The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-03
RURAL SCHOOLS.
Their Needs Set Forth in a
Committee Report.
Submitted to the National Edu-
cational Association.
AT ASBURY PARK, N. j.
The FOrty-fOurth Annual Con-
VentiOn Assemblies.
The Session Is Planned to Last
Five Days.
AT ASBURY PARK, N. j.

Asbury PARK, N. J., July 3-The forty
fourth convention of the National Ed
ucationaI association assembled here to-
day for session extending over five
days was taken UP with preliminaries
Tor the formal opening night.
Mr.. Lorenzo D. Harvey, of Mepominee,
Wisconsin, presented the report of the
committee on industrial education in
schools for rural communities. 1t was
in part as follows:
There has never been a time in the
history of this country when the argu-
ments for Industrial education in rural
communities could be presented with as
great force as at the present time. At
no time before have farmers ever stood
facing such problems of industrial or
ganization as they do today. Competi-
ton is no longer confined to the COM
mercial world. The farmer finds him
self face to face with the problem of
and other localities as never before. 1t
Is no longer a question of the man who
can work the most hours and the hard
est, but it is a question of the man
who works most effectively and he is
the one who has been prepared for it
by study of what is essential "a train
ing in thinking and doing in dealing
with these essentials, and who now puts
the best thinking and doing into his
work.
rs it possible that in almost every
other line of human endeavor schools
have been organized and are being car
ried on to train mau for law, for the
ministry, for engineering, intact for al
most every department of technical
labor, ana that there is no necessity for
schools which shall specially train the
farmers boy and girl for their work
upon the farm?
'It may be said that it is not the
business OF the common schools to train
mechanics, nor to train farmers. That
perhaps may be conceded; but it is the
business Of the common schools to SO
train those attending them as to make
them more effective and resourceful in
whatever line of work they may enter:
It is in the cities have population of
and PhiIadelphia-where salaries are
relatively high.
Salaries of Teachers.
1.-THE average salaries of all the class
es of teachers for all the cities decrease
steadily with the decrease in the size of
the cities.
"Of the ASIA male teachers (not in
GLIDING principally in high schools in
the 467 cities who receive an average
salary of $1,30S. 1888 per cent re-
cent received less than $1,000. Of
the 5.149 female teachers in high
schools receiving an average salary of
$500 only 0.6S per cent received as
much as $4,000 while 67.3 per cent
received less than $1,000 and 1888
per cent received less than $3.50. The
group containing the largest percent
age of all the male teachers was s. l.
zoo or under $1,000 with 1856 per
cent, while for female teachers it was
$3.50 or under $3.50 with 17.3s per
cent.
"Of the 2,37s male principals of
elementary schools in the 467 cities
receiving an average salary of $1,542,
24.S1 per cent received $4,000 or over
and 29.11 per cent received less than
$1,000 even. Of the 1886 women
principals receiving an average salary
of 1910, S.13 per cent received $4,000
or over, while $3.50 per cent received
less than 81 900 and 1850 per cent re-
ceived less than $3.50; the group con-
tanning the largest percentage of all
was $500, or under $500. with 1916
per cent.
"Of the 1892 male teachers in ele-
mental schools in 467 cities receiving
an average salary of $1,161 21.98 per
cent received $1,000 or over. while
1881 per cent received less than 5000.
OF the GS,6 women teachers in ele-
mentary schools in the 467 cities re-
ceiVing an average salary of $3.50 ONLY
O.31 per cent received as much as
$500 even. while "A per cent received
less than $500 and 7.13 per cent re-
ceived less than $500; the group con-
tanning the largest percentage of all
was $3.50 or under $3.50 with 2OSS
per cent while 20.53 per cent received
$500 or under $500.
while the average yearly salaries
Of female teachers (not including
principals) In elementary schools in
the 467 cities is $3.50, the average for
the same class of teachers when the
four great cities of New York. Chi
cago, Philadelphia and Boston are not