Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1921-02-14 | Page 6 | Office Boys Go Back to School

OFFICE BOYS CO BACK TOSGHDDL i CaHCAGO, Keb. H. The office bo. Is going back ta school. Kourteon, fif-nntl fif-nntl slxtcen-ycur-obl Rlrl stenog-raphera stenog-raphera are re-ent-rlng )ilrh school. Falling wngi-s in the Industrial and commercial world are sending boys and girls, thousands on thousands of then, Into the flassiooms they left When war-cl ai ed salaries lured them away. , Increase In school membership in the (Jntted htaten luring 1920-21 la approximately l.oOO.OOO over 1919-2U. according to n survey JusL completed her by the lietler Schools Service, a bureau of the American Federation of Teachers. In the large cities the sur-vi sur-vi shows the Increase has averaged 10 per cent although the figure for the whole nation is nearer 7.5 per cent owing to the decline in efficiency of the rural school. Th resumption of immigration i3 responsible for a large .part of this Increase, the report shows. I New York and Chicago having been I forced to et up extra quarters called "steamer rooms'" for th nr wly arrived foreign children. "Estimates rhow that the 20.0U0,-000 20.0U0,-000 for th present school membership of Uv nation must be increased by 1.606,uOO at least. " said WW flP, Mi -Coy, chairman of tl.e Batter Schools S-rlce. lie continued: "Immigrants send their children to' I school as quick as they land. They I show more avidity for education (than did their predecessors In th years before be-fore th war. Hut the greatest rush Is among the boys and girls who quit' school to tuke advantage of high wages in industry.' Now the war inflH-tlon inflH-tlon Is gone, these fODOg people are swarming back Into high school to fit themsehes for work other than manual man-ual labor. "A greater proportion of children from thc homea of skilled and manual laborers are seeking higher education than ever before, du to the fact that both parent and children often worked at high wages during the war period with the idea of spending accumulated ac-cumulated money in further schooling for the children. This In shown In the fact that tho heaviest proportional gain has been li high schools where this ag Is represented. "Th greatest rush of attendance: (as iaxea inc already overcrowded schools to the limit In large cities and In mining and industrial centers schools or over-pupilcd and under teachcrecKto the point where th work 1 ' 1 ' l unfaii to I he children Th ucreaae In attendance has come at a tlm when th number of teachers teach-ers is decreasing and when lb building build-ing of schools has stopped. Authorities Authori-ties agree that th best wprk can be done in school When there Is on , teucher for overv 25 pupils and vet the u eraKe for the 1& largest Ameri- i Vi? ?r pupWs P01" teacher, Philadelphia having Cf, Chicago 44 I St. LouU end Milwaukee 40. Tork 39. I8 An(reJ1 37 Newark 3 i Baltimore 3h and Detroit 5. These averages will grow much higher for the Incree in Dumber of pupil. ee.n- "' g pro-