Evening star., 1932-11-15
PINCH|NG SCHOOL
EXPENDITURES HIT
Senator Copeland Speaks at
Dedication of Phoebe A.
Hearst Building.

The certain small per cent" Of the
taxpayers who resent" making public
expenditures for school systems were
rebuked by SenaAut Royal s. Copeland
of New York in his address at the
dedication last night Of the Phoebe A.
Hearst School, at Thirty-seventh and
T1lden streets.
School children, Senator Copeland
quoted, ARE the corner stone Of Amer
dce,' and he insisted that they be given
every opportunity while in school to
prepare themselves for adult life ahead.
He stressed particularly the teaching
of proper health habits Of the growing
children, asserting that public authori-
ties should not be content until we
ehall have inculcated in every child In
America the right health attitudes. !"
Continuing, he said:
There Is q certain small percentage
Of taxpayers who resent what we are
trying to do in the schools for school
children and 1t is up to you, in school
buildings Ike this and With opporttni-
ties like you have here, to show these
people what kind Of products our pub
1lc schools can turn out.
Must Not Pinch Pennies.
meanwhile, we must not pinch the
pennies which give education to the
children who are rightly called the
corner stone Of America False econo-
mics in these times should not penah7e
the schools"
In his address Senator Copeland paid
glowing tribute to Mrs. Hearst. He
reviewed her philanthropic works in
the field of education, recalling that she
founded here in Washington the Ma
konal Training School for Teachers and
the National Cathedral School for Girls.
His review showed that Mrs. Hearst
also was prominent In the founding Of
the parent-teacher movement. A me-
mortal to Mrs. Hearst, he said, was an
essential addition to washington and
he contended that 1t was particularly
fitting that that memorial be school.
The program included the presenta-
kion of a handsome bronze aquarium to
the schools kindergarten room by Will
liam Randolph Hearst, jr, and John
Hearst, grandsons Of Mrs. Phoebe
Hearst, for their father, the newSpa-
per publisher Mr.. Hearst gave the
aquarium as memorial to his mother
and the kindergarten room was chosen
for its placement in salute to Mrs.
Hearst's efforts in promoting kinder
garten work.
Miss Catharine Watkins, director of
Endergartens N the District Of Colunl-
baa public school system, accepted the
gift on behalf of the schools, chRrac-
terizing it as "a thing of beauty which
will last forever, as has lasted the work
Of Mrs. Hearst"
The program Included also the pres
entation of a bronze memorial tablet
by Mrs Arthur Birney on behalf of the
National Congress of Parents and
Teachers. Mrs. Birney told the au-
dience that filed the corridor of the
school that she was an associate OF
Mrs. Hearst In the latter parent
teacher work and that presenting the
table gave her q personal pleasure. The
bronze plate bore excerpts frorn the
address Of Mrs. Herbert Hoover at the
laying Of the buildings corner stone
q year ago.
Reviews School Progress.
DR.. Frank w. Ballou, superintendent
of schools, in the opening address re- |
viewed the programn made in school |
house construction here during the past |
two years. The new Hearst School, he |
said, was part Of the group Of 169 |
elementary class rooms which were |
made available to District school chill |
ber, 1882. The structure, he pointed |
out, was merely the first unit Of one |
of the Districts standardized early
American type Of school buildings, and
he paid tribute to the capacities of
Albert L. Harris, municipal architect,
who designed the school.
Mr.. Harris himself presented the keys
OF the building TO Miss Sarah B. Hol-
land, principal Of the school. The ex-
ercises were presided over by Mrs.
Philip Sidney Smith, a member Of the
Beard OF Education.
The program was completed with
baritone solos by Henry NeStor and So
prano solos by Miss Dorothy Reddish.
The piano accompanied was Miss Ruth
Walker. Rev. DR.. James Ehera Mont
gunery, pastor Of the Metropolitan M.
IL Church, intoned the invocation and
the benedlcticn.
The exercises were concluded on q
patriotic note when Mrs. J. Jerome
Lghtfoot presented flag to the school
on behalf Of the Woman's Auxiliary of
the H. G. Spengler Post. No. u, Arneri-
can Legion.
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