late ierday on the Washington school #i.vation might justly be listed as a pcs- &b'e example of “serious administrative delay” in public school construction here. Eleven buildings named by Mr. Sim- mons as slow in construction, Mr. Har- ris said, actually have progressed at| “rcasonable,” “normal” or even “excep- | tional” rates cf speed. Two projects said. may trace their aparent “delay” ‘o the slow acquisition of sites, involving prolonged transactions Wwith property | cwners or difficulties occasioned by the 125 per cent price limitation. One proj- ect has been held up by an insufficient appropriation allowed by the Bureau of the Budget to start construction. Another could not be started until a District-owned residence was transferred intact from the school site to an ad- joining tract, while one was tied up be- cause of financial difficulties by the con- tractor over which District officials had no control. Harris Explains Procedure. Representative Simmons listed the 17 building projects and the structural status of each so that, he said, “Con- gress and the people of Washington may judge” When the charges were called to Mr. Harris' attention he gave his version of conditions surrounding each of the projects and explained the procedure followed by his office in han- dling school work. Pcinting out that appropriations for £chool buildings generally become avail able on July 1 of each vear, Harris ex- plained that in preparing drawings preference is given elementary schools and the work is so planned as to have the schools completed a year from the following September. “That procedure necessarily forces separation of plans for the junior high schools into the latter part of the fis- cal vear and effort is made to place them on the market so as to make the completed building available not later than the beginning of the second term, or 19 months after the appropriation is available,” he explained. “The usual contract time for a graded school is nine months and from 12 to 13 months for a junior high school. “This shows,” he pointed out, “that under ideal and economical conditions 14 months elapse between the date that aopropriations become available and the completion of an elementary school building, and 19 months elapse before a junior high school is completed. These periods include time for the preparation of drawings and specifications, advertis- I'x;u: for bids and preparation of con- acts.” Must First Acquire Site. “In some instances, however, appro- priations are made for buildings before the site is acquired,” his statement con- tinues. “This accounts for delay on some projects, as a contract cannot be made for a building until the site is in the possession of the District. This was the situation in connection with the A. J. Bowen School, Paul Junior High School and the Langdon School. ‘The site for the Alice Deal Junior High | School has not been acquired to date, 80 that it is impossible to let the con- tract for this project.” Plans for the new Roosevelt High School, Harris said, are only partially | completed, because the Bureau of the _‘Budget cut his original request for| $1,000,000 as an initial appropriation to $300,000. Allowed by law only 3 per cent of the appropriation for the plans, Harris said, he was unable to complete the work with the $9,000 thus provided. The plans can be completed only at a cost of $45,000, he said, and explained that in the budget now before Con- gress he is asking special authority to use more than 3 per cent of the already appropriated $300,000 so that the plans may be completed prior to the next fiscal year. Court Verdict is Awaited. A verdict from the Condemnation Court, expected January 10, 1930, it is hoped, will speed action on the Alice Deal School. Harris explained that delay in begin- ning of construction of the Deal School will be avoided through recent action of Congress in authorizing that a cer- tain sum of money from the unex- pended balance of previous school ap- propriations be used without limitation to pay the condemnation jury’s price. Work on the Powell School, at Four- teenth and Upshur streets, was delayed lew months, Mr. Harris said, because 8 residence had to be transferred from | the school site to a new position. The John Eaton School assembly- gymnasium, plans for which Mr. Sim- mons said will not be ready until next July, will be completed, according to Mr. Harris, next September 15, instead of January 1, 1931, as the Representa- tive stated. The Buchanan School addition, which Simmons pointed out will not be ready until 14 months after the money was available, is being completed at a “re- asonable and proper rate,” Mr. Harris said. Progress on the Park View School ad- dition was held to be “all right” by Mr. Harris. Title Acquisition Delayed. The Anthony J. Bowen School, de- layed because the District was unable o get title to the property until Janu- ary, 1929, will be completed June 12, 