The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1909-03-19


teachers receiving lcsa thnn $500 pef
year $4,000 ppf month faf nine
monih.. of tlgi per month faf twelve
monihs' fS Teachers receiving less
than t2a0n pci year, $4,000 peg month I
Tor nine months. of tipi66 per month
for twelve monihsi two teachers re-
0eiylng less than $1,000 per year $500
per month FOR nine months. or 1925
per mouth for w. months
Frsi-Thcro BE- rumor that they
intend in change the admission NJ en-
toring age " school children from siN
10 eight years of age. And do you
know what that meansi That means
the throwing out Of eight thousand
children from The public schools into
the streets.
Sccond-Along comes rumor Shat
the Legislature is considering cutting
down the salaries of the school teach.
ors. Now that is what / call false
economy. Which is bestf Turn eight
thousand children out of the schools
aud cut the salaries of over five hun.
drcd teachers, taking the chance of
losing n great many good teachers with
/ prospects of a strike, employing more
policemen, providing more room in the
/ reform schools TO say nothing Of the
! costs of the COURT
OF course. there is certain class
of business men who will set up a
great howl if anyone says word about
increasing taxes for the purpose of de.
fraying the expenses of the Depart
ment of Public Instruction, but those
same men will employ n woman stem
ographer and pay her nearly three
times more than the average teacher
receives and that same stenographer
will not do half as much work. 1t is
nothing more or less than selfshness
for l dom I think there is single self
respecting man in the country that
would object to an increase in taxes
even though it be as high as fifty cents
per (male) capita, if he thought by
not SO doing it would be the means Of
keeping some poor or any other chill
dren from getting an education or {
, chance of lettering themselves. w,
, all know that if child is allowed t
: run the streets till it is eight year
, old that it usually becomes trouble
, maker, often a law breaker and Away
) a harder proposition for the schoo
G teacher to handle when it does ente
school. Now, why should the Legisla
e ture want to begin at the Public In
0 struction Department. Why not begi
p in the road department or why not be
q gin close at home and trim off some o
. the five to ten-dollar per day Legisla
: ture committee secretaries or sten
q ographers salariesi Not only that bu
did it ever enter the head of any on
n why we have a mounted police force
= Why not dispense with it altogether
y Keep a few horses at the station 70
9 the purpose of answering hurry up call
: or detail work. We are living durin
!, modern times, and it is much quicke
:" to telephone to the station than it
to hunt over territory of two mile
;, for mounted man when you need hin
i and then you are sure to hnd him q
;, the station ready to come when called
II How about the engineers on the stree
. engine rollersf AIRS they all busy?
e know that the engines are not all bus.
y There are quite number of ways fC
Il the city to save or economic but tn
II politician job hunter does not wish
l. see them.
r, Surprising there is need of an add
IT tional levy of taxes, expenses have
:; be paid and one thing should alway
n be born in mind and that is-Nev6
n begin to save or to cut down expense
II in the Public Instruction Department
Z for that is a Russian policy not a
II American idea.
II f. II. HAND.