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El Nuevo mexicano., 1919-02-27
u. S. EDUCATION COMMISSIONER
URGES $500 AS MINIMUM
AVERAGE TEACHERS SALARY

Doubling the salaries Of teachers
within the next five years, and then
adding SO per cent before another IL
years have passed, so that the mini
mum average salary for teachers will
be 81, 500-this Is the program urged
lby Or. p. p. TClaxton, U. s., Commits
sioner Of Education. DR.. Claxton says:
ut is only by very large increases
In pay OF teachers that we, may hope
10 improve our schools ~appreeiahly.
Small Increases of 3. 10 or 20 per cent
will not avail for they will not be
sufficient TO hold in the schools men
and women 0E superior ability.
Teachers are now paid less for
their work than any other class Of
workers, and the Increase In their
pay III the last few years has in no
wise been in keeping with the in
CREASE in pay OF other workers, or.
with the increase in the cost of liy-
ing. While the cost of living has i'm
creased approximately 80 per cent
food, IS per cent; clothing, 106 ner
cent; drugs; 10g per cent; fuel SO
per cent: and house furnishing goods,
rs per cent-the salaries Of teachers
HhVb mcTehb6u Ouly dUOul II per.
cent. The purchasing power Of the
salary Of the teacher in our public
schools is, therefore, only about So
per cent of what 1t was four years ago.
Many Of the better teachers are
leaving the schools and their pieces
are taken by men and women Of less
ability, less education and cul-
ture, and less training and experience,
Many Of the places r not filled at
all. AS an inevitable result the char
acter of the schools is being lowered
at time when il ought to be rails
ed to a much higher standard.
Students now entering the normal
schools to prepare for teaching are
not Of as good quality as they were
formerly, which means that the stan
dards of the schools must continue
to fall. IN some normal schools the
enrolment is far less than in former
years.
sThe only remedy is larger pay for
teachers If school boards, legisla-
tors, and county and city councils
would immediately announce the pol
of doubling the average salary
El Nuevo mexicano., 1919-02-27

Of teachers within the next tive years
and OF adding not less than so pen
cent more within the 10 years fol
lowing the expiration OF this period
so that at the end Of Is years the av.
erage salary Of public school-teachers
would be not less than $1,500-about
one and a half times larger than they
receive At PRESENT and then take
steps for carrying out this policy,
much good Would be accomplished
thereby at once.
Such d policy and such d prospect
would attract to the schools more
men and women OF superior ability
and would hold them, working con-
tentediy and, therefore, pr~OfitabIy for
the children and the public welfare.
Such increase IN salary should carry
with 1t an increase OF not less than
rs per cent in the average length Of
the school term, which Is now less
than 100 days.
ITO those who are not acquainted
with past conditions and who have
given the matter no intelligent
thought, the increase recommended
may seem large, but in fact it is
not. 1t would In most States mean d
range OF salaries from $1,000 to $4,000.
No person who is fit to take the time
and money and opportunity of the
children of this great democratic Re
public for the purpose Of fitting them
for life, for making a livings and
for virtuous citizenship should be
asked to work for less than $1,000 a
year / many community or in any
State. No one who is unworthy Of
this minimum salary Is fitted to do
this work and OF the children and
to fritter away their opportunity for
education.
1T is not for the sake of the teach
ers that this policy Is advocated.
Schools are not maintained for the
benefit Of the teachers. If men and
women Of ability are not willing to
teach for the pay offered them they
can quit and do something else for al
living, as hundreds of thousands Of
the best do. 1t is for the sake Of the
schools, the children and the prosper
ity of the people and the strength and
Of the Nation that the policy is
advocated
El Nuevo mexicano., 1919-02-27
Sixth Of April
Garden Day TO
BE Observed

Chicago, Feb, ga Sixth d
April Garden Day. as new national
holiday with the millions OF soldiers
Of the soil marching TO the furr0ws
Of freedom every year was advo.
Gated here today by Charles Lathrop
Pack, president OF the National War
Garden Commission in speech be-
fore the School Garden Association
Of America in session in connection
with the National superintendent
Association.
could there be anything more in.
SPRING said Mr.. Pack, than to have
a day set aside in the Spring on
which all Of us shah set out OF doors
and into the sunshine for the first
garden planting OF the year, On the
last Sunday in March we VIII have an
extra hour Of daylight which will
mean millions Of dollars in Increased
home food production. Think what
1t would mean every year if on the
first Wednesday in April or on April
6, the day we declared war, the mill
lions Of members Of the garden army
marched out into the burrows of free
dom in the war for food?
I'm the great garden army there is
the making Of the better and heal
thier citizen-the creation of a
longing for a bit Of land for the in
dividual-the creation Of the desire
for a home. With that spirit impIant-
ed in those who win come after us we.
will have set this nation upon a rock
that none can shake-the great
American home. BY all means let us
mark this continued building for bet
ter citizenship with a national holiday
as a sign to the world that the 'front.'
iers Of freedom will be maintained"
El Nuevo mexicano., 1919-02-27
Great Monuments
OF Moscow Torn
Down ByMobs


