New Britain herald., 1918-09-14

and stability of our institutions rests with the teachers, and it requires no ordinary person to render this service. The public can we'll afford, considered from a purely selfish standpoint apart from the question of justice, to pay the teachers and trainers of it's future c1t1- zens such salaries as will enable them to maintain themselves in coffort and self-respect and to provide a reason able protection against the needs of illness and old age. It is also the part of wisdom for the public to so reward teaching service that the best of ability will be brought into the service and retained when once there.
 The action of the committee in revisiong the salary schedule has ample justification in the universal advance in the cost of living and in the general increase in wages in all other lines of service. That a deficit in the school department appropria- tion has been occasioned by the ac- ton of the committee needs no fur ther justification that that of the statutes which charges the school committee with the responsibility of maintaining the schools at high standard of efficiency, since there was no other possible means which could have been employed to assure sup ply of teachers for the schools.
 'The outlook for the future SUD- ply of teachers is by no means en- couraging and unless present indica- tions are misleading, there must be @ further general increase in teachers salaries throughout the state if the supply of teachers is to be assured and the schools are to be kept open. This years enter ing classes of the normal schools of the state are far below the usual size of former years and at the present time not @ few of the schools of the state are closed for lack of compe- tent teachers. These are alarming facts and their significance is such as to give serious warning of the need of some means for protecting the interests of the schools and the safety of the state
 Earlier in the year. staten ent Of the cost a pupil of the Trade Educa- tion department was submitted to the members of the school committee. The cost per pupil of trade education Is necessarily higher than that of any other department of public school education. Smaller classes for each Instructor and more expensive equip ment and supplies account for this in large measure. The only means for reducing per capita cost in trade edu cation are to be found CD in the sale. of the product of the trade depart ment, and CD in keeping the classes at their maximum size in each depart ment.
 During the year through advertis- ing, a strong effort has been made to present to the public the advantages of the trade school with a view to at tracting larger numDers of boys to the different trades taught. What the results of his effort are to be we are not yet able to determine. It is to be hoped that an increased num- Der of boys may register for the pat tern-making, elecricad and printing trades.
 "It is possible that the disturbed conditions incident to the present war and the unusual demands and re- wards for labor of all kinds, both skilled and unskilled. will prevent any very large increase in the regis tration in the trade department until industrial conditions reach q more normal level after the close of the war.
 "The trade department is in good hands, it is rendering a service of great value and importance and de- serves the cordial interest and sup port of the city.
 High Schools Good Standing. "The New Britain High school of | fers most unusual opportunities for 1 the training and education of the 1 young men and women of this city. | Under the wise management of it's l principal. MT Sade, ably assisted by 1 MT. Moody and MT. Farnham as