Evening Star Newspaper, February 3, 1930, Page 3

! MAKESHIFT BARED -IN TRADE SCHOOLS Handicaps of Using Class Rooms as Workshops Are Revealed. This is the ninth af a series of articles describing the physical aspects of Wash- ington’s pudlic schools. As in the pre- vious articles, there is mo attempt here tc portray the school system's faults in en ezaggerated light. The two reporters who visited each school building are merely presenting the conditions as they saw them. The tenth and concluding article deal- with another group of schools will appear tomorrow. The most glaring inadequacies and potent examples of the makeshift in the Washington school system were found in the institutions for vocational : education. In one of these four schools the Abbot, the shops are scattered over six blocks. and are in four separate premises. In the Phelps a class is working in a former basement toilet room from which the closet facilities never have been Temoved. The Dennison has classes of girls working with such heat-producing equipment as ranges and bake ovens in Tooms designed only for traditional class Ppurposes. Similarly, the mechanical shops of the two boys’ schools are quar- tered in former class rooms, working handicaps in the form of poor ventila- tion, poor light and congestion upon the youths who are supposed to be fit- ting themselves to go out into life to earn a living withut further schooling. Also Have Their Contrasts. But despite bad conditions in these | fnstitutions, the vocational schools as ® class contribute their share to the contrasts which mark the Capital’s yhool system. The Margaret Murray ¥ ashington School’ for colored girls is giodern in design and appointments. Ot lacks an auditorium, just as each of Khe other three vocational schools do, but its work rooms are designed and ‘well adapted to the uses to which they @re put. The furniture throughout this #chool is newer, and the building itself possesses a dignity, by virtue of its physical adequacies, which is fitting to an institution preparing young people for kln immediate plunge into life's work. Here is what one of the reporters for The Star found on his visit to the gour vocational schools: Abbot Vocational School—This insti- dution, providing trade and correlated | mcademic training for 210 whife boys, is quartered in four separate premises. The main unit of the school, including the principal’s office, four academic €lass rooms, three shops and a drafting «class room, is housed in the 54-year-old Abbot School at New York avenue and Sixth street. Its auto shop is located 8#n a small rented building at 710 O street; its electrical shop is housed in a class room in the old Polk School at Seventh and P streets, and its print and ‘wood-working shops are in the Colum- bia Junior High School Building at Beventh and O streets. The scattered condition of the school’s facilities make 8t necessary for its 210 students to travel from one of the several locations o the other—specifically, from its shops n the vicinity of Seventh and O streets %o the main building at Sixth street and New York avenue, a distance of some five or six blocks—during the school day for the various subjects which their courses include. The four premises will be treated separately. Good for 5 Years in 1908. ‘The Abbot School Building itself lsi every inch a dirty, cold and almost | wholly inadequate structure. It was yecommended for “early abandonment” by the School House Commission in 1908, which then suggested it might be used as a site for vocational education. In making this suggestion, however, the commission declared that this should be the last use to which the old building might be put, “as” that body’s report set forth, “the building is'in such con- dition as to give effective service for a term of possibly five years.” And that ‘was 22 years ago this month. Briefly, the set-up there as a reporter for The Star saw it is like this: Paint shop in former class room has daylight only on two opposite narrow ends; Jacks adequate floor space for handling materials used in decoration and for the normal movements of classes in it. Plumbing shop in two former class! Fooms on separate floors; emne teacher has difficulty in maintaining proper su- pervision over two classes thus separa- ted; both rooms appeared crowded with demonstration equipment so that boys ‘were experiencing difficulty in getting sbout without obstructing one another’s progress. 