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TEACHERS aS'D SALARIKS™!
NEW YORK, Nov., 5— Chambers
of Commerce in 359 cities of the Unit
ed States with a population of 8,000 or
more will receive today from their
National Committee for Cooperation
with the Public Schools the results of
a nationwide survey relating to sal
aries, training and experience of
teachers in which it is declared that
in point of salary the average school
teacher is “worse off than before the
war.” The report, the first of four
“interpretive inquiries,” will enable
these cities, it is said, to learn for the
first time the truth about their own
schools and to compare them with the
scools of other cities throughout the
country.
This survey, which was undertaken
by the American City Bureau after a
conference of superintendents of
schools with' Chamber of Commerce
Secretaries at Cleveland.O., last Feb
ruary 24, has been in progress more
than six months. The questions to
which answers were sought and ob
tained in the 359 cities were: “ How
much training do your teachers
have?” and “How well do you pay
your school employes?”
One half of the men elementary
teachers'in all cities reporting, it was
shown, have had less than the median
of 8.10 years of experience. One-half
have had less than 3.71 years’ exper
ience . Of 68.291 teachers, 3,493 have
had only one years’ experience and of
this number. 758 are men and women
high school teachers and 2,735 are
men and women elementary grade
teacher*. More than 10.0CB women and
300 men in the cities surveyed, how
ever. have been teaching 20 years and
over.
Emergency teachers lacking prop
er training for their work are said to
portion” of those now in the class
rooms. It is a commonly accepted
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standard among city Boards of Edu
cation, the*‘report points out, that the
teachers in the elementary schools
should be A least graduates of stand
ard normal schools, which means a
two-year professional course above
graduation from a four-year high
‘school. “It is very significant to note
in this* connection,” the report says,
“that more than one-third of the
teacher* of American cities have less
training than this low standard and
that there are thousands of teachers
in the elementary schools of our Am
erican cities who have even less pre
paration than graduation from a four
year high school course.” *
PAPER CLOTHS
LONDON, Nov., 8— Paper suits of
clothing manufactured in Germany
have been shipped to London on ap
proval and displayed for sale by a firm
of importers in the Strand at two shill
ings six pence to ten shillings six pen
ce.
It is stated that German exporters
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are offering these suits to British im
porters at the rate of 1,000 suits for
120 ponds or the normal equivalent of
about 60 cents a suit. They are de
scribed as “of the very best texture”.
Other quotations would permit Eng
lish retailers to obUin from 200 to 300
ptfceot>rofit
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THE RIGHTS OF CHILDREN
Twenty-one years ago the relation
of the father to his child partook of
the nature of a property right. The
courts could enforce this right, but on
the other hand they were often pow
erless to enforce the duty of the father
to his child. Since. 18D5> every state in
the Union has passed juvenile court
laws except Connecticut, Maine and
Wyoming, and thyse States have pass
ed laws dealing with some of the pix>
blems usually included in the juvenile
•con »t law itself. The extensiveness of
this legislation is the best evidence* of
the previous unsatisfactory viewpoint
of tin* law. How far the States have
g<>n in modernizing their attitude to
wards the delinquent and the neglected
child is shown by the bulletin made
public today by the Children'^ Bureau
of the U. S. Department of Labor, en
titled “A Summary of Juvenile- Court
Legislation in the United States.”
Juvenile court legislation deal
with a complicated group of problems
that of the child accused of breaking
the law; the adult offending agains'
the child; the neglected and degrade *
parent; the incompetent ami unfaith
ful guardian; and the family that is
simply poor.
I nder the old law the delinquent
child was dealt with in the same man
ner, with certain restrictions of age,
as the adult offender. He was tried
before a criminal court with all the
formality and notoriety of a jury,
sworn testimony, and confronting wit
nessos. If found “guilty” the child suf
feied the penalty. If “not guilty” he
w**nt free. In no case did the law ex
tend any constructive help.
Of recent years, however, the law
has recognized the right of the child
to a reasonable minimun of care, of
decency and of well-being. Consider
ation has been given to the natural
impulse of youth and to the adverse
conditions under which the child may
have been brought up.
because of the differences in the
structure of their judicial systems, the
States have had to meet the problems
by various methods of legislative at
tack. In every State, however, the at
tempt has been made through legis
JaJion to solve the difficult problems
involving the unfavorable conditions,
domestic, social and economic— under
which children are living and devel
oping today.
THE QUARREL.
We were wretched, we had quarreled,
Jane and 1, best pals for yeavs.
Life to me was shattered, broken;
i Jane seemed on the verge of tears.
“Monster’ You shall go this instant’
i With tonight acquaintance ends’
I shall always hate you, ALWAYS,
We can never more be friends.”
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Nervous, fear, on the sofa,
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There I sat, nor did I stir,
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| “Can’t you hea^ me- Jane was crying,
I despise you, loathe you, sir.
Then I answered, voice a-quiver,
J ^You’ve no mercy on a chap,
But if 1 must truly leave you,
J^ne, dear, please, get off my lap*”.
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Healy 28 Cl^ar Calm. .
j Nenanan 20 Clear Calm.
j Fairbanks 28 Clear Calm.
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PERT PARAGRAPHS
OF SENSE AMO NONSENSE
CAUGHT ON THE FLY BY
“ THE HUMAN TOOTHPTCK "
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UP ON THE MOUNTAIN
Who was Nero, Bill? asked one
Seward man of another. “Wasn’t he
the chap who was always cold?” “No”
said another Sewardite; “That was
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/-cm,- another guy altogether.”
