Evening Star Newspaper, August 24, 1930, Page 19

SCHOOL PROSPECTS DECLARED BRIGHT arry 0. Rine, Board Secre- ary, Optimistic in Address Over Radio. The sympathetic attitude of Con- @ress’ toward the District of Columbia public school system, together with the co-operative attitude of the com- munity . generally and the steadily in- ereasing efficiency of both officers and teachers are indicative of the brightest future Washington schools ever antici- pated, is the opinion which Harry O. Hine, secretary of the, Board of Edu- cation, expressed in @ talk over radio " station WMAL late yesterday. *The future of the Washington pub- | Ite schools was never brighter than in . the year 1930,” Mr. Hine declared. “A _bighly successful year has just passed, and a better one is in prospect. This confident predicition is warranted by 5 the sympathetic attitude of the Con- which is the agency to provide th the revenues and legisiation neces- “‘sary to promote the progressive policies ~of the Board of Education. It is further made evident by the co-operative at- tltude of the community generally, mchhuwmlncrmmfmun ‘inte] interest in public school ; by & staff of officers, teach- . ers and other employes whose efficiency 718" steadlly rising; by the mnn{nimpor- tant improvements roaching ful- > ent and other forward-looking features projected; by a Board of Edu- ~eation whose members gealously and harmoniously seek the highest possible weducational - advantages for the youth siof Washi *.Mr. Hine then cited the projects ‘which had been completed, those which » still are in course of execution or which ‘are contemplated, as *I s of * " These included the eleva- of the Wilson and the Minor Nor- mal Schools to teachers’ ; the five-year school building program, which, only 70 per cent com- - plete, ‘sul ted r efforts at ‘achool-house erection for the haphazard methods or&lnluy in force; the in- ayiein: e Soue of he. oo pu‘cbnmhwl : passage of the com + school attendance and the diploma-mi -laws, and supplementary educational TidE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, HENRY MORGENTHAU'S CHARACTERISTIC TRAIT Mastered “Theophilus This- tle” to Overcome Difficulty in Pronunciation. First Job Paid $4 a Week. Taught School While Studying Law. ‘This is the thirteenth of a 18 articies on boyhood of famous Amers: cans and telling how they got their Start in diges BY J. V. FITZ GERALD. The English language was not easy for the 10-year-old boy who had just come to this country from Southern Germany. He had his greatest diffi- culty pronouncing the diphthong“th.” So he said over and over again, day in and out, for weeks, “Theophilus Thistle, the ‘great thistle sifter, sifted one sleveful of unsifted thistles through the thick of his thumb,” in order to overcome the handicap. ‘This method, togethet with hard and consclentious study, enabled him to gain & command of un'hn.um rapidly and to keep up with his class in the New York public schools. It was character- istic of Henry M thau as a boy to do things thoroughly and leave nothing in his power that he might master his immediate task. ‘The trait helped him in gaining a fine education in the land of his ldnr' tion, to become a commanding figure in to achieve a signal success as a diplo- mat when he was named as Ambassa- dor to Turkey. Ninth of Eleven Children. He was born in Mannheim, Ger- many, in 1856. He little thought when, as & youngster, he was thrilled at song festivals and exhibitions of gymnasts that he would grow to man’s estate and gain fame in a country across the sea. His father was a wealthy cigar man- ufacturer, and the bo{l Henry, was the ninth of 11 living children, He was a good student as a lad In Germany, helped in his studies by & cultured mother and father. He knew the works of Schiller and Goethe as & little fellow. But perhaps his greatest achievement in the place of his birth, CAME TO U. S. AT AGE OF 10| the real estate and financial worlds and | ) srfls WAS A GOOD JENT AS A LAD IN GERMANY His FATHER wmrse&p'um R A CIVIL ENGI-48 s rrice in his own opinion at the time, was when he successfully passed the swim- ming test tried b ungsters of ath- letic tendencies. He breasted the Rhine current for half an hour in qualifying for the coveted title of “Rhine swim- mer.” 5 Not long after this the elder Mor- genthau's prosperous business met with revers through an American tariff law. The family came to this country. The Morgenthaus arrived in 1866, after an 11-day trip. They took up their residence in Brooklyn. A few months ater they moved to Manhattan, Learned Language Quickly. ‘The young newcomer to America soon grasped the intricacies of the language of his adopted country, thanks to his perseverance and his novel methods. He had & natural aptitude for arith- metic and by strict application to his studies he was able to reach the high- est class in his school in short order. Then he qualified for admission to the City College, standing well up among 300 successful candidates in the group of 900 applicants. He got bis first job as an errand boy in a law office during the vacation months. The pay was §4 a week. t of his duties consisted of copying and serving papers. He joined a good library, | OF THOROUGHNESS FACTOR IN RISE TO SUCCESS UCCESSFULLY PASSED THE SWIMMING TEST AS RHINE SWIMMER 7 A took special courses in debating and elocution, devoted much time to gram- mar and composition and read widely of literature. e didn't finish his course at City Coliege. His father had met with fur- ther financial reverses in this. country, and young Henry had to put his shoul- der to the wheel, helping the family as much as he could financially. His father wanted him to enter a civil engineer’s office and study that profession, but the 16-year-old boy was convinced that he lacked proper foundation in math- ematics to make & go of it. 8o he became an office boy, agreeing to_help with the books, in an insurance office, in 1871. Here he drew a weekly wage of $6. After a few months he went to work in & wholesale house at $10 a week. The next year saw him back in & law office. By this time his mind was made up —— e 3 Rooms, Kitchen $65.00 THE MONTANA 1726, M Street N.W, s home . one. The lad de'dekd the time to the He kept accounts of his expenses in those days. A typical entry was, “Oar- fare, 10 cents: dinner 15 cents; sun- dries, 2 cents.” . He was 19 years old when he entered the Columbia” University Law School, in . He got a job teaching night school at $15 a week. He spent all the time he could spare in libraries. He at- tended as many lectures as he could and listened to the famous preachers of the day. He made notes on what he heard. He was & wide reader of the newspapers. He was admitted to the bar in 1877. Later he became interested in real es- tate and did much to develop New York into the metropolis it is today. He has given liberally of his wealth to social service and other philanthro- ies. Popyrieht, 1930, by North American News- ‘paper Alliance.) (Next—James A. Farrell.) —————a s, 400 NAVAL RESERVES ENJOY CAPITAL SIGHTS Reserve Units of Rochester and Buffalo Break 15-Day Training Period With Holiday. More than 400 members of the Naval Reserve units of Rochester and Buffalo, spending their annual 18-day training period aboard three Navy destroyers which docked at the Navy Yard Priday, were Gnlflrfll the sights of the Na- tional Capital over the week end. They will embark Monday on the second week of their training course. ‘The reserves were welcomed to Wash- ington by Charles W. 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The controversy is regarded of great importance in the oil industry and by producers generally because the highest court is asked to rule Whether the monopolies granted to patent owners bemh=n unlawful when the patents are The Federal Court held the agree- ments between the oil companies under which the cracking patents were used was in violation n{ ¢ Sherman anti- trust law. ‘The Government In bringing the suit charged the companies with engaging in an unlawful restraint of interstate commerce in cracked gasoline through cross-license agreements by which an unauthorized extension of patent mo= nopolies were obtained and suits at- TURN TO The automobile column in the classified scction of today’s Star for Packard’s’ list of used cars. PACKARD'S . USED CARS the validity of the patents ments const: luulhmfl f pates : use of patent DOG FANCIER DIES Fatal Tllness to J. R. Wilcox Pus- zles Physicians. 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