The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-11-29
HIGHER PAY is URGED
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ing on tables in the restaurants re-
ceive $40 per month and board Tor
twelve months in the year and does
not require any preparation. The
house maids of today are demanding
81 per day or $50 per month with
room and board, making $65 per
month. You must have the washin'
dcne for her by another woman
give her two afternoons off and
every evening and she can entertain
her company in the parlor, and she
pretty nearly dictates all terms. Now
take the university professor.
know of several professors in the
State Universities of North Lakota
and Minnesota who could not pay
! their expenses out of their salaries
and had TO do outside work in order
to meet their obligations.
One professor who | was very
close to was man of about forty
five years. professor in Wesley col
I ege which is affiliated with the Uni
versity Of No. Oak. He had spent
the best part CT his life in research
work, going to the foreign countries
! in search Of knowledge He was a
very able man and a hard worker and
received the paltry salary OF $1,000
per year and at the same time we
were paying our salesman $1,000 to
| 81 500 per year who had never spent
dollar for knowledge in their par
| ticular line. Of course this was about
! five years ago and while the profes-
sor's salary may have been advanced
some, so have the salesman's even
more SO.
"On our railroads today a fireman
who has no responsibility pulls down
$175. per month. A car repairer who
kills about half the day loafing
draws IS cents per hour or $3.50 per
day, and the foreman of the gang
draws SITS per month.
! An ordinary brakeman who re-
quires no education at all can easily
earn from Sis to $165 per month il
he wants 10 work. Sizing up the
whole situation, the fact of the mat
ter is that the average conlnon la
boring r,ar today, receives more pay
than the average school teacher wnC
we all admit should be a person OF
more than average intelligence-one
to whom we can all look up to and
still we don't pay them enough to
1--we on
The third solution of the teachers
supply problem, to my mind, is the
tate smy argument quote the follow
ing from the Minneapolis paper OF
recent date.
. Detailed plans for converting the
Minneapolis school system into, an
9aH- the year round school will be
studied by a. committee of the board
Oh, education with a view, to possible
adoption Of the plan in. the near flu
tire. Recomm that the
allryear school With quarterly divi-
ysions be adopted was made to the
board, yesterday by b. B. jackson
superintendent 81 ,4icTgr1 1ia1
The fourth argument Mr.. Fisher
presented Twas for 10 consolidated
j schools in rural DISTRICTS pointing out
the rtage6to ,bothteaciicrl and
student. ,Ja5us s IN 4esn adj ezl'E7r
,Er, Balm On Poor Compensation Z
.ReN9Ja NJ Balm also dealt with the
problem 9 ofo poor compensation fol
teachers and the fact that it forced
many good educators to take up diff
Iferent PROFESSIONS His paper in pan
was as follows:
Our subject is one of vital in
terest to the community at large
wide in scope, difficult of solution
and may be viewed from many
standpoints.
Fresh in our memory are oul
school days, with hours of perplexit!
over difficult problems in Arithmetic
, Algebra or Geometry, which whel
solved to our satisfaction often cam,
} short Of correct conclusions in tn,
CLASS; so this paper will not claim tt
give the best or only solution of ;
problem SO many sided, but simpl.
!, the best from my own viewpoint
In every department of human activ
ity, every organization no matte
how worthy. difficulties will arise o
various and often unexpected char
: acter; ebbing and flowing in inten
sitY like the oceans tide. With man
of these questions, the mass of I'll
people will take little concern, al
though in measure effecting all il
, more or less degree. For in
stance. how few will attempt to crap
!, pie with the race question, financin
a nation, sociological problems, ma
{ tional and international diplomacy
those interests that primarily hav
> to do with one profession or line G