Show FRANCE PLANNING FREE EDUCATION PARIS PARIS PARIS-By By The Associated Press France is La getting ready slowly to give e free education in the high hight t i The poor mans man's son sort today has little chance to get beyond the grades There These are arc a a. number of but they are given only 1 I 1 I very Cry promising pupils and after a af f goad od deal of effort by the parents Olten hard working parents think tiey t need another wage wale earner more moret tan tian t the boy needs Instruction Edouard minister of public instruction has committed the gov gov- government government with Poincare's approval to tot toIa t Ia policy p lIcy of standardized free schools The cost coat is estimated at fifty eight million francs a year ear but a beginning Is to be made next year by abolish abolish- abolishing abolishing ing log tuition in some of the secondary colleges which correspond roughly to t. t t American high schools but are not entirely under state control The real high schools of France are the l cees Tuition runs about 1100 francs franca a year and books anc and supplies cost several hundred francs more As such an expense represents a 1 months month's Income for a workmans workman's family it is generally conceded that the poor boy has little chance to get more than thin a common school education tion |