Brown & Hawkins have been giving
the windows in the hardware depart
ment a new coat of paint and a gen
y <,
oral overhauling. The added space and"
the new trimmings will now give the
(rentleman from Texas who handles
the hai-dware end of the business a
chance to display his latent talent as
t*. ‘
a window trimmer. It is rumored that
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Lhe window will be utilized by Mr.
McMullin in the near future to dem
onstrate to the people of Seward the
utter uselessness of trying to solder
or plug a hole in an agate cooking
utensil. The date of the demonstration
will be given later.
\ou people who like to read stor-/
ies by real authors. You people who
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like to read short stories written by
men and women of natural repute.
You people who want a ledger or a
looking for a book for the children.
You people woh want a ledger or a
day book or an up to date dictionary.
You people who like to write letters.
And you people who neeed a rubber
.damp, or an ink pad or a blotter pad
Vor the desk in your home or office
*an get all these things if you'll just
bop into the Seward News Co., store
;ome evening and give the stock the
we over. The new fiction is really
worth while and the Stock of holiday
books varied enough for all to choose
»vhat they most like.
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The little jewelry store on the
main street where the big thirty day
clock which hangs in the window, tickt
a way the minutes and the hours of the
lay sure contains an assortment of
beautiful little trinkets that are suit*
able for holiday-gifts. The display in
the window is arranged artistically
ind the glitter and sparkle of the gold.1
diamonds and cut glass artticles mak<
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many persons stop and look and usu*
ally after they have looked from »•
distance they go in and give the ar
jcle that attracted their attention tht
once over at closer range. Wedding
ings have been leading the list oA
;ales this week. . #
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The crowds in the pool halls dur
ng the past few days looked like old
tiroes'. Aft the pool and billiard table£
rt'ere doing business and many of the
people were looking for a bowling al
ley. It’s only a question of time.
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The crowd at the Liberty Theatre
last night filled the place to over flow:
ing. The show was a cracker-jack from
every point of vision. The Gish girl ii
an universal favorite and her imper
donation of Nugget Nell last nigh
kept the people continually laughjng.
The Holmes Travelogue was excep
tionally good the Pathe was excellent
and the Literary Digest squibs full of
humor.
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FAST AND LOOSE
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She finally succeeded in Breaking
away from him while he held her in
his clutches. Hartford Courant.
-SOME t)NE~ouSfrr T6 B1E"
u Permit me to die at your feet”
he cried desperately. i
She shivered. ”1 see no objection to
that”, she' answered. “AU that, papa
said was that you shouldn’t hang
around here.”
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Summit IS Qlea* Calm* r
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NEW YORK, Nov. 5— The salaries,
training and experience of public
school teachers in the United States
ale declared to be “inadequate” by the
National Committee for Chamber of
Commerce cooperation with the' Public
schools. Djaspite recent salary increas
es, the committee asserts that the cris
is ban not been passed.
These Conclusions are drawn in a
summary of a survey of the schools of
#50 iities conducted by the committee,
which is oomposed of 33 secretaries of
chamber* of commerce and 33 super
intendent of ^'schools.
“The thougbful citisen 'ineeds to
ask himself,^ de dared Dr. George W.
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Strayer of Columbia University, chair
man of the committee, “in the light
of the returns presented by our in
quiry , questions like the following;
Can teachers in our community have
a comfortable place to live, good
and decent clothes for the amount of
money which we pay them? Are the
teachers who work in our schools able,
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m the salary paid to them , to make
provision against the liabilities of ill
ness arid old age? Do the teachers in
our cities have salaries sufficient to
enable them to buy books, to subscribe
to magazines, to* enjoy music, to trav*
el, to continue their professional stud]
and otherwise, to lead the type of life
which makes' them the kind of men
and women that can be most helpful
:o my boys and girls? Would 1 want
my son and daugther to go into teach
ing? Is the recognition given to teach
ere, in terms of salury , in my city
sufficient to attract the ablest of the
young men and women in our com
munity?” The replies to these inquir
es, in view of the findings, must all
be in the negative, says Dr. Strayer.
In 1913-14 one half of the men ele
mentary teachers ih cities with a po
pulation of from 8,000 to 30,000, the
report shows, received less than $946.
in 1919-20, one-half of the same group
were receiving less than $1,262, an
advance of $316 or 33 percent. Mean
while, it was stated, the cost of liv
ing had advanced 104 percent.
African cities paid high school
principals an average of *$2,500 last
year while elementary school princi
pal? received an average salary of
$1,839. “Many of the salaries paid in
these positions requiring the manage
ment of complex organisations and
skillful leadership,”' the report points
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out, “are not enough to secure a com
petent secretary, let alone to be con
sidered adequate pay for the princi
pal.” A summary of the survey issued
by the committee says:
The survey also discloses that the
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salaries of artisans and laborers
throughout the country are much
higher on the average than those of
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teachers. These low salaries have re
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suited in a serious teacher shortage
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throughout the country. The demand
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for teachers is so great that Students
leave normal schools when tfjeir cours
es have been but half completed. An
alarmingly large proportion of the
teachers as a result are emergency
teachers lacking in proper training for
their work.
“Reports from the cities of CSis
survey show that 50 percent of the
teachers in the elementary schools of
American cities have had less than six
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and one-third years of training be
yond the eighth grade; that 50 per
cent of the junior high school teachers
ave had less than seven years training
beyond, and that 50 percent of the
senior high school teachers have had
less than eight* and one-half years.
“Chambera of Commerce in every
state have assumed the leadership in
conducting local campaigns to bring
the seriousness of the situation to pub
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Ik attention, an organs* community
forces for improving conditions/'
WEATHER. REPORT
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