The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-10-21
HIGHER SALARIES
FOR PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS
LIKELY TO BE NECESSITY
or NEAR FUTURE.
Prof. Clerdenen of Cairo Schools Sees
Influences Which viii Force
This Result--Salaries Gen.
orally Too Low
School NcMsl

(SchOol Newsl
a good and hopeful sign of better
times for teachers may be found In
the fac that many school boards and
| school directors in Illinois, Indiana
! Missouri and adjoining states have
/ had to hustle around and come ur
! higher" in wages in order TO secure
teachers for the school year now I'M
( der way. The supply seemed greater
than the demand for number OF
years past. We are glad to note that
conditions are reversing.
Many teachers of the "keep.for.
a-time" kind have been women and
there became so many of them that
wages went down, down and down
under the constant bidding of the
place hunters. But these have been
getting married in large numbers, the
past summer--probably preferring
the life lottery of matrmony to the
life penury of pedagogy 'Tis WELL
for the good of the cutters as well
as the quilted 1t opens up another
opportunity for good schools.
Some of the young school "marms"
who married this past summer We're
the most promising sort. Enthusiast.
ic energetic and fairly we'll equipped,
they gave intelligent and faithful
schoolroom service. Not only had
such young teachers the right to mar
ry, but it was their duty to do so
when won by acceptable and worthy
suitors. To properly mistress a home
is the highest and the noblest aim of
true and gentle womat hood. I'VE
would not prevent it If we could, nor
could. we do so If we would" An
editorial in an August number of the
ST. Louis Republic sets the matter in
its true light and just like we would
have liked to put it. thus:
Marriage of certain proportion
of the teachers annually contributes
t. that gradual rotation in office
which is good for the efficiency of any
service. Those who, for one reason
or another, eschew matrimony suffic
iently. supply experience, while those
who marry and drop out only make
room for fresh enthusiasm and for
the latest graduates in the arts of
pedagogy.
Let the young school marms mar
ry just as soon as they are sure they
have found the right partners. The
normal schools will make new teach |
ers, but ii takes marriage to make
a family, and without the family there
would he no need for teachers.
But not matrimony alone has been !
the reducing agency to the teachers |
ranks. Within the past summer va
cation five teachers of corps of |
some fifty teachers resigned their po- |
sitions because they wanted to try |
some thing that promises in time TO
be more renumsrative or at least get |
into something that pays in proper
ton to the experience and effort put |
into it. This has been very common |
experience of smaller and larger
ciCols and districts, In this and ad |
joining states. the past vacation. This
has been The real cause for the
SCI ity OF teachers and for the cheer
il ri as in future promise. 1t means
better res to those who remain in
he teacher. ranks and an incentive
for higher talent TO enroll in' the re-
,ru'ting ranks. In all localities
-eaehers have been leaving the work
act from choice but from necessity
Many of them are among the most
experienced and successful. These
nave become martyrs for the good of
hose remaining. by creating de-
nsnd beyond an easy present supply.
This wakes up the employing powers
o the evidnt fact that salaries must
De- advanced if the teachers of sue
p ful worth are to be held. The
eating has commenced, And it will
Dc general
TAYLOR c. CLENDENEN,
Superintendent Of City
Schools, Cairo. ILL.,