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The full-size house sections are used for actual wiring installation by the young —Star Staff Photos. electricians. r opened windows to provide a semblance of ventilation. When reporter visited this class it was el d in bullding metal shop furniture for other schools of the system. Same Crowded Conditions. Same crowded conditions prevailed in this shop. The drafting room ap- peared better equipped than the shops, since a class room lends itself better to rows of drawing tables than to me- chanical equipment which has been placed in the other rooms; drawing tables of the cabinet type, however, were old and worn. This school uses a class room equip- ped with fourth-grade pupils’ seats and desks as gn “assembly hall"—and its students range up to 18 years of age! This room was occupied by a class when Teporter saw it and the large boys were badly cramped in the chairs made for 10-year-olds. The other three class | rooms, in which the students are sup- | posed to receive the academic train- ing, which comprises one-half of their course, were provided with more or less old and worn-out school room furniture. | ‘The hot-air heating plant is entirely inadequate; every room and shop visited by the reporter, with the possible excep- tion of the sheet metal shop (which'| had gas-burning tool heaters operating) | was cool, and the corridors, which lack heat provision, were cold. The base- ment is a damp, dark “hole”; toilet room 1is particularly dark and feeble electric lights burn continuously; the atmosphere was foul; the only windows in the place let ‘out upon a narrow air- il Senators, Representatives and Govern- way 10 feet below the sidewalk and it, incidentally, was used as a store space for pipes and such material used in the plumbing shop. Situated upon a small triangular block, this building | a recreation field. Pools of Water on Floor. Automobile shop at 710 O street—A small, unheated shop, which was {ll smelling, wet and cold the day the reporter saw it. Pools of water, upon which floated oil drippings, stood upon the irregular concrete floor that day; roof was leaking. A single unit of toilet equipment is located in a tiny glass booth in center of the shop; lacked ventilation. Auto shop teacher’s “desk,” where he keeps pupils’ records is & makeshift affair, in a tiny vesti- bule just inside the door to the shop. Electrical s] ‘Housed in a former class room of the Polk School; equip- ment includes full-sized house sec- tions upon which students practice wiring, and a series of benches at which they do smaller work; room presents a jumble in which boys constantly get in one another’s way as they move about on the small floor space. Teacher’s desk, in which he keeps records and texts for theory instruction, placed in midst of this mass of equipment and students. There is a waiting list of 10 students desiring to take this work, prevented by inadequate space. Columbia Junior High Building shops —Woodworking shop, made by remov- ing section of partition between two adjoining class rooms, adequate. Con- tains various cutting and milling ma- chines within fairly ample floor space. Light, from windows down full side of shop, ample. Print shop, similar to wood shop, will be adequately housed when work of converting class rooms which was under way when reporter called, is completed. A class room in P i by the Abbot School boys. Plans now are under way to transfer the electrical shop to this building; more appropriate reporter visited this building. Dennison School for Girls. Dennison Vocational School, S street | and Fourteenth street—This institution provides training in trades and corre- | lated academic work for approximately 130 white girls. All of the trades be- ing taught, lend themselves fairly well to the class room quarters which this building provides. Personal hygiene course (scalp, facial and nail treat- ment such as “beauty parlors” provide), however, seems disordered through the necessity of placing washstands, etc., against wall where blackboards former- ly were, and of having tables used for manicuring nearer the windows. This ‘shop” is more makeshift in character than most of the others. Sewing classes fit in former class room. Cafeteria class, however, is not readily adaptable to class room, as there is a lack of ventila- in the warmer weather of Spring and Fall; the refrigerator is placed in what | formerly was a cloak room and the main “kitchen” itself should be larger {to accommodate the four gas ranges. |gas fired bakers, electrically powered (mixers, and the various tables which now are in it. This class prepares school’s daily luncheon. Home-making and junior nursing is fairly well aceommodated in a former class room. This class makes daily three gallons of soup for the white crippled children school pupils in the Weightman Building. Sewing, penman- ship and typing classes, in some of which are taught also various kinds of novelty making, such as table favors, are fairly well provided for in the class rooms they occupy. There 1s no visible evidence of congestion in this building. One class room is used as an auditorium and recreation room, where girls have a phonograph and a plano. A former play room in the basement, the re- porter was advised, is to be fitted up to receive laundry equipment in the in- stitution of a course in launderin, cther play room is used as a gym- nasium. The heating plant s apper- ently adequate; tollet facilities are old | fashioned. avenue and T street.