Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1910-08-31
[ACHERS ARE
 1 NOT WELL PAID |w., Writing to Graphic, kovs Average Mechanic Gets More Salary.
DEFER HOME PUPILS
They Ought to Be We'll Fitted ... School R0om-COmpares
 Other Vacations.

Pine Bluff, like in"ny o'n0i o'''oe
 .;n,os to boast of her fine school:
 school houses, but it is very sell
 that we hear one word sai6
 ,,t those who have made this
 .t nossible-the teachers.
 rbe absence oe most of these peo'
 from the city during the heated
 !, should cause many-yea, all
 our people-to discover the real
 ,co of their absence. Many there
 who think of them only as being
 av on a pleasant jaunt, without
 To discovering the real cause o1
 lime and money they are spend
 There is nothing in this world that
 SO trying and wearing upon the
 hd and body as being tied down in
 school room from morning until
 Int. with the mind constantly in
 strain, trying to teach lot of lit-
 ones the art of learning their
 sons.
 ii is a constant wear on both body
 mind, and when the end Of the hool term is reached we generally
 Id the teachers with worn and
 ggard faces, wasted forms, de-
 essed spirits and dulled minds, and
 many instances empty purses, or
 any rate, an insufficient amount
 enable them to go abroad and re-
 perate their health and brighten
 their minds before the opening of other school term, when they must gin the same old routine work, hich, without the needed rest and creation, becomes a burden instead
 a pleasure.
 Nor is this all The teacher who
 unable to go abroad and see and hrn from others of their profession bon becomes unfit for position in le school room, as the mind be- pmes dwarfed and contracted to such b extent that it's owner is unable to Communicate to the scholars the bcwledge which they are in need of. his the good teacher is we'll aware , and it is for this reason that so any of them spend the few paltry pillars saved from their seasons la prs in travelling and seeing the var bus historical points, attending the lormals, lectures and other places (here knowledge is usually gained, in Fder that they may be the better able p instruct their pupils. Their visits fe not all abroad for pleasure alone, |ut largely for the benefit of the chool children.
 Before going deeper into the object
 this article, permit me to cite pe case ln our own schools, and Pere are hundreds of others that |ould be cited. The one in question a teacher in the Lakeside school, Fnose salary is so small that the |Verage laboring man would consider K inadequate for his own support FVen If he had no family, yet this |aoy has saved her earnings and is Pow making a tour of the United pates (not Europe, if you please Po one who depends upon the salary 'afned In an Arkansas school will 'Ver be enabled to do that, at the present. salaries) and some of her 'clolars are keeping in close touch Nen her by mail, and keeping posted pa sne sights she sees in her rounds N are anxiously awaiting her re- satn and the opening of the next a'nool term in order to learn from ass or the wonderful things to be seen ' 'ais' our own country. And while 'n'ertalnlng these little ones she is encouraging them to study their les ''us, ana her own mind is freshened n9 .3 tter fitted for the work.
 :, being the case, it does seem '.a' the teachers of our schools mould be paid better salaries, in or. .s. ..'., to enable them to keep abreas '1su the times, and allow them to lay "a. a lew dollars for a rainy day s t. ~ IS they are barely enabled te aAe both ends meet,'' and each an, ''e,s s, oay must provide for itself. ,a 'e you ever given the matter { ssleiul thought? Have you ever com e,.s .s.eu the salaries of our teacher. = a tue salaries. or as we are pleas co,, m - term it, "the wages" of tn, vo. on laporers of the country? I ua'e' then you are bound to ad Eeat the wage-earner has mucl vh. 'es' or it Take the brick-laye, ana "orks only eight hours per da hpns..w .aws five dollars per day, or on \, u . and fifty dollars per montl rs,,.s ,.ssnty-six D working days. Or tn
 so brakeman whose wages ru, 4vo one hundred and twenty-five t