The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1879-06-26
TEACHERS WAGES AND sold
FOGIES'' IN DODSON TIP.

The Allensburg correspondent Of the
HillsbOro Gazette does not agree with me
in regard to teachers wages, and says he
has failed to see any more "old fOgies in
Dodson TIP. than in Salem, or any other"
Now, we did not say, nor did we init
mate even, that there were more old fOgies
in DodsOn township than in any other, but
we did intimate that the old fOgies were in
the majority in our township school board;
for, although they may fully understand
how to "fat hog or raise corn and beans,
and till their farms with the latest i'm
proved implements, yet they are decidedly
old fogyish in their views of education,
schools and sehOol-WOrk and needs.
If an individual who is opposed to the
progress and the best interests Of society
merits the name of 'Old fogy," then do
many of the members of our township
board Justly deserve that appellation. We
say Opposed to progress" for when they
cut and shave a teachers wages to such a
degree that he can barely live, thus pre-
venting him from going to the expense Of
keeping up with the times, and rendering
it an impOssibility for him to have on his
desk the indispensable periodicals and
works pertaining to progress in his calling
they thus indirectly but certainly oppose
the progress Of the children under his
charge, those boys and girls who will soon
be called to fill positions Of trust and re-
sponsibility.
We say Opposed to the best interests Of
society, for it is generally conceded that
true education makes society wiser, hap
pier, better And what We mean by true
education is, education not Of the head
alone, but Of the heart as well; the devel-
opment, training and culture of not only
the Intellectual hut Of the social and moral
man; and when school directors put 50 pit
iful a price on the education of their
children as to make it almost impossible
to secure the services of frsJ-elass teachers,
they thus oppose the best interests Of so
ciety and Justly deserve to be called 'Old
fogies."
The correspondent in question also
speaks of teachers receiving S33 per
month and farm hands S13, &c. We want
to be brief. but let us figure little. The
farm hand gets Sl3 per month, his board,
worth $40, and washing, worth, say 81 per
month, and we have his services worth $24
per month. Now, working eight months
1--WE know OF hands who get II months
employment we have his services worth
Sl92 per year. The teacher can get but
six months employment, and receives for
his labor 5000, making a difference in IA
vor of brain-wOrk Of IS per yeari We
are taking the correspondent at his own
figures, though he is comparing low wages
Of farm hands with the highest Of teachers
wages 1--WE mean in DOdson tOwnship.) We
know Of several farm hands who are re-
ceiving Sl5 per month We have said
nothing about the expense of teachers for
books, pc iodicals, diplomas, institutes,
&c, from all Of which the farm hand is
exempt.
We do not believe the correspondent Of
the Gazette Is a farm hand, but if be is,
and thinks there is so much money in
teaching, why don't he go at it? But we
believe him to be one of those taxpayers
who for the sake of saving a few dollars of
taxes would starve out our blessed system
OF free schools. DODSON.