1,000,000,000 Hours

The Board of Education of New York City last week published two books, one bound in gray paper, the other in maroon boards. On their pages were hundreds of columns of numbers, long and neat. The maroon book was lightened at the end by a few pictures, but here also were numbers.

The books were the budget estimate for 1929 and the financial reports for 1927.

A few facts gleaned from the books were that the number of pupil hours during 1927 was nearly 1,000,000,000; that the estimated total cost of running schools in 1929 was $131,700,680,89, that the rental of burglar alarms next year would come to $3,691 and that repairs to fuel scales would cost $500.

Further it was learned that the 1927 output of vocational schools was worth $126,024 of which $1,802 came from the piggeries and $21,382 from the bakeries.