The Washington times., 1914-02-01
SCHOOL GRADUATES
ARE SELF-REL|ANT 7
Girls From New York "Tech'
Earn More Than Million DOL
lars a Year, Is Report.

nUai meeting of tho Hebrew Technical
School for Girls. several hundred
friends and patrons of the institution
were present and speeches commend
ing the progress of the school were
made by Borough President Marcus
NJ Marks, Isaac n. Seligman, and Jo-
seph L. Buttenweiser.
Nathaniel Myers. president of the in
stitution, read his annual report. More
than 2,ooO girls have been graduated
by the school. and those among them
who are still unmarried are earning
more than $1,000. 600 a year. The daily
attendance at the school was 624. and
Its teaching staff numbered twenty
nine. In the eighteen months course
the girl received instruction in book
Keeping dressmaking, stenography.
millinery. and hand and machine sew
ing.
Mr.. Myers gave interesting statistics
concerning the girls before and after
the children's parents were born in the
United States, 81 per cent In Russia,
81 per cent in Austria. per cent In
Rumania, and the remaining per
cent In other parts Of Europe. OF the
parents 16 per cent were taflors, s per
cent pressers. per cent butchers. 8
per cent janitors, per cent peddlers.
IL per cent cloakmakers, 2 per cent
furriers, l per cent bakers, 3 per cent
ciGarmakers, 2 per cent dressmRkers,
and the rest capmakers. carpenters,
machinists. and the like.
Graduate aga Girls.
Last year there were graduated a
total of 294 girls, OF which 1876 were cor1-
mercial pupils and lO1 were manual
pupils. The pupils came from homes
where the average number of rooms
occupied by each family was four; the
average number OF: children in each
family, five; the average rent of the
homes. S16.16 par month Gixty-seven
OF these families were SO situated that
by reason of old age or other ihcspacity
the parents could rot even contribute
to the support of the family. OF the
524 pupils nine were full orphans sixty
six mad no fathers living. and thirty
three no mothers, making los, or over
one-hfth Of the total number, who were
either full or half orphans.
During the year 1913, we had 1,T59
applicants and coTlu admit only 3sQ
leaving 1859 whom We could not admit,
said Mr.. Myers. since we can have
but ole girl at one and the same desk.
AS showing the steady growth OF the
schools popularity among the poor, in
lgll We had LES applicants; in lgi2,
l,Si6, and in 1913, !, loS. The girls who
have passed through our daily school
or that number, twenty-thren are
known to DE deccased; We have lost
track Of n6; there are 100. who for
Sood reasons, arc working at home
and arailing there of what they learned
mere; 266 have married since graduation,
and We have good reuson to believe that
their marriages are happy ones.
Earn HnoS c.I..;n.
AT the time of the marriage Of these
2Gs their aggregate earnings were 1901.
S6G year. an average of S65 a month
each. OF the remaining I,SIs there are
twenty-five who are temporarily out OF
employment, and written reports from
the remaining 1887 show them TO be at
work earning an aggregate Of >sI,llS, ,0lO
year. an average OF little over $50 a
month each.
We keep in touch with our graduates
Ior many years and these written re-
PORTS are sent in by them periodically.
These young women, thus earning more
than M,O0N0 q year, are working 4s
oookkeepers. stenographers, dressmak-
ers, seamstresses, and q few AS teach
ers. Their salaries range from 81 TO
$40 a week
We seek to develop the right attitude
toward society and the state and TO-
ward all forms OF duty We want our
girls to have the right attitude not only
toward industry and productiveness, but
toward wealth also. and 10 appreciate
me usefulness to the ssite Of having It's
c1tlzens pursue and obtain wealth, so
only as they do it rightly and use IL
rightly when obtained
Believe in Justice.
In short we not only deprecate
hostility toward wealth as such. but
encourage a belief in the duty of OBJ
tanning II. We believe that rich and
poor should alike place the right val
ue upon wealth when possessed, and
should understand that while IL is
wrong and harmful for any Of the
merely because OF their
wealth. to look down upon those
without 1t or to consider themselves,
merely because of their wealth, to
any degree better than others are
who have It not. or than they them
selves were before they had II, so also
Il Is not less wrong and harmful for |
any of the poor to entertain an un-
lust antipathy toward those better |
off financially. or to unduly look up |
an improper worship Of wealth foster |
4 false and harmful attitude toward |
themselves.
One class period a week is devoted |
to the discussion Of these subjects by |
each OF the eighteen classes in our
school. and it is our hope thereby to |
accomplish much good in the year
and half course"
These officers were reelected at the |
meeting yesterday: Honorary Presi- |
dent Adolph LewIsohn; president, |
Nathaniel Myers; vice president, |
Abram /. Elkus; treasurer, Myron l. |
Borg; recording secretary Samuel |
Jackson; membership secretary, Ed |
win 8. Lorsch. and corresponding sec |
-etRry. Mrs. J. N Bloom.
There was an exhibition Of gymnas-
.ic work and swimming In the girls |
gymnasium after the annual meeting.