Evening Star Newspaper, November 4, 1935, Page 16

SCHOOL PROGRAM LEFT UNCERTAIN Federation Leaders Say Montgomery Will Accept Allotment. By a Btaff Correspondent of The Star. . ROCKVILLE, Md, November 4— Montgomery County’s $794,000 school eonstruction program was still a mat- ter of speculation today. While leaders of the county civic federation who conferred with the eounty commissioners on the project yesterday predicted favorable action. there was no assurance from board members that the P. W. A. allotment for school construction in the county would be accepted. Tax Offset Is Hope. ‘The only official action of the eounty heads after yesterday's confer- ence was to promise to accept the allotment on the condition that State Senator Stedman Prescott would spon- sor legislation authorizing a general readjustment of real property assess- ments in the hope of offsetting an in- crease in the tax rate through a rise in the valuations. | Viewing this maneuver as an at- tempt to “pass the buck” to him, Sen- ator Prescott replied that the com- missioners and not he must take the direct responsibility for providing ade- quate county schools. Prank H. Karn, president of the County Board, called on Senator Prescott in a letter written after the conference with the civic federation assessment legislation, Reply of Prescott. Tn his reply Prescott said: “I am in receipt of your letter stating you have agreed to accept the pending school loan and grant from the Federal Government providing You can receive my assurance to ap- prove legislation giving you authority to equalize assessments. “Naturally I was somewhat prised for several reasons. have your letter dealing with such an important matter and one in which sur- 1 the people are so vitally interested, handed to me Sunday night with the | request that you receive a reply by | noon on Tuesday. You have had about seven months since making your request to the Federal Govern- ment to consider this matter clearly attempt to manufacture an excuse for not accepting the responsibility as county commissioners, of either going | through with this program or reject- ing it. “As a matter of fact I am informed that although the time expires to- morrow for you to accept same no formal action has been taken by you and it was only at the instigation of certain public spirited citizens that you are now considering the subject. View at Last Session. “You will also recall that during the last session of the Legislature you | wrote me asking the Legislature authorizing these schools without making it contingent upon any addi- tional legislation. Your request was complied with, and then about April of this year you requested this loan and grant from the Federal Govern- ment, and now that the Government has signified its willingness to comply with your request you place yourselves 1n the rather absurd position of saying ‘we are considering whether to accept | ; it or not’ Surely men who occupy the responsible position of county com- missioners would not deal facetiously with the Federal Government, and the | request of the loan of nearly $1,000,000 and an increase in the county’s bonded indebtedness after you had so severely criticized others for building schools should certainly only been made after most sober thought and mature de- liberation. “What has occurred since your re- quest to the Federal Government to make you change your mind, or was it made as a mere gesture with the hope that it would be rejected? Position Unchanged. “My position now is the same as|§ 4t always has been, I stand firmly for the equalization of all assessments. I believe in fairness to all and parti- |& ality toward none. Quite naturally the thought behind this request is that | there would be an increase caused in the assessible basis of the county and | § this would assist in carrying the loa: Since taking office the records dis- . close you have reduced the assessments of Jesse W. and Mollie Nicholson in Chevy Chase from $17,850 to $14,485, that of Nettie I. Moore, unimproved property in lower county, from $30,020 | to $20,010, & 33 1-3 per cent reduc-| tion, and the People's Liquidating Corp., & farm in the upper end of the county, from $7,700 to $4,200. “These are taken from your various Teductions all over the county for the purpose of illustration. If you in- tend to continue these reductions, and it they be justified, and were not made to repay political friendships, it is difficult to perceive why you expect the increase. Of course, you mention no inequalities that you intend to correct, but you must have given this matter sufficient thought to have evolved a definite plan as to how it is to be effected and to have tenta- . tively framed the legislation you desire, “If you will be kind enough to fur- nish me with a copy of the same, I #hall be glad to inform you whether or «.not I can support it and the reasons | therefore. i “The people should know that any- one who feels his assessment is too | high has a right to petition you for a reduction and under the present law you have a right to make it. Views in Accord. “In order that there may be no mis- understanding I would like to state that the views of Commissioners