THE ALASKA SOCIALIST
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EDUCATION UNDER CAPITALISM
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Council Bluffs, la.—The public schools
o f Pottawatomie county furnished in
struction to 12,194 pupils during the
past year at an average cost per. student
of approximately $2.92 each month. The
average attendance for the entire county
during each school day was .9,626 ptipils.
The value of school buildings to house
this great army of pupils amounts to
$780,450, and the buildings contain app
aratus valued at $25,546 more. In= add
ition to this apparatus, school libraries
contain a total of 13,441 volumes, the
value of which would add materially to
the above figures.
The large sum of $2.92 has been expend
ed, as shown by the above from The
Fairbanks Times of Dec. 11, in Potta
watomie county, Iowa, for the education
of tile young Americans, who after re
ceiving the great and wonderful educa
tion which this munificent sum allows
have, so capitalist orators tell us, a
chance to become pr-r-r-esident.
The expenditure for public education
is less than $5 per capita in 25 states and
less than $2.50 in ten states. The total
expenditure for all common schools,
according to the 1910 Report of the Com
missioner of Education, is $401,397,747
for the year ending 1909.
There are twenty-five million children
of school age (5 to 18) in the United j
States. Of these less than twenty million !
are enrolled in the schools o f all kinds
and grades, both private and public. Of
the twente-five million children but 915,
061 are enrolled in the public high
schools. This is less than 4 per cent of
the whole school population,
In the ten years from 1900 to 1910
there has been a decrease from 10 to 5
per cent i n the number o f high school
pupils who are preparing for college. Of
the nearly 5,000,000 young people of col
lege age in the United States only 200,
000, or about 5 per cent, are doing col
lege work and less than 2 per cent com
pete the full four years’ college work.
1 he largest number of children leave
school at the age of fourteen years. This
elimination of children from tfhe school
at this age is largely due to the necessity
for them to help parents earn .a living.
An investigation of the causes of child
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fen leaving the high school has been
made recently by a committee on Second
ary Education in New York City. Eleven
causes were given for boys and girls
leaving high school and for 39 per cent
of the whole number the cause for leav
ing was real poverty.
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GRAHAM COURTNEY CIGARS.
MONOPOLE, LA ELEGANCIA
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Garden Jsland branch of Local Oiness,
Socialist Party, held its regular weekly
meeting at E. Pozza’s cabin on Garden
Island, Sunday, Dec. 7th, at '5. p. m.
W. E. Waugh occupied tne chair.
Three new members were elected. The
committee appointed to audit the books
of the retiring secratary reported the
work progressing. A standing notice of
time and place of meeting of the branch
was ordered inserted in the Alaska Soc
ialist.
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CCATii
Cordova, Nov. loth, ’13
Dear Comrades :
The 3rd Asst. Post
ipaster General is authority for the
statement that the Postal banking sys
tem will be extended to Alaskan towns
as soon as places are found suitable for
placing the deposits.
Of course we know that the scheme
as it now stands, is of little benefit to
the working class, t he government
merely acting as an agent for private in
getting deposits, but we see in it the
outlines of a public monopoly, and acc
ordingly we should,agitate for its exten
sion.
11 would seem that should each local
appoint a committee to call on or write
the local hank or danks, expressing to
their management or managements that
the above named functionary at Wash
ington would be thankful for any infor
mation concerning the placing of postal
deposits-—would be time well spent,
i Fratersally yours,
R. E. HEGNKR,
Act. Secy.,
bocal Cordova.
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Oh Sun. Dec. 14tli, Garden Island;
branch of local Olness held its weekly ;
meeting. One new member was entered j
on the list. The report of the auditing
committee was accepted and the finances
con sisting of £41.90 was turned over
to the new secretary.
The Preamble Address
And . I
The Power lad Weakness
Cf Trades Unions
will be sent to anyone on receipt of
twenty five cents.
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The Big Change
Will we have pie three times a clay
When Wilson has the chair ?
And will the weather man’s reports
Be every morning “Fair”?
Will all our troubles pass away
And only pleasures throb,
And will we have a raise in pay
With Wilson on the job?
Oh, calm yourself, my dearest friend,
No gaudy rainbows frame,
When Wilson sits in Washington
All thing's will be the same;
The price of living will not fall,
Nor is there 3ny chance
That you will hear the boss remark,
1 ‘Accept this slight advance. ’ ’
When Wilson is at last enthroned
The trusts will rule the land,
The same as they are doing new,
With firm but velvet hand ;
The same old orators will spout,
But Wilson, fresh from school,
With forty theories in his head,
Will only help them rule.
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Now Wilson is at last enthroned
And trusts now rule the land,
As formerly, when Taft was king,
With firm and velvet hand ;
The same old orators now spout,
And Wilson, fresh from school.
While trying hard to keep his head,
Rides backward on the mule.
That telegram of Wickefskam’s with
“Hurrah for Wilson,” in it was a hum
mer and shows which way the wind is
blowing at present.
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In 1870 there were reported to be em
ployed in factory and clerical work 9,982
women in the following occupations
stenographers and typewriters, clerks
and copyists, and bookeepers and acc
ountants. In 1880 the number increased
to 28,698, in 1890 to 16S.808, and in 1900
to 238,S92. Meanwhile the proportion
which women formed of the total num
ber of persons engaged in these occup
ations rose from 3.3 per cent in 1870 to
5.7 per cent in 1880 and to 16.9 per cent
in 1890. In 1900, 75.7 per cent of the
stenographers and typewriters, 12.9 per
cent of the clerks and copyists, and 28.5
per cent of the bookkeepers and account
ants were women.—From Federal report
on Women and Child Wage Karners.
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