Excerpt from Who Pays? For a score of years large industrial corporations, chambers of commerce, the National Safety Council, the great insurance companies, parent-teachers' associations, a variety of civic organizations and public-spirited individuals have been spending, in the aggregate, millions of dollars annually in an effort to stem the rising tide of death and disaster due to preventable and unnecessary accidents - and fires. Yet the American people have remained strangely apathetic. Our public-school system, for which we spend billions each year, is still spotted, here and there, with superintendents and boards of education apparently ignorant of the new problems created by the increasing complexities of our daily lives and obsessed with the idea that the only function of the public school is to teach the three R's. In too many American communities there seems to be a growing public sentiment - particularly since the depression - among business men and other taxpayers that some of the so-called extra-curricular material in the schools be eliminated and that they return to these same three R's as a basis for their educational efforts. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.