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Show The Value of Education Whose child is going to college? Most people like to think that their children will be among those who enjoy the advantages of a good education. educa-tion. We want our youngsters to have a better hope and dream; about their futures with comfortable parental pride. But that question, "Whose child is going to college?" will become a serious one, if you take a realistic look at statistics. One out of five fathers does not live to see his: children through college, according to a study completed by the National Committee for Life Insurance Education. Of the children under eighteen years old left fatherless, less than one in forty ever matriculates at college. Only the most reckless gambler would risk his capital on a forty-to-one shot. Yet that is exactly what many otherwise conscientious parents are doing when they take for granted that their children will have the opportunity to go through college. Such chance taking is unnecessary because it is within, the power of nearly all fathers and mothers to guarantee1 their children's college education through insurance. By investing a few dollars every year in an educational insurance in-surance policy, you can pay college bills over the course of years. A strong life insurance company assumes the obligation obli-gation of safeguarding your children's opportunities no; matter what happens to you. Any parent who doubts whether higher education ia worth sacrifice should study the report of the American Management Association of employment records. This intensive in-tensive survey demonstrates that a college graduate has a sixteen times better chance of getting a job paying 4,000 a year or more than a non-college graduate. That's the success side of the picture. The case for college education is equally impressive when we look at the studies of unemployment relief made by the American Federation of Teachers. In less than onei per cent of the cases studied had the father of a family on relief been to college for so much as a year. In 89.6 per cent of the relief cases studied, the education of the father was within common school limitations. Surely the futures of our children are too precious to risk on long shots. The depression-proof "bulwark 'of life; insurance can safeguard their educational opportunity from the ups and downs of economic change. The sooner we start planning realistically for our children's education, the better their future will be. |