The Calumet news., 1913-12-12

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Editor News win YOU grant me
: space in Your columns 10 speak a few
words in behalf OF some in our COM
munity who seemed 10 be considered
in class apart from the ordinary
citizens Of our community. / refer 10
The Instructors in OR high school. al
| though on many occasions all teachers
IN the community are placed in the
same class.
Wednesday everyone in the city with
} the exception OF these employees were
given half days vacation with pay. All
! pupils were excused who desired To
show their loyalty to law and order
by attending the public meetings held
Naturally most Of the students at
| tended and the result was depleted
! classes, while presumably work which
was to have been done yesterday Will
| have TO be done today.
Teachers complete their classes at
half past three, but there is a rule
| which requires them To remain at their
desks until four o'clock TO give pupils
needed assistance in their studies. The
abrogation of this rule for the half
J day would have permitted many TO
have attended the meeting
have been moved To call attention
/ to this matter from the fact that the
practice Of the Calumet board usually
asking just a little more of the corps
than the other county districts.
For instance, when holiday oc-
ours on Thursday ii is an open secret
mat the results OF a session Friday
are absolutely barren OF results. Yet
the corps must put in the allotted time
in the building whether the same work
| IS 10 be gone over the following day.
IL has been my pleasure to have at
tended many Of the Institutes held in
! the city and | have approved of the
sentiment which seems to permeate all
addresses made viz: that the instruc-
tors should devote their lives 10 the
calling in which they are engaged:
that even the remuneration should be
a secondary consideration: that when
they acquire fully the professional
spirit teaching should be almost o
labor Of love
We require a high standard of edu-
cation from the members of this fac
ulty This requires years of prepara-
ton and costs a considerable amount
Of money. yet few of them are paid
more than the minimum wage"
We engage them at an annual SAL
airy and like ITO believe they are 10
make profession out Of their work.
Yet We pay them so much per diem
and sometimes it seems TO me we re-
quire piece work of them.
am. Of course aware of the legal
arguments that can be made In oppo-
Sltion To these views. But You know
Shakespeare told us long ago that
Right too strictly enforced becomes
q wrong" and ii is not good business"
and is not the custom To demand the
pound Of ftesh.-Citi2en.
Houghton, Dec. ll.-Editor News
believe the following statement should
be made in justice to Judge O'Brien:
The statement read at the citizens
"''''''6 VII w N'HHeSudS Win TtltItH'e
10 Hon. y. II. O'Brien's interview with
the mine managers and others should
be qualified hy saying that his sugges-
tion 10 the effect that the strikers be
re-employed without renouncing their
membership in the Western Federation
Of Miners, upon the acceptance of
which the strike would be called off,
and that the mining companies could
afterwards get rid Of them by gradual
~ discharging them, was understood as
proposition transmitted through him
from the officials OF the federation. II
Grafton who were thus double-crossing
their followers, and not Judge O'Brien.
Allen f.. Rees.