The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1910-03-17
THE BOY AND
THE SCHOOL
Some Interesting Comment
and Statistics About
Young Americans.

in one hundred finish the high
school. Many more than one-half of
the boys of this country never Sc
cure more than six years of school
ing. Instead, at an early age, long
before they are ready, they are
thrust into industry to become bread
winners as unskilled workers and not
enough trained to procure good
wage. So their standards of living
are apt to remain low and with little
means to add to the small education
they already have, including public
schools, they have small chance to
increase their ability as workers and
raise their living standards. Some
thing must be done to help them
help themselves become better work
men when they do discover their
needs. A young man should not be
handicapped in his ambition by a
lack of schooling or training oppor-
tunities. He must have a chance to
better fit himself for his vocation in
life. 1t is with the problems of such
men and boys that the Young Mems
Christian association Is concerned.
To meet their needs 1t provides both
day and night classes, clubs, lectures
and talks, libraries, and any other
means adapted to increase the wage
earning power of men and implant a
higher idea of life.
The extent of these association &C.
worth: About $4,000 students in
classes of which over 5000 are wage
earning boys under II years of age,
81 900 men and boys in clubs, and
400,000 attending lectures and prac-
teal talks during the past year. Col
lege students pay from 80 to so per
cent of current expenses; association
students pay from so to IS per cent.
They are glad to do this in order to
increase their earning capacity and
thus become more efficient citizens.
Twenty dollars a week is better
than $40, or $50 better than $25, es-
pecially if you are the man who
gets it.
Do you know that grammar
school education increases a boys
or mans earning capacity by so per
cent; that a high school education
adds 100 per cent to his earning pow
er, and college education 200 per
cent?
Each school day we'll put in is
worth $40 to boy in the course of
his life. Government statistics prove
It, Here are the figures:
Ten Dollars Day.
Average yearly income of high
school educated man. ....$ 1000
In 40 years he earns. SAC, 900
A day laborer or uneducated
man earns $3.50 a day; 365
days per year, minus Sun
days, holidays, etc., equals
300 days.
Total yearly earnings. ..$ $50
In 40 years he earns SIS, 900
,0OO-$18,O0O leaves $4,000; diff
ference in earnings of educated
and uneducated man, which shows
the value of an education.
To get this requires IL years of
schooling, months per year. 20
days per month, or 2,160 days.
$22, 000-2, 160-$10. Value of each
days schooling and training.
II most boys knew this in time
there would be fewer men who are
struggling along, trying to get ahead
but Handicapped by lack of education.
If fathers and mothers better under
stood how important 1t is for the boy
to get all the schooling possible be-
fore he starts In life, there would be
fewer unsuccessful and discouraged
men. Lack of schooling and educa-
tion draws that dead line" between
failure and success.
Every young man, IL he lacks the
education he needs discovers it soon
er or later. He sees other fellows
forge ahead of him. His friend gets
raise" while he stays pegging
away at the same old job. This is
the critical time In that mans life.
His future depends upon what he
does. He may throw up his hands
In encouragement, or he may grit
his teeth, find out what he must do
and do it.
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