Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-05-07 | Page 7 | No Saturation Point

I I No Saturation Point j 4 0 By DR FRANK CRANE There is a a. saturation point in everything except one And that is education A It man cannot know knowS too much or have hae a too well trained rained mind any more than he ho can have too much health or be too good The meat business and the cracker business can get ret just about so big But you jou ou cant can't expand the human luman human stomach When it gets full lull it cant can't get any fuller Hen Hence e there is a limit You can raise enough wheat to feed all the people people peo peo- pie but when they are all fed you ou cant can't sell any anymore anymore more wheat t I suppose when there are enough automobiles t to o carry everybody where they want watt to go the tho automobile automobile automobile auto auto- mobile business will wll reach its saturation point After that hat point the only thing according to many people Is s export trade abroad But America has another outlet It simply Increases the tho wants of or Its own people so that the they want better supplies and more moie of then them Some have often doubted the advis advisability of ot educating educating edu edu- cating eating everybody They assume that there must be bea a mass of ignorance or the co country will wll not get along veil well Americas America's experience has shown lown that the more the he lower cl classes of America are educated the more they hey c cease ase to be lower classes their wants multiply and ind powers of consumption n increase therefore the he best outlet for additional c consumption of ot goods over the tile saturation n point is a more intelligent pop pop- education is the one thing in which there is no saturation point You cannot have n a population too well veil educated Their education makes them bett better r workmen and better laborers They will wll be worth more nore money and with the additional money they earn carn they hey will Increase the consuming power power of the coun- coun try ry The Tue business of creating schools therefore and employIng teachers and training child children ten is one that cannot bo pushed too far It Increases ases and makes es prosperous prosperous the affairs of those who support them The more education we have the sounder Is our democracy dem dem- for while while- a g monarchy or an oligarchy may depend up upon n p. p t foundation of or ignorance the more Intelligent In- In ent a democracy is the finer it will wUl be Copyright 1928 McClure Newspaper Syndicate I