Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-12-03
HIGHER WAGES"
TEACHERS CRY
Educators Launch Campaign
for More Pay; Seek to Com
bat High Cost of Living.
SEEK EQUAL SUFFRAGE, TOO
Convention, Marked by Lack
of Politics, Adjourned;
Plan Reorganization.
Special to The World.

Special to The World.
OKLAHOMA CITY, Dec. 2.-That
an appropriation of $500 be made
from the associations funds and as
much more as may be secured from
any other sources be used in cam
paign for more liberal salaries for
school teachers; that in view of the
high cost of living the president of
the United States be appealed to lay
an embargo on the shipments of food
stuffs to foreign countries. that
teachers in Oklahoma favor extension
OF equal suffrage to all qualified cleo
tors of the state, whatever sex, were
principal features of the resolutions
adopted by the oklahoma Education
al association, which closed its an
nual convention this afternoon.
Up To LEGISLATURE.
The legislature, according to an
ether resolution, will be asked to APP
propriate 100000 for erecting of a
building at the state university for
use of the school of education. The
association is to be rcorganiZed on
the lines of the California association
and 1t is urged in a resolution that a
student loan fund be established from
the state school fund in which worthy
persons wishing to go thru collegt
may borrow funds from the state AT
a low rate of interest. The county
unit system was also endorsed.
Make Less Than HOdcarricrs.
A report having to do with the
matter of salaries and pensions Tor
teachers, read by Superintendent
Monroe of the Muskogee schools,
showed that the average rural teach
ers made much less during the year
than hodcarrier, that the average
carpenter had much more with which
to meet the high cost of living than
the principal of a high school. II
was pointed out that many states
have already instituted the pension
system for teachers of old age or who
are infirm.
Campaign at Once.
The campaign to increase salaries
and for pensions will probably be
started at once and II is possible the
coming legislature will be confronted
with the problems that affect the
teacher. in which relief will be asked.
In the reorganization plan pro-
posed the officers of the association
with four others to be named by the
president will compose al advisory
committee and this committee Is au'
thorized to meet with the superin =
tendents' division of the national edu-
CatiOnal aSSOclatioH Ill hdiS"S Wy
the last week in February.
Free From Politics.
Those who have been members OF
the association many years say the
convention closed today wns more
free from politics, either partisan or
school. than any meeting yet held.
This is the condition the association
has been striving for during the past
few years.
The fact that a woman was for the
first time elected at the head OF the
association and whose name had not
even been mentioned in the list OF
possible candidates indicated, in the
opinion of some members, that the
association not only wanted to get as
far away from political environment,
but that the woman suffrage propo-
sition had come TO stay and they
might as well recognize Ii now.