Poems (Barbara White)/Our Boys and Girls
Our Boys and Girls
Theme—Mr. Payne's lecture in high school at the Graduation Exercisee on Dec. 6th.
The other night I went to hear a lecturer In one of our big high schools,And no doubt some in the aundience Thought that man was a fool;He went on to show how the want of education Also of trained workmenWas the cause of the present high prices In our country at the present time.
It's been the constant stream of imigration From all other foreign shores,Of men who have served from five to seven years To learn a trade and sometimes more,And since this war began We don't have the men you see,So it's up to us to train our own As they in the lands across the sea.
We have got to train our boys and girls And give each one a trade,Just the same as they do on the old foreign shores And their fortunes then are made,No on other countries we wont then depend For the men with the skill and brain,If we train our own we will have them here And be sure that they will fit in.