The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-06-26

we must look to education for tho answer. Education is the means by which. the mind forms right habits of thought so that 1t will be able to deal with new conditions. It Is really a procesg by which the mind is pre-. pared to receive and assimilate in-s struction. By education people have been trained to deal with new condi-ss lions and to adopt their knowledge to such conditions. So we find the cause of improvement in the art of stone- cutting was fundamentally the results of education.
 Within the last five or six years the prevailing conditions has arrested the attention of many people. It has been found that by giving closer at- tention to the adoption of knowledge a great deal of waste will be abolish. ment to prevent waste is being devel- oped in the mass of the people. This movement deals with the saving or conserving of forces by managing in 8 scientific way. ss.
 Ex-President Roosevelt in his ad- dress to the Governors at the White House. remarked that Conservation is dependent upon efficiency. -- The problem of the twentieth cen- tury is to determine how. the ability to conserve may be developed in or der to save not only resources of ma teEial but to prevent the enormous ex-' penditure of labor now found in all. activities of life. In order to solve the problem we must look to the prin-s cipaI factor in the movement. The people are the agents by whom the, movement must be made prosressive.s
 If labor is to be saved. the people, must possess the proper means of so< doing.s To quote from Taylor, They must have ability to do the highest class of work for which their natural abilities fit them and they must be pace and with the maximum of effi-. ciency.''
 And how is this power, this efficien-5 cy to be attained? By education. Education distributes the most impor-. tant Knowledge collected and passed practical problems to- which this knowledge may be applied Educa- tion develops the powers of the mind. 1t trains the individual in the proper; application of these powers. As a res jndging, the individual may. discpver means of contributing to social adJ
 Bacon once said that neither the naked hand nor the understanding if must he trained. Their Dower iil~ creases with knowledge, and the means of securing knowledge is through educatton., ,s H II Ak
 Not only is the understanding trained but in many ways the powers tion. Physical education> for in- stance, develops tho powers of the hand through exercises. Manual training develops these powers by ex- ercising the hands in handling and using tools and other implements.
 United States is that of time and la- bor. caused by poor agricultural msth- ods The remedy for this Nust be-
 It is the opinion of ,. J. Hill. who aa: m.os ssroy oa s1 tSat maste s right knowledge and right practice to tho farmers will be the only means Of oVercpmipg this waste.
 Consider the waste in manufactur> ing. The manufactures tries, to change the form of his raw materials 30 as to give the products m enhanc- ed value in order to make profit. Then what must he have to make the greatest profitf He mutt see that his work is done by people who have abil- fly and those people set theoir ability
 The person with a good education may acquire. power to originate new ideas or to improve old ideas. He ie the person who will be able. to see where waste occurs and to apply means best suited to remove the 'iasis t ,s or ouiy yat tls well nformsd., thor. oughly tratned, experienced. skiflful scientific observer that Ia able to dis crilninate the clements Involved in any activity. His Judgment and pow CT of rightly relating what he observes can alone give satisfactory basis for scientific traeatment All his obser- vation is aided by all the mechanical appliances which knowledge and skill have discovered for giving precision, detail and completeness of informa- ton.
 One becomes well-informed upon q subject, thorqughly trained, experi-
 Tn every large manufacturing con- cern we find few men who are quali- fled to discover and remove waste. In such concerns the management io slightly improved from. year to year. If every man employed by such a cOn- cern had been educated, if his pow CTS to reason and judge had been well developed, the labor that could be coneerved Joy them would be enor- mous. Every employe would then n
 able to study his own particular ac- >tivtty and see where material and la bor were wasted, and employ means |> Education is the means by which man learns principles and the means to apply them. When man knows principles and can put them into prac- tical use, his power is inestimable and this is power given to him by edu- cation and through which labor is to be saved. 4