Leavitt Area High School - Angelus Yearbook (Turner, ME)

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3 20111 3 3:1 Cb 1 111 1 11 1111111109 This edition of the Angelus is dedicated by the Angelus Board of 1946, to James Garfield Allen, who has always willingly served Leavitt Institute without thought of self or sacrifice. 01111010101 1u1uioQuiuim3 3 1 1 ivxnqn 'J'

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A POST-WAR PROBLEM What is happening to our teen-age boys and girls who left school dur- ing the war to take jobs? Are they still at work? Are they back at school? Just what are these thousands of teen-age boys and girls doing? A recent survey shows that from the ten thousand who have left school only five thousand have work permits. Doubtless there are some who are working illegally, but what about the rest? In one town school authorities sought to find out. They sent post cards to a few parents whose children, in spite of the fact that their work permits had expired, had not returned to school. Replies to two hundred and sixty-four of these were as follows: seventy-three children had re- turned to school, forty-three had entered the armed services, sixteen had left the city, forty-four had no jobs and no plans. The eighty-eight parents who didn't answer were called upon by the school authorities. From this investigation it was discovered that most of the children who had tak-en good paying jobs during the war had lost them. Then they had taken others with a little less pay until they got too low for their satisfaction. Finally they just quit work altogether. They either went home and loafed or loitered on street corners and pool rooms. Full-time jobs are scarce and part-time jobs which can be combined with school are practically nonexistent. Most boys working part-time are working for their father. -Som-e girls have kept their jobs but they are jobs grown-uns woulcln't want. Either the pay is low or the conditions undesirable. Grown-ups want a place to eat but the teen-agers don't care if they go without. 'During the war, negro teen-agers found jobs very few and far be- tween. Now there are practically none. The only chance for a negro girl is at some home doing menial tasks. For pay they get only their room and board. How are we going to meet this problem? How are we going to get them back to school? As long as a single job-seeking woman, white or Negro, remains un- employed, as long as there is a single hard-working father in the United States who cannot make a decent living, no teen-ager should be allowed to depress wages. The most logical answer is to make school more interesting. The school enrollment for this year is much lower than for the last so this must be one answer-more interesting education. All responsibility however cannot be placed on the schools. If parents have no other values than the be-all and end-all of the job, we cannot ex- pect children to have them either. It is the duty of the fathers and mothers of this country to see that their child or children return to schoolg to teach them thepvalue of an educationg to prove that an education promis- es a better chance of making a good living. These teen-agers have been kicked'Q around and it seems that the men and the women of this country shoul i see to it that their children go back to school before the delinquent faced with permanent unemployment, becomes a seed 'bed for a future dictator. THELMA BISBEE, Assistant Editor-in-Chief rbi 'wry N. ,, an-QRQ mf wi Wi- .. tl! I www '4: '. m' 'ffl