The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-03-22
ASSISTANCE GIVEN BUSINESS
d BY JOHN MARSHALL NIGHT HIGH SCHOOL;
STORY OF INSTITUTION AND ITS WORK

Character is developed as he realizes
that he is not square unless he Is
four-square to himself his parents,
his employer and his school.
When all of these forces are
brought into harmonious co-opera-
ton for the better1nent of the stu
dent, the powers or doing SO are null
tiplied four-fold.
A complete record is kept by the
school with the assistance OF those
interested, of every student. and a re-
port given each month to the stu
dent, the parent and the employer,
showing his foru-square status.
Some Results
As n result of this scheme Of CO.
operation, which was iuaugurared
four months ago, 476 students have
bank accounts In the savings depart
ment a total of ss,0S4.fS and many
of them have secured better positions
or have been promoted, nv virtue OF
increased efficiency.
Ii is a fact worthy Of note that with
SO large a number of students. a like
number Of employers the parents.
friends and others interested in these
students. there has not been a single
adverse criticism Of the plan. ON the
other hand the business men Of Rich
In this work as enthusiastically as the
school management, The business
men say they see the BENEFITS ia the
service rendered them by their en-
ployes
Al the recent convention here Of
the uperintendents' department. Of
the National Education association,
many of the delegates from every ex-
treme and all over the United States
visited and studied the methods of
cooperation especially the employ
er's report. and expressed hearty APP
probation of this scheme. which has
never been tried before anywhere In
Abe world. Many of them specialists
In night school work. and who have
spent as much as twenty-five years
in this line of endeavor said 1t was
just the thing they had long wanted
to do, but did not know how to start
about it. DR. Smith. superintendent
of schools, Buffalo. said. II should be
we'll paid for my trip to this conven-
ton If / had seen nothing but this
night school" Others, scores OF
them. said practically the same thing
Recently delegations from Norfolk
and Lynchburg have visited and stud
led the system here, in the John Mar
shall night high school In order that
they may naugurate similar work.
Policy of Management
The perintendent of schools anf
the school board earnestly desire the
cooperation of parents employers,
and the public generally in their en-
deavor to give every boy and girl,
man and woman in Richmond, an OPP
portunitv to use their spare time in
self Improvement and Advancement.
Courses have been inaugurated in
4.
sons desiring instruction has been
sufficient TO organize a class, For
instance, in addition TO the regular
school. special classes have been
formed in Spanish, French. German,
Latin. shorthand. writing etos x
It will be the policy Of the 'sIfperin-
tendent and school board TO continue
this plan or enlargement Tbey in
yite suggestions and critics pgs rom
the public in order that this policy
may be intelligently carried out and
the work extended. Special effort Is
made to have young people who have
stopped the day SCHOOLS TO take a po-
sition. continue their studies IN the
evening schools.
TO accomplish such results as have
been accomplished in the John Mar
shall night high school. and to accom-
plish these results in so short a time,
means man with vision to organize
and watch every detail. He must he
+ not only IL man of vision, but he must
] have ability to organize, to build
where there is no foundation, to Gre
ate to construct.
/ Richmond three years ago was a
! field that had not been cultivated. an
| unbroken forest that had not been
! touched, not q path blazed, so far as
night school work was concerned.
However. there was an intense de-
sire on the part of the superintendent
and school board to supply this much
needed school. They had the finest
school building in the South in the
John Marshall high school building,
which was being used only for day
school, about five hours per day With
this plant and the desire to serve
the community, the superintendent