Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-08-05
SCHOOL NOTES
By W. CLYDE JOHNSON.
County School supt.
Does an education pay?

every one hundred children get an Sth
grade diplomat That only four get
a high school diploma? That only
one out Of every 100 gets a college ed
ucation?
Do you know that the uneducated
workman earns $3.50 per year? That
the common cshool graduate earns
5000? That the high school graduate
earns $1,000. and the college graduate
$1,000?
Do you see from thes figures that
your boy earns $500 per day every
day hi goes to the little box car
school? That he earns $500 per day
in high school and college? Just fig
ure for yourselves how much his ed
%ucation is worth to your boy-$6O0 or
$1,000, or better still $4,000 per year
for 50 years.
If you take $3.50 from 5000 you see
that the 9Th grade graduate earns
$3.50 per year more than the unedu-
cated workman. At 6R represents the
earning capacity of $500, the value
of his education in dollars. In s
years of 8 months or 100 days each,
there are 1880 days, the time required
for the boy, beginning at 8 to get an
sth grade diploma. Hence he has
earned $500 per day between the ages
Of 6 and IA. How can he beat it?
These are Uncle Sans statistics.
And further do you know that the
college graduates furnish So out of
every 100 of the successful men of
our country? That the college grad
uate, therefore, has 116 chances to be-
come a real success, either financially
or in any and every other phase of
life, while his less fortunate less edu-
Gated competitor has but one?
Two years ago, at Ewing in Lewis
ICo., six districts were consolidated.
Their valuation is S367,000. This year
they will have a good high school and
their levy is only 70 cents IN the 500
valuation.
Miss Helen Mckee, County Super
intendent of Clark County, told me
that they have a consolidated school
at Wyaconda, the first in the state to
transport all children to the central
school. For three years this has been
done successfully and at a reasonable
cost, $500 each, and have to u n
other. Only twice in the three years
they have failed to make the trip
once because of the death in the fam
lily Of a driver. They have just COM
mon Missouri clay roads. Their en-
umeration is about 2S0. Their enroll
ment last year was practically the
same. In Audrain the enumeration
was 57O7, the enrolment 1885, They
have a first class high school, are
still in debt on the building and are
hindered considerably by the oppos-
Iition which greatly increases the run
ming expenses. However, with a val
%uation less than $4,000 their levy
lis but $1.20 on the 500 valuation.
This week, County Superintendent
]. c. Webb, Of Franklin, johnson
County, Indiana, told us Of his great
work, during the last IL years. OF
80 schools, all but 32 are consolidated
, and their only excuse if for political
reasons. Practically every congress
l~sional township has its central school
, building for grades and high school.
These are fine, large, expensive, well
equipped buildings. Here there is an
average of % pupils in each class
. in the one room school only IN.
. Which school would you rather be in?
Q They have good roads, a thing which
. always follows consolidation.
In two townships, about one-thiFd
of the pupils enumerated We're either
in high school or were graduates.
= Out of 1900 pupils enrolled in the
: county 700 were in high school, or one
: in 6. Audrain had about one In
eight. These schools taught besides
!, the common subjects, drawing, music
: art. manual training, cooking, sewing
: etc. And it was taught well, for the
1884 eighth grade applicants for a dip
Iona 9-10 Of those from the consoli-
dated schools passed, only CLIO o
those from the one room schools
From the former schools 80 mad'
9O9s or better, of the others only
made Just 90. And the consolidatet
schools cost $7.33 less per pupil las
. wear to run them. | wish that
could tell the story of some Of tn
Z boys and girls who are going GU
from these schools to win a name TO
themselves. There is one who a
leader of his team at Harvard, defeat
:. ed the debating team of Yale. An
- other il a successful Farm Adviser
another county. Another is a sue
! ~cessful preacher in Oklahoma. OH
ers are successful teachers, and al
inspiring boys and girls to get a
education, and accomplish somethin
worth while. And many of these coul
not have got a high school educatio
but for consolidation. Does it pay
What is your boy worth, Fathel
Mother, what is your gorl WORTH
Mr.. Webb says that consolidate
is not a new thing. 1t started IL
years ago. Before that time all OF
schools were in the private home, an
tutors went from home to home t.
Il toring the children Of the famil,
j Then came consolidation of the fan
lilies into the one room school, an
what a good thing it was. Now I'll
n schools are getting as small as u
family used to be. Last year Ia dil