Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-12-26
TEACHERS DEMAND
TWELVE MONTHS
SALARY
Downtrodden Profession in
Spokane Wants Increase Of
20 Per Cent BiIIiken Girl
Doesn't Ask Any Help.
Especial Correspondence TO Morning Journal

Especial Correspondence to Morning Journail
Spokane, Wash, Dec. 20.-Threc
hundred and sev~enty-five teachers in
Spokanes' grade schools are ready to
begin a campaign for twelve-month-
salary. instead of nine months, as at
present. They will also ask for an in
crease of 20 per cent. The Spokane
Grade Teachers association has sane
toned the movement. The highest
salary paid to grade teachers in Spo-
kane on the nine-month plan is 5000
a year. Although the teachers believe
their cause a just one, they have not
threatened to strike. They hope to
win their points on a strictly eduea-
tional campaign. However, their
forces are strong ana well organized
and If their demands are refused they
are in position to close every grade
school in the city. They will present
their request backed by a petition
signed by every member of the asso-
citation some time in January, and this
will be supplemented by petitions
from parents OF children attending
the grade schools. The increased cost
OF living is the chief reason for de-
handing more pay. 1t is given out
that the teachers will not accept a re-
apportionment of the present salary
schedule.
Brave little woman and all the
more deserving because of her conf
dence and self-reliance,' said Arthus
w. Jones, secretary of the 10000
club, when he read the newspaper dis
patches from Kansas City, quoting
Florence Pretz. creator of "Billiken,'
as saying that while she appreciated
the kindness of the Spokane boost
ers'' in arranging to raise a fund of
$1,000 or more to be placed at her
disposal to continue her art studies,
she could not accept a penny. The
dispatches also quote Miss Pretz as
SAYING that she can get along very
well without ''Billiken'' and that she
expects to study in Philadelphia next
winter. paying her own tuition, add
ing. If | can't do h ! won't go.
1t is not false pride on my part to
decline to accept the money to be
raised by the Spokane boosters nor is
it Il sentimental desire to get even
with the old 'Billiken.
Judge Edward Whitson of the
United States district court of eastern
Washington, who presided at a BAN
quet of representative business ana
professional men interested in the
welfare of Spokane college, started
something when he declared in the
course Of an address that football is
more injurious than prize fighting n
more disreputable, adding.
lie who attends a prize fight stands
in the shadow OF the law and is liza
bic to arrest and punishment. We
read of deaths and injuries on the
football field. but none in the prize
ring. / am in favor of physical de-
velopment, but not physical excuses
that rob the homes of the land OF
their youth and strength. Football
either should be reformed TO remov
all dangerous clements or abolished.
Graduates of eastern universities
and colleges in Spokane take excep-
ton to Judge Wilson's remark in
terming football more ~disreputable
than prize fighting, declaring that
while a lively game cannot be called
a pink tea, college football is clean
and the term he used. as generally I'M
derstood, cannot be attached to 1t.