UNCLE SAM WANTS TO KNOW.
How Old Every School Boy and Girl
in the Country Is.
According to the instruction of the United States educational commissioner, the age of every pupil in the different grades of the Kansas City public schools, who attended school yesterday, was tabulated. Blanks were sent to all of the schools Monday, but there was no word of explanation accompanying them and many teachers filled them out without knowing why they were doing it. Pupils were urged to come to school, rain or shine, December 3. They came bright and early. Most of them out of sheer curiosity, but their teachers had nothing to tell them.
"Just wanted to know our ages," said the youngsters, in disgust.
A similar table is being prepared in every city and town in the United States.
Superintendent Greenwood received a letter from the United States immigration bureau asking for a compilation of statistics as to the nationality of the parents of the Kansas City school children.
"That's a more difficult thing to get at than the request of the educational commissioner," said Superintendent Greenwood, "and we haven't decided whether or not we will undertake it."
