The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-18
FROM OTHER PENS
1TNDERPAID TEACHERS.

a report received by an Investigate
ing committee of the National Edu-
| cation association says that the salary
of an elevator boy at a certain city
hall exceeds the established wage Tor
a teacher in one of the school grades
OF the same municipality by nearly
500 a year Absurd, of course, and I'M
! lust but this is no isolated instance
of the underpayment of educated work
ers charged with the duty of instruct
ing the rising generation in America.
Thousands of them. spread through
out the southern states, receive less
than $3.50 per year. Taking the coun-
try as a whole, figures compiled re-
Gently by a division of the sage Foun-
cation show the following annual wage
averages: Carpenters, $sOZ: coal miners,
$500: factory workers, $3.50; common
laborers $513; teachers, $3.50 surely
the pedagogical profession VIII ran
to continue to attract the most com
petent young men and women IL Ats
members are to be compelled more anu
more to seek supplementary employ
ment in order to live decently anu
make both ends meet Today some
- Them are writing plots for moving
picture plays outside school hours cine
investigators say and others are serN-
ing as bookkeepers, mattresses anu
chauffeurs, preaching the Gospel anu
keeping hens.-Boston Globe.
A PENHOPSET. ESS ENEMY OF MAN.
II is startling to be informed, on no
less authority than that of the eminent
medical men who are active in the new
American Society for the Control OF
Cancer. that the disease they are Tight
ing is one of the greatest menaces to
human life beyond the age of 40 years
perhaps greater even that tuberculo-
sis Only recently have statistical data
from local boards of health oeen
~, ,ofn n
make it possible to approximate the Iull
extent of cancers ravages. 1t is a as
ease that hides. while under the pres
sure of modern legislative measures
tuberculosis comes out in the open.
The difficulty of locating cancer has
been partly responsible for the fact tnat
popular apathy concerning its preva-
lence could be scarcely less marked il
the danger were no greater than that
from measles or whooping cough. Phy-
sicians who have been crying the alarm
have been heard for moment and
then forgotten. But while we are de-
pressed by the proportions of the mem
ace, we are encouraged by the assertion
implied in the name of the new or
ganiza tion-the Society for the Control
of Cancer. The Society makes plain not
only through its title but by means OF
its publications. its positive belief that
cancer can be controlled. 1t con-
fdently asserts that the number of
deaths from this cause can be greatly
reduced, principally by treating it in
the early stages, but also, in many
cases, when the disease is advanced.
the main precept emphasized is prompt
detection and skillful medical and sur
gical attention in accordance with the
most advanced ideas on the subject. It
is little short of suicidal to allow a can
cerous growth to progress in the false
hope that it may be some other dis
ease. Physicians. as well as the pub
lie. have a responsibility here. and one
that must be met if an effective be-
ginning is to be made to any campaign
against this appalling scourge.
Failure to find the cause and the means
of preventing cancer should not dis
courage efforts for its alienation based
on the extent of knowledge that is now
vailable.-Baltimore News.