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THE RECORD. MONDAY. APRIL 29. 1963 31 Jo bless Dropou ts Pose Nation's No, 1 Problem Education w. i Youths' Skills Don't Keep Pace As Automation Creates New Posts J' ML painfully clear.

He is caught in a squeeze play. Unable to qualify for the skilled jobs that are open, the supply of unskilled jobs he might be able to fill is drying up. There is another irony. "Because of automation, and technical devices," says one authority, "professional and technical jobs are going to grow by 3 million or about 40 per cent during this decade. Jobs in the (Our nation's youngsters are in deep trouble.

One million of them between the ages of 16 and 25 are adrift on city streets. Most are school dropouts unskilled unemployed. Their plight is desperate; their future bleak. How did this explosive situation arise? What can be done to help this growing horde for whom we cannot now find jobs and whose ranks are expected to swell to 7.5 million by 1970T This is the first article in a series on this problem. By PAUL C.

TULLIER (Senior Editor, World Book Year Book) You might find a group of them aimlessly clustered in a clerical and sales fields will yt mw mm mm ww aw mmw mm mm tm mm a I grow by about 3.7 million. Skilled occupations are expected to provide 2 million additional jobs by Implicit is the fact that these 8.7 million neighborhood drugstore, or hanging around a street corner gloomily smoking cigarettes. Some sit idly on the front step's of cheerless houses thinking, dreaming, and weaving hope new jobs would more than ab STORE HOURS THURS. to 9 p.m. FRI.

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CITED: Kenneth L. Hutchison of Fair Lawn, accounting professor at Pace College In New York, has been honored by his students for giving them not only a solid foundation In accounting, but for providing them insight into integrity, character, and FREE EXTRA sorb the 7.5 million youngsters, who, because they will lack less hopes, MERCHANTS GREEN STAMPS fERCHAirrS GREEN STAMPS They're young mostly in skills and schooling will know want in the midst of plenty. Win THIS COUPON AND PUtCHASt OP $5.00 or More WITH THIS COOeON AND eutCHASE $10.00 or More txcept Cigarettes, Frash Milk, Craem, or Fair Trade Item. and Welfare, the number of unskilled, and unemployed youths will soar, to 7.5 million by 1970. Of these, some 2.5 million will not even have finished grammar school.

They will represent, roughly, 30 per cent of Educational requirements for any kind of a job are higher today than ever before. According Except CigaratttL Fresh Milk, i i Cream, or Pair Trade Items. Ntw Milford, Btrgan Mill, Pearl River Food Fairs 0pn Lata 5 I Adults only One coupon par family Adults only Ona coupon fr family ItJ TO THS VDII aTFIVV UflTU vma HlM-uiU DOIIION TO THt 1TAMPS OU If CflVf WIH tOUt CHASf. VOID AFTER MAY 4th VOIO 'AFTER MAY 4th to most personnel directors, they will rise a notch or two each year from here on, out. "I venture to predict," says one, "that within the next 10 years, post-high school educa tion for 2 years at a junior all the young workers who are expected to enter the labor market between 1960 and 1970.

Unschooled, these teen-agers will become part of a world in' which education is a must. Unskilled, they will struggle to find employment in a market in. which jobs often disappear at the click of a switch. In New York City, automatic college or technical institute will replace the high-school al ploma as a basic requirement." MARKS COUNT TOO Today, a high-school diploma is the least most employers will elevators have displaced an es accept for even a low-level job. timated 40,000 operators.

In a large automobile plant, a man N. J. RESIDENTS WIN FELLOWSHIPS New York Nine New Jersey residents have been named recipients of research fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. ti They are Dr. Eugene I.

Blount, physicist at Bell Telephone Laboratories, Murray Illll; Carmen L. Cicero, artist and instructor in painting at Sarah Lawrence College; Julius Cohen, professor of law at Rutgers University School of Law, and Dr. Josef Eisinger, yBell Telephone Laboratories. Also: Francis Ferguson, professor of comparative literature at Rutgers; Walker Gibson, professor of English at New York University; Dr. John H.