Vladivostok, Correspondence Of thu
Associated Press.)-Many of the mag
%nifieent monuments of Moscow, com
memorative of emperors and states
men, have been destroyed, says a re
fugee from that city. Museums, Ii
braries, and picture galleries have
been requistioned and their contents
removed, The best government ant
private huffdings have been occupied
by the Soldiers and Workmenis
councils.
Military headquarters We're located
in the KremIin when the refugee left
Moscow. Hostages had been taken
from members Of the bourgeQisie and
many executions had occurred. The
city was subdivided in to districts
under supervision Of commissions in
a campaign against counter-reYolu'
ton. Krylenko was state prosecutor,
Kameneff administrator Of the city,
A common soldier, Muratoff was
commander OF the garrison. Cab
drivers charged twenty to firty rubles
for the shortest trips.
There was no regular food supply.
The inhabitants depended upon pro
ducts brought in from day to day
from the country. A pound of bread
cost ten rubles, meat eighteen, sugar
forty; potatoes fifty rubles a pound
(thirtyrsix pounds.)
The population was divided into
chinery nor machine parts, no engin-
led to onerhalf to one pound of bread
every other day.
The Muskoyites were fleeing to
Ukraina. Over 600, 900 persons already
had gone there, the refugee said,
Many houses OF the erstwhile well to
to do were occupied by workingmen.
One hundred and sixty-one factories
and mills had closed and emptied.
There was nc, coal, nc coal oil, no ma
chienry nor machine parts, no engin-
GERS and a few laborers. Practically all
printers were out Of employment
since the soviet organs were the on
ly newspapers published. Editors
and staffs Of all the big publications
had long since left the city.
The Moscow National Bank had
been taken over by the Soldiers and
Workmen's Council insurance com
panies Of all semi-public institutions
had been permitted to continue.
Twenty thousand Reds" were billet
ed on the city and a six months
course of training for Bolsheyik Of
ficers bad been inaugurated. "A uniYerr
sity had been opened Tor all persons
OF sixteen years and upward, The
railways we're operating but there was
a serious lack Of cars. The sale of
yaluables and gold was prohibited.
All yaluables were listed and regis
tered. Russian Liberty Loan" bonds
were offered for sale at sixty percent
Of their face value.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1919-02-27

.o,iS oovu thara ara limitations in M
taak And Il ,oust alwavs ha horne
in mind tbat the powerful machlne
which wa hroucht to the aid of m,
rone was tha nroduct n 4 century
n ce,tain nolicjas XII ideals whieh
We evoIved. ns,rssIg
me prea,dant ahnors the thought
Mat All country shonld aver NV "f,ct
lr3rht falke cars ~ itseIf Ana W. viii
take ara NJ ourselves And vet when
Won iootT into n when Va take eood
care ~ ourselves We arc in ! much
stronger nosition IN helm take care NJ
right Rirht would bava snna nvar thn
ton 4 lat nuicker. for instance II We
had taken 8 little earlier and battar
care 81 ~ourselves1 in he VA ~ me-.
~paredneas III the outbreak ~ ths great
war, II il a thonrht which NAV an
near sordid ~ the p~raaidanf bnt
which "A eminentlv practical n,r IAN.
ticipation IA fhe war was 4 striking
El Nuevo mexicano., 1919-02-27
Who Won WARP
(From The Providence Journal5

