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Show PAYS TO STAY IN SCHOOL Fact Shown in Dollars, and Cents by Figures Compiled by Bureau of Education. The value of staying at school Is stated In dollars and cents In 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 It has been found that at twenty-five years of age the boy who remained In school until he was eighteen had received $2,000 more salary sal-ary than the boy who left school at fourteen, and that the better-educated youth was then receiving more than $9(10 a year more In pay. "This is equivalent to an Investment of $18,000 at 5 per cent," the statement state-ment said. "Can a boy Increase his capital as fast in ny other way? ' "From this time on the salary of the better-educated boy will rise still more rapidly, while the earnings of the boy who left school at fourteen will Increase but little." |