Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-09-24
COLLEGE Education Pays.

That invaluable little red book.
Who's Who in America" gives n
striking an decided answer to the oft
asked question Docs a college edu-
cation paw" That book has in It the
names and brief sketches of practical
~ I'll the American citizens CT the
heads above the vast ocean of our 76,
Geo. 900 people. All OF our well known
rich men arc there. The big managers
OF his banks. companies and railr ads
are included No conspicuous railroad
president is absent. Actors anil
actresses promoters, managers and
all that wide circle of men and women
who attract attention by some notable
share in the DAYS work are in these
pages. There are. besides. all the Wis
ible figures in public life. state. federal
and city. executive, legislative, judicial
and political. in office and out. Auth
ors, professors college presidents.
journalists and professional men are,
of course. included In all, the e are
Of all these classes l1.55l names in the
book. Some names are doubtless out
that should be in. Some are in that
should be out But all in all. it is Il
fair poll. Out of the whole number
$3.50 gave some educational data about
themselves. This leaves 1891 who said
nothing one way or the other There
is probabl no job a busy man puts eff
longer than filling out the answers to
a biographical circular. Out of $3.50
nIen WHO answered. 5ll5 we.,t t. col
lege or to enc Of the two military ac1d
emies.
OF our able-b bodied adult men IN this
country about one in a hundred is a
college man Yet Of our living Ameri-
cans who have sufficiently dist n
guished themselves in some creditabl'
way to lind their names in this book
one-half of the whole. 5115 cut OF H.
l1l. anu ~ '1i cent VI OK 'ai''7' LIS
about their education have been 70
college. Orc-half of the answering
and 80 per cent. of the whole number
are college graduates. In other words
while only one American in a hundred
is Il college man. one man Of every
two have done something notable
money. office. business, banking, poll
tics. books. journalism, pulpit and ali
is 4 college man.
This ought to he inspiration and en-
CouraGement to the thousands who are
entering the higher institutions OF
learning, this month. When the edi-
ton Of Vines Who" is gotten ont.
twenty or forty years hence. lit is
corrected to date. every year or two)
the names of the undergraduates OF
today will b, on every page. Judging
by the conditions Of the present the
chances are 100 to in favor of the hoy
who goes to college as against the one
who does not as far as accom-
pishing something of Importance in
the world and winning visible success
are concerned All kinds Of success
are in the book; Schwab, Carnegie,
Croker. non-college men are there,
as well as Roosevelt. J. Pier
runt Morgan, Glider or Hadley.
who are college men. But the
chances of all kinds of success are
100 to l against the non-college men.
as shown by this sweeping and i'm
partial poll. The education is not the
only factor in making the man but in
the battle for success in life the odds
are vastly with the man who gets a
college education. 1t has ever been
So but it was never so much 50 as at
the present time and it will surely be
more 50 in the future than it is, to-
day.