1930. Completion of the Takoma School assembly-gymnasium 13 months after the money was available was charac- % terized as normal by Mr. Harris, while additions to the Prancis Junior High and the S. J. Bowen Schools 14 months after appropriations were available also were said to be normal. The fact that the John Quincy Adams School was 84 per cent complete 15 months after the money was available, Mr. Harris declared, represents “a dog- gone good record.” . The Langdon School project was de- Jayed by financial difficuities of the con- tractor Mr. Simmons' listing of the Raymond School as 93 per cent complete, the Burrville School as 64 per cent com- plete, the Paul Junior High School as 83 per cent complete and the Murch School 54 per cent complete 15 months after the money was available was characterized by Mr. Harris as “correct end_reasonable.” These bulldings all were provided for in the same appropriation bill and, naturally, he said, the order in which they were taken up by his staff brought about a variance in their progress. The Morgan School, which the Representative said was only 42 per cent complete 15 months after the ap- propriation was available, was the only building which Mr. Harris believed might fairly be used as an example of “administrative delay.” The initial appropriation for this building was insufficient because the estimates were based on simpler equip- ment than subsequently was decided upon for the school. Mr. Harris said he should have asked for more money and he will take any blame that is coming for that school. Lo Rum Duty Increases. KINGSTON, Jamaica (#).—Rum duties neti-4 the Jamaican government $600,000 in the first six months of the fiscal year This is an increas: of £80,000 over the same period last year. ‘Total customs receipts in the wx time Smexg-gnore- than. §2,000,000. A he | age was only 683, and that the actual | ISCHOOL PROGRAM HIT BY (Continued From First Page.) the law, in spite of the faulty and in-| flexible provisions in it, in spite of items which it erroneously authorized, Con- gress has gone ahead and has met the need, and is meeting it, just so fast as the need develops and prudent expendi- | ture of public funds justifies.” Letter of Capper Read. At the outset of his speech Mr. Sim- | mons _read Senator Capper’s letter to | Dr. Carusi and Dr. Carusi’s rcply. Copies of both were inserted in the record. Mr. Simmons declared the school board president’s letter. “inter- | esting reading, both because of what it | says and what it fafls to say.” He pointed out that while Carusi stated the annual estimated elementary school enrollment increase for the years 1926- 1930 was 800 pupils, and that the actual increase for that period averaged 1,143, he failed to call attention to the fact that during the last two years the aver- increase for the year 1928-29 was only | 480. These figures, Simmons told the | House, show “a rapid decline in the | school population.” Considering: Dr. Carusi's assertion that the board “is not aware” of seri- ous administrative delays, the subcom- mittee chairman checked a list of buildings and appropriations, so that “the Congress and the people of Wash- | ington may judge.” He declared: | “Money for the school at Fourteenth and Upshur streets became available | July 1, 1928. The contract was let 122 months later, and 15 months after the money was available for expenditure the building was 25 per cent completed. “Three hundred thousand dollars, to begin construction of the Roosevelt High School, became available July 1, 1929. I am advised that plans cannot be com- pleted for the Roosevelt (Business) High School until additional funds are made available by Congress for the use of the municipal architect’s office. The school authorities and the municipal architect failed to advise the appropriations sub- committee and the Congress, when they appeared before it on the 1930 District | bill, that the plans could not be com- | pleted unless a greater amount than 3 per cent of the $300,000 appropriated for this school should be made available for that purpose. The intervening delay is due entirely to their oversight. Con- gress gave them exactly what they asked for. Work on these plans was aban- doned when they were about 10 per cent completed. It seems hardly likely that a contract will be made for this build- ing until toward the close of the fiscal year 1930, if then. Question of Serlousness. “However, in view of the admission contained in the letter of Dr. Carusi and the statement of Dr. Ballou that they overestimated the high school need, and that the asking of funds for carrying out of the high school part of the ‘five-year program is being delib- | erately retarded by school officials, it is probable that they do not consider this delay in starting construction of a high school to accommodate 1,500 children as a ‘serious administrative delay.’ In any event, Dr. Carusi says that the Board of Education is ‘not aware’ of it. “The initial appropriation of $200,000 for the Alice Deal Junior High School became available July 1, 1929. ‘This building is intended and expected to re- lieve the congestion at the E. V. Brown School in Chevy Chase, where there are eight part-time classes and three por- tables now in use, and a need for seven additional rooms shown by the school officials’ report.” Continuing, Mr. Simmons said there is still complaint about the crowded conditions in the John Eaton School, from which one portable and six part- time classes will be eliminated with the completion of the Alice Deal Junior High School. He contended that delay in starting the junfor high school should be considered “serious.” Money to start its construction has been available for five months, he said, and the work is being held up while the Park and Plan- ning Commission determines street | grades and the location of the Fort Drive. Declaring it has been his observation that school officials consider the need SIMMONS AS SELF-RUINOUS TATIVE_SIMMONS. _ should be appropriated for as provided | in the five-year act,” Mr. Simmons de- clared. “An analysis of the 14 building projects for which he asks that appro- priations b2 sought shows that one, the Garrison School, has been included in the 1931 budget by the District Com- missioners, but not included in the Budget Bureau lists sent to Congress, for the obvious reason that the old Business H'gh School will adequately care for that need, and this project should also be placed in the group of abandoned buildings. “The 13 other projects total $2,720,- 000 estimated cost. Four of these are for junior high school accommodations totaling $1,475,000, one of which, the Jefferson Junior High School, at an es- timated cost of $500,000, has been tem- porarily dropped from this year's budget estimates with the approval of the school officials. ‘Three are for combi nation gymnasium assembly hall addi- tions costing $180,000. One is for a combined eight-room and assembly gymnasium addition to cost $190,000. One would replace & 16-room building now in use, at-a cost of $300,000. Two are 8-room and one a 4-room addition, to cost a total of $385,000. One is for an eight-room assembly gymnasium at Fourteenth street and Kelmia road, the estimated cost of which was $190,000. “This school furnishes a good illus- tration of the fallacy of demanding the carrying out of the five-year program without examination of facts or figures. In the 1929 estimates the Board of Ed- this building at Fourteenth and Kalmia road. The Commissioners, the Budget Bureau and Congress refused. Pupils in Two Portables. “On October 24, 1929, there were 21 pupils in school in two portables on that site. Should the Commissioners, the Budget Bureau or Congress be con- demned for refusing to expend public money, $175,000, to build an eight-room structure with assembly hall and gym- nasium to house 31 students? I take it not. Yet this item is included in this blanket condemnation by Mr. Carusi, and Dr. Ballou recommends that ‘ap- propriations be sought' for it, among others, Iisting it as necessary.” Explaining that Dr. Ballou recom- mends only that appropriations be sought to carry out the “unchanged” projects, Mr. Simmons asserted “if Con- gress today appropriated for the balance of the program as outlined by him it would add only a total of 44 rooms to the elementary system, at a cost of $955,000.” ‘The Representative sald further: “Of the 10 sites listed by Dr. Ballou, two have been purchased, one. is in condemnation and the remaining seven will cost $372,000. Of the 12 play- grounds listed by him, four are in con- demnation, which means that money is ucation requested $175,000 to construct for every building “a serious one until | available to pay for them, and the esti- the money is appropriated.” the Con- | Mated cost of the other six is $88,000." gressman said he would suggest that the | Commenting upon Dr. Carusi’s asser- citizen groups which have been lobby- | tion that the program failed because ing Congress for more appropriations | $4,000,000 was not appropriated each for the relief of the Eaton and E. V. |year for it, Mr. Simmons quoted from a Brown Schools “devote their time and |table which Carusi supplied to Senator energy to the speeding up of construc- | Capper to show that had Congress tion for their relief for which appro- | granted every dollar asked by the board priations have already been made.” |in 1929-30 the total appropriation would to continue appropriations for_schools | figure. in that area. fook tion to the ‘arusi’s table, whic! ot U e showed that a total of $26,429,230 had Continuing his check of buildings and | been requested by the Sehool Board their appropriations, Mr. Simmons de- | during the five-year period. This total, clared: Simmons explained to the House, in- “Money for the assembly hall and |cluded a number of duplications of items gymnasium