Evening journal., 1913-05-13
LEGALLY RIGHT-MORALLY WRONG.

VATE take pleasure in calling to public attention
w the following editorial, entitled Teachers Set
a Bad Example taken from the Wilmington Labor
Herald.
Philadelphia business house gives discount Of
ten per cent TO Wilmington school teachers Many Of
the teachers here can hardly wait for pay day 10
come around tc run to Philadelphia AMI MAKE , pur-
chases and avail themselves of the discount The Phil
adelpha firm cannot be blamed for its action for its
the business it's after-no matter where from But the
teachers here should be publicly censured for avail
ng themselves OF the offer. Wilmington citizens pay
school In support OF the public schools ana the
school eachersand the money that the teachers spend
should be spent among the people who pay them They
should be called down real hard by both the Board or
Education and by the business people OF wilmington
Such actions these what start the downfall OF
the business OF a city and should be discouraged
There is no question that school teachers have
n legal right spend their salaries any place they
please Many persons will doubt however, that they
have moral right to do so. Such persons doubtless
hold to the theory that when prices and qualities are
right Il Is the duty OF person who earns salary
from the public treasury shop at home The teachers
should bear in mind the fact that such local bus-
ness houses as the Smith-zonger Company, Lppin-
colt Co., Crosby HILL KennRrd Co, d. Ross
Son. Jacoby's Brennan's the Boston Cloak Store, Nc
Mahon Brothers the Miller Brothers Company the
ogden-Howard Company n. snellenburg Co. NJ Me-
gary & Son, the Wilmington Furniture Company the
Foord Massey Company j. & J. N. Harman Company
Meharg & Company Livingston Cohen Finkelstein
W. r. Farley, Larus-Altheimer Company, the Peoples
Credit Clothing Company, Hurley and Powell. Bend
helm Bros the Newark Shoe Store, W. L. Douglass,
the Boston Shoe Co, the Forster Shoe Company the
Nelson shoe Company. the Levy Kumfort Shoe Store
the r. w Wolters Company, James T. Muliin Son,
the James H. Wright Company, Frank ODonnen,
Joshua Conner the Reynolds Candy Company, Wood
ward g. Brothers. S II. Stats, John Govatos, A. & L.
Jenny. Pyle & Cronlu. G. Edgar Deering Delaware
Graphophlno Company. schagrins, w. p. Jorde Co.
Turner & stele the Robelen Piano Company Charles
NJ stiof Piano Company Max Ephraim Charles f. Ru-
doph Baynard, Banks g. Bryan, Joseph Kerns' Mil
lard r. Davis, H. Thomas Company, the Scarborough
Drug Company Eckerds Drug Store, Anna Hanthorn
Frost Brothers Morton c Stout and many others con-
tribute largely to the public funds from which the
salaries OF the teachers are paid. We think that even
the most persistent Philadelphia shopper among our
local teachers will feel constrained to admit that 1t Is
scarcely fair for the business men and women mon
toned above and hundreds OF others who are de-
pendent upon local trade to be asked to pour their
good money into the pockets Of school teachers that
those teachers may rush off to Philadelphia and spend
it there for the sake OF obtaining ten per cent dis
count that doubtless is taken care Of fully when prices
OF the goods arc fixed
As we have said above. the teachers have legal
right to feed the Philadelphia department stores and
starye our local mercantile establishments but they
certainly have no moral right to do so, especially
when much of their shopping money is supplied by
our local merchants in the shape OF city taxes