Evening Star Newspaper, December 15, 1931, Page 10

LOWER BOND RATIO URGED BY CITIZENS Montgomery Federation Rec- ommends Smaller Propor- tion of Tax Basis. BY HOWARD M. BAGGETT. Staff Correspondent of The Star. BETHESDA, Md, December 15— The total outstanding bond issues for Montgomery County should in the future bear a lower ratio to the taxable basis of the county than at present, it was recommended inya resolution unanimously adopted by the Mont- gomery County Civic Pederation at a meeting in the Bethesda school here last night The resolution, which was intro- duced by Chairman Stephen James of the Committee on Public Finance and Budget following the reading of a detailed report of a survey of county expenditures, reads in full as follows: Resolution Adopted. “Resolved by the Montgomery County Civic Federation, that the physical framework of a modern school plant and of an arterial and main highway system being now tially c a lower the count an at present; that a larger percentage of the money from | each tax levy should gradually be made done without violating the standards of safety, heretofore adopted by the fed- eration, restricting the life of bond issues* and requiring substantially equal annual payments upon principal of the bonds.” The resolution was adopted without considerable debate, although inquiry was made as to whether or not the bond ratio of the suburban county had been considered separately in connection with the matter. Robert E. Bondy praised report of the Public Finance and Bud- get Committee as marking a milestone in the federation's activities. ‘The federation also went on record as opposed to the enactment into law of any legislation having for its purpose the reduction in salaries of Government employes. This resolution calls for the action of the federation to be brought to the attention of the members of Congress from Maryland. An attempt to have the federation go on record as favoring a move to re- quest the Washington Community Chest | regard to donations from persons living in the suburbs of Washington as was recognized by President Hoover's com- mittee handling the collection of the unemployment fund from Federal work- ers, failed when it was voted, 38 to 32, to recommit 2 of 10 resolutions intro- ‘?uced by the Committee on Social Wel- \ fare. Discuss Campaign Date. An additional resolution along this line, and recommending that the Social Service League of the county conduct its annual drive for funds at the same time or before the January drive of the Washington Chest, was referred to committee for report. A movement was instituted, however, to urge Mont- gomery County people to keep in mind the needs of their own county when asked to subscribe to the Washington | Chest. | The remaining eight resolutions of the Social Welfare Committee, as in- available for developing the operating and maintenance phases of the county man, which were unanimously adopt- | to recognize the same principle with | introduced by W. I. Cleveland, | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., TU tee for recognizing the principle of permitting Government employes to designate local relief agencies as bene- ficiaries of their contributions; in- dorsed the action of the Interfedera- tion Conference on this matter; in- dorsed a systematic plan of Christmas giving to prevent inefficient distribu- tion; indorsed the plan to co-ordinate all county rellef under the Social Service League; indorsed the estab- lishment of the special unemployment relief department of the league and authorized the president of the feder- ation to designate representativs from th body to serve on the league's Unem- ployment Relief Committee. Seeks New Education Rule. ‘W. B. Armstrong introduced a reso- lution concerning the recommendation of persons for future appointment to the County Board of Education, which was referred to the Committee on | Schools for action. It recommended | that future appointments should be non-political and non-partisan in char- | acter and be solely on the basis of | merit; that appointments should be ade without regard to sex as a quali- %‘mnon or disqualification and pref- | erably that appointees should not be a holder of political office or a member county or State, nor engaged or finan- cially interested in real estate, building construction or school supply business. | might be taken to give residents of the | county employment on local projects or on other projects that might be troduced by Hugh M. Frampton, chair- | | fare in & resolution introduced and re- | ferred to that committee. | of any commission or board of the | | Study and report on measures that | jcreated at this time were directed to be | made by the Committee on Social Wel- | duced and referred to the Public Utili- tles Committee. Emory H. Bogley in- troduced a resolution providing that if any standing committee consists of more than eight members, four mem- bers shall constitute a quorum, and this was referred to the Committee on Constitution and By-Laws for Teport. The Public Utilities Committee was instructed to bring in a resolution fa- voring a merger of street rallway com- panies operating in Montgomery County as an aid to transportation problems of the county. This resolution would call on Maryland's representatives in Con- gress to favor such a merger. A study of the subject of the exten- sion of provisions for and the adequacy of business and technical courses in the senior high schools of the county and the extent and adequacy of train- ing in manual and domestic arts in the Junior high schools was asked in & res- clution introduced by W. B. Armstrong and referred to the Committee on Schools, Norway is seeking more ways for the use of whale oil. OIL HEATERS Large Stock New Prices Easily managed, powerful heat. 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