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ONE MAN'S PRAYER

TEACH

Homer McKee once wrote a prayer,
in which he said:

EACH me that sixty minutes make one hour, sixteen ounces one pound and one hundred cents one dollar.

HELP me to live so that I can lie down at night

with a clear conscience, without a gun under my pillow and unhaunted by the faces of those to whom I have brought pain.

GRANT, I beseech Thee, that I may earn my meal ticket on the square and in the doing thereof that I may not stick the gaff where it does not belong.

DEAFEN me to the jingle of tainted money and

the rustle of unholy skirts.

BLIND me to the faults of the other fellow,

but reveal to me my own.

UIDE me so that each night when I look

GUIDE

across the dinner table at my wife, who has been a blessing to me, I will have nothing to conceal.

KEEP me young enough to laugh with my children and lose myself in their play.

AND

ND then, when comes the smell of flowers and the tread of soft steps, and the crushing of a hearse's wheels in the gravel out in front of my place, make the ceremony short and the epitaph simple.

"HERE LIES A MAN"

The Official Publication of The William Hood Dunwoody Industrial Institute

Vol. V

FEBRUARY, 1920

No. 5

Earning While Learning at Dunwoody

R. T. CRAIGO, Day School Principal.

Napoleon said: "Armies march on their stomachs;" this may be expressed with greater elegance by the statement: "Man's first thoughts are of food, clothes, and shelter."

Dunwoody students must meet Mr. "H. C. L." on these items and this article sets forth how many students "earn while they learn" and how we co-operate with them. Altho we maintain a regular employ ment and placement department which looks after Dunwoody graduates, the problem of the student working during school hours or immediately preceding or following school hours is handled directly by the Day School principal thru assistants, as it is closely related to school records, discipline, and attendance.

At the present time in the Day School there are 750 students. Of these about 200 are Rehabilitation students who are receiving training at Government expense; there are also about 150 special students who are here for the shorter trade extension This leaves approximately 400 students who are here for longer courses.

courses.

Of the 400 students who are here for longer courses, 130 or 32.5% are employed as follows: 65 in jobs away from the building and about 65 before and after school and at noon at the building. These latter who are on the Dunwoody weekly

pay roll earn a total of about $165.00 per week as discussed below.

Dunwoody Cafeteria, which serves three meals a day, six days a week, now employs fifteen boys who serve food, collect dishes, wash and wipe dishes, tend cash register, and at service counters. Some boys help with breakfast and some at supper, but the large number are employed at the noon meal. These boys work from one hour to fifteen hours a week and earn from $.25 to $6.25 per week, including meals.

The Club Room, which operates noons and evenings, employs seven boys from two hours to twenty-eight hours a week and these boys earn from $.50 to $8.25 per week.

The Automobile and Machine Shop tool room employs six boys who earn from $1.25 to $4.50 per week.

The Printing Department offers boys an excellent opportunity to earn money after school hours, and about eight boys earn $.50 to $1.50 per week.

To look after the various machine repairs, belting, shafting, lockers, chairs, work benches, stores department, building repairs, and maintenance, from two to five boys are given employment. These boys earn from $1.00 to $4.00 a week, and in occasional weeks as high as $10.00.

A special effort is made to give boys

employment in their own department; Printing mentioned above is a good example. In the Automobile Department two to five boys earn from $1.60 to $12.00 per week driving and looking after the school

cars.

At the present time, fifty students are excused to report late in the morning or to leave early in the afternoon. Of these, twenty-eight work in their own trade (six from the Auto Department work in garages; six from the Electric Department work for telephone or electric light companies; and five in the Machine Shop work in outside machine shops). The remaining twenty-two boys work in miscellaneous lines, such as delivering newspapers, working in groceries and drug stores, as telegraph messengers, and in similar lines.

This article does not deal with the Parttime students in Machine Shop and Printing Departments who attend Dunwoody half days on their employers' pay and work at their trade the other half day, neither does it cover the dull-season bricklayers class for apprentices.

Our records also show that many Dunwoody students, altho not working while. actually attending the Institute, have, how ever, earned and saved up practically enough to meet all expenses for the course.

Some rather unique cases are the following: A street car motorman who on account of his run is excused to report late half an hour each morning; three musicians who are excused afternoons to play in theater orchestras; six who work night shifts in flour mills and railway shops; and two night telegraph operators. A tabulation by departments may be

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On account of the (excusable) irregu larity of these students, the following sys tem of keeping records works out very nicely. Students whose work interferes with the regular school schedule fill out a blank each month showing "where they work," "what doing," "hours at work" and "subjects missed," and signed by parents. employer and principal.

Then they receive a special time card with special schedule punched on same. This gives a ready method of checking attendance on the time clock.

