The Washington times., 1914-03-14

Student government and the fem
mist movement hare iHpdded tn
Business High School.
Girls hare organized a students
council and have started an agita
lion for a roof playground on tht
Business High School building.
They also are going to make the
girls basement corridors and room,
vanitary, and will Try to establish q
school lunchroom. For the frs
time, a girl edits the school paper.
-Four boys caught smoking will be
lied BY the boys council, Witt
Principal Davis presenting epi'
ience, and one of their number
Pleading for the boys.
These are a few of the live wire
dctipities of a school that is "doing
+tingS."
By ]. R. HILDEBRAND.
This is the most wide-awake and
the most democratic high school in
Washington. The girls here are So
ing to show they can do things as
well as the boys"
And the slender, auburn-haired,
determined Miss Thelma Miller,
editor of The>Balance Sheet. and a
prime mover in the girls student
council at Business High School,
stamped nGr foot as :: she meant
II.
Likewise, We are going to clean
up our portion of this school base
ment, and see to it that the build
ing is kept sanitary. That matter is
up to the pupils. and we are going
to see it through" echoed Miss
Frances Davis, who leads she girls
council
An experiment never before tried
in Washington has been started at !"
Business High by Principal Allan
Davis. A students council, made up
of a boy representing each school
section, was the first fruition of the
idea Right upon the heels of that
the girls organized a similar body.
elected officers, and set about do
ng things
Boys Work For Stadium.
The boys attacked the problem of a
school athletic ground and already-
have gained the Endorsement of the
Federation of Citizens Associations
and the Chamber of Commerce for
their project of having Congress set
aside the so-called Patterson tract,
of eighty acres. for a high school
athletic stadium.
Close upon the heels Of that, the
girls launched their campaign for a
roof playground at the schools Girls
at the commercial school have no
outdoor place for recreation. So
they decided their only chance was
70 have the fiat top Of the big school
converted into place where they
might eat luncheon, enjoy games,
and get the fresh air during recre-
alton periods.
Ihey have gone about their cam
paign in q bus!ness-like way. First.
'hey arranged to get an expert
opinion Of the strength Of the walls
of the Business High School building.
II was found these would SUPPORT
all the persons that could be crowd
Cd on the roof. Next. they intend to
get an estimate Of the cost OF such
d playground. They will present
heir plan TO the Board Of Educa-
LON and appear in person to urge
It's passage, if necessary
Girls In Charge of Campaign.
In charge of the scheme are Miss
Davis end Miss Myrtelle Gordon, vice
president and secretary. respectively.
Of the girls council. Principal Davis
IS president, ex-officio, OF both the
boys and the girls councils Earnest
workers for the cause are Miss
Miller. editor OF The Balance Sheet,
and Miss Kilda Malcolm, its circu-
lation manager, who has boosted its
sale TO a record figure.
Even the boys do not hesitate to
admit that under feminine direction,
the monthly school paper, a forty
page magazine, has improved in ap-
pearance and I'm its contents. The
only thing the boys have had to do
with IL this year is in getting the
advertisements. But they have been