Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 174, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1919 — EDUCATED YOUTH HAS THE ADVANTAGE. [ARTICLE]

EDUCATED YOUTH HAS THE ADVANTAGE.

The value of staying at school is qf-ah'd in dollars and cents iitn figures recently compiled by the bureau of education ' and distributed to boys and girls throughout the country by .the children’s bureau. From a study of a large number of actual cases St has been found I that at 25 years of age the boy who 1 remained in school until he was 18 had received $2,000 more salary (than the boy who left school at 14, and that the better educated ! youth was then receiving more than S9OO a year more in pay. “This is equivalent to an investment of SIB,OOO at 5 per cent,” the Statement said. “Can a boy increase capital as fast in any other way? ' “From this time on the salary of the Miter educated boy will rise still more rapidly, while the earnings of the boy who left school at 14 will increase but little.” Whale wages have increased with the war, the proportions shown in a table of weekly earnings still hold true, the statement said. The boy who left school at 14 at the time the investigation was made received an average of $4 a week, his wages increasing each year to $7 a week at 18. The boy who remained in school until he was 18 began work at $lO a week. Ait 20 the salaries were $9.50 a week for the boy who left school early and sls for his better trained competitor. At 25 they were earning $12.75 and s3l respectively, and total wages up to thait time had been $5,112.50 and $7,337.50, so that the boy who remained in school had earned nearly 50 per cent more in eight years than the other had in 12 yeans. “Children should stay in school as long as possible because education

means better jobs,” the children s bureau urges. “Boys and girls who go to work at the end of grammar aehoefl rarely gelt good jobs. The work they find to tk> is usually unskilled; it offers little training or ■chance for advancement. When, they are older they find they are still untrained for the skilled work that offers a future. Education means higher wages. “Many boys and girls when they leave school find work that offers a high wage for a beginner. But these wages seldom grow because the work re qua res no training. “A position with a future and steadily increasing wages requires school training. “Does it pay to continue your studies? Education means a successful and useful life; it pays the individual. Education means efficient workers; it pays the nation. Show this to your parents and ask them what they think about it. Stay dn school.”