Evening Star Newspaper, December 22, 1932, Page 24

THE WILLARD : ANNOUNCES A New Year’s Eve Celebration Supper and Breakfast $5.00 PER PERSON Tax Included No Cover Charge JOHNNY SLAUGHTER AND HIS ORIGINAL ARISTOCRATS For Reservations Phone Natl. 4420. CHRISTMAS EXCURSION One-way fare plus a_third for the rcund trip to all Points Ticksts sold daily Dee, 14th to 25th 650 o Teturn leaving ‘destination January 9th Good in Pullman and Coaches Jacksonville, F .$3 Miami, Fla. Tampa, Fla. . St. Petersburg, Fla Clurlemn, S. C. Wilmington, N. C Savannah, G Augusta, Ga. Havana, Cuba .. w Ticket Agcnl, (ninn sutlcm 1418 H St \“ \ END us your old mat- tress and let us convert it into a germ-free, buoyant new one—covered with charming new ticking. Work done in one day. Phone for our representative to call. o T STUDIO COUCHES, $22.50 and up METAL BEDS $4.95and up WCODEN BFDS . $7.50 and up ZABANS 003 N Phone Natioral 9111 Beds—Mattresses—Box Springs “Moist Throat” Found Secret 0f Cough Relief Your throat and bronchial tubes ions of pores like " get plugged affording itation and coughing set in. will be cured only of the natural fluid is cning the phlegm so be expelled. Many coush es” contain numbing drugs which merely deaden the nerves . but don't get at the root of the able. PERTUSSIN, & scientific remedy, which doctors have prescribed for many years, is the extract of a fa- mous herb which opens the tiny |glands, stimulates the fiow of the | throat’s natural moisture and brings quick relief. It helps nature heal that cough from the inside out. When you feel that awrning dry- ness take a few spoons of PERTUSSIN. fe. Sold at all drug —| be 8 for the Bradley School, 12 each SCHOOLROOM NEE SHOWN IN SCHOOLS Ballou Reports on Lack of + Facilities in District’s Public Institutions. The District public school system now is 176 elementary classrooms, €2 junior high school pupil accommoda- tions and 2,252 senior high school pupil accomodations behind, according to Supt. Frank W. Ballous annual school- house accommodations report, submitted to the Board of Education late yes- terday. These figures indicate progress made | in the attack on the accumulated | shortage in the elementary schools, which last year were 204 classrooms behind. The senior high school situa- tion, however, is worse than it was a Wwhen, with accommodations ,400, these buildings were housing | 14,617 students, to stand in need of new accommodations for 2,117 students. At the same meeting of the School Board. college boxing loomed as the | center of a warm controversy when Dr. Ballou, backed by Dr. Stephen E. , Kramer, his first assistant, announced | he would not approve of the use of the McKinley High School gymnasium for a series of boxing bouts to be given by ty. The two school ochcuuns on the con- | tention that “boxing is associated in public mind with prize fighting,” | while Henry . Gilligan, School Board | member, upheld boxing as “a fine. | clean, manly sport.” Dr. Ballou said further that the School Board’s Com- | mittee on Community Use of Bulldings | —the membership of which is composed | of the three women members of the | board—would retwrn an unfavorable | report. Demanded Explanation. The question of boxing came up when | Mr. Gilligan asked what disposition would be made of the application of | Columbus University for use of the McKinley High School gymnasium for | a bout between college athletes. Dr. Ballou replied that the question would not be reported to the board, and when asked what would be the ruli he asserted it would be “unfavorable.” Mr. Gilligan insisted on a reacon, and | the superintendent replied that he | would not recommend it. The board member demanded further expla: p | fighting,” and that they did not want it introduced in the public schools. Mr. Gilligan won a point, however, in get- ting the board to vote favorably on a resolution requiring the Community Use of Buildings Committee, including | Mrs. Philip Sidney Smith, chairman; Mrs. Henry Grattan Doyle and Mrs, Mary A. McNeil, to bring in a “full re- port. whether it be unfavorable or not.” At the close of the meeting Mrs. oyle told a reporter for The Star that the matter had been only informally | discussed, and that no_decision had | been reached. She smilingly advised | the rcporter to “wait a little while and | | see what happens before you get ex- cited about this.” She would not ex- | plain her position further, however. | News of November 1. The schoolhouse accommoZations ri port, which the board received yester- d: presented congestion data as of | November 1, in accordance with similar reports of previous years. Under “ele- | mentary schools” the report showed | that 23 classrooms were needed to elim- inate portable schools still in use. 12 to eliminate uncesirable rooms, 38 to re- | duce oversize classes, 38 to eliminate | part-time classes in the first and | second grades, and 1 to eliminate part- time classes in the upper grades. The | report showed further that if the | school authorities would abandon the | five remaining n"'oolhouses of the group recommended for “early aban- | Gonment” 1908, an additional 64 rooms would be needed. These would | for the Force, Lincoln and Webster, | and 20 for the Jefferson