New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-11-03
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

Caustic criticism of the prevailing salary schedule
for Chicago high school teachers is contained in
reports recently presented to the school manage
ment committee by Superintendent f. G. Cooley.
In a joint report the requirements for high
school teachers certificates the superintendent and
the committee high school principals said
''Blacksmths. foundrymen and machinists have
frequently been appointed at salaries ranging from
81 300 TO s1,4O0 while teacher after teacher OF
academic subjects has refused to come to Chicago
after he passed examination because We
unable to offer him more than 81 200" In a sec
ond report presented by himself alone. Mr. Cooley
said: THE deerth of teachers. not alone in the
special departments but in English science mat1-
and the other subjects of the regular high
school course is Of the most alarming con-
sequences q OF present insufficient salary
schedules"
ter we have had I'm years?''
We'll" answered Professor Blatherton. III II
comes true people necessarily give me credit for
great wisdom. And If 1t doesn't come true they
s STAR 100 'nankfu' 10 n0'' any ashinstO"
From experiments made by NJ. RousseI in Paris II
appears that only the crust of bread is submitted
TO a sufficiently high temperature to kill all the
bacteria which the loaf may contain. The inside Of
the loaf may therefore. be contaminated by the MI
Crobes. from consumptive baker. or conveyed in
the water is the with typhoid fever and
cholera Professor Metchnikof asked his opn-
ion whether bread could not be a source of danger
and his answer was as follows: IL don't think so
The temperature to which the inside OF a loaf Is
submitted generally exceedsI40 degrees Fahrenheit
At this temperature many microbes kIIed-that
of tuberculosis. for instance-but there are much
harder germs such that OF anthrax the germs
of which are only killed at over pa degrees Fahren-
heit But anthrax is rare. and It is hardly likely
that Il baker attacked by this terrible malay
would continue work the disease had de-
clared itself" Professor Metchnikor advises how
ever that only bread which - well baked and
therefore not crumby, should be eaten
Man with the Bullying Brow-Anywey, the aver
age CONGRESSMAN is saint.
Man with the Bulbous NOse-Maybe not; but he
can't stay IN Washington long without being Can
nonized.-Chicago Tribune.
If New York had a few thousand citizens with
names as long as that OF child born in St Louis
recently, the sign your name registration
and election law would probably bog down" COM
pleteIy The chid's is Marie Helen Ahren-
hoersterbaeumer. A St Louis paper I'm telling OF
the birth OF the girl with the jawbreakns name
makes the superhuous statement that her family
are Germans. Luckily the baby who comes into
the world weighted down with such a surname is
IA giri-the legal process OF changing It eighteen or
twenty years from now being simpler than In the
OF boy Marriage laws are not very com-
pick anywhere in this country.
Like father like son." said the Knowing On.
in what way were they alike?" asked the C,,,
OL1. ~ N"'i-
First. the old man. when the how wa. a ohn,
tried to break his sons will Now the SON Ga ,rui"s,
II break the cid msns."-Baltmors American