"Industry and the Public Schools"
Sta,—Your anonymous correspondent in commenting on my article, Industry and the Public Schools, makes two statements which I am forced to refute. In the first place, basing his remarks on his son's experience, he creates an entirely erroneous picture of the Public Schools Appointments Bureau. Secondly, he asks industry to make known its need for young men from the public schools.
I am only one of the 110 or so careers masters in liaison with the Bureau, but I have yet to find the " noxrual " [sic] young man from this school who has consulted the Bureau and not obtained particulars of several eminently worth-while posts suited to his capacities. Not only does your correspondent's sweeping generalisation give a false repre- sentation of the Bureau, but it reflects on the large number of firms IN ho support it. Among these are many of our leading industrial concerns seeking, not office boys or clerks, but men who already reveal qualities they look for in their future managers.
As to the second point, this can be answered briefly. If " Applicant's Father" will shed his anonymity, I should be delighted for him to consult my files. I think he will be impressed by the way in which industry is making its demands known.—Yours faithfully,
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