New Britain herald., 1919-04-12
SCHOOL BOARD FOR
 STATE AID MEASURE
Urges General Assembly to. Pass
 Emergency Bill

AoA OohoJ DAh
 Following an address by Superin-
 tendent Stanley II. Holmes in which he pointed out that 8 serious shortage
 of teachers exists in this city and
 many positions will have to be filled next fall by untrained instructors un-, less conditions are renedied at once, the school board. at it's regular monthly meeting yesterday afternoon.
 adopted a resolution requesting that
 an emergency bill, providing state aid in payment of teachers salaries. be
 enacted by the general assembly at
 it's present session. Mir. Holmes in
 formed the board that necessity now
 exists of increasing the salaries of the public school teachers throughout the
 state in order to retain the best teach-
 CTS in service and to secure a sHffi ficient number of capable men and W&men
 for the instruction of al of the ch1l-
 dren. He stated that the mum Der en- tering the profession in this state has c1ecrease sed } Q per cent. in the past year and that many teachers have left the service for better pay in other Occu- pations. Mr. Holmes warned the board that the salaries of teachers in
 nefghbO ring states. have recently.~b been
 Ia Ige1V, increased and provision is be-. 7 ing made for future jncrements. Un-
 less the salaries here are likewise ad-
 vanced, many Connecticut teachers will leave the state, said MT. Holmes. ! The ,totaI effect will be that n1any ysc hoels will be :without proper teach
 CTS, the work of the schools rendered less reflective. with a : corresp onding
 irrete erhabe loss to the children as
 future guardians of the state and' as future citizens.
 '- Shortage of Teachers Here. r. Mr.: Holm es told the board that
 there is a shortage of nine teachers in New Britain today and he is eX- periencing great difficulty in filling the vacancies The teachers who arc SUD- I-s+it,tisns, a--tTreseh oole today qualif7ed. or!eli~hle as. instructors ne
 said.
 The school board unanim ously
 aasa1sr1teH a. resoluti tion. .Nrgipg the gen e1'ai assghlbly to enact at the present
 session a bill to increase the salaries
 of the public school teachers at least
 one hundred dollars g, year in each
 of the, ;pext two sahool yesarsv7]919-
 nlea sure. ! ne DLll IoiioWS- se>,se Aalls towns of the state shall re-
 ceive. in, addition to the other grants
 now provided by statute, a sum equal
 to fourtt1ollars for each child in aver
 age attendance, as determined by the attested registers of the schools for
 the year ending the fourteenth day of July nineteen hundred and nineteen, and the.>year c->ding the fourteenth day of July, nineNen hundred and twenty. to be expenG~d only in pay ment of the wages of .teaehers.'' ',.%. Niixup Over Taking Oath. Judge Gaffncy> presided at the meeting. The three new members, Herbert H Pease, Frank w. Niloberts and A. g. Andrulewjc2,' who were elected on the board last Tuesday, were present at the session. and with the exception of MT. Pease, did not participate in the proceedings of the meetinc Before calling the meeting to order, Judge Gaffney inquired of Mir. Pease as. to whether he had taken the oath of office. MT. Pease replied in the negative. A. S. Andrulewicz told Judge Gaffney that he had re-> ouested City Clerk Thompson to ad- minister the oath of office to him. but he refused on. the ground that the city charter provides for the swearing in on the third Tuesday in April. Judge Gaffney took exception to this ruling in tho ruse-. Of Nlr. Pease, ne is filling the vacancy caused by the death of his father l.. Hoyt Pease. He asked MT. Pease to request the city clerk to administer the oath of office Ciy Clerk Thompson held MT Pease, in the same light as his fellow commissioners and refused to perform the ceremony. Judge Gatfney there
 upon, as a, justice Of peace administer
 ed the oath to MT. Pease and the latter took part in the proceedings of the board, voting on all questions.
 .r.. Officers Arc Elected
 The first business to come before the commissioners was the election of a tenporary secretary to succeed ". l.. Hatch, whose term has expired. Mir. Pratt was unanimously elected. George w Traut reported for the finance committee. The board accepted his report and ordered bills amount ing to s14,422.05 to be paid. The re- port of Judge Walsh for'the text book committee was also accepted.
 Dr. Fro1nen. reporting for the health. and sanitation committee stated that 24 schools had been visited by Dr. Dray during the past month Although 162 children had been examined only two cases of conta zion were found.
 5. H. Holmes Re-engaged, . 1 The next business to come before 1 the board was the election of a su- 1 perintendent of schools Upon the l motion of Mr. Pratt and seconded by 1 Mr. Ki1bourne Stanley II. Holmes ] was nominated. IT. presenting tlis motion Mr. Pratt said that MT. l Holmes is the ablcst superintendent rn