Center. E. V. Brown, Connecticut Avenue and McKinley Street; 16 rooms and auditorium; open 1 afternoon and 2 nights. East Washington (Eastern High), Seventh Street between Pennsylvania Avenue and C Street SE.; 36 rooms, auditorium, gymnasium and armory; open every night except Sunday. Margaret Wilson (Grover Cleveland), Eighth Park View, Newton and Warder Streets NW: Petworth, Georgia Avenue and Shepherd Street NW.; 17 rooms; open every day until Street NW.; 18 rcoms and auditorium open Regular activities. Girlscouts, boy scouts, little girls' dancing class, boys' and girls' dancing class, Chevy Chase Citizens' Association, Parent-Teachers' Association. Athletics, boy scouts, scout band, SpanishAmerican Athenæum, Gen. Doyen Post Women's American Legion, community orchestra, girl scouts, Lafayette Post American Legion, social clubs, millinery, dressmaking, E. II. S. Home and School Association, community forum, rhythmic dancing, tennis, community buying, library, Lincoln Park guards, lectures on parlimentary law. Boy Scouts, girls' club, boys' club, social | club. Dramatics, stenography, band, orchestra, mandolin and guitar club, Boy Scouts, checkers and chess club, Girl Scouts, Red Cross units, citizens association, community store and post office. Petworth Women's Club, citi ens association, buying and distributing league, community store and post office." French, Spanish, dramatic groups, dressmaking, millinery, social dancing, rhythmic dancing, ukelele club, Columbia heights Post American Legion, mothers' club, community association, Wilmarth Brown Unit Women's American Legion, Saturday Night Club, Mount Pleasant Citi ens' Association. Special activities. Lectures on current events, wild flower Plays by arts club, Washington players, Thomson, Twelfth and L Streets NW.; 18 Mrs. A. C. Driscoll, 1219 M Street NW. rooms and auditorium. Southeast (Tyler), Eleventh and G Streets SE.: 8 rooms; open 3 nights, occasionally 4 nights. Wilson Normal, Eleventh and Harvard Streets: 65 rooms, auditorium, gymnasium, and lecture rooms; open every night except Sunday. Birney, Nichols and Howard Avenues, Anacostia, D. C.; 14 rooms and assembly hall; 2 nights and 1 afternoon, Burrville, Division Avenue and Corcoran Street NW.; 4 rooms; 1 night and occasionally an extra night. Deanwood, Whittingham and Lane Places NE.: 8 rooms; 1 night and occasionally an extra night. Regular activities. Athletics; community chorus; Hillsdale Citizens Association; Women's Club; Red Cross unit; needlework guild; Girls' Art Club; Girls' Literary Club; community buying, distribution, and sale of war food; reading room open; piano lessons; regular meetings of the directors of Colored Non-Sectarian Home. Boy Scouts; dramatic club; hom nursing; cooperative buying club; community chorus; piano lessons; sewing club; drum corps; dressmaking, millinery, card, and canning clubs. 1 Mrs. C. B. Briggs, 1032 Whittingham Community chorus; orchestra; athletics; Place NE. dramatic club; Deanwood Citizens Association; community association; handicraft club; Clef Club. Lectures, child-welfare e hibit, sale and distribution of rmy food, school-yar 1 market, exhibition of children's dancin', Halloween party, card party, watch meeting, diet-kitchen meeting, birthday party, canly pull, Junior Order of merican Mechanics, masquerade party an picnic. Community plays, sale of thrift st: mps, sule of Army fool, Fe'eral Union, griculture Department, Chil ren of ican Revolution meetings. Tuft College entertainment, Covernment Recreation League, D. A. R. children Christmas play, rei triangle party, Jacob Jones Post, American Legion, State relation committee, war-risk dance, minstrels, lecture on wild flowers, Labor Department Social Club. mer Community picnics; community parties; Lectures; community meeting receptions; Miss BOARDMAN. Mr. Cramton, may I say that I saw the old Central High School one evening with the Americanization classes going on, and it is a very interesting work. The classes, of course, have to be divided according to a person's knowledge of English. So many of these foreigners have a very limited knowledge of English when they start, and they have to be taught their English first. So that the classes could not be carried on in any place which was not given up entirely to the type of teaching that was suitable to persons who were not familiar with the language. Mr. CRAMTON. You would not necessarily need a separate building? Miss BOARDMAN. Not necessarily. Mr. CRAMTON. Perhaps you have not come in touch with it so much, but I have found that whenever you open up a school the first thing you have got to have is a janitor, but that janitor must not touch the engineer's work, and the engineer must not touch the electrician's work, and the first thing we know we have a whole staff of employees to whom we are paying a liberal bonus for their work. Miss BOARDMAN. That building has schoolrooms upstairs. The Americanization classes were all on the