Rob- ert D. Hagner and Richard H. Lans- dale and myself are in entire accord on this subject. “In closing, let us hope that the present high standing of our school system, for which some of us worked so hard in bringing it from near the bottom to first place in the State of Maryland, will not be retarded, but permit me to say the responsibility of carrying out the proposed school pro- gram rests singly and squarely upon the elected county commissioners. “The former commissioners met and dealt with the same problem many times, having been required to provide for an average of 500 additional school children each year. It is one of the duties you requested the people to en- trust to you when you ran for office. Now, why vacillate the first time you are called upon to meet the same, as I can assure you the parents of this county will not be misled by any at- tempt to dodge the issue or to shift the responsibility elsewhere.” Visit Battlefields. Nearly 175,000 French people have wvisited the battlefields in their country | 3 in the last year, ~ | Wearing a fire helmet in honor is shown at Hyde Park yesterday as he was presented with a badge testifying to his 25 years of membership in the Volunteer Fire Department. Donald Todd, president of the Eagle Engine Co., is making the presentation. of the occasion, President Roosevelt —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. DR. SMITH MARKS 330 ANNIVERSARY | St. Thomas’ Episcopal Rec- Teads yesterday to authorize the re- | tor Preaches Special . Sermon. Dr. C. Ernest Smith, observed the | thirty-third anniversary of his rector- ship at St. Thomas' Episcopal Church | vesterday morning by preaching a special sermon on the text; 2 Cor., vi:l: “We then, as workers together with Him, beseech you also that ye First to ! receive not the grace of God in vain.” He explained the text as falling into three parts, “‘Workers, Together, With Him, Alon “We are workers, not spectators as were the Israelites on the Red Sea shore when the hosts of Pharoah fol- lowed after them to destroy them. Then God spoke and said they could | see their foes no more forever again.” shows this a mere after thought or an | Work Greatest Blessing. “There are some people who think of work as a curse,” he said. “It is one of the greatest blessings. Yet there are those who think that work came as the result of the fall in the Garden of Eden. These have for- gotten that God placed man in the garden to dress it and keep it. But this meant work. “Together. In brotherly love, in harmony, not pulling apart, not pur- suing independently one’s own aims and ends. No country does this, if it would long retain its national ex- istence. No army does it, none of our vast industrial corporations do it. Caulk-0-Seal for caulking, glazing and filling crn:ln 3 Seal those “cracks” around the doors. window frames now with Caulk-O-Seal. ply—not aflected by heat Can be nainted. Price of Gun, $1.00 Butler-Flynn 609 C St. N.W. Met. 0151 ADVERTISEMEN' FALSE RUMORS AGAINST J. L. May, Republican candidate for County Clerk, has being spread broadcast throughout Arlington County that he has been a party to any UNETHICAL political maneuvering, He wants to hereby notify his friends and the voters of Arlington County that he does not play that kind of politics and furthermore is no quitter. He wants his friends throughout the county to support him until the sun sets on Tuesday and when the ballots are counted Tuesday night he Arlington in the change that is certain. “Che SNOW WHITE *TOILET TISSUE" tal . NON-IRRITATING, SOFT AND SAFE Made by the MARGERT PAPER CO. Lansdowne, Pa. HIS BAD COLD NEEDS GOOD ©® Use Penetro, mother, the salve with old-fash- ioned mutton n:h Cmimnm; 1113: :.ol 227% m:l:e medication than other et eading col ves on the But, they work together like well- oiled machinery. J “With Him—that is God. Jesus| said, ‘I am not alone, but the Father is with me’ We also can say the same. What an overwhelming source of comfort have we here. “Alone. Let us learn a lesson from Mohammed and his servant as the two were together on the sands of Arabia. The servant said, ‘Master, are alone’ ‘Nay,’ was the prophet’s rebuke. ‘God is here.'” | Reviews Parish History. Speaking of his anniversary, Dr. | Smith said “our mutual relationship ca ses our minds to play around this mystery of personality and respons bility in which we are working with | God for us men and for our salva- I tion.” Dr. Smith reviewed the history of | the parish during his rectorship. He explained the church had been built in the rectorship of Rev. A. J. Aspin- wall, but with the close of that rector- | ship a debt of $72500 remained, | which has been paid off. Material | improvements to the building, erection | of a rectory and contributions in va- rious ways of $1,226.051 were cited as | ac ompiishments in the past 33 years. | He said: “This is a time when we might learn a lesson from the past. Have we joined this work and have | we done our part? That is what the | apostle is bringing home to us lnd' bidding us remember that it is pos- | sible to be there and not join in the work done. What a terrible tragedy it is! 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