The daily star-mirror., 1923-02-07
EDUCATION BEST
WEALTH PRODUCER
O'GORMAN TELLS OF ECONOMIC
VALUE OF GOOD SCHOOLS AT
CHAMBER MEETING

ests, our mines or our agricultural
products but our educated boys and
girls said Prof James M. O'Gorman,
head of the department of secondary
education of the University of Idaho
school of education, as the principal
speaker at the weekly luncheon
meeting this noon of the Moscow
chamber of commerce
"The high cost of education is the
low cost of education, strictly from
an economic point of view The state
or county that fails to look out for
education is overlooking it's chief
source of wealth. The first question
of the new settler in any community
is always about the school system of
the particular locality"
Professor O'Gorman used statistics
a large number of which were com
piled by himself, in showing that
from a national, state and individual
istic point of view education pays i'll
dollars and cents. He told of passage
of the education bill in Montana two
years ago largely through the ability
of men to sell education to the state
from a strictly economic point of
view.
Nationalistic Viewpoint
of the world the United States leads
in the greatest number of illiterates,"
said Professor O'Gorman, in discuss
ing the economic value of education
from an nationalistic viewpoint "The
concrete evidence Of the effect of edu-
cation in increasing industrial effect
ency is overwhelming. Germany, be-
fore the war, as the result of her
educational system, put four times
as much labor value into manuafctur-
ing articles as the United States.
"It is estimated that we manufac-
ture 25 billions Of dollars of refined
products from raw material. Ger
mans have not, as general rule, the
fine artisans which make the French
handiwork superior. In comparison
with the United States the national
resources of Germany are definitely
limited. The Germans are not signal
ly gifted with that inventive ability
or artistic temperament, but they
have emerged as an industrial ma
ton which is the marvel of all the
other countries.
Massachusetts spent S13,SS9S3S,
or $38.55 per pupil on education.
Tennessee spent $1,62S,313 or $4.6S |
per pupil on education during the
same year. That year Massachusetts |
citizens produced on the average of |
$144 more than did the Tennessee
citizens If Massachusetts gives |
twelve million more to schools and |
her better educated citizens produce
403 millions more per year, it may
easily be seen that education is not
a chance but a distinct paying in I
vestment."
Comparison By Distinction
Five million people produce only
81 people, who have had no education,
who attain distinction. With eIemen-
tary school education five million
people produce 1856 who attain dis
tinction. With high school educa-
ton five million produce 5000 peo-
pie who attain distinction. With col
lege education, in the same ratio, five
million people produce 28,S40 people
who attain distinction. Putting it in
another way, the child with no
schooling has only one chance in
100000 of performing distinctive SER
vice. With elementary education the
child has four times this chance, with
high school education 81 times this ]
chance, and with college education j
800 times this chance. it
sLess than one and one-half per {
cent of American men are college
yet this has produced 55 :
per cent of our president; SO per :
cent of the members of congress-; AZ !
per cent of the speakers of the house: ;
81 per cent of the vice presidents; 81 :
per cent of the secretaries of state: E
and 50 per cent of the justices of :
the supreme court.
'It pays to continue your educa-
ton. At the age of 25 the better edu- I
Gated boys are receiving 5000 per year
more salary than the boys who left
school at IA have received for II
years work.
Education Wealth Producer
The state or county that fails in
education neglects its greatest pro-
lucing agency in the world, for with Il
,ut education fertile soils, timbered Il
ands, mineral deposits, are but so Y
much useless material The state fl
hat fails to educate dooms its chill n
Iren to industrial subjugation. c.
"In education. when you must de- a.
ide between adequate education and te
ocal Improvement, education must IL
ONE first I have been told by a S
lumber of reputable bonding houses
hat the voting down of bond issue in
y any community, especially for an CT
EDUCATIONAL project, is practically al w
rays the one object of suspicion for fir
he bonding houses as regards taking he
yer bond issues of the community ! ga
n other words, the community with Sc
educational facilities,
-hich fails to remedy this difficulty, To
! regarded as poor place for in . +
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The Rev. w H. H. Forsyth, district =
Iperintendent of the Methodist
hurch was called upon for short +
Tx in which he urged religious de-
elopment along with material de- +
elopment. H. r. Short, who recent
took over the undertaking busi-
ess of Glenn Grice, was introduced +
a new member Of the club. +
Radio Advertises Moscow +