The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1920-08-26

John Borg, of New York. the new
president of the Consolidated Inter
state-Callahan Mining company, is
very much interested in providing ed
vocational advantages for boys who in
the ordinary course would get no
further than the high school, Having
been handicapped in this way him
self, and knowing from his own ex-
perience the difficulties that beset a
boy and young man in winning sue
cess, Mr.. Borg has long been giving
thought to a plan that would give
others the opportunity that he was
denied in securing the benefits of
higher education AS a result Mr..
Borg has just recently endowed
$4,000 scholarship fund to the high
school of Union Hill, New Jersey
from the income of which one pupil
each year graduating from Union Hill
high school will be enabled to take
the full course in Rutgers University,
at New Brunswick, New Jersey. The
endowment covers not only payment
for instruction, but also a payment of
$500 for expenses in the first year and
$500 in each of the succeeding three
years of the college course
The reason that the subsistence
fund is $500 for the first year and
only 5000 for the second, and subse-
quent years is that the college fresh /
man has little chance to find Jobs to /
help out on his expense, because of /
the competition of sophomores, jun
iors and seniors, but by the end of
his first year he has become sufficient
~ familiar with college surroundings
10 have an equal show with the others
n securing work to supplement the
income from the endowment
The thing about this scholarship
hat makes it in a class by itself as to
IS usefulness is that it carries with it
practically perpetual help to the
ause of college opportunities, and
BENEFITS not only its immediate reci-
'ient, but a succession of others after
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The candidate who takes advantage
I this plan is required to give a moral T.
ledge that he will endeavor within
imself in a position to find some boy. .
OF necessarily from the same high :
'hool but some boy similarly situated
nd to extend to him the same oppor- .
mites that he himself has enioved. Il
nd upon the same conditions send a u
~ of his selection to a college mot
scessarily Rutgers) and to require of
AT how q CfrnfIaV Il
seen that if this plan is carried
IT, it will extend far beyond the ben
It to one pupil and will constitute a m
actically endless chain of encourage it
ent and help to boys who would 20
herwise have to go through life zi
tn the handicaps of uncompleted ca
eparation. wi
Mr.. Borg is fully convinced that the 'e'
dership, industrial, professional and Vi
litical must come, as it has in the oN
st, from the masses. There are ir'
NY young men rich in ambition and ia
~ matter but poor in financial cir MS
instances, who, unless able to OBJ no
help from some such source. an
sht never have the opportunity to ou
'elop their talents or to rise to the sci
itions and achievements to which. ing
h proper training and development the
y might attain. owe
his condition of lost opportunity. VIII
Mr. Borg's opinion, has always been eve
still is a great economic loss to ing
country The scholarship which uen
Borg has planned, in the way that
has planned it, is not a charity to T
boy but a loan. backed bv the emit
al responsibility of the boy himself fifty
10. for others what has been done
him. thereby not only helping the s.
ct candidate to help himself but pen
to furnish each candidate with by