Hick, Stuart professor of Christian philosophy at Princeton Theological Seminary; Dr. William Samolin, assistant professor of altaic language studies at Columbia University, and Dr. Karl D. Utti, associate professor of romance languages at one Midwestern firm has an iron-clad rule that even its mail ufacturing operation that used to require 39 workers and 39 sorters and messenger boys be high school graduates. Many machines is now handled by nine workers and nine firms are not satisfied with just diploma, either.

They carefully check the graduate's SQUEEZE IN DETROIT In Detroit, factory jobs for school record and insist on bet- ter-than-average grades before hiring. Steak BontUw Shouldtr Few companies will pay any attention to a dropout. For FULLY COOKED SMOKED HAMS them, he Is an untouchable. The merly filled by 16- and 17-year-olds have been decreasing at the rate of 2,000 a year since 1950. Between 1955 and 1960, 56 of every 100 such jobs ceased to exist The mass production industries no longer absorb the large number of unskilled or semiskilled workers they once did.

personnel director of a steel Ground Beef Ground Chuck 59 Boneless Ham W'J Beef Roast tSs 6 plant in Pennsylvania says: "We want youngsters who are capable of climbing from the Full Shank factory floor into an office seat Beef Flanken their late teens or early 20s. Yet the problem they face is serious enough to make them old even before they become adults, regardless of where they live or how they spend their time. Right now their problem is particularly acute and threatening to become worse, What is all this about? Who are these young people? What is their problem? WOEFUL WASTE Prepare yourself for some unpleasant facts. The United States prides itself on its educational system it spent an estimated $18 million on education in 1961-1962 and on its related ability to provide jobs for youth. Yet today, 1 million young Americans between the ages of 18 and 25 are looking for jobs.

Surprising as it may seem, these young people make up the biggest group of unemployed workers in the United States. Unemployment In their bracket at least twice as high, and rising at a faster rate, than in older groups. The future of these young-sters, according to former Secretary of Labor Arthur J. Goldberg, is potentially the' most dangerous social condition in America xtoday. Their plight, says Robert Taber, noted Philadelphia educator, Is the great American tragedy of our time.

What can be done about it? There is no simple answer, but answers are being sought. In some places, there are heartening signs of progress. Generally, the picture is grim. Two principal factors are responsible. As society becomes highly mechanized, certain jobs disappear.

The remaining jobs and new ones that are created, require increasing skill. That is one factor in the picture. The second is a human problem. 4IIN1M Almost all youngsters included in the legion of the unemployed are so-called dropouts, students who left school before they earned a diploma. If present predictions bold true, their number will increase.

As matters stand today, 40 of every 100 youngsters in the United States either fail to attend high school or drop out before they have finished. If this trend continues, says Abraham Ribicoff, former Secretary of Health, Education. or into our sales force. And Nor is the blue-collar work aiwii we don want them to stop man the only one whose job is there. Somewhere among them threatened.

Some types of white-collar pbsitions are dis we like to believe is a fu ture company president." RUTGERS GRANT New Brunswick Wl Rutgers University announced yesterday receipt of a $200,000 grant from the Roche Anniversary Foundation for the university's new medical school. appearing, too, because of of He pauses, and his lips tight fice automation. Altogether, 1.5 en. "If our company exec million office jobs vanished be utives are to come from among today's youngsters, why should tween 1953 and 1960. Of the jobs available today, according we hire those whose school rec ords show they were interested to a reliable source, only a small number four in a 100 do not require an education.

SITE CHOSEN Pittsburgh The site oi Pittsburgh, Pa. was chosen in 1753 by George Washington. He advised building a fort here. only in getting by?" (Reorlnted by otrmlsslon from ft 163 World Book Yr Book. Copyright 196 by FleM EnttrprltM Educational Corporation.) The problem the unemployed MUENSTER dropout faces, then, becomes MAY SWISS SLiC 1 59 or AMERICAN pkg 6-Hour School Day Plus Rise TORY mm mtm cua 59 In Length Of Term Is Urged Our students wouldn't like It, By DR.