(From The Providence Journal.D
1T makes me almost wonder who
won the war" a soldier writes, after
describing the pleasant surroundings
where he Is billeted, in one of the
Rhine cities. Outwardly there is no
apparent reason why Germany gave in,
and things in general strengthen my
view that 1t is a pity our armies did
rot deliver the coup dc grace" Ger
many Seems damnably prosperous,
wen dressed and we'll shod,, and
thought some look pasty the great ma
jcrity are tit and healthy" His host
and hostess are very wellto-do." At
Christmas the table was laden with
substantial gifts-ra nice pair of kid
boots for one of the boys, plush shoes
for the girls, books, sweets, cakes and
ether e~atables.p
Thousands OF soldiers are similarly
impressed with the smug comfort in
evidence along the Rhine, as con
trasted with the ruin and misery in
Northern France and Belgium, uncov.
cred before their eyes when they were
hurting the invaders out. The people
OF the allied countries are waiting
upon the Paris conference to carry
through their righteous determination
that Germany shall be made to under.
stand who won the war, and to smart
for her crimes for at least a genera
ton to come.
twas. indeed, a serious question for
the allied commanders whether TO
make an armistice or 90 on. for the
enemy was at their mercy. But his
tory will undoubtedly justify the de-
cision. They dictated stiff terms, but
1t was manifestly impossible to make
them so harsh that Germany would
not accept them. There was the
further consideration that 1t was not
worth precious lives OF our own to
crush the German army, comparatively
easy as the delivery of the mortal
blow would have been Generally
speaking, too, an unconditional sur
render must be accepted, even when 1t
is a brute that falls on his knees to
avoid righteous punishment.
The German army escaped its Just
deserts. But Germany must, not be al
lowed to escape hers.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1919-02-27
a Sold Ter

"a poem sent BY a soldier in France
Ito patrick Dugan oil Santa who re-
quests its publication.
THE bar upon your shoulder,
OR the uniform you wear,
Doesn't mean you are a soldier,
In this wide worlds affair
Cause a mans a man in battles
And your uniform SO bright
Isn't worth an empty cartridge
IA II you don't stand up and fight.
ITS the stuff inside the buttons
That counts while you're up there
You don't rate the title soldier
II you don't fight on the square.
The title should be sacred
And not given to everyone
who sports q classy uniform
Or Just totes round a gun;
And q mud.stained, ~blood-stained
tanker,
Fightin' in the jaws of hell
Is the ~cleanest type OF soldier
And a fightin' man as well.
once 4 saw a soldier dying,
Eyes he's worthy OF the name)
Just an ordinary private.
But God, he sure was game;
And before the big call sounded
For to pass the last review
He took me by the hand and said
Goodbye. old pal to you,
Tell my sweetheart that loved her,
God bless my little Jane
Tell mother died smiling,
And ! didn't feel the pain"
Gee, ] envy him his rating
Cause be died aud did not finch,
Tho bis heart inside was bleeding
That's a soldier every inch.
And I know another soldier,
Tho she never got a gun
And she saw the trenches,
And she never killed a fun.
the mother Of that soldier
! watched dying over there.
the super kind OF soldier
For she gave more than her share,
She gave all to her country
Her pride. her love. her joy
a splendid type of soldier,
For she gave her only boy.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1919-02-27
Tales Of +. r..
HOW ROOSEVELT SAVED
ONE MANS REPUTATION

lINU" fuNH
Contributed by C. B. Wellington
Troy, N. "
After 1t became known that Roo4e
welt intended to make a trip throusl
Africa, a friend of his. a Well-knowy
American sportsman who had hunt
ed in a part OF the territory tina
Roosevelt was intending to visit
and who may be called Carey
though that was not his name, wrote
him making various suggestions
Among others he warned him parti
cularly against hiring a certain guide
lat Narrobi who was capable but, the
writer said, Enthusiastically"
Possibly most hunters would have
made a mental note of the guide $
name for the purpose of surely avoid
ing him. Not, so however, with
Roosevelt.
When he reached Nairobi lie in
quired Of his hostess il she had ever
heard Of this guide, naming him.
Il have heard of him. was the an
swer, .but l don't know anythi 8
about him except that Mr.. Cary said
publicly that he was untrustwort1y
and no one has been willing to eff
'ploy him since"
Roosevelt's sense Of fair play was
aroused, 1t struck him that to ruin
a mans reputation and livelihood
with a shrug Of the soldiers in place
Of concrete evidence Of, wrong-doing
was unjust. He Immediately sent
for the repudiated guide and INCUR
ed with his customary in~cisiYeness
into all the facts and circumstances
of his case. The conclusion he
reached after careful investigator
raj that the guide had been unfairly
treated.
Roosevelt thereupon arranged 4
ten days expedition that was not ON
his military, simply for the purpose
OF hiring this guide and putting him
in charge OF the expedition. Wqhcn
Roosevelt returned he announced
publicly that the man was the most
Intelligent, most industrious and
most satisfactory guide he had ever
This was spread abroad. i
resulted in the establishment OF
the guide in his chosen calling. re
became. again sought after by hunt
ers and was able again to make q
living and support his family.
To Roosevelt, it was only an incl
dent in an eYentful year. To guide,
1t was salvation.
Copyright, 1919, by Roosevelt Pei
maneht Memorial National Commit
tee.
49,
The Roosevelt Permanent Nero
rial National Committee IS collecting
and publishing Characteristic stories
Of Theodore Rooselt's personality
and career. II D know any inter
and authentic stories, the
Committee VIII be grateful il YOU
would send them to the National
headquarters, one Madison Avenue.
New York City. Contributions to
the Memorial Fund may be sent to
the same address. Checks may be
made payable either to the Commit
tee sor TO Albert Fl, Virgins, OF the
Chase National Bank Every penny
given for a memorial will be spent
for a memorial, Expenses Of collec-
ton and administration will be cover
ed by special gifts Of personal
friends Of Colonel Roosevelt.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1919-02-27
Credit to The Major

