Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-07-25


iy third higher than that OF those
who completed only the common school,
Lastly as to those who completed also
college or higher technical course b.
fore going TO work, II was found that
at first they began to work at lower
wages than the first class earns. Many
OF them are TO be found working for
from s. to 50 per week to begin with.
this fact giving color TO the arguinen.
Of many business men that a college
education does not pay In the financial
sense OF lncreaang ones wage-earning
capacity. But the final result Is very
different. The statistics show that at
tweaty- seven or twenty eight years OF
age the average earnings of the col
lege graduates throughout the whole
country have risen to s42 per week, gay
s2.i0O per year. or Ave per cent interest
on "a capital OF $4,000
The permanent earning capacities OF
the four classes. therefore, are as II,
10, %. and 40 respectively. This Is the
general average. Neglecting occasional
exceptions. which were OF course in
Guided IN making up the averages
above given, We can say that educa-
ton pays handsomely We perceive
also that It requires a sacrifice Of earn
ings at the start but in the long run,
the figures amply demonstrate the
financial value OF education to the in
diyidual.
There never was a time Dr. Boone
asserted, when it was easier for a
young man or woman 10 secure a coll
lege or higher education than IL Is at
present And It is proposed, in the near
future to show in detail how many
can and do earn thoir way through
college without any other financial as
sistance than results from their own
efforts.
And when we consider that out Of
all the children OF school age, we sue
coed In getting only three-fourths of
them into the public schools. while we
graduate sim smaller proportion from
these elementary studies when we oh
serve how few, comparatively, Of the
whole school population complete u
high school course, and the stlli small
er number that are able 20 take up
and finish technical or college train
ing-does II not seem that we really
do not believe in education as much
as we think we do?
There are something like 500 millions
OF dollars invested in school property
In this country. and the annual ex-
penses OF the schools reach $50 mil
lions; both OF these enormous amounts.
moreover, are rapidly increasing. Yet
ali this capital lies idle. 50 to speak
for one-fourth of the time, or one
fourth Of 1t lies idle all the time, which
ever way we choose to put it,. simply
because we fail to get into the schools |
moro than three-fourths Of those who |
ought TO be attending them, No bust |
ness man would 20 manage his capital;
why should the nation be derelict in its |
peculiar and profitable business Of edu-
eating It's citizens? Throughout In.
whole country the daily attendance in
the schools Is five million short OF what |
Il ought to be- And since education
has been found to pay this condition
represents vast and for the most |
part an unnecessary waste or financial |
loss to the nation.
The real reason for the failure TO |
get all that education offers is not |
mainly the fault Of the state; IL Is due |
primarily, TO individual Indifference TO
The value OF education. Too many. even |
among otherwise good parents. look
ipon the education OF their children
~ did the man who having a number
n fine-bred hounds took great pains
and incurred large expense 10 train
hem up 10 the highest efficiency. He
lid not know the names of the teachers
u his children. nor much about the
progress they were making in the
school. And when II was asked Of him
Why he took such pains and incurred
such expense to train his dogs. while
not even inquirlng as 10 the progress
y his children. he promptly answered,
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