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Show WHY WE DO IT A good many people, a. id particularly those who have no children, often wonder why newspaper editors take such a keen interest in the building of new schools and the encouragement ol education. Sometimes, when the cost oi school extension seems particularly heavy, efforts are made to have it appear as if the local editor were unmindful of the public interest and as though he only wanted to add to the tax burdens of his own people by forever for-ever boosting for new and better schools. So we are going to lift the curtain a little that you may see that there is always helpful thoughts behind the writing of every ed,to;ial or every item in the paper that boosts for better schools. The growth of population places eich oncoming generation at a disadvantage. Our natural wealth is constantly being depleted. Each year finds less lumber, less coal, less gas less natural wealth of every kind and this genera ticn is not going to leave as much as it inherited from the one l-iat w;nt before. Natural wealth must be constantly replendished. Careless folks will argue that by the time exhaustion is in srht we will have taken care of the situation some other way; that when a new fuel is found coal and mining won't be necessary. nd there is Hie point. The great need of the hour is for invention, scientific research, fcr discovery and for the development of all those characteristics that can find root only in the trained and educated mind. Unless we can invent in-vent and discover new methods of ptoJuction future generations are going to be hard put to li e. And that is why we always boost the schools, even when we know they are hard to pay for. |