The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-07
Editorial Comments
From Other Angles
THE GRADUATE AND A JOB
GRADUATE AND A JOB
Charlotte Observer

About 155, 0G0 young men and women are be.
ing graduated from colleges and universities
this year, and about 1,15o,0 900 from high schools
and secondary schools.
Almost all the college graduates and at least
one-half of the high school graduates will look
for jobs. And the chances for finding perman-
ent jobs are considerably better for them than
for the graduates of last year.
The business slump which succeeded the first
war boom in 1899 seems to have run it's course,
and business indexes are shooting upward
again.
Even if the war in Europe should end, the
to replace foreign orders. Industrial produc-
ton in June, 1910, may we'll be Is per cent
higher than in June, 1889.
The 1910 annual job survey of the North.
western National Life Insurance company OF
Minneapolis showed that in two-thirds of the
colleges and universities the calls for June
graduates are higher than a year ago. Over
three-fourths of these institutions expected rs
per cent of their June job-seekers to be placed
by the end of the year.
According to this survey the greatest demand
is for engineers. Graduates Of schools of bust
ness administration are also in demand. Start
ing salaries for college graduates seem to range
from $50 to $3.50 a month, with the technically
trained men having the call for the higher
salaries.
A number of the colleges reported that their
graduates were starting in at IS or $40 a month
more than their graduates of last year for the
same kind Of work. The situation is geo.
graphically spotty, however, with the best job
openings in the industrial East.
A survey of colleges by Investors Syndicate
reports that 80 per cent believe that at least
one-half of their graduates this year will have
regular jobs before the end of the summer.
Hopeful testimony comes also from C. C. C.
headquarters in Washington, which reports
that in April, 1910. almost 80 per cent more c.
c. c. enrollees than in April, 1899, were dis.
charged in order that they might take jobs.
The depression which began in 1929 was
particularly hard on young persons because
many highly skilled workers were thrown out
Of employment. When jobs were to be filled,
the unemployed with experience had first call
Something like one-third of all applicants at
public unemployment offices have been between
the ages of Is and "a, although only about one.
sixth of the population is within that group
ing. But now that the demand for skilled work
ers seems likely to exceed the supply, many
plants may find it advisable to take On the
youthful unskil1ed for training.
Many a high school and college graduate of
this years vintage may find that higher wages
in a work shirt more than compensate for any
higher prestige in a, white collar job. The U.
S. Department of Labor reports that the
median salary for young men becoming Y. M.
C. A. secretaries is about $1,375 a year, or $24.50
a week, while automobile truck drivers in cities
(union) average $500 a week.
Recent figures show that for elementary
school teachers in cities of 10000 to 1000 0 the
median salary is 81, PA a year, While female
sewing machine operators on neckWear in New
York City averaged $23.58 a week, which is at
the annual rate Of 1926 a year. The medlan
salary for high school teachers in cities OF go
600 to 100. 900 is s1.437 a year; for union mem.
bers in book and job printing in cities OF the
same size, s1,955 for a full work year of So
weeks.
Most aliens came here to join America and
not to fight America. They came mere seeking
what we have and they are prepared TO detend