But improved education is vital to the
realization of higher standards. Especial-
ly in times of crisis is it important
that education be improved, because only
through sound and wide-spread educa-
tion can the causes of present troubles
be diagnosed and remedies intelligently
and democratically discussed and adopted.
This is the American way.

In the past, during times of crisis, ex-
penditures for education in America in-
creased. During the crisis which began
in 1929 they decreased. Allocation of
emergency funds in generous amounts
to improve education at all levels, from
kindergarten child to adult, would be of
great, immediate, and lasting benefit to
America. It would help end unemploy-
ment and related evils and help prevent
similar disasters in the future.

Should the people of our nation, lack-
ing education, put their trust in dema-
gogues, as peoples of the Old World have
done, we might see repeated here what
has happened in certain European coun-
tries: democracy destroyed; unemploy-
ment and low living standards perma-
nent; creation of a vast army and a

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