Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-09-12
FEWER INSTRUCTORS AVAILABLE
THAN EVER BEFORE IN HIS.
TORY OF STATE.
SHORTAGE ALSO EXISTS
IN ADJACENT STATES
Many Inquiries 6eins Rseeivsd-Sal.
aries Being Generally Increased to
Hold Trained Teachers in Profession
Homes For Teachers Being Provid-
cd With Some Consolidated Schools.
Special to Times Republican.


Des Moines, Sept, iowa schools
are facing a shortage OF teachers this
year more serious than ever before.
according 10 the information which has
come 10 STATE Superintendent p. r.
McClenahan. lie declares the indics
tions are that the state will be fully
1000 short OF the number OF teachers
required turnout the state when all
of the schools are ready to open.
Other states are needing teachers as
well as Iowa, Requests are coming to
the state superintendents office from
outside states asking II there are any
teachers available here to go to other
states. one county superintendent IN
Nebraska wired that his county needed
ten teachers and would pay from s65
TO SIS per month. Superintendent Nc
Clenahan wired back that he was IN
great need Of teachers for Iowa schools
at salaries from SIS TO 500.
Teachers salaries are being increased
generally thruout the state altho it is
agreed that they are not on a basis
yet with the salaries OF other lines OF
work. In many cases where CONSOLE
dated schools are being built IN rural
communities buildings are also pro-
vided as homes for the teachers. One
school board officer told the state sup
erintendsnt the other day that where
as school boards in former years re-
CURED teachers to furnish photographs
with their applications, now the boards
are sending TO teachers and teachers
agencies literature and information
boosting their towns. pictures of the
school houses and arguments favorins
their communities as places OF resi-
dence.
Last year teachers salaries in Iowa
averaged s64.5S per month for women
and s113.5i for men, the work only
lasting nine months out Of the twelve.
There were 1882 teachers in the
state Of which 25,I7S were women and
2,454 Were men. The total enrolment
of pupils was 5o3,s02 and the average
daily attendance 3s5,202.
At Huron, in Des Moines county.
new consolidated school has been built
and also a home for the superintend-
ent, including some eight acres Of land.
year, is furnished his home with eight
acres for a garden patch.
At Arkeny, in Polk county, a teach
ers home costing $1,000 is being pro-
vided along with a new consolidated
school building.
State Officials to Visit Schools.
Governor Harding. Superintendent
McClenhau, Vocational Director W. H.
Bender and Prof. G. A. Fullerton, of
Cedar Falls, will make tuor visiting
publis schools IN various counties this
coming week. Their schedule follows:
Monday. Washington county, Tuesday,
Wapello. Wednesday, Muscatine,
Thursday, Des Moines county, Friday,
Lee county.
Rural and smaller town schools par
ticuIarly will be visited. Revival of in
terest in educational matters is to be
undertaken. Gov. Harding will give
general educational talks. Prof. Bender
will explain the Smith-Hughes bill on
vocational education and will urge
courses in vocational training. NC
Clenahan will talk on educational
progress In Iowa Professor Fullerton,
head OF the department OF vocal IN
structlon at Cedar Falls, will lead in
some of the big night meetings in
community singing.
The night meetings in some central
location will be among the big feat
ures Of the program at which the re-
lationship Of each local community to
the entire country in helping to raise
the educational standards will be en-
phasized.
Miss Lucy Cockburn, Of Burlington,
for the past two years demonstration
on domestic science at Burlington and
vicinity, has been elected by the state
board of vocational education az do
nestle science supervisor for Iowa
under the direction Of the director OF
vocational education. She Is a grad
uate OF the college OF agriculture and
mechanic arts Of South Dakota and has
for severtl years had experience IN
teaching in vocational schools under
the direction of federal regulations
She is to take up the work Of domestic
science in the schools Of the state and
of the regulations for vocat ional edu-
cation and will give assistance to
schools which desire such work.