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because boys and girsl looking for their first or early jobs had often been referred to quite unsuitable work that wasn't what they ought to do. They were dead and things which was the only place you'd ever get.

There was an organization called the Vocational Service for Juniors. That's it's present name, but it had an earlier name. Mrs. Henderson is now (1952) the president of it. They had done some good work. They had tied right in with the Child Labor Committee and the Department of Health that gave the working papers, and the Department of Labor. They had a very good idea of getting jobs for young people just coming out of school - the fourteen or fifteen year old people, or a little older - that would not be dead end jobs, that would be rewarding jobs, would teach them something and get them somewhere. They went so far as to give them kind of brace-up courses so that they would know how to look up things in the telephone book, so that if they were sent on an errand they would know how to find their way around the city and deliver the letter they were given.

When you went into where they gave these little courses, you discovered that they were studying spelling, and remedial reading, because so many of these young people who came out of school to go to work couldn't read quickly, easily and readily and that handicapped them in getting ahead, because