The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-10-04
Statistics Show That Every Boy Who
Gives up High School Loses
$92.50 Per
Day.
CLASS TO FIGURE IT
Local School Will Take Figures Or
fered in Statistics as Basis
For Arithmetic
Work.

Just how much boy loses by quit
ting school to go to work to earn
money will be figured out from sIa-
tistics by one of the aathmetic
classes of Keokuk high school. Inc
statistics show that the boy VINO
quits school to go to work KNOCKS
himself out of s92.50 per day. Inc
Keokuk high arithmetic classes WIZ
figure these statistics over, and Will
draw charts using these figures anu
will attempt to prove the sounoness
of the theory.
NEARLY all boys who quit schoo!
before graduation give as their rea.
son that they want to go to work,
writes a school principal. They are
impelled not so much by necessity
as by the desire to earn something
for themselves, to begin WORKING
ahead-by the feeling that they arc
losing money to stay in school Ana
too frequently parents are as wrong
as the boys themselves in figuring
the comparative financial advantages
of taking a job or finishing school.
But it's hard to make them undef-
stand that"
A novel and impressive way OF get
ting this information to boys has
been found by the American Boy. In
it's October number there is story
entitled "s92.50 Day." by G. "A.
Claudy. There are two boys In the
story. One, named Bud, has just DC.
cided to quit school and take an 80
week job in an office of the n:
P. Railway company. He has talked
it over with his mother and conV1nc-
ed her that it is his duty-that with
men being drafted right and left, the
country's got to have men in It's shops
and offices, and, moreover, with so
many men gone. his chances or al
vancement are better.
Harvey, the other boy, is envious;
he wants to get out and work, too.
They talk it over with Harvey $
uncle, the chief claim adjuster OF
the railraod.
If Edison Enlisted as Private.
The uncle surprises the boys by
saying that Bud is taking good
economic asset away from Uncle
Sam and giving him a weak one IN
place Of it, and adds: Even if you
do it with patriotic motives, the
act itself is unpatriotic."
Glow can thing be unpatriotic il
YOU do it for patriotism?" Harvey
lost the trail of the argument in this
matter of ethics.
eff Edison enlisted as a private in
the army, would he be patriotic!
The most patriotic man is the man
who does the thing that is best for
the country, not the thing he thinks
is best But that's not the main
point It's the financial sacrifice
Bud is making for his idea of pat
riotism which interests me. How
did you bring yourself to give up SO
much money for so little"
"I-I don't understand you, sir.
Pm not giving up any money. I'm
going to make eight dollars week.
Bud was plainly puzzled.
ooh, yes, you are giving UP mon
ey-a lot Of money Almost a hun
dred dollars a day. OF course, you
don't believe it, or you wouldn't do
it. Bullock here!"
Making Figures Talk for the Boy
Uncle Grant drew pencil and note
book from his pocket Both boys
crowded against his shoulder to look
"The first year you will make
eight dollars a. week You will get
ten the second year, twelve the third.
fifteen a week the fourth and fifth.
eighteen WEEK ZIG slAtll, eeNeheh
and eighth, twenty a week for the
following four years, then in your
thirteenth year out Of school, you
will advance to twenty-five dollars
week. And there you will probably
stick. This is the average course OF
one who lacks high school educa'
ton. You are seventeen now-you
will be thirty then. And the man at
thirty who can't earn more than
twenty-five dollars week rarely
learns to make more afterwards. So
I'll carry you up to forty years old
at twenty-five a week-and here is
what you will earn altogether in that
time"
Uncle Grant showed the boys the
figures he had been setting down and
the total.
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