The Greatest Asset of America

The greatest asset of America. - Diversity of opinion as to what is America's greatest asset creates a discussion which leads into every section and every activity of our country. Each individual is governed by the interest that lies closest to his heart. The doctor declares: "The greatest asset of America is found in our medical schools, hospitals, and our great accomplishments in saving life and insuring the health of our people, for without health there could be no other great achievement." The teacher asserts: "Our common-school system, our colleges, universities, and our press constitute our greatest asset, for without education industry would stop and our Government disintegrate." The captain of industry states: "Industry is our greatest asset. What would America be without New England, New York, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Chicago, and the thousands of other industrial centers giving employment to millions while they supply the needs of the world?" Likewise the inventor, the chemist, the scientist, each makes the claim that the fruit of his labor is the greatest asset of America, for what great things in America would have been possible without the creative genius? The farmer insists that the doctor, the teacher, the industrialist, the scientist, and all the others would not get very far if he failed for a single season to provide the means for clothing and food - to him the greatest asset of America. They all are right; there are elements of greatness in all the varied endeavors of bur country, the coordination of which has brought prosperity and wealth in such measure as to make us envied of all people.