Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-26
WHIMS AND NEEDS
PROMPT CHILDREN
IN QUITTING SCHOOL
35 Seek Sanction to Termi-
nate Education" Should
Worry Girl Explains.
F ather Dead" Another.

Eighteen boys and seventeen girls APP
piled today at the headquarters of the
Bureau of Compulsory Education, 1899
Cherry street, for legal permission to
terminate their school careers and begin
/ work in the stores or factories. Several
of the children were questioned as to
| the causes which made them ask for
! labor certificates The answers were re-
| markable.
| The first applicant was a little girl
| whose wan face indicated she had never
known any other condition than poverty
and that heavy responsibilities had
checked her normal development
My father was killed in railroad
accident" she stammered land ever
since that time my mother has had
hard time of 1t. She worked last year
as scrublady in an office building, but
the doctor told her that IL she didn't
want to die and leave us kids all alone
she's better give up that Job SO she
did. And now Jimmie that's my oldest
brother, ~who always made good money
half time, and it's up to me to 20 to
work"
Edward G., robust lad of IS. APP
parently was delighted over his prospects.
Either | was dumb or else I was lazy"
ne confessed. Anyway. / never was
any good in school. Half the time
didn't get promoted. and my father thinks
Ia be better off at work. My mother
thinks so, too, and my uncle says I'll
make a good mechanic. l was always
mandy with nails and hammers and things
like that. / can make furniture, and
nobody ever taught me, either.
When anything gets broken around
the house l can fix it. So I'm going to
work as a carpenters apprentice. I'm
going to set s. a week and l am going
to pay a dollar board every week. too
Maybe I amt glad"
TEACHER \ "TYRANT."
l am going to quit school because I
don't like my teacher was the answer
of plump, snub-nosed little girl. she
always had a spite on me and she knows
it, too. When anything went wrong she
always blamed it on ME. She said l
didn't tell the truth and I was stupid
and l was always coming to school late
and I had dirty hands and that never
studied and, oh. you ought to hear all
the nasty things she use to say about
me- But l don't care l am going to
quit, and now I wonder who she's going
to pick at. have job as a cash girl"
II should worry" exclaimed a more
opthnistic girl II got a job in a rib
bon factory, and maybe they'll like me
and give me a raise and maybe they
won't. Maybe I won't like them and then
I'll quit. I'm going to take a chance. I
should worry"
Pop says II l want spending money
I'll have to work for it," was the reason
given BY 14-year-old Charles l.. He says
he's tired Of handing out coin TO me all
the time and II ! want to go to movies
can earn the money for It, He got me
good job at s. a week In a stocking
mill"
HARD TIMES, BOYS REASON.
u amt got a job yet" confded Sam
ueI T. but I'll have to go to work
Hard times mas STRUCK our mouse ana
my father and oldest brother are out
Of work. SO I guess I have a right to
earn something for the family. I'm
half glad I'm going to quit school. be-
cause when I'm working I can go out
at nights but I'm sorry that I'll have
to quit my education. They say you
can't ever amount to anything without
an education Anyway, the teacher gave
ME some old books to keep and when l
get time after have a job am going
to study up
Henry r. had decided upon an expert
mcnt Il am going to quit school for
a while. anyway" he said, "and think
III 20 to work as an office boy. II I
like it I'll stick and II l don't I'll go
back to school. I'm young yet and |
got plenty time to try things out. When
I'm a man I want TO he a prize fighter,
but the fellows tell me I'm too young
for that yet"
All of the applicants were between the
ages Of "A and 10. Children younger
than that cannot leave school and chill
dren who have attained their 18th birth
day are not required to obtain labor
certificates Remarkable differences
were noted in the height of the various
children one boy was six feet tall and
another who stood near him, measured
hut little more than the average child
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