Evening star. [volume], December 07, 1938, Page A-11, Image 11

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Schools Should Get
30% of D.C. Budget,
Ballou Tells P.-T. A.
Heat and Light Through
Winter Are Problem
Now, He Adds
Dr. Prank W. Ballou, superintend
ent of schools, last night told mem
bers of the Petworth Parent
Teacher Association that the schools
ought to receive 30 per cent of the
entire District budget in order to
carry out their program success
fully, instead of the approximately
26 per cent now allotted. .
Dr. Ballou declared that there
were more than $30,000,000 in Dis
trict needs unmet when the District
Commissioners recommended that
the tax rate be lowered from.$1.75
to $1.50. This, he pointed out,
worked a hardship not only on the
schools but on nearly every other
phase of District activity.
District schools would require ap
proximately $30,000,000 to complete
a five-year school program, which
includes a curriculum revision, he
added.
Study Revision Considered.
“We have been considering for
more than a year,” he said, “setting
up a plan of revision of the existing
courses of study, which will take
two or three years for completion.”
He called attention, however, to
the difficulties of operating op an
insufficient budget allowance, and
added: "All during the depression
we have had to get along on less and
less. One hardly knows what to do
when organizations such as the
Board of Trade petition Congress
not to increase the school budget.
Not to increase it, of course, means
that we must get along on less.”
He pointed out that there were 500
fewer teachers "in relation to the
school population today than there
Were in 1927, adding:
“We asked for 240 new teachers
last year and got 15 in all.”
Heat and Light Are Problems.
The cut in the school heat and
light budget is the latest hardship
under which officials have had to
labor. Dr. Ballou asserted.
“Let's all ask for an early spring,”
he said. “There's not much we can
do about cutting down on our light
biS, but if the weather’hits right
we may be able to do something
about the coal.”
He said the Board of Education
would meet in about two weeks to
determine whether activities could
be continued through the winter on
the $300,000 allotted for heat and
lighting expenses.
Father's Plea in Ad
Finds Home for Four
Louis E. Sweitzer, a 63-year-old
unemployed construction foreman,
Is a very happy man today.
He has found a temporary home
for his daughter and three sons un
til, as he says, he feels that he can
provide adequately for them.
What’s more, Mr. Sweitzer is very
grateful to the 62 people who re
sponded to his advertisement in
The fe-ar and offered to care for
his childisn. Unable to afford post
age for the letters he wished to
write to each of these people, Mr.
Sweitzer has asked The Star to ex
press his appreciation for their kind
ness.
The advertisement which appeared
In the classified section of a recent
edition of The Star read: %
"Widower wants to board his
three boys, 12 to 14, in a nice home.
Can pay reasonable amount.”
As a result of this appeal, Mr.
Sweitzer said that not only his three
sons, Carlton, Joseph and Edward,
but also his daughter, are all liv
ing with Mrs. Ruth Rimel of 5000
Cathedral avenue N.W.
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A company Is exploring British
Guiana for oil.
Two poses of Vice President Garner at a time when he was shop
ping for a new straw hat. —A. P. Photo.
By the Associated Press.
John Nance Garner is likely to
treat the Capital to a fine brand of
political poker during the next two
years.
He will bring expert knowledge to
the game. Mr. Garner not only knows
politics, but he knows all the ins and
outs of poker, though he has retired
from active practice. He learned his
politics and his poker on the fron
tier, polishing off his knowledge of
both by tackling the rough and
rugged practicionftrs who flourished
in the Capital 20 years ago.
Thus, none of those who know
him expect the Vice President to
come back to Washington and en
gage in a discussion of his plans
and hopes for the next two years.
He does not work that way, either in
politics or in poker.
Not Expected to Talk.
His friends believe he will keep
silent about the presidential boom
started for him in Texas yesterday.
What his friends do along that line,
they do on their own responsibility
without the advice of the fisherman
from Uvalde. He will not stop them.
Neither will he encourage them.
Newspapermen in Washington will
find him just as accessible as ever.
He will tell them all about his fish
ing excursions of the summer, how
big were the fish he caught, how
expert he is at camp cookery, how
his pecan grove is coming along.
They will have no more luck get
ting him to talk about politics for
publication than Alfred E. Smith
had when he tried to reach Mr.
Garner over the telephone from
Chicago in 1932.
Different Response This Year.
Former Gov. Smith wanted Mr.
Garner to hold his Texas arrd Cali
fornia delegations tight, to keep
the Democratic presidential nomi
nation away from Franklin D.
Roosevelt. A Washington hotel told
Mr. Smith Mr. Garner had retired,
was not to be disturbed. By the
next time Mr. Smith talked with
Mr. Garner Mr. Roosevelt had the
presidential nomination.
It was not long afterward that
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Mr. Garner went to New York to
address a gathering of business
men and industrialists. One of
his reasons for going, he told them,
was to show them that the man
whom the Democrats had nomi
nated for Vice President did not
have horns.
Talk of Mr. Garner for President
now brings an altogether different
response from some of these same
Easterners than it did in 1932.
Deep Sense of Patriotism.
Most persons agree that the Vice
President will play a powerful part
in the 1940 Democratic convention.
Some go so far as to say that the
convention and the party may be
torn apart by two factions—a con
servative group led by Mr. Garner
and a liberal one led by President
Roosevelt.
But Mr. Garner, astute politician
though he is, is first of all domi
nated by a deep sense of personal
patriotism, and next he is a strong
partisan. The Democratic party and
patriotism are pretty well inter
twined in his own mind.
Friends say his sense of patriotism
might lead him to acoept a presi
dential nomination if he thought he
could be of service, despite his age
and personal desires to retire. But
these same men suggest his love of
party probably would prevent him
from Joining in a fight for such a
nomination if he felt a party split
would result and smash the chances
of a Democratic victory. Most of his
friends think that, faced with such
a predicament, he would be likely to
cast about for a compromise candi
date.
'Garner-for-President1
Boom Starts in Texas
By the As»oelated Press.
DETROIT. Tex., Dec. 7.—Every
resident of Red River County, where
Vice President Garner was born
was a member of the first official
"Gamer for President” Club today—
by edict of Dr. Nowlin Watson of
Clarksville, its permanent chairman.
Old cronies of the Vice President
joined Texas Democrats at the log
cabin where Mr. Gamer’s mother
•was born to form the club yesterday.
Dr. Watson told them every man,
woman and child in the county
automatically came into the organ*
ization.
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