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THIS WOMAN WOULD RAISE SCHOOL AGE Mrsx William B. Owen. Vocational training of the young in the public school will solve a big economic question, ac cording to Mrs. William B. Owen whose husband is supervisor of the Chicago.normal school. "Thousands - of children," she says, "leave school at 14, when they have only gone as far as the fourth or fifth grade. A great number of these do not know anything about work. They are not prepared to meet life's problems nor to solve the question of living. "From this class manygirls go to questionable houses. From this class many boys join the ranks of the criminals. "The school age limit should be raised at least to 16. The solu tion of the difficulty is the voca tional school as. , a ' cart of the public school. "The child leaving school at 14, unprepared for anything, is nat urally picked up by the big em ployer who gives" pitiful wages. The result is worn out children, and a serious economic condition." o o The street car that starts when I have only one foot on the steps is going to be the scene of some footwork that will seriously dis arrange the whole schedule. Just what the "direct appeal" p consists of is not very clear to me, -but if it will reach the crazy auto mobilist who lurches round cor ners, I'm for it I'm FOR it I don't claim to know how to run a newspaper, but! bet I could run one in a town where they try to kill off a free press with force. What delays me so often in a fine office building when I run in for a moment is the fact that ren counter so many leering, sneer ing swellhead elevator "boys." . I count that day lost whose low descending sun has not seen me smash some overbearing one. o o Mrs. Rhoda J. Swift of Cedar- ville, Mass.. aged 70. has 286 rela.-- tives. IfliiiliiAlMMttritftfittMttMiittM r .