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(WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 1921.
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ISBSfiLL IS COST
! OF U. S. SCHOOLS
1
, Commissioner of Education Gives
j Figures of Expenditures
in This Country.
; AVERAGE IS $515 FOR PUPIL
i
i Courting Children of Kindergarten
! Age There Are More Than Thirty
Million Children of School Age in
the United States.
By P. P. CLAXTON.
| (United States Commissioner of Kduca-
tion.)
Considered alone, expenditures for
I public education in the United States
I inn \ seem la rue. Figures and cutn-
I parsons recently published in many
nesimpers show bow small they are
| m lien compared with expenditures for
i other purposes, public anti private.
These expenditures are also small
| In comparison with the number of cliil-
, ilron to be educated. We forget how
! numerous a people we have come to
I be. In thinking of hundreds of tnll-
: lions of dollars for public Schools, we
(forget that there are tens of millions
| of ho.vs and girls to be educated.
Keenly conscious of the size of the
! dividend, we forget the size of the
idivisor. We forget that there are
jin the United States more than twen-
ily-sevcn million hoys and girls between
the ages of six and nineteen—that is,
I between the age at which children
[in most states enter school and the
|nge <ii those who graduate from tlie
,high school having gone through the
j guides of the elementary school witli-
f out tlit - loss of more than one year.
It children of kindergarten age are
collided In there are more than thirty
millions.
The Cost.
.1 :st how much do we pay for the
education of these children?
The first of three (hides giving ile-
ucli was spent on
public schools of
for the education
the generation of
(chool in the fall
"ould he spent on the overage for all
tlie school education of all tlie chil
dren in public elementary schools and.
‘ unlversl-l $ nr,1 " n . garbed in overalls. “Yo* |fi
the army, too?" asked a private, pass-
area, and got iiwuj' with It.
General Muir wus at work In his
In
1 tails show how it
It
(1111 average in the
w
| each of tlie states
r>
of each child til,
in
| children entering
Vf
j uf 1!K)7 and rencltl
til
I of high school g
n«
j The figures given
tli
, as nearly as can tie
ratluation In 11*18.
in each cuse show
computed from re-
jports made to the United Slates bu-
■ reuu of education Just how much lias
! been spent to make all the difference
(between total Illiteracy and the lack
I of all school training of this genera-
uloii of boys and girls and that which
• they did get In the public elementary
land high schools. May it therefore
(fairly lie taken as the measure of the
! val to of such education In tlie minds
I of the people? it should lie reinem-
jhered that these figures Include not
joniy the cost of Instruction, but also
(expenditures for buildings, grounds,
j equipment, repairs, fuel and ull Inci-
|dentals, Including in many cities and
(states hooks and supplies.
The range Is from $(i:{ per Individ-
Jual person In Alabama and Mississippi
(to $ti.'l7 in Montana, the Montana rate
j being almost exactly ten times that
-jof Alabama and Mississippi. The 111-
jinois range Is $730. The average for
[tlie United States is only $2,72.
* Comparisons.
j In a country In which we blithely
(acknowledge that nil things wait on
(education—tlie public health, mutertat
(prosperity and wealth, social purity,
(civic righteousness, political wisdom,
tlie strength and safety of state and
nation, and. finally, the tiling for which
all these exist—that Is, the Individual
welfare and happiness of the people
we have recklessly ("recklessly” is
probably the word) spent $252 per
child that the attainment of all these
things may lie assured. Since less
1 linn To per cent of all the money ex
pended for public schools goes for in-
Mruotliiu. only $175 of the $252 wus
paid for actual instruction. We fre
quently have complaints that tlie ln-
tinn and training of tlie hoys and
girls who leave the schools is not as
•dve hnd thorough as It should
be. What should we expect for .$175?
For tlie generation of hoys and girls
reaching tlie age of high school grudu-
a 1 ion in lPOh tiu* average pep capita
! $110. For tlie elementary and
•ntiaiy education of the million of
men ami women in tlie United States
lew between the ages of twenty-one
fl'd thirty live the average paid wus
^ An Average.
I lie second table shows what would
he spent on tlie average for ilie edu
cation of carli child of those (some
thing more than two and 7i quarter
millions) who reached the school age
Jof six yours in litis if tlie average ex-
Ipendilures for that year were to he
jeoutinited until 11131 when these hoys
and girls ulll have readied llie mir-
I'ual “ge of graduation from the high
(school, in only one state would the
(amount he le-s than $1(10. and the av
erage f„r tlie United States would he
jxinp The figures for Montana ($1274)
mi doubt loo large, tlie number
'liiidreit of school age in that state
i'U being larger than the number
cl on tills basis of tlie estj-
d the total population made
bureau of census. The same |
ddv true, hut in a smaller tie- I
* r *'ullfoniiu ($740). Illinois’ I
j.itt -ig r in this table is tlie same its j
the first, $7:!P.
Hie third table shows how much
j ; 11 ' ru,, ‘ "f expenditures in Tilth |
j won Id i.e paid for ull education—ele- j
cientar.v. secondary, higher, technical
1*‘ ^ li' ^kjuj.nl. that is, hovi much
high schools und In colleges,
ties, technical and professional schools
of all kinds. The runge would he from
$111 in Mississippi to $1,274 in Mon
tuna, again somewhat too high, and
the average for the United States
would lie $440. Illinois, in this third
tatde, is put down at $431.
Grand Average Is $515.
To this $410 should he added nbout
$”' r '—probably not quite so much—for
expenditures of private schools of all
kinds, elementary and secondary, pri
vate commercial schools, and schools]
lor the deaf, blind, tlie feeble-minded
und other special classes of children.