—This school pro- vides trade and academic training for approximately 214 colored boys. Abbot, shops wholly unsuited to them are quartered in former class rooms, though the general as they are at the other boys’ vocational scheol. lathes, benches, with the teacher’s desk; con- gestion bad. Print shop, while less crowded and seemingly better accom- modated in a class room, is handicapped by a fear to operate its two presses at same time; floor, lacking supports for such heavy equipment, quivers under the operation. type furniture provides excellent facil- ities in academic study rooms. formerly was the girls’ toilet room and in which the closets still stand, it is ‘was moved here from a portable which was condemned by the municipal archi- tect’s engineers on their inspection tour last Summer. She repairing is taught in adequate regular heating facilities so a gas heater was in use when reporter called. structure erected on school grounds by bricklaying class after plans prepared by drafting class. improvement over the first, is about to ke opened also to the auto mechanic class. The structure now in use has plant. Phelps Shops Unsuitable. Phelps Vocational School, Vermont Like conditions here robably are not quite as acutely bad The machine shop contains five & drill, forge and numerous College lecture room Bricklaying is being taught in what ery cold and quite damp. class a tiny basement room; lacks Automobile shop is housed in a brick A second shop, an team heat, supplied by main building The first of these shop build- Genuine Ko Grid Tubes. Just as pictur in walnut cabinet, . handsome console figured butt ings was completed in 1926: the new one last year; both built as class “proj- ects” by the student bricklayers. Toilets in this school are old-fashioned in type, but are equipped with six porce- lain wash bowls recently installed. Strong Contrast of Modernity. Margaret Murray Washington Voca- tion School, O street near North Cap- ital—This school provides trade and academic training for approximately 228 colored girls. Quartered in a mod- ernly appointed building, including a big unit which was designed for this special work, this school presents strong contrast to the other girls’ vocational school in the Dennison Building. The rooms are excellently lighted and the sewing and art classes are equipped with new furniture of up-to-date de- sign. A movable partition between two class rooms form an “assembly hall” which, despite its modern surround- ings, is crowded and possessed of very narrow limitations. A housekeeping apartment, beautiful- 1y and completely furnished, provides @ practical means of training girls in this work. A tea room, equipped as well as a commercial establishment of this sort, is a feature of the school, while the cafeteria accommodations, which, by the way, provides meals for nearby school children, is beautifully appointed. This school contains an emergency room, a teachers’ room, is well heated and is provided with the new type toilet room equipment. Three of the teachers instruct in academic subjects, while the remaining 15 teach the various trades. —_—— Construction of the subway in Rome has been started. Kolster:5..Radio Ister With 3 Screen Complete . . . . hear i ed All the nationally known features that have made Kolster one of the finest set: the world are embodied in this handsome Screen Grid Radio. We simply ask that you see this set. .. wonderful tone, and remember the price is only $112.50 complete. Formerly Sold for $202 Sold on Easy Monthly Terms HARRY C. GROVE INCORPORATED 523 11th St. TARIFF IS SOUGHT BY OIL DELEGATION' Producers From Western States Are Here to Seek Protective Legislation. About 400 independent producers and royalty owners of the oil industry in Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas arrived | here_this morning to seek a protective tariff on the importation of crude oil and to consult with Government offi- cials on other problems relative to the industry. They were greeted at Union Station’ by & number of congressional representatives from the midcontinent States. The movement on Washington was the spontaneous outgrowth of a meets ing of some 1,000 producers and royalty holders in Tulsa, Oakla. last Wednes- day. At that time between $70,000 and $100,000 was collected to finance the campaign. Spokesmen say the movement origi- nated largely from the conviction that independent producers and royalty own- ers must sell at prices arbitrarily fixed and which are not reflected in the ulti- mate cost to the consumer. Crude oil prices are fluctuated, the oil men say, by large imports of cheap grades from Mexico, Venezuela and other countries. They contend that there would be no cause for the cry of “overproduction” in the domestic fields if the imports were properly regulated. ‘The visitors were busy today working out details for a “pow wow” tonight at the Mayflower Hotel. A number of ment ~fficials have been invited to meet with w.m. ‘The group includes Wirt Franklin, president of the Independent Pe.roleum Association of America, and Guy Wood- ward, representing ths Mid-Continent Royalty Owners’ Assoc ation. ey R it ) COUPLES WH) WED FEBRUARY 3, 1930, E FRANCE—I have and feel in no shape in if I did have. Lind- bergh’s ocean is as sore at the world as a defeated candidate. When I hinted that I would fly back if I could I received & lot of cables offer- ing to take me on, among them Mrs. Keith