The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-10-05
HAS novel SCHOOL IDEAS
Suggests How Pupils May Be Inter
ested to Remain in School
for the Higher Glass
Studies.

''The use of out Of school hours is a
great factor in keeping boys and girls
happy and satisfied with their school
work. said John Lind, new secretary
of the Chamber of Commerce in a talk
in the High School last night under the
auspices of the Kenosha High School
ParentLTeacher Association, attended
by five hundred people. Other inter
esting addresses were made by Mrs.
Mary D. Bradford, Judge G. E. Randall
and James Cavanagh.
"The distressing condition shown by
United States government official state
ments to exist in three hundred and
eighty-six of the largest cities Of the
country where but five and six-tenths
per cent of the children who enter the
first grade of school ever stay to finish
their high school course, is appalling
and is a thing that must be remedied
if the best results of our public school
systems are to be attained.
'Kenosha is somewhat above the
average Of other cities of it's size in
the number of pupils attracted to finish
the course, but the proportion is still
TOO small even here.
"0nly two hundred and sixty-three
out of thousand who enter the first
grade finish the grammar school and
it is fact, not open to any sort of
argument, that no man or woman is
fitted to take up the strenuous fight
for existence which life in this day
and age entails unless he or she is at
least equipped with a grammar school
education. That is necessary to even
the mental employments.
1t is not necessary to call atten-
ton to the fact that any factory
which turned out only two hundred and
sixty-three finished automobiles of
every one thousand started, would
miserably fail
Attention to the out of school hours
employments helps to increase the per-
centage Of the pupils attracted to re-
main in the schools. This has been the
experience in certain cities and refec-
tions upon the methods adopted will
readily demonstrate their efficiency.
"A great lakes system, constructed
entirely by group of boys, on large
scale and practically without supervi-
sion, proved great stimulus to the
boys. Another group made volcano
that worked others manufactured
soap and ink; another made burning
mountain after learning what makes a
natural burning mountain. A geyser
was manufactured and dozens of other
natural phenomena demonstrated in a
manner that made the boys eager to
know more Of these wonders and made
their daily dips into knowledge in the
school room a thing to be eagerly
looked forward to-
"Motor hobs that would 90 any,
where, costing less than one hundred
dollars, were made by the boys them
selves, only things being purchased that
they could not manufacture, as
bolts, etc.
Another group made d flying ma
chine that would raise from the ground
and fly sixty to seventy-fve feet. These
boys would never have any trouble
understanding the principles of avia-
tion even though they had no theore-
tical training.
None of the boys in any of those
cases were over fourteen or fifteen and
all were in the high school. Many high
school and college graduates could not
do these things, although these are
learned out of school.
High school boys can make trips
through weather bureaus, light houses,
pure food laboratories, factories, mills
and shops. Girls could visit such es-
Establishments as the Zion lace factories
and in general mills where women
and girls are employed, and others if
they care to.
elf boy lags in his interest in
chemistry, the surest way to make him
see its value is to take him to such a
factory as the Southern Cotton Seed
Oil Company's plant in Savannah, Ga.
There he sees millions Of dollars made
annually ont Of the cotton seed which
is now converted into oil, paint, soap
and lard and for which the planter is
now paid forty dollars a ton while be-
fore he used to consider it a nuisance
to be gotten rid Of by dumping into
holes in the road or burying.
nWhan a hoT has seen q great mag