Identifier: railwayagegazett88newy (find matches)
Title: Railway age gazette
Year: 1913 (1910s)
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Subjects: Railroad engineering Engineering Railroads Railroad cars
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Simmons-Boardman Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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ting a slide valve on a locomotivewas considered almost a trick in magic, some parent who hadboys to spare would select the one he liked the least and drivehim off to a magistrate, who in turn would bind the boy over Parents blame the schools for not educating their children sothat they can earn a living, but for every hundred boys enteringthe primary grades 55 leave before they reach the last grammargrade, and only four out of the hundred graduate; in otherwords more than one-half of the children leave school beforethey receive enough education to work common fractions.Large numbers of boys flounder about trjing to do somethingfor which they are not fitted, in many cases just because theparents do not wish to have them soil their hands. False pridehas made more low grade doctors and lawyers out of materialthat nature intended for mechanics, than any other one cause. We should not lose sight of the fact that the bulk of the.\merican people are wage earners anil that there will be more
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Erie Railroad Apprentice School at Dunmore, Pa. to some machine shop owner. The master promised to teachthe boy the trade, supply him with board and clothes for thenext seven years, and for all this he was to give the boysparents the magnificent sum of $5 a year. Today the railroad companies are making diligent search forapprentices and they are offering as an inducement free in-struction in their schools, with a three years course in the shopand more pay in 30 days than the boy of old received in 365days. And all this with the entire elimination of petty re-strictions. Todays greatest problem in the labor world is to find skilledhelp, or the material from which skilled help can be developed. and more of them needed. Upon the wage earners falls thetask of educating their children so that they may fill these places,and wdiat is most needed is a good grounding in plain reading,writing and arithmetic. While it is true that many childrenhave to leave school early, it is also true that man

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