at John Eaton School be- | carried year after year, and that, based came available July 1, 1929. It is eX- |on jtems carried in estimates only once, pected that the plans ‘will be ready by | the total actually asked by the Sehool July 1, 1930, and the building com- Board was $17,322,420, pleted by January 1, 1931, “Money for an addition to the Bu- chanan School became available July 1, 1929. The contract had not been let | when Mr. Carusi made his reply to Sen- | ator Capper. It is expected that the | building will be ready 14 months after | the money was available, or September 1, 1930, . “The same applies to the Park View School addition. “Money became available for the Anthony J. Bowen School July 1, 1928. The contract was let 15 months later, and it is hoped to have the building | done 23 months after the appropriation was available. “Thirteen months elapsed between | July 1, 1928, when the money became | available for the assembly hall and | gymnasium at Takoma and the comple- | tion of the addition. “The addition to the Francis Junior High School and the addition to the S. J. Bowen School were not completed until more than 14 months after the appropriations were available. “Fifteen months after the money was appropriated for the Morgan School the building was 42 per cent complete. “Pifteen months after the money was available for the John Quincy Adams School the building was 84 per cent complete, the Rymond School 93 per cent complete, the Burrville School 64 per cent complete, the Paul Junior High School 83 per cent complete and the Murch School 54 per cent complete. “Sixteen months after the Langdon School funds became available the con- tract was let. The contractor failed to complete the building in the required time, and it is hoped to ‘have it done 30 months after the money was avail- | able. “Mr. Carusi’s letter clearly states that there has been no ‘serious admini: trative delay’ in expending funds appre- priated by Congress. Two years ago the record was worse than it is now. This_record, compiled as of the time Mr. Carusi wrote the letter, clearly neg- atives his statement.” Conflict in Statements. Dr. Carusi’s contention that the pro- gram would have been completed if sufficient moneys ‘had been appropri- | ated infers that the program should and would have been carried out, Sim- mons told the House, whereas Dr. Bal- lou’s statement which accompanied the School Board president’s letter to Sena- tor Capper made it plain that such is not the officials’ intention. The school superintendent’s statement to which Representative Simmons referred listed six projects, representing $570,000, for abandonment; seven, estimated to cost $790,000, to be “transferred elsewhere,” and five, at an estimated value of $275,000, for “postponement.” “Here, then, is a total of $1,635000 estimated projects in the five-year pro- gram which Dr. Ballou frankly admits should not be built as provided for in the five-year act,” the Representative ; declared. These, he said, include two sites, two playgrounds, three additions to existing sites and 10 buildings com- prising 66 elementary class rooms. “Dr. Ballou finally lists 14 building projects, 10 site projects and 12 play- ground . projects .which .he recommends figures in Dr. But $14,475250 Voted. “In other words,"” the Nebraskan said, “had Congress appropriated money to build every building and buy every piece of ground that the Board of Edu- cation has asked for during the past five years, we would have appropriated SOL HERZOG . .. Inc. Ties . . . We know the most particular men will like these Sol Herzog ties for Christmas, be- cause they're the kinds they like all the other days of the year, —the most wonderful selections at ] $180 $Qu0 $:50 $3.00 54.00 and up to Sol— HERZOG —Inc. Cor. 9th at F Congress, he added, may be relied upon | have been $284,700 below the $4,000,000 | The Nebraskan took exception to the | but $17,322420. This fully negatives the inference of his (Carusi's) entire letter that the Board of Education has tried to have the appropriation of th entire $20,000,000 intended in the act. Mr. Simmons added that the total ac- tually appropriated was $14,475,250, and not $14,268250, as Dr. Carusi's table showed. Discussing the District fund surplus, | which Dr. Carusi had said indicated a {more liberal policy might have been followed in regard to schools, Mr. Sim- mons declared that there were only two periods when the District had a sur- plus. The first surplus, amounting to $5,257,528, arose, he explained, while the 50-50 and 60-40 plans of appro- priating for the District were in effect. Of this sum $4,656,500 was appropri- ated for school buildings and grounds | under the five-year program. The sec- ond surplus, totaling $6,126,600.32, arose at the close of the fiscal year 1928, and by the end of the following year it had increased to $8,126,664.75. This whole | sum, however, was not free, he pointed