“I would rather have these girls in Head of firm’s statement my employ whom I can afford to pay given to convince from ten to twenty dollars a week,” readers declares Mr. Sicher, “than many more whom I have to pay low wages simply because they aren’t worth higher ones.  From a business point of view, it saves space and space is money.”

That the result has been what the VII.  SUMMARY CONCLUSION firm had anticipated in establishing the school is shown by the following 1.  Results quoted from statement which was made on the commencement program program:  “It is the present belief of the firm that the workers Note appeal of who have been thus trained have “efficiency” to gained from 20 to 70 per cent in efficiency.” practical readers

How much the girls themselves have              2.  Impression given
gained more vital to them even than                by girls
efficiency was very evident to everyone            Note patriotic appeal
who looked into their faces as they received       in closing
the certificates that recognize                    phrase, which was
them as “Literate American Citizens.”              a happy choice.

ANOTHER ARTICLE ON THE SAME SUBJECT.  This commencement at the factory school furnished another writer, Nixola Greeley Smith, with material for a special feature story which was sent out by a syndicate, the Newspaper Enterprise Association, for publication in several hundred newspapers.  Her story contains only 375 words and is thus less than one fifth the length of the other article.  The author centers the interest in one of the pupils, and shows the value of the school in terms of this girl’s experience.  The girl’s own account of what the school has meant to her makes a strong “human interest” appeal.  By thus developing one concrete example effectively, the author is able to arouse more interest in the results of the school than she would have done if in the same space she had attempted to give a greater number of facts about it.  Unlike the longer article, her story probably would not suggest to the reader the possibility of undertaking a similar enterprise, because it does not give enough details about the organization and methods of the school to show how the idea could be applied elsewhere.

The beginning of the shorter story was doubtless suggested by the presence at the exercises of Mary Antin, the author of “The Promised Land,” who addressed the girls.  The first sentence of it piques our curiosity to know how “the promised land” has kept its promise, and the story proceeds to tell us.  The article, with an analysis of its main points, follows: 

WONDERFUL AMERICA!  THINKS LITTLE AUSTRIAN
WHO GRADUATES FROM FACTORY SCHOOL