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L v. v o lf S iNz j j F 1 ci S 'S 1 I 4 po Do boys spend pen more o money in in school or do girls Who uses the ane family automobile most for dates Who spends the most for clothes Girls is the almost unanimous answer an answer of many Salt Lake parents But while parents placed the girls in the spotlight as spendthrifts Miss Elizabeth FitzGerald assistant principal prin cipal of West high school came to their defense with statistics which show it costs only 6 more a year to provide an education for tor a girl than it does for tor a boy Miss FitzGerald summoned Miss Anna Marie Made Driscol home economics teacher who with the cooperation of her students has kept records of expenditures ex ox for girls overa over year seven-year period She has recently started a class for tor boys and for or- or ora a year has the estimated expenditures of boys boy tabu tabu- Here is what Miss Driscol hasto hasto has hasto to say The total average estimated expenditure expenditure ex of a schoolboy for one year is for OI a girl it is The expenditures are divided into nine groups the first o of which called advancement includes school supplies sup plies text books locker fees shop material etc and intellectual and healthful entertainment She provided the following comparisons comparisons com corn S Items Boys Girls Advancement Church and charit charity Clothing Gifts Gilts and treats 1285 1575 Health and personal service S 1415 1450 Insurance and savings sav sav- lags ings ings 2050 Lunches Miscellaneous Recreation on 1580 1440 Total 00 I V V cV I 4 5 t c. c P rf AJL 1 Sterling Larson and La Rue Chamberlain West Vest high school stu stu- I dents learn the cost of a school education from front fronta froma a a. chart on which I the dollar has been sliced up to meet their needs I The table shows that girls spend more for clothing treats and lunches while the boys save a 1 much greater amount ana anel spend only more for recreation Miss Driscol added that much entertainment for tor girls is Js taken care of by social clubs girls' girls orand organizations organizations or or or- and the like while the boy does not tend to affiliate with such groups Therefore she explained explained ex ex- ex girls have much more entertainment entertainment enter enter- than the bo boys s 's but pay less for it I i Parents Parents' opinions on the subject differ widely from Miss l Driscol's findings however Mrs A. A J. J West E street president president dent of Salt Lake City council of ci S teacher parent associations said I believe that girls spend more on clothes and incidentals Boys Boys' on I Ithe the other hand appreciate their thou schooling more more than do gir girls s. s The They P work to help pay for tor their education I in many cases Mrs West hopes that social I i I ties Ues' can be lie promoted in the school which will include aU all students and which will wm not cost much money But she added parents must cooperate cooperate cooperate co co- co- co operate to bring this about Last Friday evening a a sorority at ata a local high school held a dinner dance at the Newhouse hotel On Saturday night another sorority from the same sch school ol journeyed to Ogden for tor a dancing party I This costs parents money money- said Mrs Robert L. L Judd A street and in the long run it is the girls who are behind these activities Then to top too they must more clothes a anew anew new new dress for almost every d dance nce money for this money for that Young girls too like their elder sisters sis tens are social climbers while boys arc are not Mrs Judd has one child in junior high school one in the grades and two In college Parents are also of the opinion that In many instances girls take their boy friends out in the family car spending spendin money for tor entertainment they could very well wen do without Determined Stand But it is not entirely the fault tault of the girls or boys either for that matter matter mat mat- ter Mr Mrs Judd remarked The parents parents par par- enu themselves should take a determined deter mined stand They should act instead instead in in- stead of merely bewailing conditions Mrs John K Hardy L street pr president of the state teacher parent-teacher association has four boys bOs and one girl d I tor think it Is a fifty fifty-fifty proposition proposition tion said Mrs Hardy Girs Girls spend more money for certain things than do boys but boys bos too have their pet expenditures It is not entirely the girls gIrls- fault that they spend more than boys said Mrs W. W H. H White South First West street Girls are called upon to spend more snore in school activities pageants socials and programs than are boys On the whole however girls are more snore ex ox- than are boys I came from a big family myself and I know that the boys were more conserva conserva- tive A boy is more loath to ask for money He is born with the idea that some day he will have to earn a living liv liv- ing But I would say too that parents par are arc largely responsible for the demands made on them by school children It is all in home training |