Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-12-31

Mho would exchange indifference for i eager interest if they once real zed that education and money-making go hand in hand.
 In this age of commercialism, al though as a matter of fact il every ] age, mon have tr ed to make all the ] ucation may we'll advance conner cial reasons as arguments for the l improvement of the schools
 This was the line on which Presi- dent Reynolds argued in his annual address before the Arkansas Teach i CTS association on Wednesday, He said that if We want more wealth it ] is only necessary to apply more brains to the soil, to the shops, to the mines, and to the manufactaries. Continu ing, he said:
 Other things being equal. this thes is seems to be true. The productive power of people will vary with their education. Education is here used in q broad sense to include such mental and manual training as will best fit for life. Where the public school term in the United States is the longest, there the average productive capacity of the citizens is greatest.
 President Reynolds then quoted from tables of statist cs to show that there is d close relation between he al craze length of the school term in the several states and the per capita wealth produced in those states, and added: fH ? Gy s
 Comparison of Arkansas and the United States at large in 1900 would read as follows: As 1S, the average number of days schools were kept op en in Arkansas. is to 145. the aver age number of days schools were epen in the United States, so s95, th4 per capita production in Arkansas is to $23S, the per capita production in the United States.
 In 1Soo the per capita product in tie United States was 10 cents q day: in 1850, 90 cents day, and in 1899, 6 cents What brings it home to Us is to say that on an average every Arkansan produces 2G cents a day. while in the United States at large each individual realizes 65 cents a day. Massachusetts annually gives Der oh ldren over nine months school ing and eNpends yearly on each pu- pi, $37.76, while the United States at large averages seven and one-half months schooling and $20 per pupil. Ky this longer term and larger out lay Massachusetts increases the per capita earn ng capacity of her people 40 cents day over that sof the aver age person of the whole country. When the present producers were in school Massachusetts appropriated annually $1O,O0O,O00 for her schools. If $10.00O,000 invested in brains brings return of $4O9, 9,530,000 in increased earnings-s40 for every dol lar invested-does it pay to educate?
 But perhaps some persons will not be moved until their pride is stung. The necessary t'nger turks in the following remarks of President Key holds:
 Our state is at the turning of the way, at a strategic point in her economic development. on the eve of an industrial revolution, change from agriculture as the almost sole occupation of the people to an indus trial condition wherein manufactW- ing, mining and commerce will be inl- portant industries. In short time cur state, already checked with rail roads, will be dotted with cities, filled with foreign labor and smoking with factories. These economic changes will bring her grave problems an1 will throw a great strain on the in- NNISStuul dlV HUI IOlNCo CL MY III zation Are we prepared for the change? Will the native Arkansan fall heir to his share of this increased prosperity? Will Arkansas furnish the captains for our industry, the su- Lerintendents and the skilled labor for our fruit region and scientific farmers for our virgin soil? Or, will our sons and daughters become the lIdustriaals serfs of the country, heW- CTS of wood and drawers of water, While the educated Yankee comes and reaps the princely fortunes from di- recting this economic development Will we solve wisely the complicated social and economic problems of the