American Progress Is Die To Education

AMERICAN PROGRESS IS DUE TO EDUCATION

By ALFRED MOSELY, English Educationalist

ONE OF THE PRINCIPAL REASONS WHY THE AMERICAN WORKMAN IS BETTER THAN THE BRITISHER IS THAT HE HAS RECEIVED A SOUNDER AND BETTER EDUCATION, WHEREBY HE HAS BEEN MORE THOROUGHLY FITTED FOR THE STRUGGLES OF AFTER LIFE.

     The manufacturers there do not hesitate to put in the very latest machinery, at whatever cost, and from time to time sacrifice large sums by scrapping the old whenever improvements are brought out.

     One mane in charge of a large department said to me: "One of the reasons of our success is the readiness of all our men to drop existing modes of production as soon as it is demonstrated that there is something better. Labor saving machinery is widely used everywhere and is encouraged by the unions and welcomed by the men, because experience has shown them that in reality machinery is their best friend.

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     IT SAVES THE WORKMAN ENORMOUS MANUAL EXERTION, RAISES HIS WAGES, TENDS TOWARD A HIGHER STANDARD OF LIFE AND, FUTHER, RATHER CREATES WORK THAT REDUCES THE NUMBER OF HANDS EMPLOYED.

     The United States is advancing by leaps and bounds. She is beginning to feel the beneficial effects of the education of her masses and an enormous territory teeming with natural resources as yet but meagerly developed/

     In the latter respect she has been more than blessed, and her natural advantages are bound to maker her not only the leading manufacturing country of the world- a position she may already be said to have attained- but must place her in the same position relatively that England herself occupied some fifty years ago.

     One of the points I investigated was whether or not the workman in the United States "wears out" faster than the Englishman.

     Personally, I think not. It is generally admitted that the American workman, in consequence of labor saving machines and the excellence of the factory organization, DOES NOT NEED TO PUT FORTH ANY GREATER EFFORT THAN THIS BRITISH COUSIN IN ORDER TO ACCOMPLISH EVEN MORE WORK IN A GIVEN TIME.