GERMANY HELPS BOYS.

Northland Age, Volume IV, Issue 49, 27 July 1908, Page 7

GERMANY HELPS BOYS.

Looks up positions for BEFORE THEY LEAVE SCHOOL.

When a British Of an American boy leaves school he does hot always know what sort of work h 6 waftts err is fit for. Or even when he knowA exactly what kind of job he desires, he often does not know at all how to find It. Such a job as he aims for may not exist within his opportunities of place and time. 80 the bqy leaving school may drift into an unsuitable occupation, or, worse, into lio occupation at - all, in spite of an honest wish qriginally to work. In Germany they order these things ter, Every yedt printed Schedules of comprehensive questions are sent to every head teacher of the Munich schools to be distributed amqng the pupils who are going to leave the schools that year.

The pupils are asked to put themselves in communication with the municipal labour bureau, which will advise them as to the choice of a vocation, and give them the best chance possible to secure work. Yeaily circulars are also sent to all trade guilds and other labqur societies to enlist their co-operation. The children respond readily to the aid given them. Boys come by dozens to the offices of the bureau in search of positions as apprentices or beginners. Each brings a form of application filled up by himself, but signed, by his teacher. When the bureau finds a place for him he is notified by postcard, and presents himself for examination by the Employer, wherever and whenever the latter may appoint. Whether the boy takes the job or not he must report to the bureau the result of the interview, and this goes on- until work is procured which suits him and which he is able to do. For the direction of the boys the labour bureau has prepared, with the aid of* expert employers and medical men, a handbook of the industries open to a boy. This handbook describes the different kinds of 'Work, tho qualifications necessary to each, the prospects of promotion or steady employment, the health conditions, the dangers and difficulties, the cost and time of training, and everything else which the boy and his parents ought to know before choosing his career.

A ladies’ committee has lately been appointed to look after the girls, also, from the schools. So the young people of Munich have a firstrate chance for a good start in life.— “Youth’s Companion."