The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-06-26
URGE PUPILS | Il; TO
REMAIN. N SCHOOL
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Uncle Sans Commissioner 81
Education Makes Ap.
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WORLD needs TRAINED MEN
Those Who Enter College Will Not
Lower Productive Capacity Of Ma:
ton to Any Extent, It
Is Declared.

An urgent appeal to pupils to remain
in high school or enter college as 4
patriotic duty has been issued by DR..
p. P. Claxton, Uncle Sans commits
sioner of education. Doctor Claxton
points out that there We're 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 .,ociety, state and nation as can be
rendered only by those who have re.
ceiyed 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
1ege 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.
Will 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 10000, 600 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. FheE going to col.
lege will not lower the productive
capacity Of the country as a whole in
any appreciate 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. 1t is quite
probable that many Of the older stu.
dents will not return next fall and the
higher classes will be smaller than
usual. The graduates from the high
schools shqald see to 1t 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 be
made upon us such demands for men
and women Of knowledge and training
as have never before come to any
country. There will be equal need
for a much higher average Of general
intelligence for citizenship than has
been necessary until now. The world
will have to be rebuilt and American
college men and women must assume
large part of the task. In all inter-
national affairs We must play a more
important part than we have in the
past. For years we must feed our own
Industrial population and large part
of the population Of western and CEN
trail Europe. We must readjust our
Industrial and social and civic life and
Institutions. We must extend our for
eign commerce. We must increase our
production to pay our large war debts
and to carry on all the enterprises for
the general welfare which have been
begun but many of which will be re-
tarded as the war continues. China
and Russia with their new democra.
cies and their new developments which
will come as result will need and ask
our help in many ways. England,
France, Italy and the central powers
will all be going through process OF
reconstruction and we should be ready
to give them generously every possi-
bic help, Their colleges and universe.