Miller, one of our best air~ shees. My wife is not jealous,but she just never did like to have me stay out over the ocean all night with a strange woman, or even a friendly woman. If we could have got in be- fore dark she wouldn't have minded, of course. We could have taken chaperon, but not as much gas, and gas is more beneficlal on a trip like that than a chaperon. It was just unfortunate all around. OR. SIZ00 DECLNES CALLTONEW YORK Members of Congregation Express Gratitude of De- cision to Stay Here. ‘The Rev. Dr. Joseph R. Sizoo, pastor of the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church, announced to his -ongregation yesterday that he had declined a call to the Marble Collegiate Reformed Church of New York City. Dr. Sizoo read a brief prepars2 state- ment at the conclusion of a cummunion service attended by more than 1,500 persons. There had been no intimation of the pastor's decision and following his announcement a large number of the congregation remained to express their gratitude that he had chosen to remain in the pastorate he has held ILLEGALLY REMARRY Arkansas County Clerk Quietly Tells Them That First Li- censes Are Worthless. By the Associated Press. MARION, Ark., February 3.—Advice which a county clerk volunteered to hundreds of persons wed under alleged- ly worthless licenses issued by an Arkansas justice of the peace, today was credited with .bringing about re- marriages in a majority of the cases before the situation became known to the general public. A report by State Controller Howard Reed filed Saturday alleged that Justice A. 1. Newman had been dispensing mar- riage licenses for 11 months without authority. County Clerk A. B. Carter then disclosed that when the licenses came to him for recording, he quietly communicated with the couples and in every case of which he knew remar- riage had followed. | . Many of the couples had selected Marion, located just across the Missis- | sippi River 6 miles from Memphis, Tenn.,, for their weddings to avoid the Tennessee five-day notice law. The controller said the justice had issued the licenses while acting under the authority of a county clerk, who had gone out of office 11 months ago. CONVICTED bF A:I'—TACK. “Froltburg Man Found Guilty of Assault on Girl. Special Dispatch to The Star. CUMBERLAND, Md., February 3.— Bernard Preston, 24, Frostburg, charged with a felonious attack on a 16-year- old Garrett County farm girl, the case having been removed from Oakland, noon on three counts, the most serious of which was assault with intent, which carries death penalty or a minimum of two_years. The girl was attacked on June 30 last near the junction of the National high- way and Pocahontas road, just over the Garrett County line, a few miles west of Frostburg. Enoch Plunkett, 33, convicted at Oak- land in connection with the same at- tack and sentenced to 21 years, was brought here from the penitentiary as a witness in the Preston case, but he ‘was not put on the stand. Thomas J. Johnson, elderly farmer, living near the scene of the attack, told of having seen :1‘“1 struggle between the man and the rl. Preston’s. aged mother, who sat by him in court, broke down. VIRGINIA DIOCESE TO MEET 100 Delegates to Attend Danville Sessions Today. Speclal Dispatch to The Star. DANVILLE, Va. February3.—The Diocesan Council of the Diocese of Southern Virginia, composed of approxi- mately 100 delegates, will assemble for its annual three-day session in the Church of the Epiphany here today. ‘The meetings will be presided over by the Right Rev. arthur C. Thompson, D. D, bishop ¢. the diocese, who re- cently suceeded the late Bishop Tucker in the Episcopal office. Complete was found gullty by a jury this after- since May, 1924. In making the announcement of his decision, Dr. Siz0o expressed regret that & “personal ” had become “the subject of so much public concern and knowledge” and that his congregation had been disturbed. “A minister s an ambassador of God,” he said. “He is to serve in the place to which God directs him. His only concern, therefore, is to find where that place is. No other consideration counts or matters. “Many times and long have I been on my knees seeking again His will and way for me. And each time as I kneeled I was conscious that others were on their knees joining me in that That fact has deeply moved me. “Those prayers have now been answered,” he said in conclusion. “The ead ly hope I may have the continued as- surance of your unfailing loyalty.” Dr. Sizoo served in the ministry of the Reformed Church before entering the Presbyterian denomination, and the church to which he was called is one of the largest and wealthiest in the coun- try. The New York Avenue Presby- terian Church was the place of wor- ship of President Lincoln and only re- cently there was completed the Lincoln memorial tower, the gift of the family of Robert Todd Lincoln, son of the President. ¥ GREEK IMMIGRANT LIFE IS PORTRAYED “Children of Two Worlds” Is Pre- sented for Order of Ahepa. A play of early Greek immigrant life in America, “Children of Two Worlds,” by P. G. 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