Evening star., 1938-09-11

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In addition to those already men
toned, distributive services also in
clude those having as their basis the
managing, operating or conducting OF
a commercial or personal-service busi-
ness, or the selling Of the services OF
such business. They do not, however,
encompass such fields as stenography.
bookkeeping, Office clerical work or
ofice machines practice because these
latter are classified as commercial
studies.
Fields to Be Surveyed.
The new courses are not likely to
be open for enrolment before the
middle of October because of the need
for surveying the fields first to be
offered, and for organizing programs
of study.
In some cases new buildings will be
available to vocational students in the
five vocational schools in the District
of Columbia-three for white and two
for colored pupils. In the case of the
former group there is school for
boys only. one for girls only, and one
for both boys and girls; for the colored
there is a school for each sex.
In the case Of the girls school and
the co-educational school for white
pupils new buildings are being con-
structed and will be ready for occu-
pancy shortly after the opening of the
second semester. probably in late Feb
ruary or early March. The new build
ings will permit the trade schools to
increase their enrollments by more
than so per cent.
The new school for girls will be
located at Arkansas avenue and ALI
son street NV. practically opposite
the Roosevelt High School; and the
new school for both boys and girls
will be found at Thirteenth street and
Potomac avenue Sc. It is hoped that
within the next three years the Alb
bot Vocational School for Boys can
be housed in new, modernly equip
ped structure; its presnet location is
Seventh and O streets NV.
The Margaret Murray Washington
School for Colored Girls is located on
o street, between North Capitol and
First streets NV. and the Phelps
Vocational School for Colored Boys
Is at Twenty-fourth street and Ben
ming road NE. Both of these schools
are modern and we'll equipped, but
neither is large enough to accommo-
date the numbers who would like to
attend, nor is the variety of courses
offered so large as the school officials
would like to see
Three-Year Courses.
For the boys of Washington the
trade instruction offered in these
schools includes three-year courses in
the following:
Auto mechanics.
Carpentry.
Electrical work
Mill work
Painting and decorating.
Plumbing.
Printing
Sheet metal.
In addition. in the colored school
are courses in bricklaying, landscape
gardening and shoe repairing. The Alb
bot Vocational School will offer for
the first time this fall course in the
food trades; apd the new school in
the Southeast will, when opened, offer
q course in baking. Two other courses
scheduled for early opening are in air
conditioning and in radio repair.
The schools offering trade courses
for girls include in their programs the
following:
Cafeteria and tearoom operation.
Clothes cleaning and garment serv-
icing.
Cosmetology otherwise known as
beauty culture).
Handicrafts.
Home nursing and child care.
Laundry service.
In the case OF all of these schools
little difficulty is experienced in the
placing Of pupils who have completed
the prescribed course of three years.
In fact, it is sometimes a real prob
lem to keep the students in the schools
for three years because opportunities
for employment come before gradua-
tion. It is not the policy of the
schools, however, to recommend pupils
leaving to accept employment before
completion of their courses. In the
case Of the boys completion of their
trade courses means shortening of
the period of apprenticeship on the
JOB and an increase in their chances
OF making more rapid progress on
the Job, with attendant increases in
(See HOLMES, Page G-2.)