out, since between $3,000,000 and $4,000,000 is required to assure the Dis- trict of the pay-as-it-goes system. He added that for three of the five years covered by the building program the surplus did not exist. When the second surplus was discovered, Mr. Simmons told the House, his committee asked the District to present additional estimates | for $1,674.500. Dr. Carusi's contention that “by the | bookkeeping device of eliminating cer- | tain so-called special funds” an effort | was made to have it appear the schools were receiving more than one-third of the District budget,” was met with the assertion that such an opinion dis- closes “a deplorable ignorance of the law.” He explained the law makes the gasoline tax and water-rent proceeds available for certain purposes only, and that to allot any part of these funds to schools would be in direct violation of the law. ‘The Representative then went on to analyze briefly the 1931 estimates now before Congress. Twelve school build- ing g; jects were submitted to the Bud- get Bureau by the Commissioners, he pointed out. Of these four were not in the program. The board asked $700,- 000 for senior high schools, $1,300.000 for junior high schools and only $580,. 000 for elementary schools, despite the fact that the board president stresses the need for the last type of school. ‘The Budget Bureau, after consideration, submitted to Congress estimates calling for expenditures of $655,000 on senior high schools, $1,160.000 on junior high schools and $955000 for elementary schools. Mr. Simmons pointed out in this connection that 24 class rooms added by the Budget Bureau are not in the program, and he characterized this as proof of the bureau’s desire to meet the school needs here and of the faults of the program. Eliminations Are Listed. Discussing in detail the portable school and part-time class situation in | the District, Representative Simmons told the #ouse that current construc- tion and construction provided in the| 1931 estimates will eliminate all but 26 part-time classes and all but 19 porta- bles. This will be attained by divisions as follows, according to his assertions: Division 1. At present provision ex- ists for relief of 16 of its 20 part-time classes and for 8 of its 18 portables; 1931 budget proposes elimination of all hut four portable and four part-time classes. Division 2. Neither portable nor part- time classes. Division 3. Provision now being made for relief of 20 of its 24 part-time classes and elimination of three of its seven portables. Division 4. Neither portable nor part- time classes. Division 5. Provision now being made to relieve 14 of 16 part-time classes and elimination of seven of its nine port- ables; 1931 budget proposes elimination of all portables and all but two part- time classes. Division 6. 1931 budget proposes elimination of two of its three e ables and 12 of its 20 part-time clggsf-'s for yourself, to every one. Now the most luxurious tress is available at the price you for- merly paid for an ordinary mattress. 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Divisions 10 and 11. Provision now made for elimination of all but 7 of present 16 portables and 30 of the pres- ent 44 part-time classes. The 1931 budget, together with possible appro- priations for completion of new Busi- ness High School, would permit the use of abandoried old Business building to relieve all portables and all but six part-time classes. These classes would be eliminated when the new health school is completed and the Joncs School is thus made available. Division 12. Neither portable nor part-time classes. Division 13. All but three portables and eight part-time classes will be eliminated when the old Business High School is vacated and other pending construction is completed. Many Pupils Affected. In summarizing Representative Sim- mons declared: “I find that 160 of the 186 part-time classes and 53 of the 72 portables will be relieved by construc- tion either now under way or appropri- ated for or in the 1931 budget pro- posals, and that of the 2,784 pupils now in portables there will remain only 591 and of the 6,972 pupils now in pat ;lfixgefl classes there will then be only Mr. Simmons' calculations, however, he said, do not account for the esti- mated 25 additional class rooms needed through increased enrollment for the next two and a half years. He de- clared further that the movements of population from one section of the Dis- trict to another, thus reducing the rolls in certain buildings, cannot be consid- ered, and added that “just so fast as mr:her need develops, that need will b met.” “It would appear from all available data,” he said. “and assuming the ac- ceptance of the present estimates, that Congress and the Budget Bureau have gone as far in the meeting of the build- ing need as the situation demands.” Building sites purchased or provided for either in current funds or the 1931 estimates may be expected to reduce the portable total from 19 to 6 and the part-time classes from 26 to 18, but this would seem to be “about the irre- ducible minimum in the school system of a growing city with a complex popu- lation,” Mr. Simmons asserted. 