Show BACK TO SCHOOL DRIVE STARTED TO SEND CHILDREN INTO classrooms county superintendent oreon htyan 1 making strenuous t to get all the children of school age buck back into the class room next week in no corrance cor dance with a nation ide plan as well as because he is pc pe conally interested te in every boy and girl in carbon county no comment la is deeded ou the letter he is sending out to hundreds of citizens over the cout county ity it reads price utah december 24 1918 fellow citizen the U S department of labor and the child conservation of the council of national defense ask your active support and operation cooperation co on in a nationwide nation wide movement which is known aa as BACK 70 DRIVE the week beginning dec 30 1918 baa has been selected for this drive in carbon county in thia this campaign I 1 am confident that every loyal Carr onite will go over the top the object of this drive is to draw back into the school bouses houses the boys and girls in carbon county who failed to return to school last september rr cr who have left since schools began and to avoid having baying any boy or girl fall fill to return to school when the influenza ban Is lifted it is not only the children of needy parents who have quit school to go to work many boys and girls who could well afford to go on with their education have quit their boos for a job some of them have succumbed to the lure of war wages with their promise of independence and mone to spend some of them have gone con to work because they th a job would be more fun than school some of them have stopped school simply because they and their parents did not realize the value of an educe tion every citizen who has the welfare of carbon county at heart 4 19 a called upon to blip e to both children and their parents that school is the best place for boys and gl gi ls is until they are at least 18 years old to assist in this task the following list of reasons why children should stay in school are offered J school menus burteen fourteen sem id boys and girls do not often get goud good job ob abo work they and to do usually offers litt ht or no training or chance for ad advancement vatice children who stay in school until they are 18 or 20 years of ago age gel get better positions than those who leave school at 14 11 means ears Y time spent in school has an actual cash valoe value the U S bureau of education has published a t ibs corn earn daring the wages of chill en who left school in new york city 9 14 years cf age the end of grammar school with those of children who left at 18 the end of 0 big high school by the time he wa was 25 23 old the boy who had finished high school had received over 2000 mora than the boy who left chool school at 1 1 I I 1 and war then receiving a year more 3 school licul th few boys and eirls of 14 are well developed physically to stand tand the a dalri of continuous work the child who goes to work too soon often is so crippled in health that he does pot not mike a good worker in later life lite school and wholesome exercise are worth far more than the little a child can earn at 14 years of age they may mean the difference be tween a happy lappy useful life lite and a life of sickness and inefficiency 4 slacker next to the bun the slacker is the most despised per son in the world today boys and girls between 14 and 20 years of age who are neither attending school regularly nor engaged hi iti some ea es son bial occupation would hare have much in proving that they are not sl ackers A citizen is credited with having gone over the top in this drive if because of his or her personal effort efforts at least one boy or one girl who would not otherwise hive done eo so enters ard remains in school during the remainder of okd t year on or before may 1 1919 will you kindly report the came or names ol 01 the boys and girls whom you succeeded in getting back to school sincerely yours ORSON RYAN 4 superintendent |