New-York tribune., 1906-04-12
STARVATION SALARIES.
TEACHERS DEFR4UDED.
neoeHt Liuing Impossible for Them
S0us DR.. Mc4Rdre5c.

.ssi,g an audience at Teachers Colleva
on Teachers Salaries and Pensions -
~. ,toAndrew principal Of the Girls Tech
N''''T I,,Up school. urged teachers TO demand
fo'' commensurate with the services thex
-.,serjng 10 the public. The public he
as 5er,andins an ever higher grade of ser
~ s,-, Won. hut il can't get it because Won
n,sced financially that you can live
-, n life that would enable you TO
eye H.
,,-i,, is not he told them the minimum
,ouis keep body and soul together on. but
.-or IL costs 10 live well in that particular
-;,, As for the law Of supply and de-
". that had no more 10 DO with a teachers
,ban voodchuck with mathematics
,sl-r- salaries paid 70 teachers and the
hot reaching was the second love- OF so
teachers were among the reasons why
r,feesior TO longer attracted the bright
!. once did AS his audience would never
a.. 81, soc teachers wages what they should be,
!. urged the desirability of pensions. which
..-s6 The double purpose of enabling the
....t.r ~ do her best work free from worry
- anprosrhing old age. and of wedding out
..,r,,rs who had outlived their usefulness.
PAID LESS THAN MINERS.
=. ,,cAndrev began by reading some figures
= tbs renort Of the Anthracite Strike Com
,,.,,r snpointsd by President Roosevelt in
,sss f-or, which il appeared that of the twenty
,.,., classified mine employments, excluding
-, ~ foreman etc. twenty-one pay more
80 than the average wages of teachers in the
,,-,ss states. Three-fourths of the anthracite
,.,,rs,e Who receive less than the teachers are
-, Tn. average salary Of the woman teacher
hU7s.
orvsry father" vent on Dr. AIcAndrew,
4vsrts his boy 70 grow up into man who does
.srrs vst for five hours a day at the most i'm
,sssionable perod Of his life he places his child
rnss- : teacher whom he Cthe father treats in
sB,b vay as 10 make initiative impossible.
Success in teaching is largely d question Of per-
sonslity in the teacher.
What" asked Dr.. McAndrew. is personal
tyr Every one knows il isn't scholarship. 1t
iss psrt of the emotional nature: il is the steam
that keeps the rest of the mechanism going
The successful teacher has scholarship plus
personality.
Personality is n be maintained by doing
whatever keeps you fresh and enthusiastic and
spontaneous But it takes money 10 keep UP
vour persona fy The trouble is that teachers
s-s irving 70 keep body and soul together on
lose their personality and become that all too
common type. the dried-up schoolnla am They
ny 70 keep Up their personality and enthusiasm
o. netting and generally break down In the at
temp. unless some help comes To them out Of
Macedonia n The shape of A bachelor.
ripple Of surprise went through the audi
encs 81 the speakers next remark.
Do you think il makes any difference to YOU,
b asked ri the women. whether you wear 4
dress that has been turned twice and pressed a.
the seams SO as not 70 sha-c. or a neW dress that
Il Efr-ch know bagppaiug@ W.
. shouldn't Judge p man by his rOat-no. but peO-
is % il all The same The children of the
American people are keen 10 notice coats, They
theW subserEienCE ia clothes As the old war
ror had 10 have his armor so the modern
teacher must have hers, and il must consist Of
fnlsrtly made. becoming gowns"
He paused the assembly room echoed with
lsugflteT. Then. T can't feU whether that's
Hugh n CyniciSn or smile Of agreement" he
"snt on. I can't trear these things in an
t'5deuio way, bUt 7 come from the dust Of
@rtle and ] know that people find 1t easier TO
vel dressed
HAVE WHTNED LONG ENOUGH"
Teachers. be said. have -yhined and begged
leng enough NOV they ought to demand wages
enough 70 live o1 properly. Teaching" he de-
cared Is not successful now and never VIII
ne Until the teacher can be put i'm position TO
i've Is vel and IS happily as the average citi-
ger, which is not Tho case now"
DR. MCAmdrew said II would be easy 70 fix the
amount the teacher in any community should
Tsceive
Get thirty or forty good reputable business
meh n felp YOU figure out what il costs 10 live
We ln that particular place. Then 60 to the
e'h"el board and say. This is what your own
men say ia costs 10 live well here You are
tsFlng ne one-half or one-third less than their
HHseie- Dt course. they vii! answer back that
y simply matter Of supply and demand
N'N- supply and deTand have absolutely moth
-, rg 10 90 win H. The question is how to keep
Your steam up