The grand total of $717 represents
"bat at tlie 1018 rate the people ofj
the United States would pay on an av
erage for all (lie opportunities of edu
cation, public and private, higher and
lower; for all the difference which
schooling makes between a generation
of total illiterates lacking in all tlie
training of the schools, and tlie condi
tion we would have os the result of
a continuation of tlie 11*1 M rate of ex
penditure for education and training
in tlie schools.
Sinee in the figures for the United
States as a whole and those for each
of the states are Included the ex
penditures for many who will go
through college, for many more who
will go through tlie high school, and
lor still more who will get more than
their share of the average in city
schools and country schools having
comparatively long terms, the actual
amount paid for tlie education of the
large number of children whose school
ing is confined to the elementary
grades of tlie city schools and of tlie
short-term country schools must be
pitifully small.
Dees It Pay?
As a matter of investment and busi
ness economy, alone, the thoughtful
iniin will ask : Does It pay to spend
an average ol $ol,5 on the education
of tlie children of tlie nation, or would
it lie heller to save this money, close
till our public schools, and let tlie
next generation of men and women
depend wholly on their unspoiled und
unimproved native ability? Is it prob
able thnt on tlie average these men und
women will because of tlie education
uhich they receive from tlie schools
and colleges, universities, techuleal
and professional schools, produce $712
more during their lives than they
Mould if nothing were spent on tholi
education?
FIND NEW USE FOR CORNCOB
Chemical Expert* of University of
Illinois Discover They Make
Furfural.
Urliana, III.—The corncob has a new
mission In life, It Is announced at the
University of Illinois.
Corncobs, treated with eertuln chem
icals, give a substance culled furfural
In a simpler manner than other meth
ods now in use. It is said rliat from
twelve to fourteen pounds of fiirfurul
• an tie obtulned from 100 pounds of
corncobs.
Although no large uses fur furfural
have yet been discovered the problem
is being Investigated in many labor
atories. Experiments have shown that
a substance can he made from It of
a similar nature to bukelite, the ma-
ierial used in making amber looking
cigarette holders, phonograph records
and the like. Some of the derivatives
of furfural have been used In France
to hasten the process of rubber mak
ing.
Inquiry at tlie state university lias
been curried on by tlie division of
organic chemistry under direction of
Dr. linger Adams.
Ing by and weighted down with the
wisdom acquired with a month's serv
ice. Tlie general nodded yes.
"You’re pretty old to be In the
army," continued the rookie. “Are you
a sergeant?” "No,” said the general.
"Gee, if you have been (n the army all
this time and ain't even a sergeant,
you must lie some dumb guy,” com
mented tlie recruit.
Arsenate of Lead Poisoned Eight.
Dexter, Kan.- Eight persons are
fighting against death by slow poison
ing. caused by eating a cake. The
cake Mas made with arsenate of lead,
instead of sugar, through a mistake.
It was eaten at a family reunion pic
nic six miles northeast of Dexter.
Three Years to Carve
Lord's Prayer on Pin
H. Baker of Murray, Ky„
is exhibiting a pin head
which he has Inscribed the
Lord's I’rnyer. There are 67
Mortis of 2.74 letters and to he
read tl:e letters must be put un
der a miseroseope and magnified
5(*8 times. The tiling was three
years and six months in tlie mak
ing and 3,000 pins were de-
,j strayed before it was perfected
INDIAN PRINCE TAKES
UP BOXING IN PARIS
AN OPEN LETTER
10 WOMEN
Mr*. Little Tells How She
Suffered and How Finally
Cured
Philadelphia, Pa.— “I was not able to
do my housework and had to lie down
most of the time and
felt bad in my left
side. My monthly
periods were irreg
ular, sometimes five
or seven months
. apart and when they
did appear would last
for two weeks and
were very painful. I
was sick for about a
year and a half and
doctoredbut without
any improvement.
A neighbor recommended Lydia E.
Ptnkham’s Vegetable Compound to me,
and the second day after 1 started tak
ing it I began to feel better and [ kept
on taking it for seven months. Now I
keep house and perform all my house
hold duties. You can use these facts as
you please and I will recommend Vege
table Compound to everyone who suffers
as I did.’’ — Mrs. J. S. Little, 3455
Livingstoh St., Philadelphia, Pa.
How much harder the daily tasks of
a woman become when she suffers from
such distressing syrnptomsand weakness
as did Mrs. Little. No woman should
allow herself to get into such a condition
because such troubles may be speedily
overcome by Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vege
table Compound, which for more than
forty years has been restoring American
women to health.
MILLEDOKVIDpe Ga
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Geo. H. Tunnel!, General Agent.
M
CALLS GENERAL "DUMB GUY’’
Private at Camp Lewis in Washington
Likewise "Gets Away
With It."
t'nmp Lewis. Wash.—A "rookie”
here called Muj. tUen. diaries H.
Muir, commander of Camp Lewis, a
<1 it in h guy just before the general
Mem to San Francisco to lake tern-
por.Mt-y -cut and of 2he Ninth corps
Aga Khan, (right), wealthy and dis
tinguished Indian prince, who. Is
visiting in Paris, has surprised his
host of Parisian friends hy taking up
boxing lessons. He has called In one
of the foremost boxing Instructors of
Paris, and dully goes through the
routine in the hotel hack square. Here
Prince Aga Khan Is shown with his
Instructor?
The prince Is the head of the re
ligious sect of the Isinalll Monsul-
nians, which extends over a large
part of Asia and Fast Africa.
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Why not destrov the boll wee
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The healing effect of Hayes' Healing Honey in
side the throat combined with the healing effect of
Grove s O-Pen-Trate Salve through the porea of
tne skin soon stops a cough.
Both remedies are packed in one carton and tho
cost of the combined treatment is 35c. m
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