School. These 64 rooms have been needed since 1930, | when the total was reduced to that figure from 90. The remaining frame one-room port- able schools are shown in the report to | have been in use cn Noyember 1, as fol- lows: Fillmore School, 2; Keene School, | 2; Benning School, 1; Kenilworth, 3 | (ihese were accommodating the Kenil- worth School pupils who were awaiting completion of the new building which would replace the old structure con- demned more than a year ago): Ketc {am School, 1; Garrison School, l, 4; Bates Road, 2. ol, 2. According to ite schools were using 14 and the colored schools were using | 9. Last year the number of portables was 29. In the white high schools th ity is given in the report as 9. | the actu: i the need in terms of pupil-accommoda- tions was 1,663 on November 1 of this year. Last year the white high-school | capacity was 600 less than this year by | virtue ‘of the fact that old Business ngh School, having a capacity of only 0. was in use. while this year the Roosevelt High School, accommodating 1,500, has replaced it. The enrollment then was 11,026, giving an accommoda- | tion need for 1,926 pupils. Contest Curb Looms. In the colored schools, however, with the capacity of 3,300 the same this year | as it was last, the enrollment went up | from 3,889, making this year's c- THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, Commons Will Get Complete Reports OnU. S. Debt Debate By the Assoclated Press. LONDON, December 22.—Ar- rangements are being made for the House of Commor Represent Wi on war debts, Capt. Anthony Eden, undersecretary for foreign affairs, informed the House yesterday, replying to a questioner. This is in line with recent sug- gestions in the - elsewhere that it would be advisable for legislators on both sides of the Atlantic to obtain full, accurate knowledge of what othen are say- ing on this subject, shortage 589 as compared with last year’s shortage of 291 accommodations. Possibllity of a curb on the number and kinds of essay contests in which public school pupils participate appeared at yesterday's board session, when con- sideration was given the application of the Daughters of the American Revo- lution for permission to establish & prize essay contest. Dr. Ballou proposed that such contests be made the subject of cnmpemlon between schools rather than between individuals in their own right. He made it clear, however, that if this gmpoul be not adopted by the bond that he would approve of the D. A. R. contest anyway. The proposal was taken under consideration by the board after Dr. Abram Simon, member, remarked that if the number of con- tests continues, it will be necessary “to take an inventory to find out how much of a pupil's time is taken up by these competitions.” Dr. Ballou also asked for a ruling on scholarship offers to public schools. Such scholarships, he pointed out, are offered merely to attract attention of the public schools to the specific insti- tution. He contended also that merely by accepting a proffered scholarship the School Board lends a kind of approval | 1f such scholarships | to the institution. are to be accepted generally without in- vestigation, Dr. Ballou pointed out, he and his associates would be relieved of | responsibility in connection with the scholarships. But if he and his officers | are expected to examine into “the amount, quality and character of edu- cation” presented in the scholarships, | vanted the board to | Dr. Ballou said he set up a definite plan for the accom- plishment of this work. The board agreed to launch a study of the question. BRITISH LINK DEBTS T0 SHIPPING CRISIS| Say U. S. Has Prevented Payment of Obligations in Sea Services. By Cable to The Star. LONDON, December 22 —Continuing the policy of educating the United States on world economics, the British have drlned the international ship- pln( is into the war debt contro- By subsidizing their own shipping to the tune of $3,000,000,000 during the Great war debts via ices. 25 the charge Alan Anderson, chairman Co,, at its ing shipping services on the world mar- ke’ below cost.” He cited the United States Shipping Board report showing that American taxpayers had paid more than $25, g:?n 001:' everly° fl'el'; mrk five ynn prec g June, make up losses in operating and laying up Amenun ships. In particular, Sir Alan attacked the three new ships which are being put on the San Francisco, Honolulu, New Zea- land, Australia run hy the Matson Lize at, it is said, & cost of $25,000,000. “If the Matson Line had found money themselves,” Sir Alan declared, “or even been charged interest upon it at the normal rates, or were in any serious risk of having to pay the eventual loss, we might, indeed, blame them for gam- bling. * * * But as a grateful Nation last 12 years, Americans have prevented is u:king the risk, we must congratulate ———————————————————————————————— “Petite Vamp” A with new round is first to present it. priced at $10.50. F St. ar NEW style note—a beautiful model And, as you would naturally expect, Rich’s Developed in grey suede or blue kid and “Richmode” silk hosiery, 75¢ and $1 pair “Kantrun” silk hosiery, $1.35 pair RICH'S toe and short vamp. 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