Show 0 r Public Schools Figures just c compiled cn l hy by y the United States tes bureau of ot education JV prove that the conduct cf the schools in this country has become a business busi busl- ness of gigantic proportions The figures show that the cost of f main maln- maintaining taming the tho schools In iu one year was well well above and that pupils were enrolled The statistics are for the year 1918 The Tho largest Item in the nations nation's bill for tor education was for tor public olee elee ole ole- e schools which cost a trifle less less than Another went for tor public high schools Private and parochial schools cost and private secondary schools Costs of ot universities and colleges 1 were commercial and r. r t business schools and normal schools The rural schools did not come up to the mark proportionately Although Although Although Al Al- though the rural schools are arc given an enrollment of ot as compared ed with for city schools rural schools received only as against for city schools The per capita cost coat of ru- ru Jh L ral ml schools was 2885 and that of of city schools 47 A part of this difference It is explained explained ex ex- is IE dUe duo to the fact tact that land lana for school buildings cost much less lessin lessin lessin in the country than in the tho city but most of the difference according to bureau officials is duo to lower salaries salaries salaries sal sal- aries and around all-around inferior provisIon provision provision provis provis- ion for tor education in th the tho rural dis dis- It is said that 1918 was the first year for tor which separate sots sets of figures have been compiled for city and rural schools The per capita cost in publicly supported universities Is cis 95 as compared with In privately endowed Institutions The Tho total bill for university and college education Is almost exactly divided between the two types of ot Institutions although al although al- al though the privately endowed universities universities universities uni uni- have nearly twice as many students as the public public as compared with The Tho total enrollment of Ot all types of ot schools was more than in 1918 That is one In about every five persons in the United States attended attended at at- tended a school of some Bome kind The 0 v elementary schools had all save of them in public schools and the secondary schools schools' more than O of ot whom were In private schools o 0 |