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WHY TEACHERS SEEK
OTHER OCCUPATIONS
^Pitiful Salaries Driving Strong Wo
men and Men Out of Profession.
Fifty Thousand Vacancies
in Country.
t literary Digest.
It is strange that the generoushearted
American people, whc
poured out their riches so prodigally
an response to ^rery patriotic, every
charitable appeal, and who accorded
such enthusiastic and liberal sup.port
to every measure and to every
fcj^group that helped win the war should
2iave neglected to properly encourage
?nd reward the services of one of
^ the noblest professions in the field
human activities?a profession
that in lofty ideals, in unselfish' prin*-*?
ciples, in sacred responsibilities,
stands side by side with the ministry
of the Gospel itself. v
We wish to bespeak, with what*
-ngvarer and authority we may
tr*-- r
liave'and with such words as may be
% granted to us, some*measure of con_
sideration for the foster fathers and
smothers of our children?-the school
teachers of the United States of
H^k?paerica.
I W There is no class M workers of
Mjy-which we demand so much. We commit
into their keeping the minds, the
bodies, and the very souls of our
W children in the tender and formative
L years Of their lives, and they, receiv&
ing these children, can indeed be said
^^^to hold in the hollow of their hands
^^P&he future of America. We expect
these devoted men and women to
^ watch over and care for our sons
r^and daughters as though they were
-their very own, -to drill them in the
arts and sciences, to train them for
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business and for citizenship, to instruct
them in manners and in morjL
***, to do for them those things
which w# would do had we the train
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f r No class has assumed so heavy, so
trying a burden and a resonsibility
-with such willingness as these consecrated
men and women. No class has
performed their increasingly heavy
tasks more devotedly, more conscientiously,
and with less thought- of self.
No class served their country more
wholeheartedly, more loyal, during
the trying and tempestuous times of
^rar day by day pursuing their round
of doty, day by day helping the
young people, and through' the childx
ren the parents, to see the struggle
K<r)i+._ thus securing the co
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operation of the community in every
imeasure undertaken by the government
to win the war.
< Truly they havg made the nation
their everlasting debtor. Truly had
they not done their work so . well this
? -republic would not outlast the span
^ # of a generation.
What, then have the teach jrs re^-^ceived
at our hands in fetnrn? They
have received ilttle of honor- and
Nl somewhat less of pay. Other classes
have prospered; other classes through
IK powerful organizations have secured
jfenerous wages. The teachers have
' no spokesman, however, to demand
even the simple justice of a living
too rrivo nftttv
Witge, SU Ml t^ciu rr V 2,i< V t
pre-war pittance, so meager, so pitifully
inadequate, that it places a
burning brand of shame and disgrace
upon this nation.
The men and women who are making
the Americans of tomorrow are
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bt -.g treated with less consideration
than the janitors who sweep out the
buildings in which they are employV
ed; they are earning on the average,
less- than the wages given to the
scrub women employed in the pub""
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ilC DUUdingS OI me uiiueu tavco gvi?rnment.
Normal - school graduates
receive less salary than street sweepers;
high school principals and superintendents
less than section foremen;
country school teachers less for
instructing the farmer's children than
le pays his hired man to feed his
hogs.
In a certain town of Illinois, for
instance, the average wages of 15
miners for one month was $217,
while the average monthly salary of
B teachers in the same town was
W 5. In another town a miner, who,
Sy the way, was an enemy alien,
drew more than $2,700 last year,
while the salary of the high school
principal in the same town was $765.
We welcome with' all our hearts the
long belated recognition tftat is being
given to the man who works with
his hands. We believe that this same
workingman will be the first to join
with us in asking better pay for
those who teach his children.
No wonder there are 50,000 va*
cancies in the teaching forces of the
schools. No wonder the ranks are
being filled with weak men and with
immature women who merely use the
profession as a stepping stone to
something better. No wonder there
are 36,000 teachers in the United
States who have had no schooling bevoriH
the eiehth erammar grade.
