Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-07
READY
FOR NEW SCHOOLS
Model Continuation Schools
Will Be Established in That
City Say Officials

Ii all the present plans go into eff
feet, Reading will have one of the
best continuation school systems in the
State, say State educational authori-
ties. DR.. Charles S. Foos, the super
intendent of schools. has been an earn
est advocate of continuation schools
for many years. In his recent speeches
he commended the spirit of this new
feature of the Pennsylvania school
system. Since the passage of the
Child Labor act he has been very
busy working up a plan for their es-
tablishment.
Recently the merchants of the city
held a meeting. where, at their re-
quest, DR.. Foos outlined the purposes
and the scope of the continuation
schools. The result of this confer
ence was that every merchant en-
ploying Juvenile labor, heartily en-
dorsed the idea and enthusiastically
began the work at once; one of the
leading business men said: THE Off
cheney of. my store will be increased
by the better educated clerks and the
community as we'll will be greatly i'm
proved
Nearly two hundred department
store boys and girls will be required
to attend schools. While it is not GER
tain that every store will pay them
regular wages, for the time spent in
the classroom. some managers of the
larger stores have said that the con-
tents of the minors pay envelopes will
not be decreased
DR.. Foos said 1T was compare
lively easy TO compile a schedule for
the stores, as there are dull periods in
every day and some of the boys and
girls can be spared and each child
will go to the schools two days of four
hours each. The workers have been
placed in three grades according to
their previous schooling, and will be
sent to nearby school building. Les
sons will be given in industrial geog-
raphy, Industrial arithmetic. English.
hygiene, drawing and salesmanship.'
Following the meeting of the Mer-
chants Association, the leading manu-
facturers of Reading had confer
ence with DR.. Foos at which all phases
of the Cox Child Labor Act was dis
cussed. DR.. Frederick Wilson. of the
T. A. Wilson Optical Works, the larg
est manufacturing plant of optical
goods in the world, announced that he
would not only retain all of his juven-
lie workers. but would build school
room in his factory and would endea-
vor to have an ideal school. Other
manufacturers signified their inten-
ton of constructing similar school
rooms. For the boys and girls, who
will not be accommodated in the fac
tories. the school authorities will main
tain continuation schools in various
buildings in different parts of the
city.
THE cooperation between the
school authorities and the merchants
and manufacturers is very encourag-
ing; there has never before existed
the close relation between the schools
and the business world. This is true.
no doubt, in other cities of the State. .
One of the school men at the State
Educational meeting in Reading on
December 4th. expressed an opinion
that "the plan of education as outlined
by the State Department of Public In
struction for the continuation schools,
will have a tendency to make the
work in the entire school system more
practical and that the contact with
successful businessmen will have an
wholesome influence over the school
men,"
While all of the larger cities of the
State have made plans to open con-
tinuation schools in January. Reading
is the first city to definitely announce
a complete organization. IT might be
interesting to know that Reading also
was one of the first cities in the coun-
try to open evening schools.