Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-10-24
WHY JUDGE WAS LATE CONTRAST Of FIGURES
Visitor in His Private Office Salaries Paid to Teachers in
Interests Him. West and East.
(OL D-TIME STORIES RETOLD COLLEGES AND SCHOOLS
of When Judge Averages Shown by Report
Smell Presided in Police Court Carnegie Foundation.
WOMAN REVOLVER. REVENGE SHOWING MADE IN GERMANY
Nominal Chapel Extend Religious Work
Linn Financial Recovery Claimed
burper-vae Reclaimed. in SAM
COLLEGES AND SCHOOLS
Averages Shown by Report of
Carnegie Foundation.
SHOWING MADE IN GERMANY
Chapel Cars Extend Religious Work.
Financial Recovery Claimed
in San Francisco.
BY WILLIAM f.. CURTIS.

BY WILLIAM F.. CURTIS.
| Written for The Star and the Chicago Record
| Herald
AS rule smaller salaries are paid to
| professors in institutions of learning and
higher salaries to teachers in the public
| schools in the west than are paid in the
east. That Is accounted for.by the larger
| endowments and revenues of eastern in
situations. no doubt. Ministers of the
gospel as a rule, receive larger salaries
in the west than they do in the east,
but there is complaint everywhere that
their remuneration is too small in pro-
portion and for that reason ministers are
| scarce.
The number of young men going into
the ministry as profession is very small
compared with those who become lawyers,
doctors and engineers. If you will compare
the ratio of college graduates who go into
| the several profession for each successive
year you will notice that the number of
theological students remains about the
same, while the total number of pro-
| feSSonal students increases very pidly.
| This is not true of school teachers and
| college professors. The Investigations of
| the Carnegie foundation have shown that
the average salary received by college
years of age, is $3.50: thirty-three years
/ old, $3.50. and thirtyfive years old, $500.
The average remuneration of ministers of
those ages throughout the United States
will be less than half the amount given
| teachers
The investigation by the Carnegie foun
dation also shows that the larger insti-
| tutions in the country devote less than
| One-half their incomes to salaries of the
instructing Saskatchewan and Wisconsin
approximately 80 per cent; Yale and the
| University of California. IS per cent;
Cornell, 81 per cent; Harvard, As per cent;
| Stanford. AZ per cent; Illinois, 80 per
| cent. and on.
| The ratio of the number of undergrad
yates and non-professional graduate stu
dents to the number of professors and
instructors for the same institutions is
as follows: Harvard, SS; Cornell, 1913;
Stanford. 1O.7; Wisconsin, H.; Yale, Ill;
California, liz; Illinois, II; Michigan,
| 14.6.
Ratio in Smaller Institutions.
The smaller institutions fail on the
| whole to show more favorable ratio.
| In Dartmouth 1t is 1876: Amherst 13.5;
Oberlin. 1872; Williams, 81, and Prince
ton, 81.
The average salary of full professor
| In the College of the City of New York is
Salts; in Harvard. $4.l13; in Columbia,
$3.50: in Stanford $4,000; in Chicago and
Toronto, $4,000; in Yale, $4,000: in New
York University, $3,466; in the University
of California, $1,000; IN Northwestern,
,265; in Johns Hopkins. s3.1S4; in Cornell,
$3.135: in Princeton, $2,g4, and in the
universities of Illinois, Wisconsin and
Michigan about $500.
OF the 102 American institutions appro-
priating $4,000 or more annually for
salaries to their teaching staff. eight pay
full professors an average of $500 or
more, eight an average of less than 81 800
thirty-five between $1.7OO and $500 and
forty-seven between $2.1OO and $4,000.
Half the institutions in the country pay
less than 5000. The average throughout
the 1O2 institutions is approximately
$500.
In German Institutions.
The incomes of professors in German
universities show a much wider range
than do the American. To quote the re-
port: I'm any large German faculty some
full professor will be found who receives
for teaching an income two to five times
as large as some of his colleagues. .
Both the German and the American uni
versities pay for merit
THE distinction between the two coun-
tries Is that the German universities nav
an unusual amount for unusual merit. In
America, the contrary the unusual
man fares no better than his colleague Of
mediocre ability. The German income
ranges from $1,000 to over $4,000. with
that figure. 4 fourth are below So. 100:
fourth are over $500: half are over
$500; the average is $3.50. In the facul-
ties of law half are above $1,000; fourth
are above $4,000, and there are as many
above $7,40O as are below 1920. The
largest is six times the smallest, and the
average income is about $1,000. The limit
OF expectation for gifted teacher in Ger
many, to quote the report, "nOtWith-
standing the difference in the cost of liv-
ing, Is at least double the American limit
In only five institutions In America is the
possibility for professor greater than
$1,000. Four Of these institutions are uni
versities located in New York, Boston,
Chicago and Philadelphia.
I'm these four cities lawyer, ply
stefan or an engineer does not have to at
tain extraordinary eminence to receive
several times the salary which is the ut
most hope of the college teacher. Good,
plodding men, who attend diligently to
their profession. but who are without
unusual ability, often obtain In middle
life an income considerably higher than a
man Of the highest genius can receive in
an American professors chair"
Chapel Cars in Religious Work.
The Baptists and the Roman Catholics
have chapel cars running on the western
railways for the purpose Of carrying the
consolation of religious worship to
isolated communities, to the lumber
camps and sawmills, the railway con-
structiOn camps, and other places where
large numbers of men are assembled for
any purpose and are without such
privilege. Perhaps other denominations
may have similar cars. but those of the
Baptists and the Roman Catholics are the
only ones / have seen.
| The Roman Catholic car, which has
done a great deal of good among the
Italian and Portuguese labOrers in the
lumber and construction camps. is main
tanned by the Catholic Church Extension
Society of Chicago organized in 1905 at
the home of the Archbishop of Chicago.
Its founders were two archbishops. two
bishops, eight priests and seven laymen
from various parts of the country. The
laymen were lawyers, manufacturers
editors and captains of industry. The
Most Rev J. E. Quigley, Archbishop of
Chicago. is chairman of the board: Rev
Francis c. Kelley. D. D.. is the presi
dent; Rev. E. B. Ledvina is secretary and
Mr.. W. P. Breen treasurer, with an
executive committee consisting of
! prominent churchmen.
/ During the existence of the society II
has raised nearly half a million dollars,
(which has been expended in building more
than $50 little chapels: in publishing
more than a million pieces Of Catholic
literature: in supporting twenty-five poor
divinity students; in distributing many