Small wonder, indeed, that 7,000,000
of our school children are being
trained by teachers, mere boys and
, gi^s themselves, who have had no
professional education whatever.
When we consider that the 740,>*& ?-.
'
000 teachers of America are paid an !
>'average salary of $630 a year; when, Th
'moreover, we consider the fact that ers
living costs have actually advanced mil
103 per cent, since the beginning of wh
the war, thereby cutting the buying sin
power of these insignificant salaries ing
in half, we can easily determine that are
only a fool or a martyr would choose jurg
^ teaching as a profession, or would ;the
> long remain in it unless these terri- jtho
r S ble conditions were swiftly remedied, j val
r | What a crime is this! What an !
TX/Viof an 11 nnar^nnfl lty
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sin at the doors of an enlightened *
'people who now find themselves at sc^
the head and forefront of the dem- jm
; ocracies of the wolrd! How can we h??
better prepare for the great under- 'gre
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, lillUIlgS Ul ICtVllOllUVWVil man wv ,
:settng ourselves immediately to rem-.eac
i etiying this perilous condition. In ^ar
(these trying and chaotic, times when ,wal
the world is beset by unrest, by an- [the
archy, by revolution, by the devil's cos1
Uwsvsl /-?-P onnoHinor .Avils that: "follow
UXVVU Vi W f r ..
in the train of war, we must make wec
sure that the foundations of our re-; \
public are set on a rock that it may the
stand against the flood. sioi
The peace and security of the sPe<
world of the future will be in the Am
safe keeping of the generations now er?
in our schools. These boys and girls mei
must "weave up the raveled sleeve" ;are
of civilization. Their hands* must mei
minister to the wounds of the na- j
jtions. Their minds must meet and our
'solve the difficult and crucial prob-,*101
lems that will be their inheritance. ;w^c
Their hearts must be so imbued with nev
the horrors of war and with the pov- ^re<
erty and anguish that inevitably fol-. *or
low in its wake that they in their;
'time will enter upon it only as a last ^is
resort in hational self defense or in her
support of some great principle of ceS{
ihumanitv.
| Never, has there been a more urg-| .n {
ent need for high" minded, great
hearted, splendidly trained, 10.0 per
cent. American instructors to irive S
home the vital lessons that these
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limes jioja. xxever uaa tuc iuvuic vi am
'the nation been so clearly committed Ij
| into the hands of the teachers. And Ij
'yet thousands, of ffien and women of U
. ability. who would prefer to teach ^
are reluctantly leaving their chosen
calling, forced by the hard necessi- /
ties of their very existence.
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The teachers ask no largess at the i
hands of fortune. They enter their
profession for -service, not riches.
But they invest years and money in |
preparation for their life work and i
;the knowledge they gain is shared
I with others who themselves use it {'
I to their own profit. Teachers, then, 1
by every right and in all justice expect
a return that will permit them
and their dependents to live decently ?
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e-Literary Digest there are readi
of foresight, of vision, broad
nded men and thoughtful women
o will see?nay perhaps have long
ce seen?the critical and compell
importance of this problem. We
t directing this appeal to them. We
:e them to compare the salaries of
ir teachers with the wages of
se who are doing work of equal
ue. There will be a challenge in'
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as is practicable, a minimum
of at least $1,000 a year for ;
teachers of America. This would i
b the nation perhaps as much as
spent so gloriously in but me
ik of the great war. i
Ve are not pleading merely for
welfare of some single profes
1; we are not pleading for a
eial class; we are pleading for
erica; for her larger, her brighther
richer future, for the fulfill
it of her glorious promise. We
pleading for a coming race of i
i and women who shall be qualito
make complete the work of
forefathers who founded this na- j
i and dedicated it to liberty, and j
? will bring to full fruition the'
r victories that we fcave won in
jdom's cause. We are pleading
a wider teaching of the princi},
the purposes, and* the ideals of
: nation that all men shall know i
meaning and shall have equal ac-;
5 to her opportunities; that the
t of Americanism will shine that
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