The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1919-06-04


potc every charitable appeal and who accorded such en-
thusastc and liberal support and to every
group that helped the should have neglected to prop
ey and reward the services OF one OF the nobest
professions the field Of human actytiess profession that
lofty IDEALS unse6sh principles in sacred responsibilities,
side by side with the ministry of the Gospel ITSELF
We wish to bespeak with whatever power and authority
may have and with such words be granted to u.s.
consideration for the foster fathers and moth
chdrenthe school teachers of the United States
of America
There is no class of workers which demand much
We commit into their keeping the minds the bodes and the
very souls of children the tender formative OF their
lives and they receiving these children, indeed be said to
hold in the hollow of their hands the future of America We
expect these devoted and to watch over and care
for and daughters tho they their very own to
drill them in the and Sciences to train them for business
and for citizenship instruct them and in morals
do for them those things which would do had we the
training and the leisure.
No class has assumed heavy, trying burden and
responsibility with such willingness these consecraed men
and No class has performed their increasingly heavy
tasks devoedly conscientiousy, and with less
thought of SELF No class served their country whole
hearedy ally, during the trying and empesuous
times of by day their round of Duty day by
day helping the young people, and through the children the
parents struggle light thus securing the
cooperation of the community in every measure undertaken
by the Government to win the war.
Truly they have made the nation their everlasting debtor
Truly had they their work we'll this republic would
not outast the span of generation.
What then have the teachers received hands in
un They received little of honor and somewhat less of
pay Other classes have prospered other classes through
powerful organizations have secured wages The
teachers have spokesman however, demand the
simple justice of living to them we give their petty
pre- pance pitifuy inadequate, that 1t
places burning brand of shame and disgrace this nation
The and women who making the Americans of
being with less consideration than the
antors who sweep out the buildings in which they are en-
poyed they earning the less than the wages
given to'the crubwomen employed the public buildings of
the United States Government Normal school graduates
ceive less salary than hghschoo principals
and superintendent less than section foremen country school
teachers less for nsrucng the farmers children than he
his hired to feed his hogs.
In certain town Illinois, for instance, the average
of fifteen miners for month $2l7 while the
monthly salary of fifteen teachers in the town
$55 In another who, by the way enemy
alien drew than 81 700 last while the salary of the
high school principal the 1868 W. welcome
with all hearts the long beated recognition that being
given the who works with his hands We believe that
this wokingman will be the first to join with in ask
ing better pay for those who teach his CHILDREN
No wonder there fifty thousand vacancies the teach
ing of the schools No wonder the being filled
with weak and with immature who merely the
profession stepping stone to something better No wonder
there thirty thousand teachers in the United States who
have had schooling beyond the eighth grade
Small wonder indeed that million of our school children
being trained by teachers boys and girls themselves
who have had professional education whatever
When consider that the 14O 600 teachers OF America
paid salary of $500 when
consider the fact that living have actually advanced O3
per since the beginning of the thereby cutting the
buying power of these insignificant salaries in half
easily determine that only fool martyr would choose
teaching profession would long remain in unless these
terrible conditions swiftly remedied.
What a crime is this! What Indictment What
pardonabe sin the doors of enlightened people who
themselves the head and forefront of the democraces of
the word How better prepare for the great under
akngs of reconstruction than by setting ourselves Immediately
to remedyng this perilous condition In these trying and
chaotic when world beet by unrest by anarchy
by revolution by the DEVILS brood of appalling evils that fol-
low in the train of make that the founda
tons of republic rock that stand against
the food.
The peace and security of the world of the future will be
the safe keeping the schools These
nd of