The record-union., 1895-11-01
Y. N. C. A. EDUCATIONAL EXHIBIT.
What the Association is Doing for
Young Men.
An Interesting Object Lesson to be
Learned at the Rooms of the
Association.

PuD1lC al LIle L M ~ - NSO
to I O'Clock this and tomorrow after
moons.
George B. Hodge, Secretary of the
International Committee, is here N
charge of the exhibit, and will each day
explain to visitors the conditions under
which the educational work of the asso-
citation is carried on. and its scope.
The cities represented are about nifty,
including Washington, New York,
Philadelphia, Minneapolis, Dayton and
Springfield. Ohio; Chicago, and Hart
ford and Bridgeport, Conn. The speci-
mems of work shown are just as they
came from the classroom. They com
prise courses in free hand, mechanical
and architectural drawing, and indus
trial design leading toward such teen
nical lines as machine-constructio
boiler-making, carriage draughtinS,
wood and Woodworking, civil, me-
chanical, architectural and electrical
engineering.
SPECIMENS OF WORK
The one hundred winged frames for
the exhibit, with the tray and case
were made by the industrial class at
Springfield Ohio. A conspicuous OBJ
1ect is an ampere and volt meter made
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ton students of Hartford, Conn, which
is worth about $50. There are several
specimens of carving and of industrial
designs for stained glass windows
from New York: The Dayton, Ohio,
school sends specimens of carriage
draUghting from two years course,
which fits a young man for class OF
work that commands a salary of SIoO
month The Twenty-third street
branch of the New York association
sends some excellent specimens of rail-
road office work, including designs Tor
cars. The Springfield, OHIO, school
sends some specimens of carpentry,
wood turning, pattern making, forging
and machine tool work. on one Of the
several placards announcing the work
of the educational department is one
stating that 200 young men secured
positions last year through their prep
aration and equipment in the Young
Mems Christian Association school.
and 10 received an increase of sal
airy.
Secretary Hodge states that the OBJ
ject of the work is to make young men
more helpful to themselves. His illus
trated charts show in pointed way
the Industrial condition of the young
men of this country. OF the workers
in the United States he shows that
per cent are professional men, ~ per
cent are engaged in commercial pur-
suits. % per cent are artisans or
skilled laborers. and 30 per cent. earn
theiI living by agricultural pursuits or
as laborers. By young men Mr.. Hodge
means men from is to 30 years.
The statistics show that go per cent.
of the Young Mems Christian AssOcia-
ton students are in the commercial
classes, and thereby fitting themselves
for the occupations in which one-fourth
of all the young men of the country are
enopIoved. Only p per cent. are study
ing industrial and scientific courses,
and the authorities in the Young Mems
Christian Association schools are urg-
ing young men to follow these courses
because they lie at the foundation OF
the occupations Of three-fOurths of the
workers. in the United States, and
therefore offer a much wider field of
employment.
TO HELP YOUNG MEN.
The charts show that of the average
100 Young men, only five are fully
equipped and prepared for their work.
Sixty-seven of the boys leave school be
fore they are properly prepared MT
Hodge says the associations are IN the
field to help the ninety-fiVe young men
out of every hundred to complete their
education. Only about eight out of every
hundred obtain sufficient training for
their life work in grammar schools, col
leees. universities and denOminational
and undenominational schools 1t IS
shown that the facilities for industrial
training are exceedingly small. Only
one man in every 1000 is properly pre-
Jared while in France and Germany
the proportion is one in every 2l3.
The influence of evening classes upon
the work of the Y. NJ. G. a. membership
is shown to be very effective In those
cities where there are no classes 1t IS
shown that the membership is only one
half as large as where there are classes.
Further statistics are given about the
age when boys leave school OF five
bows in school at twelve years of age
only one is found two years later.
This means that four-ffths Of the
bows drop out of school before they be-
come fourteen years Of age. The num-
Der of young men in the commercial and
business colleges is about 10000 and in
the universities and colleges of liberal
arts about 100000. In the evening
schools there are about one-half more
students than in the colleges and uni
VersitieS.
Instructive statistics are also given
which prove that while only one man IN
every 1900 is a graduate of a college,
vet that man has 100 chances of success
IN the field Of craftsmanship and gov
eminent against the man without col
lege training. while in the business and
commercial world the chances are as
IL
man. on the matter of salaries il is
shown that , per cent. Of the young
men Of this country are receiving sala-
ries exceeding s.. 900 year while l.
per cent. are receiving from LOO 10
$1,000. % per cent. are receiving from
81 600 to 81 ,500a year and - per cent.
are receiving less than Sl,OOO
EFFECT OF EDUCATION.
The relations between improved IA
Of aHf1rafi0p and GRljnnnqnf
children who furnish occupation for Of
ncers and become offenders against the
laws is graphically given by figures
showing that in 1880 100000 chill
dren were given educational opportun-
tiles. and of these there were $50
delinquents; in 1890, out OF l4,uoo.oO0
there were ,3SS delinquents, and foI
the last year. out of l6.000,O0O, there
were 1. 600 delinquents.
In the matter of association expenses
1t is proven that where one twenty
third of the expenses is for educational
purposes. yet by these classes there was
brought into the association one
eleventh of its membership. In this
way the educational department ac-
complished a double work II is shown
that there are seventy-five or more
different subjects taught in these
classes by more than a thousand
teachers and that the number of stu
dents for the last year was -, SEQ
Manual training is one of the com
paratively new features of y NJ c
A. educational work 1t was begun
two years ago and is now pursued by
more than a score of associations
Secretary Hodge said the COMMITTEES
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