The Little River news., 1922-09-06
Education and Earning
 Capacity Discussed

w douiiiS IOli, OCpl. o.-olS Ol th0
 South's foremost authorities declares
 that "a lack of education is the cause of most of the South's peculiar troub
 les" The Progressive Farmer of
 Memphis has made a careful analysis of the census returns of the various states as ompiled by the U. s. Bureau of Education. This establishes the fact that there is a close relationship between ignorance and poverty and that the earning capacity of an indi- vidual or family increases in direct ratio with the greater education Of the people Arkansas, which has been emphasized for several years as al most at the bottom in the list of states educatiCnally, spending only $500 per capita for education, ranks 47th in the per capita annual income of it's peo- pie. North Carolina with $40.50 per capita is the lowest and Arkansas is second from the bottom with $42.00
 New York, which spends $70.S0 per capita for education heads the list
 with and earning capacity of $29S.S0.
 This shows a wide range between the extremes and a careful analysis
 proves the intimate relationship be- tween the amount spent for education and the earning capacity of the in
 dividual. The states which spend the higher amounts for the training of it's citizens invariably report higher earning power of the people. The Progressive Farmer says:
 Education enables man to think straight. It's purpose is not so much to fill the mind with facts and figures to be remembered and used in after life, as it is to train the mind to take 8 given set of facts or conditions, req son accurately from them as a basis and arrive at a logical conclusion. Some people belittle the advantages of education because the young farm
 CT, the young lawyer, or the young
 doctor just out of school has not 'learned all that is known about his
 profession. It would be relatively
 impossible for colleges to provide , such thoroughgoing knowledge but they do teach the fundamental prin- ciples on which the practice of the
 profession is based. Furthermore,
 they furnish the student with the
 trained mind that is essential if he
 is to continue the study of hisprofes- sion effectively after he leaves col lege. And only the man who keeps
 on studying and learning ever makes , success of any work
 Our progress in cooperative mar
 keting, more profitable production f and all of those things considered wit al to the farmers prosperity, is being , held back and hindered because SC T large a portion of our people are nO'
 sufficiently we'll educated to see the f importance of these things and tC I play their part effectively in putting them into successful operation. n "1R addition to the illiterate, wt n have thousands of people who barely e escape illiteracy They can read anC l. write, but have such a meagre edu e cation that accurate thinking is ou d of the question. What. terrible s handicap for a state to carry. Ant 2. what tremendous burden is placed '- upon the men and women who assum, h the responsibility of leading these peo e pie to prosperity! There is evidence l. that the people who spend the mos l. money on education are most pros s porous. The states that have thu J. largest per capita expenditure fol e education, other things being any e where equal, have the largest per cap e ita income
 "Some of these states have made