Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 203, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1918 — WAR AND THE SCHOOLS [ARTICLE]

WAR AND THE SCHOOLS

The schools go “over the top.” Attendance in public schools has grown. Birmingham, Ala., has recently decided to build a new $1,000,000 high school to meet the needs. Out in Oregon schoolboys have attended school six days a week in order to get into the fields earlier. Pennsylvania teachers (in some cities) have been awarded increase of salary. Harrisburg about SIOO a year, Erie $12.50 a month. Reading sls a month on the average. In Maine the schoolchildren are raising 1,000 pigs; Portland has a lieutenant of the United States army in charge of school war gardening and grade children everywhere are making gun wipes, Belgian baby outfits and