Show DONT GIVE UP SCHOOL IP IF YOU ever hear of a alboy boy or girl who ho wants to quit school when it is unnecessary it you ever hear ot of p parents arents who are thinking ot of buttini put tini their childr children to work when it is unnecessary just bring these figures to their at attention teion every day spent in school pays the child here is the proof based on the wage scale of 1913 uneducated laborers earn on the average of per year for forty years a total of high school graduates earn on the average of 1000 1000 per year tor for forty years a total of this education required twelve years of 0 school of 0 days each a 4 total ot of 2160 0 days da ys in u school if days at school add to the income for life then each day at school adds the child that stays out ot of school I 1 to earn less than a day is losing mosey money not malting making money moncy these figures aro are based on an investigation vesti gation made by dr A caswell rills ellis ot of the university ot of texas at the request of 0 the U S bureau ot of education here are some more facts supt bupt B B jackson ot of minneapolis studied the earnings ot of pupils who left school at the end ot of the eighth grade and lound found that they started life with an average salary of only a year A similar study made by him of the salaries of graduates of the high school showed that they started out ui with an average salary ot of and alter after six years were earning an average of 0 1380 1 one more letof figures and then we are through A committee of 0 the brooklyn Teach teachers erst association in 1909 investigated the salaries received by graduates ot of the elementary schools and by others who stopped school before graduation ot of boys from the elementary schools taken at random the committee was a able ble to trace till they were about thirty years ot of age at that time the average income of these boys was whereas the average salary of the illiterate worker in brooklyn was mas per year it if the parents of these boys had brought each ot of them an annuity equal to the extra per year which his education enabled him to earn it would have cost over per boy As the salaries of oe these boys will raise considerably after they are thirty while those 0 of the illiterate laborers will not it is obvious that this elementary education was worth more than a capital safely invested tor for each boy through the meshes |