The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-06-24
VACATION STARTS
bsEso 49,
!. IN HIGH SCHOOLS
Quit Work Today After At
tending Commencement
at Convention Hall.
DIPLOMAS GIVEN
BY JUDGE GOULD
Scholarship Awards Feature of Ex-
reises-COnvention Hall
Crowded to Doors.

Washington's hundreds of high school
pupils from the Central. Eastern. and
Western schools are free today, after
attending the commencement exercises
IN Convention Hall last night.
In spite of the heat the immense han,
holding 5000 people. was crowded
vita friends of the graduates. and
at times during the address OF Rep
resentative David J. Foster Of Yer
mont. and while other speakers were
holding forth. the applause was deaf
ening.
These are the only schools under the
supervision OF Uncle SAM" said Mr..
Foster. and they should be made wor-
thy Of such Capital as this Is. These
schools should have the best system in
the world. Teachers from all over the
country should come here TO find models
for their own Institutions. The entire
nation should be interested. and such
salaries should be paid as would at
tract the best talent in the country.
.'Our public school system is the cor
nerstone Of our national life. Wash
ington,- therefore, should be given the
best possible system of instruction. II
Is not a question upon which Congress
can hesitate; there can be no debate
about IL.
Schools Need Money.
perhaps when we get this corpora
ton tax made law. and we ara bursting
with money. we can spend a little more
Of 1t in the schools OF the Capital Ev-
eryone should help TO make these
schools the best IN the world
I'VE are all sovereigns in this nation.
and yet we are just the same interde-
plexities Of QUE economic system. The
education which these young people re-
ceived here is to prepare them to do
their work not alone. but with the CO.
operation Of others IN the highest form.
We ask. in return for the training they
have received from this city, an hon
est, courageous. patriotic citizenship.
That is the best payment they can
give Us.
IN ESSENTIALS unity; in non-essentials
liberty; in all things charity; that is
motto suggest 70 you graduates.
snake Good Coffee"
Capt James T. Oyster. president Of
the Board OF Education. took occasion
to refer 10 the lack. OF action upon the
part OF Congress. He referred 20
speech by Representative Campbell Of
Kansas. who said girls ought TO be
taugtt. 70 make good coffee. and &c one
by Representative Richmond Pearson
Hobson, who said he could not see ans
American flags in the room in which
he was speaking. Congress hasn't sup
piled the funds either TO teaching girls
10 make good coffee or with which
more than one flag con be purchased
for one school.
And yet" said Captain Oyster.
while our schools today show an eX-
FRA
of twenty years ago. there is much 10
be done. The Western schools, TO some
extent. have outstripped those In the
East. and we must progress.
Presents Diplomas.
Justice Ashley n. Gould. OF the su-
preme Court of the District Of Colum-
bla. presented the diplo mas. a matter
OF almost an hour. hundreds Of young
men and women fling past the stand IN
that time The music was furnished
b the Marine Band, and the Rev. John
Reid Shannon. OF the Metropolitan, NJ.
L. Church pronounced the invocation.
Marshall Frederick Gutherz. Of the
Western High, won the University Of
Pennsylvania prize; James Wightman
Follin, of Central High, won the
scholarship offered by the Washington
Harvard Club; Jerome Fishel and l. c.
Nii4 n va NeHl a Allsii' ana AlbtIL bar
mum Havenner and Charles q. Marshall
OF Eastern Hign. won the four Lafay-
cite College scholarships. The Yves
leyan College scholarship was won By
J.. DumOnt BeeTb0WeT, Of Central HfEn
and IVY Albert Pelman of the same
school, won the Georgetown University
Medical School scholarship. Dorothy
Eads Wysor, OF Central high, won the
medal offered by Martha Washington
Chapter. D A. r., for the best essay On
the American Revolution.
The Kendall scholarship IN George
Washington University was given TO
George ". HOdgkins. Arthur HummeI
Reddeld took the first scholarship.
Howard " Hodgkins, the second; Omar
Bailey Buchanan, the third: HOrtense
Brylawsld, the fourth; Olivia Alexander
Taylor, the NTH All are from Central
High. Margareta Andrews Williamson
Of Central High, won the scholarship of
fered by the Womans College Of BaIu-
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