--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 7 number: 9 published: 1904-07 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "Does an Education Pay?," *Improvement Era* 7, no. 9 (July 1904): 687.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0709unse transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers. identifier: improvementera0709unse start_page: 687 end_page: 687 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1904-07) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0709unse publication_year: 1904 note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1904, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # Does an Education Pay? — A TRIP TO CUBA. 687 was necessary to have a passport in order to visit the island. A fee had to be paid and an exaction was made that the person would leave within three months. A second fee was charged when the passport was returned. There is really less annoyance in landing at Havana than is experienced in New Orleans, where one is likely to run across a French official, who is often petty and unnecessa- rily exacting. At Havana there were a number of interpreters and hotel runners. Some Americans have gone there to open boarding houses on the American plan. The better hotels are quite expensive. The rooms are airy, and the open dining rooms are characteristic of tropical lands. Accommodations and service are, of course, inferior to the better hotels in the United States. There is a growing desire to speak English, for it is evidently seen that the tourist promises to be one of Cuba's best crops. (to be continued.) DOES AN EDUCATION PAY? Does it pay to make life-long friendship with bright, ambitious young people, many of whom will occupy high places later on? Does it pay to become familiar with all the lessons that history and science can teach as to how to make life healthy and successful? Does it pay to become an enlightened citizen, able to see through the sophistries of political claptrap and vote intelligently on public mat- ters? Does it pay to change a bar of rough pig iron into hairsprings for watches, thus increasing its worth to more than fifty times the value of its weight in gold? Does it pay to experience the joy of self-discovery, to open up whole continents of possibilities in one's nature which might otherwise remain undiscovered? Does it pay the sculptor to call out from the rough block the statue that sleeps in the marble, and which shall tell ths story of heroism and greatness to unborn generations? Does it pay to have one's mentality stirred by the passion for ex- pansion, to feel the tonic of growth, the indescribable satisfaction which comes from the consciousness of perpetual enlargement? Success.