European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 7, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                F age staks an u strikes test 4 plans Actori manpower needs Robert Clow and Elwood of spend vacations working in air plane aviation company checks work of students at California Trade instructors making by Robert Iglehart tomorrows Bureau Treyve stowed away tinker toys and erector sets there making p51s and ships and shells Ever since big brother packed a Rod and went off to creating a Man shortage in Industry and Junior got on the a pair of took the kids Are kicking boys and girls of High school 14 to Manning the the plows there punching the Tim clock a Short while Back two 17yearold lads tacked up a new record for making plastic hatches for shattering a previous Mark set by three record Harvest the High school Victory sponsored by the office of romped away on Salvage turning up with stores of kit sweaters and about anything else they could Latch on Many have infiltrated the retail or the service such As restauro filling stations and of this age to the and despite the fact that during 1943 there were one million less workers on american the Harvest figures showed a 25percent increase Over much of the credit was showered on one out of every 10 of the teenagers found Way into a War where employer criticism has been especially in aircraft said the manager of Vega boy Power has Given us some of our outstanding workers and fewest employee prom Lockheed comes the claim that kids Advance 25 percent faster than the average adult and Many production records have been set by but not All the Story is Blue ribbons and ice the lure of Independence and attractive wages has drawn Many children into jobs and unfortunate the War time increase in juvenile delinquency is partly attributed to the in which youngsters find work away from Many have bade Farewell to classrooms Long before acquiring sufficient training its Reading v kiting riveting last year 7 out of every two boys and girls in the 1419 age either in the armed forces or at in 1940 Only one out of four was so of the 14 to 17year about one million and a half Are working and attending while another million and a half hold Down full time since 1940 there was an 18 per cent increase in the number of kids who Are working after school and 20 per cent of them put in an average of 20 hours per week in War those who work full time average 47 hours per a majority of the 18 and 19yearolds Are even closer to the and Many of them Are in the armed their civilian classmates at Home Are also pulling their men in this age group Are averaging a 51hour the girls about age 1417 66 t of the kids 14 to 66 percent Are in full time 14 percent work Par time after 15 percent work full 5 percent Arent Able to work or go to age 1819 Kin 35 the ten percent in full time four percent in school and 39 percent full time 35 percent in armed 12 percent not in school or wide world and students at Massachusetts Plant aviation goggles work Side by so that they might hold jobs in Normal National and local government and numerous employers have done All but the impossible to provide housing and which rank As two of the Lead ing formerly headed for Are now wielding screwdrivers and educators voice the fear that these teenagers May feel that school will be too tame for is the feeling that postwar jobs wont absorb the thus giving them an easy Chance to shift into unskilled due to Lack of fight War first what to do various youth programs have been or Are now in process of to care for Amer ican not much can be done until after the the office of education fights hard to convince High school students that they Are of greater usefulness by first finishing their training with the result that a million and one half remain in study or on Par time vocational schools Are combining actual work experience with educators Are anxious that the largest possible percentage of Young workers return to schools after the because Many of them would be older and More experienced than theft they Many steer Clear of the return school part of the answer put Forth for this lies in the establishment of special made up of returning students what do the kids think most of them feel that these problems will be ironed out later just now they Are and As one put it Well fight the War first the Home problems second wide youths from 16 to 18 years of age throng employment office of Wisconsin War Plant in response to governments plea for More workers to meet stepped up War bicycles beat Gas ration and Are of too for who have signed up for afterschool jobs at Busy California aircraft