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Show FORMER GARY MAN EXPLAINS SYSTEM "Gary is the only place where boys, ufter spending eight hours in a day school, beg to be allowed to attend night school." This is the declaration of Superintendent John M. Mills of the Granite School District in a talk given last Tuesday on the cumpus of the University of Utuh. "The Gary system is the most democratic dem-ocratic system in the world," he went on to explain. "This school is the one place where the boy does not need to run away from school to swim; he needs only run to school. There isn't a child in Gary that is afraid of anything, any-thing, he dare even go up and talk to the teacher face to face. This school was built for the children; the children child-ren are not made to fit the school. Boys are not hounded because they fail to fit into place, but a place is made for them, if one is not there." Gary has adopted a unique credit system. There are seventeen kinds of industrial work taught, each by a master, according to Supt. Mills. The boys put on their painters' clothes and paint, and at the end of the hour the master puys them with school money. If a good hour's work has been done, the boy receives sixty cents. If he receives only twenty he knows that he hns failed. The money mon-ey is then taken to the school bank and deposited, the total deposit for -uch work being eighty dollars. The money is finally withdrawn and paid for credit in the course. "The one rgeat boost for the Gary system is that it not only fits its boys ind girls for life but that more than fifty per cent o'f the graduates pursue pur-sue higher education in order to be Hitter prepared. This record is en- icly unique, one not held by any other school system," concluded the |