New-York tribune., 1906-12-28
In villages

It VIII be observed that more than 90 per cent Of
m Ire GrSwer papers received were written in the
cues Is likely to be larger hereafter in view of the
If they expect TO share in the academic funds
OF the 81 academic schools in villages Of less than
o;VO inhabitants, 2S7. more than half, exceIed
the state 9 average in accepted papers or in honor
average was $50 There were ia Of these schools
Win win an average OF 20 per cent or more So with an
OF 50 per cent or more. and Is with an average Of
g per cent or more.
DIR. Draper had this to say on the question Of
salaries;
by teachers. l believe in labor unions believe a
union Of teachers for other purposes than mutual
be alike unwise and fundamentally vicious 1 hold
any gGyaS GoIn6nauGn m between teachers who are
some abar amy Of teachers with
politics. to be both utterly repugnant to the essen
al s spirit OF the schools and abhOrrent to the vital
nave entire confidence in the justice the people
Therefore. 1 warranted In saying in a paper
that mas Geen prepared not only for you, but more
he school boards and others Specially tnteTese in in
5ans fG ss'0naGfy on y schools and that hope may BE-
newspapers; that the salaries of the teachers in
hadeqate to the demands Of he seF9Tsy Tbay
are unjust % to the teachers now IN service They do
zee n 5he @ @servSe They are INSUFFICIENT to at
liberal preparation which the service demands
There are hundreds Of college graduates and
high schools who have spent from fourteen W nSt to
eighteen years and much money I'm preparation
schools and hinders the advance which the common
interests demand that they shall make. II tho
edncan womd be %S o Tes 1T Ee9Tc % Ct boards Of
let them exact the highest competency in the high
schools. and pay competency the compensation
which will attract It,
That the United States IS passing from an s~s
OF ndividualism into Of fraternalIsm in which
the government viii take added responsibility for
the welfare Of the people, was the contention Of
Dr.. Lyman Abbott. of New York who addressed
the Associated Academic Principals tonight He
took for his subject ''The Coming Age and said
in part;
In industrial activity we are moving from the
principle or every man for himself toward what
call traterna ism. where the common good "a the
main consideration. Upon this country God has
poured out untold wealth. and we have said, Go
whom L knew put 10000 into gold mine and in
two years. without doing stroke of work or using
his brain, took out s2,0OQOOO. This system Is not
just and we going TO leave 1T in the rear When
! say this l DO not mean that we will leave IL in
tho rear by Socialism Socialism assumes that all
functions can be done by the government. This
may be 50, but IL Is not proved. We do not want
lhe state TO own all the tools Of production. but
tne control OF industry by the people for their
Corporation Is in its essence a democratic
contrlvance by which a large number of men COM
blne thelr money and share In the distribution of
tered II would be beneficial. The thing to 10 IS
not TO destroy II. but TO make II the purpose
Is 70 bring the corporations under government COM
troll the we have the banks A labor union
unions broaden and realize that labor and capi-
al are partners in common enterprise Tho igdl-
% 81 has led to vices az estc-cencc!t s,If-,v, and
eec The ren"s lis in tie recognition oG society
There are three streams running toward frater-
aAiisl4 religion government and industrial sa-