The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-12-01
EDUCATION THE BEST
INVESTMENT SAYS DR..
W|NSH|P At ROTARY
CLUB NOON LUNCHEON

The good education of n hoy or
girl is the biggest investment that a
taxpayer can make" declared DR.. A.
f. Winship. eminent lecturer today
in an address TO the members Of the
Rotary Club at the regular MONDAY
luncheon session at the Chamber of
Commerce.
DIR. Winship's address dealt with
the responsibility of the business man
for better schools. He Is a speaker of
| strong personality and held the clos
est attention Of his hearers, who
upon the conclusion Of his talk, and
upon motion of Rotarian Frank Gates,
gave him a rising vote Of thanks
Although dealing with the serious
ness of the matter in hand a vein
of humor run throughout the talk
which made the speaker all the more
appreciated.
The importance Of education of the
new things was particularly stressed.
1.-THE schools" he said, will never
be any better than the taxpayers want
them TO be.
"Dr. John II. Finley, state COM
missioner of education in New York
has resigned TO become associate ed
itor of the New York Times because
he says 1t is more important to edu-
cate the public TO understand, appre-
ciate and support the schools than II
is to look after the teachers ana
superintendents," he continued.
In comparing the school taxes with
that of automobile taxes, DR.. Winship
said, there were never good roads
except in a few favored places until
theye were automobiles. Now, there
are $40, 900 900 n year paid for auto
mobile licenses and most Of that is
put into first class highways and
! poulevards. There are 5000 900 au-
tomobiles in the United States. Every
machine pays taxes from the time the
raw material goes into the factory
until it is worn out and goes TO the
Junk heap. More han 20 taxes are
paid from first TO last on every good
automobile. For every dollar put
into good roads several dollars are
put back in city, county, state ana
national taxes. But in the case of
schools every dollar put into good
schools is paid back many times more
than in the case of good roads. The
upkeep of good roads is an enormous
expense to city, county, state and ma
ton, but there is not only no upkeep
in the case of a good education, but
il is a perpetual income for the life
time Of the one educated.
"Radium is the only known sub
stance hat emits heat for a thousand
years without fuel Of any kind. so
education is the tax producing radium.
Every dollar the public puts into he
good education Of a child comes back,
literally, a hundred fold.
oklahoma spends s42.l5 a year in
the education Of a child, in eight
years that is s327.2s. A well educated
boy or girl living 40 years would have
to pay but 1925 q year in taxes to
pay that back. 1t would be n poor
specimen OF an educated man or Wo-
man who did not pay much more
than that. If he did not pay one
penny in direct taxes he would pay
several times what his education cost
in the taxes paid by him through
his landlord, his butcher, grocer.
clothier, dentist, druggist. boot and
shoe dealer, street railway and a
multitude of other people whom he
| ~patronizes in various ways.
THE good education OF n boy or
girl, then | say. is the biggest in
vestment that taxpayers can make.
And the reason ] am here today is
because of the vast possibilities your
school offers for growth and devel-
opment Of the new in education"