The Organized Farmer

KNOWLEDGE IS FREE

There are many citizens who find much to complain

of about conditions in the United States, but one thing is

certain, in no land are the opportunities better than in this

country for obtaining an education to fit oneself for any

career one may choose. In the United States knowledge

is free. All that the individual needs to make the most of

the opportunities presented, is to have the energy and de-

termination to take advantage of them to the fullest extent.

Library facilities are such that in all parts of the

country it is possible easily to obtain dependable informa-

tion on any subject of human interest or any branch of

knowledge, whether technical or otherwise. The separate

states offer a wide variety of free educational opportunities

in many branches; the large cities maintain free night

schools offering instruction in academic studies, in the arts

and in the trades, and the federal government supplies with-

out cost, an immense amount of free educational material.

No boy or girl in the United States need go without an

education for lack of funds.

Because the opportunities for obtaining an education

and acquiring knowledge are so good, we are prone to accept

them as a matter of course, forgetting that in other lands

and even in the United States several generations ago, men

and women underwent all sorts of hardships and incon-

veniences to acquire knowledge and obtain information.

The story of Abraham Lincoln walking miles through the

forests just to obtain a book that would be considered very

dry reading these days, reminds us how different conditions

were a century ago.

Each year hundreds of millions of dollars are expended

in this country for free education, and our boys and girls

should be properly impressed with the unparalleled oppor-

tunities they enjoy. Isanti Co. News.