ONE OUT OF EVERY TWO
CHILDREN HOW ABLE
FINISH HIGH SCHOOL
Educational opportunities have
so increased in the United States
that at the present time, one out
v of every two children may expect
to complete high school, and one
out of six may expect to complete
college, the Federal Office of
Education announced in a state
ment made in the U. S. Daily- The
statement, which follows says:
‘‘Federal Office of Education
facts show that the average
American boy or girl of 1931 re
ceives two more years of school
ing than the average boy or girl
of 1914; that he is one of a class
of 30 pupils, while his father’s j
1910 class had 34 pupils; that his |
chances of going to high school, |
which were but one in 10 in 1900, j
are now 50-50, and his chances of
going, to college are one in six.”
" Additional information was
supplied as follows:
With approximately 25,000*000
pupils enrolled from the kinder
garten thru high school, about
$2,500,000,000 is being expended
annually for public education in
the Nation. Education has be
come an important item in the
budget of every State.
Since the beginning of inde
jL
pendent State Governments fol
lowing the Declaration of Inde
pendence in 1776, education has
advanced remarkably- So import
ant was education regarded then
that many of the first Constitu-!
tions made specific references to
it. Maryland, North Carolina,
Pennsylvania, Georgia, Massachu
setts, and Vermont mentioned ed
ucation directly in their early
Constitutions.
OLDTIMER PASSES
Heart trouble from which he had
been a sufferer for* some time,
j claimed Fritz Tittle, oldtimer of the
! North, recently in Anchorage, re
! ports the Times. The oldtimer was
! brought to Anchorage some time
[ago by airplane from the Kuskok
wim district, where he had long
resided and where he still owned a
number of mining claims of ques
tionable value at the time of his
passing. When he became ill the
people of the Kuskokwim sub
scribed money and sent him to the
Anchorage hospital, where he re
mained until he was sufficiently
improved to find lodging elsewhere.
Had he lived, he would have been
sent to the home at Sitka.
Kead the news every day.
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