One partial solution was to arrange work-release programs with Chariton High School, as described in the following article from The Chariton Leader of Oct. 13, 1942:
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"Chariton schools are willing to cooperate in every way with the recent request of Paul V. McNutt, war manpower commission head," J.R. Cougill, superintendent of schools, said today.
McNutt recently asked schools to make arrangements to let students take jobs in civilian life and war work and still try to keep up their educations.
"We feel it is our duty as a school to do all we can to aid the war effort and we will add to our present program if necessary," the superintendent said.
The present program in the Chariton schools consists of letting students out early in the afternoons to work, and a move to furnish farm labor for husking this fall. All farm boys and any town boys that wish to do so will be dismissed from school for two weeks during the corn husking season. Cliff Hardie, vocational agricultural instructor, is holding a school of instruction for the boys this Friday.
A majority of the boys will probably husk for their parents or neighbors, but any farmer wishing to employ high school boys in husking may be able to locate some by getting in touch with Hardie.
These boys will then make up the school work they miss by attending special sessions that will be taught after school for their benefit.
About 20 students are at present being excused from 2 to 3 o'clock every afternoon, Cougill said, in order to fill positions in Chariton stores that were formerly filled by adults.
"We try to work out with the student, his parents and employer a schedule so that the school work can be done and the work, too. Several of the students, for instance, are needed from 8 until 9:30 in the mornings and we try to make this arrangement," said Cougill.
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The Grant Wood painting of a young farmer with pigs and corn dates from 1932. I believe it is part of the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art collection.
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