The charge that the Gary schools are too costly for imitation cannot be sustained. We have seen the ingenious efforts of the various features of the Gary plans to reduce costs, and there is a wealth of figures to show in detail the greater economy of the Gary plan. Superintendent Wirt has made an estimate that for an outlay of $6,000,000, “part-time” could be wholly abolished in the New York City public schools by an adoption of the Gary plan. The requisition of the board of superintendents in 1914 was for an appropriation of $40,000,000, simply for new buildings, which would require large sums for operation and maintenance and lack the equipments of the Gary plan. By the multiple use of facilities, Superintendent Wirt has shown that the number of school plants in New York could actually be reduced and yet the part-time of 132,000 children abolished. At the same time that this was done, the school day would actually be increased and the facilities more than doubled. A comparison between the _per-capita_ costs of instruction in the Gary and New York City schools, figured in average daily attendance for 1913-14, has been made by Mrs. Alice Barrows-Fernandez. (The Jefferson School in Gary is used for the comparison because it is more like the elementary schools in New York than any other school in Gary.) _Pupil per-capita cost for Jefferson School, $31.72 Gary_, including instruction and supplies _Pupil per-capita cost for elementary schools 40.24 in New York City_, including instruction and supplies _Pupil per-capita cost for the two Gary schools which have kindergarten, elementary school, and full vocational shops_— Emerson, with one third of the school 56.12 high-school pupils Froebel, with twelve per cent high-school 32.85 pupils _Pupil per-capita cost in New York City_— Elementary schools 40.24 High schools 104.74 Vocational schools for boys 86.48 Vocational schools for girls 142.32