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Show ,;ireiits Urged to Get' jjildreii Ready Early! , 0f Nation's Population Will Be I!;,, Bach to Learning This Fall I , , c,iidrcn ready to go back to school this fall becomes ;lT "mportant problem of the moment for parents every-i'"l0St every-i'"l0St 'roncerned with giving their children the lift they need Effective learning. ;'"l0ri n the manifold facilities required for sending the young- i "Ci.;r closes properly equipped for the coming semester, V' vi unprecedented peak this fall. ;i,3ne ' d from figures supplied by the U. S. Department of :iiCSll"''irlv 37,000000 which means in effect about onc- ; Son's population are scheduled to return to lcarn- ' -nil-time occupations. i , inrlnde all the children and they show increases for i :oe figurcs in-1L Tude the beginners, more numerous than ever this year ' "if recent record birthrates, and the elementary graders 'numbers include the greatest group of all. i $ . ,iu(ie the teen-age high school crowd of whom there are K' ""percent more this year, and the college group, whose i p. te.n re expected to increase by at least five percent this fall. i; t'cipated expanding enrollments, reflected in records to i vM here at home, accentuate the importance of heeding . finish their education. Material aspects of getting the children ready to go back to school also have their Important psychological psycho-logical effects on the learning attitudes atti-tudes of children in all age groups. These material aspects involve the clothes they are going to wear, the supplies and equipment with which they will be equipped; even their diets and the home backgrounds back-grounds in which they must study and in which they will want to entertain en-tertain their friends. Fashions are playing a more important im-portant part in the school child's life. For one thing they are now launching a welcome trend toward neatness and trirnness, which will be welcomed by all parents. The correctly attired child is a self assured as-sured youngster, better fitted to progress in learning. Incorrectly attired, children suffer feelings of inferiority, loss of interest in school work because they "don't belong." Re-examine the Home Wise parents will start well in j advance of the opening of the new term to plan and select back to school wardrobes while stocks are fresh and the children are free to accompany their parents to stores for fittings. Wise parents will re-examine the home background bearing in mind that each new term represents progress in the child's growth, and they will seek to bring home studs and entertainment facilities foi the child up to date. Wise parents also will arrange medical, dental, and eye examinations examina-tions for their children, before school opens, to make sure thej are in good health. To defer any phase of these essential essen-tial parts of getting the children ready for school may lead to diffl- i culty later on. j Janitor getting the cbU- away now-is the lv nf the school bells an-14 an-14 the opening day of the ' 'ideational authorities are letting the finishing I Lai the community's school so that they may be in k:; possible shape to receive 'dienon the opening day. Kinsl authorities and civic ;Insare perfecting plans sure that the hordes of 'rswho soon will be trip-' ; :' and from classes, are ac-, ac-, tie utmost in the way of i;::l0n against constantly 5u traffic hazards. Parents' Responsibility .-shave received their fresh ; Jo! new back-to-school fash-', fash-', m clothing, supplies and '-eat that the children are -Ttoneed to be properly out-Jsitto out-Jsitto term, and have put condisplay. i the final responsibility for i rjj the youngsters ready to go ioschool is that of the parents ; seites, And it is a two way : Mining this modern, compli-: compli-: -'.en in which we live. jiiiolves both psychological . Kerial aspects of child rear-. rear-. to of the currently most im-i im-i riot the psychological phases teas teen agers. ; ft temporary wage earning pal of high school students r:i as a temptation, many of time a disposition to give up j for earning. Clothes and Equipment U. S. Department of Labor 3i to the aid of parents in this hum by pointing out that the -ating demand for more triors' trior-s' trained and better educated 2: and women needed to fin positions of greater respon-3, respon-3, promises a new world of at opportunity for those who |