Puerto Rico

Lydia Diaz is working her way through college — as a visitors’ guide at the University of Puerto Rico.

Lively youngsters with lively mindsthe bright new generation in Puerto Rico

(youngsters so eager to learn, the Commonwealth spends a full third of its budget on education)

PUERTO Rico has a new fountain of youth —its eager-beaver, well-educated younger generation.

The student in our photograph was snapped between classes at the University of Puerto Rico. This university alone has a total of 23,000 students— boning up on every subject from agriculture to nuclear physics.

Add to them the students at Puerto Rico’s four other institutions of higher learning and 16 vocational schools and you get a total of 37,000 students. An impressive figure for an island with a small-

er population than the city of Chicago.

To keep pace with this dedication to learning, the Commonwealth spends a larger proportion of its budget on education than any country in the western world —including the U.S. ,

When Ponce de Leon sailed from Puerto Rico to the mainland, he was searching for a fountain of youth to keep him eternally young. Now the traffic is reversed. U.S. manufacturers are coming to Puerto Rico at a steady clip to take advantage of a different kind of fountain of youth —the island’s pool

of well-educated youngsters.

If vou feel your business could do with an injection of youthfulness, come to Puerto Rico. Some manufacturers find theY can choose from many applicants for each job. Alt well-educated.