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Show The Dixie Owl, St. George, Utah 9 Efficiency and Economic Prosperity In every walk of life, the trained mind or hand demands a higher wage than the untrained. The greater efficiency of the trained man is responsible for this, because the greater amount of work accomplished by him in a given time brings in actual profits or products, sufficient to justify the difference in wages. The high school and normal graduates who go out from our schools each year to engage in teaching, farming, business, or other pursuits will raise the average efficiency of their respective communities. In raising the efficiency of a community the economic prosperity is bound to advance, for increased efficiency means greater production, greater earning power. Statistics gathered by the Commissioner of Education of the U. S. show that the average value of each day of high school for each boy is $9.00 ; the average value of each day of college training for each boy is $54.00. Since the cost of sending boys and girls to high school or college is only a fractional part of these figures it is easy to see the economic value to the community of these 300-40- 0 young people attending these schools. most valuable thing our schools accomplish the Probably is in keeping our young people at home while procuring their education. It is a calamity for a community as large as St. George to have to send its young people to a distant place for their schooling. The community under such circumstances spends thousands of dollars to help build other communities, it loses the many splendid influences that accompany the school, it loses the part time service of the boys and girls in the home and on the farm, the young people leave the home influence at the time when they most need the steadying hand of mother and father. There are a few of the more obvious things that education has accomplished for Dixie. There are many other factors spiritual, intellectual and moral, less evident, but none the less beneficial which we would sadly miss should education be denied us. E. M. II. |