Major w, II. H. Llewellyn, repre-
sentative for Dona Ana county has
introduced the Girls Welfare Board
measure advocated by the New Meg
leo State Federation of Woman's
Club, reference to which has been
made previously in these columns.
The Major is to be praised for maxi
ing himself sponsor for this much
needed social welfare legislation, and
for the active interest he has shown
in the bill and its humanitarian oh,
ject.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1919-02-27
STATE PRESS
OGDEN APPROVES
LARRAZOLO MESSAGE.
(Doy Spanish American)

(D0y spanish Amerfcan)
Governor L~arrazoloss message to
the Legislature accompanying the
final budget for state expenses, is
very plain, practical. and sensibDs
presentation of the needs Of the
state and suggestions regarding the
means to raise funds, It is strictly
in line with the methods and ideas
of the Federal Government and the
Legislature could do no better than to
be guided largely by them We are
still hoping for an administration to
fully vindicate the governor and ex-
onerate the legislature from a lot OF
things in the past Foreign but not
forgotten by a darned sight, Making
the future right will so far toward
atoping the past and we shall be only
too glad to find the things that de-
serve commentator.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1919-02-27
SUNSHINE STATE
FIJI OLD DAYS or THE
COUNTRY FIDDLER.
(Springer Stockman-

NDpItHbBT CtOEhiid1l.}
A fiddler at an old-fashioned coun-
try dance is not near as important
now rs he Was before we got these
playing machines. How times do
change and folks get independent,
Can remember whemth fiddler was a
real boss as sure as you livei also
can remember when he had to be
bribed with a few drinks to induce
him TO play until breakfast time. Now
those OF him who are left, casts a
meaning glance at the machine and
gets real docile by the time the sec
ond set is called. The day of the old
fashioned fiddler has passed and most
of the old-fashjoned fiddlers them
selves are playing on the golden harp
for the big celestial dance insthe great
Eternal City beyond the skies.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1919-02-27
ANVIL CHORUS
r WON'T Be THERE o N

Kansas City Times: The Independence
Examiner says that a man in hide
~pendence, noted for his interest in
public affairs, demanded of Editor
Southern the other day: Where is
This town of Bolsheyiki, Russia, any
way. | cant find it on any Of the
maps"
El Nuevo mexicano., 1919-02-27
RuT ARE LILY REALLY MgN7-

Macon Telegraph: Senators Lodge,
Reed, Sherman and a few others
probably don't know Just how lucky
they really are. Think Of the police
records they'd have now for picket
ing the White House had they been
born girls.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1919-02-27
Governor Flooded
With Commentator
For His Program

Tuesday morning and Monday night
was a field day for Governor LaTrazolo
in the matter of receiving communica-
tions from various parts of the state
endorsing the bills, introduced in the
house with his sanction, nroyiding for
the creation of a Ghild's Welfare
Board and a Girls Welfare Board.
These kilograms came from womeH's
ORGANIZATIONS in Albuquerque. Roswell,
Ration, Tucumcari and Belon.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1919-02-27
REFINEMENT
DOWN SOUTH.

Birmingham Age-Herald: Alabama is
climbing upward in the sisterhood
OF states, There is not a single
solon attending the sessions of the
legislature in Montgomery who
makes the proud boast that he does
not veal socks.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1919-02-27
IpRUNgs TO THE { 4

Houston Post: Prince Henry OF Prus-
STA says the old regime must be re-
stored in Germany before the en-
pire cal regain its old prestige.
Prince Henry is evidently consuming
a far greater proportion of the prune
crop than he is entitled to.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1919-02-27
coMPLAINr sETTLEp.

