╔══════════════════════════════════════════════╤════════════╤═════════════════╗ ║ THE CHILD │ THE SCHOOL │ THE JOB ║ ╟──────────────────────────────────────────────┼────────────┼─────────────────╢ ║THESE 13,740 JOBS ARE HELD BY WORKING CHILDREN│LABOR │TO WHAT DO THEY ║ ║IN PHILADELPHIA BETWEEN 14 & 16 YEARS OF AGE. │GREED │LEAD? ║ ║ │ │ │ │ │ │ │_PUBLIC EDUCATION║ ║ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ASSOCIATION_║ ╠══════╪═══════╪═════════╪═══════╪═════════════╪══════╪═════╪═════════╤═══════╣ ║STREET│SERVICE│MESSENGER│SKILLED│MISCELLANEOUS│OFFICE│STORE│HOUSEWORK│FACTORY║ ║TRADES│ │ │TRADES │ │ │ │ │ ║ ╟──────┼───────┼─────────┼───────┼─────────────┼──────┼─────┼─────────┼───────╢ ║ 1.5%│ 1.2%│ 2.5%│ 3.0%│ 6.3%│ 8.7%│20.3%│ 12.8%│ 43.4%║ ║ 214│ 168│ 346│ 422│ 873│ 1200│ 2793│ 1756│ 5968║ ╚══════╧═══════╧═════════╧═══════╧═════════════╧══════╧═════╧═════════╧═══════╝ WHERE THE YOUNGSTERS WORK IN PHILADELPHIA The figures and percentages refer to parts of the whole 13,740 boys and girls found in the lines of work named. The drawings show roughly the ratio of boys to girls in each line. “Housework” means housework in own home.] The following conclusions are drawn by the association as a result of its study: “1. That the problem of the working child is not an immigrant problem, since over 50 per cent of those reported as at work are of the second generation of American birth. “2. That this is not the problem of the boy alone, since over 49 per cent of the workers are girls. “3. That the vast majority of children who leave school at fourteen to enter industry go into those kinds of employment which offer a large initial wage for simple mechanical processes, but which hold out little or no opportunity for improvement and no competence at maturity. “4. That wages received are so low as to force a parasitic life. “5. That but slight advancement is offered the fifteen-year-old over the fourteen-year-old child worker.” ILLITERACY AND THE RURAL SCHOOL