Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-06-29
URGE PUPILS TO
remain IN SCHOOL
Uncle Sans Commissioner of
Education Makes Ap-
peal.
WORLD NEEDS TRAINED men
Those Who Enter College Will Not
Lower Productive Capacity of Ma
tion to Any Extent, 1t
Is Declared.

An urgent appeal to pupils to remain
In high school or enter college as a
patriotic duty has been issued by DR..
P. P. Claxton, Uncle Sans commits
sioner of education. Doctor Claxton
points out that there were in the high
schools Of the United States during
the past year more than 100000
boys and girls, and somewhat more
than 100000 Of them graduate this
year. In an ordinary year 10000 or
more Of these would next fall enter
college, normal school or technical
school, to be prepared for such service
to society, state and nation as can be
rendered only by those who have re-
ceived education beyond that which
the high schools can give. "Many
college presidents and others fear that
on account of our entrance into the
war few boys and girls will enter col
lege next fall and that the total col
lege attendance will be very SMALL"
says Doctor Claxton. '"The number
ought, however, to be much larger
than usual.
viii Not Weaken Nation.
"The more mature young men are,
the more serviceable they are in the
army. The selective draft will take only
those between twenty-one and thirty.
In the total Of 60,000,0O0 people of pro-
ductive age in the United States the
$4,000 students in colleges and nor
NAL schools and technical and voca-
tional schools of high grade constitute
only about one-half of / per cent.
More than half of these live in cities
and cannot be employed in agricul-
tural production except as a few Of
them may find work on the farms dur
ing the summer. Their going to col
lege will not lower the productive
capacity of the country as a whole in
any appreciable degree. The colleges,
normal schools and technical schools
will all be open with undiminished in
come from public funds and endow-
ments, and the expense of their main
tenance will continue. It is quite
probable that many Of the older stu
dents will not feturn next fall and the
higher classes will be smaller than
usual. The graduates from the high
schools should see to it that the lower
classes more than make up for this
deficiency.
"This appeal is made on the basis of
patriotic duty. If the war should be
long the country will need all the
trained men and women it can get
many more than it now has. There
will be men in abundance to fight in
the trenches, but there will be dearth
of officers, engineers and men of scien-
tific knowledge and skill in all the in
dustries, in transportation, and in
many other places where skill and
daring are just as necessary for sue
cess as in the trenches.
Must Help Rebuild World.
"When the war is over there will bs
made upon us such demands for meI
and women Of knowledge and training
as have never before come to any
country. There will be equal nee(
for a much higher average of genera
intelligence for citizenship than ha:
been necessary until now. The worl(
will have to be rebuilt and American
college men and women must assum,
large part Of the task. In all inter
national affairs we must play a NOR
important part than we have in tn
past. For years we must feed our owl
industrial population and large par
Of the population Of western and cen
trail Europe. We must readjust ou
industrial and social and civic life an
institutions. We must extend our fol
eign commerce. We must increase ou
production to pay our large war debt
and to carry on all the enterprises 70
the general welfare which have bee
begun but many Of which will be re
tarded as the war continues. Chin
and Russia with their new democrs
cies and their new developments whic
will come as a result will need and as
? our help in many ways. England
France, Italy and the central power
will all be going through process c
reconstruction and we should be read
. to give them generously every poss
BILE help. Their colleges and univers
ties are now almost empty. Their OLE
I er students, their recent graduates an
a their younger professors are fghtin
. and dying in the trenches, or are a
/, ready dead; as are many of their oldt
t scientific and literary men, artists an
q others whose work is necessary for tt
i enlargement of the cultural and spiri
ual life and for all that makes fl
higher civilization.
|, eve must be ready to assume the r
s gponsibilities and perform thorough
4 and well all the duties that will con
e to us in the new and more closely r
lated world which will rise out of Il
ruins of the old world which is no
passing away in the destruction of tt
|. war. To what extent and how we
g. we may be able to do this will deper
y upon the young men and women WI
r are this year graduating from OF
;, aigh schools and upon those who vi
y 'ollow in the next few years to larg
. Iegree than upon any other like nur
ter of people"
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