BENJAMIN FINE New York (North American judging from comments from typical high-school Newspaper Alliance) Here's "When will we have time for bad news for 40.000,000 public- ourselves?" a youngster in 11th grade, demanded. "As it is, I school boys and girls in the United States: a longer school day, going from 5 to 6 hours, hardly have time to do anything but study." and a longer school year, jumping from 180 to 230 days, has PRESSURES QUESTIONED "Why this get tough atti been proposed. $99 A study by one of the na SWIFTS. CAHNED HAM tude?" another asked somewhat belligerantly. "We're not responsible for Sputnik, are we? tion's leading educational economists.

Dr. Harold F. Clark of Teachers College at Columbia ing will just about finish me," said a high-school teacher of English, with a current teaching load of 150 students. "I don't have a minute to myself as it is." More use of technological advances might help cut the teacher's work and at the same time increase the efficiency of the school program. Some schools make extensive use of television.

Others have experimented with teaching machines. Still other communities have installed language laboratories and other electronics devices. Dr. Clark admits what every one who has ever engaged in any facet of education knows: the final answer rests with quality of the teacher. The enthusiasm of the teacher can mean more than an additional hour a day or 50 additional days a year.

The importance of high quality teaching cannot bt as.1 beef mm Best or Brand University, concludes that if quality is to be retained in our schools, it will be necessary to extend both the school day and the school year. The study was financed by the Carnegie Cor I think we ve gone far enough in putting pressures on us." This appears to be the attitude of teachers, too. Studies show that teachers average from 40 to 50 hours a week now. In addition to classroom work, they have a host of other duties, such as making out assignments, correcting psners, working with special students after class, and doing extracurricular duties. "Another hour a day of teach poration and has just been pub N.Y.U.

ACCEPTING CREDITS OF U. J. Affiliation On Engineering Study Will Aid N. J. Students Cranford Union Junior College has accepted an invitation from the College of Engineering tit New York University to affiliate on an engineering program, it was announced today by Dr.

Kenneth C. MacKay, president of Union Junior lished by the Syracuse University Press. For some time educators have considered the possibility of raising the standards in our school program. Berime of the huge expenditure of funds for education estimated at tome 138.000.000,000 annually many Under the agreement, ny officials in and out of the school miw loeaATO' juici a I AT U. J.

student who completes the 2-year engineering program il If AiftMltok THE with a 2.5 average or better will be automatically accepted by 1 ai 1 9 I PLAZA t. $100 N. Y. U. without reservations of I XL.

iTOK any kind. This means that New 0.K MACV CO, MC system have sought ways to place greater efficiency into education. MORE TECHNICAL AIDS The all-year school hit been considered but has not at yet been put Into practice. Some systems, though, cava raised the school day by aa hour or more. York University will accept all uns BARTIETT (PFJACSS rauir COCKTAIL credits earned at union Jun lor College.

SflOO TO U. J. engineering students who have not earned a X.S average win also be considered for I BB I aW I Br cans transfer to New York Univers To increase the quality of ed- ucatSoo, and at the tama timt! permit mort youngsters to fin-Uh school at aa earlier ity, but they will be required to KEY make up all grades. Under Goldtn Crtam C0SE3 N. Y.

policy, the usual transfer student cannot trans cans fer credit ftr courses whert the 51100 grade is a D. Dr. WicKiy said the affilia BIRDS EYE Frtsh Froxtn Hon with New York University in no wsy restricts Intoo Junior Collect students la transferring to other 4 year eolleret and uni-e nlliti of their choice. It dots. Dr.

Clark recommends that thea steps bt takes: Extend the school year, la-creatt the school day, Increaw the amount of homework to a minimum of 2 hours daily for junior and senior hlsa school students, and tat tnort technological devices la the elan-room. Through lhe rriftlcei, tht educator auertt, It will bt r-siblt to ttvt 2 years of lh preient 12 year elementary h.ak school court. In tomt.lniUn ret tht living la timt U1 amount to or tea 4 years, la other worth, tht amice iiudent bt tblt to com-fleft tlih school la Id ytsrt. however, make it euter for them to trantfer to N. Y.

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