The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-01-21

EDITOR 1RESS: your iasL Issue,
yon suggest to the disputants in the
School BIard controversy to keep sight
of the Question" in which We agree.
Let the citizens of Somerset have argu-
ments, facts and fgnres, no. personal
filings and mud -splashing. That is an
important matter. If the Board is de-
linquent in duty, it should be known.
If they are administering our school af-
fairs with economy. frngulitv and to the
best interests of the educational wants
of the yonths of the place, let them be
sustained and their efforts be apprecia
ted. Honor to whom honor Is due"
But it strikes many, however, very
forcibly, that some of their actions are
open to condemnation after even ordi
nary scruting. They employ teacher
for the High School at ninety dollars
per month, an increase over that of last
year. They pay those teaching in the
other grades only thirty dollars per
month. There is no great difference in
the grade between the High School and
that of the Grammar School. 1t is
claimed that the teacher in the Gram
mar should discharge part of the duty
belonging the teacher in the High
School. Ifthere Is so little difference
in the graduation between these, why
should one receive ninety and the other
only thirty dollars per month?-admit-
ting both to hold equal certificates of
scholarship and qualifications,
Ifs woman is competent and capable
of discharging the duties of a man, hy
not pay her the same wages as the man
receives? Or, if man only discharges
the duties of woman, why not pay
him only the same salary as that of a
woman? The Grammar Department has
been successfully taught for many years
by lady, why now employ a man at an
increase Of ten or fifteen dollars per
month, and increase the expenses of the
Board, TO be paid, perhaps, ont of ne xt
years school funds. Is il not simply
and solely to crafty the whims and
caprices of some member or members of
the Board? 1t is understood that the
Board cOntemplates employing next year
another teacher, making seven teachers
in all, which will increase the current
expenses of the school some tpo or thu et
hundred dollars. Should not the Board
look to retrenchment and not to an in
crease of its expenditures? Why is il
that our schools with only a few more
pupils, cost nearly twice what they did
| ten years ago when everything was
much more costly. We had good school.
then. Our citizens favor them now and
are favorable to paying good salaries
but are opposed TO the wasting and
squandering of their. hard earned funds
These are matters that should be
thoughtfully considered and fully ex
amined by every taxpayer and inter
ested citizen Pro BONO PUBLICo.
EDiToR SOMERSET PAPER: believe
it very unkind, if not ungenflemanly
for parties in discussion to implicate out
side or disintereSted parties. In your
paper of the 14th, we have an article
over the signature of c. J. Skinner
The Doc. makes two points. One un
comfortably prominent to the readers o
the Press is the Docs inability to dis
cuss the subject with professional dig
nitv Another is his discovery of thu
cause of DIR. Dnllison's raw, peevish dis
position to be in the too frequent appli
cation of the open hand. We congrat
ulate the Doc. on his discovery. W.
overlooked it. This being the last droT
Of wisdom, he springs behind DIR. Wild
ow Gordon for shelter.
The Lord deliver rs from any further
discussion on this subject. And you, DIR
Skinner, never again dodge behind
a WOMAN.