The state corporation commission
has settled several informal disputes,
A refund of 81 cents was made to M
Montoya on a shipment from Taos
Junction ito Espan4la. Rock Spur, on
the Pecos Valley branch of the A.
n. a ST. railway, has been made a
flag station. There was talk Of remov-
ing a telephone from the Santa Fe
railway depot at Los Lupas, but on
further consideration the railway has
decided to allow il to remain for the
accommodation Of the travelling pub
lie.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1919-02-27
that MIGHT
BE HARD EITHER.
Fort Sumner Re

NFUIF NUHIHVT HHFFbW.J
Governor Larrazolo could settle the
troubles in Mexico within six months,
and there are several men In Fort
Sumner who could give President VIII
son cards and spades and beat him as
a,peace envoy.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1919-02-27
THE coWPUNcHER AND
THE ~sHEEPHERDER.

lFOrt Sumner lReView.1
A bill has been introduced in the
legislature placing the minimum wage
o. sheepherders and cowpunehers at
El Nuevo mexicano., 1919-02-27

$50 a month and board. This places
the two classes Of animal worriers on
"a level And the time was to say
that q cowboy was no better than 4
ssheepherder meant quick gun action
El Nuevo mexicano., 1919-02-27

Kansas City Star: WHAT'S your guess
VIII it be the building material
business or the millinery business
which will benefit from the funds
now spent for booze?
El Nuevo mexicano., 1919-02-27
iBETTER If THEY DID.

BET TER IF THEY DID.
Grand Rapids Press: Though we must
say for the Bolshevists that they
never make a point Of no quorum in
order to get a day off the way con
gress often does.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1919-02-27

PLAYING SAFETY FIRST.
Dayton News: Ohio now has an Anti
Cigarette League, but ii isn't APP
pointing any delegates to welcome
the boys who are coming home.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1919-02-27

MUST BLUSH IN HIS SLEEP.
Columbia State: 1t is wen for Goethe
that he still Sleeps at Weimar, but
he may be having d terrible night.
mare.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1919-02-27

Copyright, 1919, by Roosevelt Pc;
maneht Memorial National Commit
tee.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-11-17
Birthday Party for
Barraekville Boy

In honor Of the tenth birthday ami
yersary Of their so nBilly, DR.. and
Mrs H. w. Burnett entertained mer-
~ crowd Of Billy's friends Saturday
afternoon at their beautiful home in
Barrackyflle. Assisting the hostess
were Mesdames Paul Ice, Harry Nep-
tune and Clyde Hacker.
Billy was the recipient Of many pres
ents among which was a photograph
of his teacher Miss GeneVieve Car
penter who was also a guest and seem
ed to enjoy the luxury Of seeing Billy
having high old timewitli out let or
hfndrance, privilege Of which all the
,.lases ayailed themselves to the ut
Y f'a2 singing and games togethr
tountiful feast OF goodies
MADE ~ tive pass all too quickly Tor
the 1.tH +,isrtz who left at q late
hour votipT BiT a regular fellow.
Biils htm92I,f c!s'r'S to pc trough
neck" and no doEtt win make good
his boast on the field with that new
football which was among those pres
ents. -.
The juvenile guests included Lucille
Cramer, LESSEE STRAIGHT, Catherine
Boord, Josephine Miller, Martha MI
chael, Bette Carpenter, Iva Ridge,
way, Thelma Brand, May Ice, Harold
Nicely Hacher, Johnny Ice, Tnomas
Pricbard Neptune, James Ice, Monard
fee Fay Straight, Dave RtdgeWay PAU
Burnett and Billy Boord.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-11-17
EAST SIDE
NEWS
lRlrthdax party.

Mrs. Howard Pople gave q birthday
party for daughter Miss Lillian on
Saturday afternoon In honor ot her
tenth birthday. The hours were from
two 10 four thirty and were most en-
joyatly spent with music and games.
Miss Ltlln received some very pet
~ and useful gifts from tue que
and delicious refreshments were sety
cd. Theguests weret Helen Holme
Mary KlaeT, Margaret Fletcher,
garet hawkins, Edna and Theima
Shaffer, Dorothy Fauber, Catherine
Conner, Anna Kelley. Bertha clem
Vendetta and Clementine Keener, BE
atrice Bstnes, Frances Google, EllSa-
beth. wager, Donna CedaYis, Ella Z
beth Blaskwood, Madaline Hite and
Nancy Htc.