El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-05-11
UnsueceasfuI People.


100000 with high school education
1900 have manifested this efficiency.
UnxuccessfuI People.
These successful people were in all
lines Of Industry. commerce and agri-
culture, and still II proves that the
educated have the advantage. II some
have become brilliantly successful
without an education. they were ex-
ceptions and not the rule Mental
workers enjoy shorter hours. longer
vacations, more secure tenure Of posi-
ton, and higher wages than the man
ual laborers- The higher wages are
Dut reflection on the scarcity II
mind workers A great engineer plans
a tunnel and a thousand laborers work
Tor years constructing it, The engi-
neer gets more for days work than
the laborers for half a years Whv2
Only because for thousand men who
can dig the tunnel but one can be
found able to plan IT. That one has
a good education back OF him, and IL
helps him financially. The earning
capacity OF a man IS always propor-
toned TO his education
When Education f. Valuable.
The labOrer may rise fr0 So 10 SO
per week The trade school graduate
improves over him. and is able to earn
twice as much. But the graduate OF
the technical school may start IN At
the same point just before entering
college. and on his graduation earns
more than the laborer ever earns. Then
after a years work he pa sses the ehoD
trained apprentice and, in few more
years rapidly passes all the other
graduates until he IS drawing from SE5
to $50 per week. In the same way can
an educated young woman start in at
the same point that her chum did who
quit school and Wen- TO work. But in
a rev years the chum Is still earning
her s35 TO $50 per month while the
higher educated girl is earning over a
Hhna -
uce did little good for the chum for
her educated friend, with few more
years Of education, mas doubled her
salary
Education in the MIL.
Manufacturers want workers in their
houses that can at least read and write
Their value is shown by the following
statement by a certain mill superin-
tendent; $50 confident am I that pro-
auction IN a mill room Is affected by
the moral and Intellectual condition OF
help, that when this productiveness
falls below the average. I am sure I
should find the marks Of many or the
payrolls, who were unable to write"
AndreW carnegie. the greatest steel
maker Of the world puts young college
trained men at the head OF his houses
for. as he says. they have a less preiu-
diced mind than the apprenticed me-
chanic- Railroads are establishing
night schools and special courses. In
all their departments 50 their help will
be more efficient These corporations
never experiment with new theories
They are using education for their
employees because 1t fills their own
purses.
Business Men Need Education.
The business man OF today needs
more education than ever before. The
day Of the self-made business man is
almost past. and the enlarged scope Of
business demands better trained men.
who can deal with complexities. This
Is so true that a young man who tries
to enter a business by beginning at the
bottom and working up is very likely
to remain at the bottom all OF his
life
Moreover. the tradesmen. and farm
ers, and business men are not the only
ones that need an education. But any
man that earns his own living must
be educated. If education did nothing
but broaden our outlook of life II
would be valuable. But how much more
is It then. because It increases
our ease. enlarges our view of life
heightens our culture and social stand
ng, gives US higher positions, increases
our salaries, and improves our country
Bryan Bros.
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