None stands higher in the esteem of their neighbors and fellow toilers in the vineyards of this. our own United States. Leaders of the LULAC in Illinois have a keen realization of the need for education and this is responsible for the intensive educational drive now under way. stimulated with scholarship awards. I know that my colleagues will find interesting and inspiring the following account from the program of the benefit dinner dance given to raise money for the scholarship fund: Up to about 1950 it had been easy for immigrants to obtain jobs In the Chicagoland area despite the fact that immigrants had very little education and only a poor knowledge of English. The children of the immigrants often quit school before finishing high school and less than half finished high school because it was then easy to obtain a job with only a little education. Today a high school diploma is only the beginning of a persons education and is essential to obtain a Job. Educational training beyond high school is necessary to obtain a good job and. or. to obtain positions of responsibility and better pay.
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Immigrants had little education and poor knowledge of English, and their children quit school early.