The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-21
HINE EVADES ON
 TEACHERS PAY Secretary of the State Board of Education Says the State Does Not Call it
 Saving.
IS NOT COMMUNICATIVE
Does Not Know What the State Will Do With the Money, and Main tains Secrecy on Policy
 on State Schools.


 the Dwight school district in this city. The interview gives little promise of any change to be expected in the mat ter as coming from the initiative of MT. Hine or any others connected with the state board
 MT. Hine, when asked point blank where the increase in the teachers salaries, which has been voted by the city, was going. stated that 1t was go- ing to the teachers themselves, every cent of it Asked whether that meant that the teachers were at present re- ceiving more from the state as a re- suit of the raise in salaries voted them by the city, he said he was in no pos ition to know
 MT Hine repeatedly maintained that he did not know what the total amount expended in the Dwight school district in salaries was, either this year or last, much less could he say anything about individual salariesl He stated that the state board had not heretofore made any accounting to the public as to how much the Dwight school district was costing it. nor did 1t intend to now. Not without vote of the state board Of education could he tell the representative of this paper what the teachers salaries were, either in the aggregate or for the individual.
 MT Hine was asked what the state intended to do with the money it was evidently saving because Of the gener- osity of the city of New Haven, which has been taken advantage of He said he did not know
 When told that, as a servant of the state, 1t was his duty to know, lie said the state did not look at it as a slv- ing We always Ray the teachers of the district, he maintained, ''every cent that the city has voted them You may depend upon that In addition we pay them something for their extra trouble with the normal pupils, some years that is more; some years that is less. l cannot see that we save any thing in any event
 Do you add onto the teachers sal aries this year an increase equal to that voted them by the city? 1T do not know"
 Gan you not give us an idea?" No I cannot As a general principle should say that we pay the teachers according 10 their merits as the latter ara i1tdoad l1,, r,ts No ,,,o 4ta,. ,,,bn+ 1,.e get from New Haven we will continue to pay the teachers according to theiI merit. We will pay the teachers or this principle in the future just as ir the past"
 Then you de not want to tell MT Hines where the money of the tax. payers of New Haven is going ?"
 ITO the teachers, every cent" ht again reiterated, evasively.
 MT, Hines, there is a rumor to the effect that the state board is contem plating using the total increase voted by the city of New Haven to pay tn, salary of a woman supervising princi pal in the Dwight Place district. Hay, you heard of such a proposition, o are you behind it2" Mr. Hine said h could not give his word that such thing might not be done by the stat, I board. He refused to divulge any plans maintaining that the state board o education was power unto itself an, able to steer it's own course withou consulting the teachers or the public. MT. Hine was asked with whom la, the determination of the merit o the teachers upon which, as he ha, . maintained, the states share of thei salaries alone depended.
 The merit of the teacher is deter mined by the principal of the Ney Haven state normal school" returne 3 MT Hine. He is Arthur B. Morrill, g Then the question of whether tn , teachers are to be benefited as individ s uals by what the city of New Have e has voted them depends upon the sa S of MT. Morrill?"
 f Yes in great part.
 7 "Is Mr Morrill, entirely independen Y of you, Mir, Hine, when he makes u :, his opinion of the merit of an indi n vidual teacher 2" At this question MI e Hine gave little laugh, and sai !, something about MT Morrill, being y man with strong opinions of his owl r as you would know, if you had to de5 y with him.
 - Does the city pay the teachers ( @ the Dwight school district proportion o ately two-thirds, or one-third of thet q salaries, or what fraction, approx e mately, does it pay?"
 " q cannot remember. The city boar y of New Haven could tell you that !. (Night before last MT Beede, the st n perlntendent of schools in this cit j. said that he was absolutely withol
 knowledge of what the state pal
 these teachers in addition)
 MT Hine said he thought the sta l. board was dealing liberally with u d teachers in question When asked e he and the state board was dealir -- hberally with the public, which It really paying for it all, he only laugl
 ed If you say that the state boal
 is paying them at present what II Y. city has voted them, plus what it D le lieves their merit demands, wheth n that additional amount is. smaller Il not than that of last ygar, will l. satisfied. That is all I Nave to say (
 the question.