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A controversy over the disturbed con- | ditions in the textile industry, and par- | ticularly in Piedmont Carolinas, with | communism, ~wage disputes, " labor | unions, tariff protection and a score or more other issues injected, is expect- | ed to develop in both the Senate and House during the current session of Congress. Prominence of the three figures al- | ready principally identified with the subject, and the significance of the problem throughout New England and the South, are regarded by observers at the Capitol as forecasting a long contest of views which will at least bring most | representatives of the textiles States into the discussion. Senator Wheeler of Montana and Senator Overman of North Carolina, both Democrats, have already given in- dications that they are likely to clash over the scope and manner of a pro- posed inquiry of the textile industry, while in the House Representative Al- bert Johnson of Washington, a Repub- lican, intends to introduce & bill strik- ing at communism, which figures fre- quently in the discussion of the mill disorders in the Carolinas. Labor Position Clear. The American Federation of Labor, through Willlam Green, president, meanwhile has made its position clear with a sharp criticism of Senator Over- man for blocking unanimous action by the Senate during the closing days of the special session to consider the resolu- tion introduced by Senator Wheeler for an immediate investigation of cotton manufacturing conditions. ‘Senator Wheeler said today that he proposed at the earliest possible oppor- tunity to ask for Senate consideration of his resolution, which was reported out of the committee on manufactures with a majority report specifying that the requested probe of the industry be made by the Federal Trade Commission and the Tariff Commission, rather than by the committee on manufactures or any subcommittee, as proposed by Sen-) ator Wheeler. He recalled that, in view of the tariff debate, he had made only one attempt to ask unanimous consideration of his resolution, and that this brought strenu- ous objection from Senator Overman. In seeking action on the resolution Senator Wheeler had announced re- ceipt of communications from Mr. Green asking that the investigation be authorized immediately. The latter, at a conference of national and interna- tional groups affiliated with the feder- ation scored Senator Overman last month for ‘“denouncing all of us as bolsheviks and communists.” Excepted President, In subsequent correspondence between Senator Overman and Mr. Green the latter finally wrote: “Perhaps that part of my statement wherein I stated that Senator Overman had denounced all of us as bolsheviks and communists was too broad and comprehensive. It would have been more specific if I had quoted directly from your address. However, I spoke extemporaneously and I am quite willing to modify these remarks by smm& that when you strenuously opposed the adoption of the resolution of investigation the textile industry, sponsored by the American Federation of Labor, you excepted the president of the federation and the organization it- self from those you included .in. the category of communists and bolsheviks.” ‘This discussion is interpreted as in- With shoes to suit your DYE will not harden ill it rub off when once dicating the active participation of the | federation in backing the Wheeler res- olution, The Montana Senator, mean- while, is considering a plan to revert to his original proposal for an investiga- tion by a Senate committee or subcom- mittee, rather than by the Federal Trade or the Tariff Commission. Sen- ator Overman, on the other hand, has announced that he would welcome investigation, providing it is undertaken by the Federal Trade Commission, pref- erably, or by another Federal agency. ||| He declared that he intends to oppose any move to the contrary. Would Welcome Investigation. ’ “There has been so much false mis- | Tepresentation of our people in -the Carolinas that I will welcome an in-1 vestigation by a mon-partisan Federal | body,” he asserted. “The public ought to be apprised of the true facts in these mill disturbances to develop what- | ever sentiment might be necessary to| secure any reforms found needed. Then | it should be up to the State Legislatures, | and not to the Federal Government, The main thought I have is to clear away all the misrepresentation in m; State and in the Carolinas generall Senator Wheeler holds that his reso- lution is sufficiently comprehensive to cover Communistic activities in con- nection with cotton mill _conditions. 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