A list of these boys is kept and their grades carefully checked, so that those below grade lose their chance to earn, and the opportunity is then given to more deserving students.

A list of applicants waiting for these jobs is kept, and every effort is made to help those most deserving and best fitted for the work in each case.

HIS RIGHTS

"Why did you strike this man?" asked the Judge sternly.

"He called me replied the accused.

a liar, your honor,"

"Is that true?" asked the Judge, turning to the man with the mussed-up face.

"Sure, it's true," said the accuser. “I called him a liar because he is one and I can prove it."

"What have you got to say to that?" asked the Judge of the defendant.

"It's got nothing to do with the case, your honor," was the unexpected reply. "Even if I am a liar, I guess I've got a right to be sensitive about it, ain't I?" -Topeka State Journal,

A LOYAL TRAITOR

The German nation now to aid
Will cause disapprobation;
Still we intend with hoe and spade
To assist the germination.

-Boston Transcript.

Range in Previous Education of

Day Students

H. W. KAVEL, Assistant Director.

Students in the All Day School vocational courses at Dunwoody Institute were, in 1914, more nearly uniform in their preparation than they are today. As the ages reached upward from fifteen to the twenty year group toward the thirties, in a like manner the previous schooling has reached upward.

Not only is Dunwoody Institute attracting more mature students, but more students who have had training beyond eighth grade graduation.

The following statistics are made up of the previous education of pupils registered in day courses from September 1 to December 31, 1919, and include all Special and Short Course students:

77-Completed the 6th grade. 126 Completed the 7th grade. 377-Graduated from the 8th grade. 134 Completed 1st year high school. 71-Completed 2nd year high school. 30-Completed 3rd year high school. 47-Graduated from high school. 7-Completed 1st year college. 6-Completed 2nd year college. 1-Completed 3rd year college. 5 Graduated from college.

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4.5% left after completing 3rd year high school.

5.3% left after high school graduation. 2% left after from 1 to 4 years' college training.

It is interesting to note that: 27.7% of the enrollment at Dunwoody Institute is made up of young men who left high school after completing 1, 2 and 3 years of training. 35% of the enrollment at Dunwoody, or more than one-third, have completed 1 year or more of high school training.

77.5% have graduated from the 8th grade. Eliminating rehabilitation students from the above percentages we have:

13% left school after finishing the 6th and before graduating from the 8th grade.

45.9% left after graduating from the 8th grade.

17.2% left after completing 1 year of high school.

9.2% left after completing 2 years of high school.

4.2% left after completing 3 years of high school.

7.3% left after graduating from high school.

3.2% left after completing from 1 to 4. years of college.

On this basis, not including rehabilitation students:

30.6% of the registration of Dunwoody is made up of young men who dropped out of high school after completing 1, 2, and 3 years of their training.

41.1% have completed 1 year high school or more up to and including college graduation.

87.0% are 8th grade graduates or better. This wide range in previous schooling brings in a problem in the administration

of the vocational school with which the
ordinary school does not have to contend.
Courses and schedules must be arranged
to meet the demands of all of these appli
cants and recognize this range in previous
training.

The Advisory Board Meets
for the A. A. B. I.

This board, which has charge of the American Institute of Baking, located at Dunwoody, paid its first visit to the school on January 15th. Three of the five members of the board met with Dr. Barnard, the Director of the American Institute of Baking, and spent a full day inspecting the Institute and the Baking School, and transacting important business before the Advisory Committee.

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Boys, as I look into your faces here this morning and realize what you are here for, my first wish is to congratulate you. When I go back in my thoughts to thirty years ago-thirty-five years ago and was just then in the place you are now, deciding as to what my activities in my future life were to be, I had no such opportunity as you boys here have today. So I congratulate you for the wonderful opportunity you have to start right.

You are going to start, after you finish this course here coupled up with necessary shop experience, as scientific bakers

a thing that was unknown entirely in my day. It was altogther then the rule of thumb and experience. But the industry has grown and grown and grown until today I know of no better opportunity for young men than to enter upon the baking business. We have room for all. The opportunity is unequaled in any other industry. Whether it be for shop foremen and superintendents, managers, or proprietors, or whatever the particular niche which you may occupy, the opportunity is great. I come to you with that cheering message-with the congratulation that you are having the opportunity to enter upon your chosen field of work with such good preparation as you are going to be able to secure here, if you are diligent and earnest in your application to the schooling that you have before you.

When I was at your age, just entering upon the baking business, it was rather against my will. I was born in the baking business. My earliest recollection as a child was being picked out of a bed that was on fire over a bake shop, when my father's business place was burned out. As I grew older and saw the difficulties of the baking business, the uncertainty and the class of help, the kind of men who were engaged in it, I had no desire to get in the baking business. Force of circumstances, however, put me, at the age of seventeen, in the baking business, very much against my will.

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