The Seward gateway daily edition, and the Alaska weekly post., 1920-11-08
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school teachers in the United States afe deelarpd to }. .insdsquste" by. the
 satiop.l committ.s for Chamber of commerce cooperation with the Public schools. Despite recent salary increas- g, tho committee asserts that the cris- is has not been passed.
 Thsse- eonclusions are drawn in a summary of . survey of the schools of sSs iities conducted by the committee, which is 500 composed. of B .'t secretaries a of chamber. of commerce and as super intendents of.schools.
 "The tHcoghfel citizen needs to ask himself,s ' de elared Dr. George w, strayer of Columbia University, chair: man of the committee, Gin the light, Of the returns presented by our in qury questions like the following; Can teachers in our community have , comfortable place to live, good and decent clothes for the amount of money which we pay them? Are the teachers who work in our schools able, ,n the salary paid to them to make provision against the liabilities of ill.,. ness and old age? Do the teachers in our cities have salaries sufficient to enable them to buy books, to subscribe to magazines, to. enjoy music, to trav' el, to continue their professional studJ and otherwise; to lead the type of life which makes them the kind of men and women that can be most helpful 70 my boys and girls? Would l want my son and daughter to go into teach ing? Is the recognition given to teach CTS, in terms of salary in my city sufficient to attract the ablest of the young men and women in our com- munity?" The replies to these inquir- es, in view of the findings, must all be in the negative, says Dr. Strayer.
 In l913-14 one half of the men ele- mentary teachers in cities with po- pulation of from 5000 to SO,0OO, the report shows, received less than $s46. In l9l9-2O, one-half of the same group were receiving less than $l,262, an advance of s3l6 or B percent. Mean while, it was stated, the cost of liv- ing had advanced 104 percent.
 American cities paid high school principals an average of 2,580 last year while elementary school princi- palE received an average salary of ,sss. "Many of the salaries paid in these positions requiring the manage ment of complex organizations and skillfll leadership" the report points out, "are not enough to secure a com petent secretary, let alone to be con- sidered adequate pay for the princi- pal" A summary of the survey issued by the committee says:
 The survey also discloses that the salaries of artisans and laborers throughout the country are much higher on the average than those of teachers. These low salaries have re- suited in serious teacher shortage throughout the country. The demand for teachers is so great that students leave normal schools when their cours- es have been but half completed. An alarminsly large proportion of the teachers as result are emergency teachers lacking in proper training for their work.
 Reports from the cities of this survey show that 50 percent of the teachers in the elementary schools of American cities have had less than six and one-third years of training be- yond the eighth grade, that 50 per- cent of the junior high school teachers ave had less than seven years training beyond. and that 50 percent of the senior high school teachers have had less than eight and one-half yesrs. "Chambers. of Commerce in every state have assumed the leadership in conducting local campaigns to bring the seriousness of the situation to pub.