first floor that I saw, and I have no doubt the other rooms could be utilized in some way for night schools. Mr. CRAMTON. My further idea is that there ought to be classes in Americanization opened up in all our night schools and community centers. There does not appear to be any place open where the American who is not informed as to civic matters may go. That should not be. He should be permitted to attend these classes, and when a class is being conducted in a night school for Americans, there is nothing to prevent a foreigner attending the same class. Miss BOARDMAN. If he understands English well enough to grasp it. Mr. CRAMTON. Certainly. Miss BOARDMAN. It has to be taught them rather slowly. Miss Arrox. That is a very good point, but, of course, we have had to develop our methods of teaching English, and we have very different groups of foreigners. We have foreigners who are absolutely illiterate, who require a very different method from the foreigner who is literate. Then, there are all stages of literacy. There again we have had to develop different kinds of teaching. To one group from the Naturalization Bureau we can give a good many things, and to another group we can only give the most concrete types of things that they can get. I feel with you that we should every time double up on this. I have advocated that right along, and have cooperated with all existing agencies, I think, in the city, and have been very glad to do that. because I felt we should not have more buildings opened and have the additional janitorial service, lighting and heating, because it is a needless expense. Mr. CRAMTON. Have I omitted any of the items of expense in connection with the opening up of a building? Miss AITON. No; that covers it, I think, janitorial service, lighting, and heating. Mr. CRAMTON. There is always an engineer, electrician and various others in the list of employees. Miss AITON. We have a janitor and two laborers. Our janitorial expense is very little for this particular school. I think for this year our whole janitorial expense will be covered by $600. Mr. CRAMTON. How many schools do you open with that? Miss AITON. You see, all our classes except in that one school are in the other buildings, just as you have suggested. Our day class at the Webster School is covered, our night class at the Curtis, our night class at the Eastern by the community center appropriation, the night class at the Jefferson by the night school appropriation, so we are already doing the very thing you suggested, except in the one place, in the one building, where we have a very large organization. CONTRIBUTIONS. Mr. DAVIS. Have you any other income except what you get from this appropriation? Miss AITON. Yes; we have some private funds. The Daughters of the American Revolution, just as I have described, have given that part-time pay for one teacher. They finance the work in Georgetown for the time that teacher gives in Georgetown. The District chapter of the Red Cross has subscribed a part of the salary of the Red Cross Americanization teacher. We have not had the fund for the whole pay, nor would it be fair for us to carry it all, as we are there doing a combined kind of teaching. Mr. DAVIS. I do not think it is fair for you to carry it all, either; and that is why I am asking if you have any outside income from any source. You do not run a restaurant in connection with it and make money out of that? Miss AITON. No. We might, as we have some very fine chefs and waiters in our classes, and we could easily run a restaurant. Mr. KRAMER. Did not the Red Cross practically give you the use of a building in Shotts Alley? Miss ATTON. The Daughters of the American Revolution gave us a building in Shotts Alley, and in one room we are doing Americanization work. The Daughters of the American Revolution paid for that. They have just had a section put into the alley so that we could have heat and light this winter. That has been done privately, wholly outside of this school fund, and is not included in these estimates at all. Mr. KRAMER. What was the purpose of going into Shotts Alley? Miss AITON. We were asked to teach the women in the alley. The men of the alley who came to our classes asked us to teach the women. We could not get the women out to the schools, so we went in. We found the conditions very bad in this particular alley. I spoke to Mr. Kramer about it before this meeting, and if any of you gentlemen really want to see this work as it is carried on, it would be interesting to go across the street, on First Street, between B and C NE., and see our little civic center house which is there. We cooperate with the regular kindergarten department. It has a kindergarten in there for the little children in the alley, whom we can not get to the regular school buildings, and a Red Cross teacher is in there a part of the time, and the regular Americanization teacher is there three nights a week, and we are expecting to start a |