The log cabin Democrat., 1920-03-09
MINISTERS COST
 LESS THAN AUTOS
World Survey Figures Reveal How Badly United States Is
 Paving Its Pastors.
MANY LIVING ON $500 A YEAR
One of the Aims of Present Protestant Cooperation 's to End Disgrace of Underpaid proacher-Pen-
 sions Also to Be Provided

What are the chances of a young man who intends to be a lawyer of making s3.00o year? What are the doctors chance? What of tho min ister or the manufacturer?
 The lawyer has exactly one chance in five. The doctors chances are one in seven. It is ten to one against the manufacturer. The modern minister. however who formerly ranked with the doctor and lawyer as a member of the learned professions" has fallen hopelessly behind. He is a 100 to l shot
 These figures are part of mass of astonishing facts brought to light by the world survey being made by the lnterchurch World Movement and whose sources of information are such that many economists and statisticians are availing themselves of the results. This survey puts America's minister at the bottom of the ladder of the na- tion's income reCeivers-and with re- responsibilities which equal those of any captain of industry.
 A worker in l. silk mill, a laborer in rubber plant paper maker, a worker in shoe factory-all are get ting higher average wages the sur yey shows, than does America's min ister city or country. Nor does the city man receive the luxurious salary that many persons, including many country parsons believe he does. Not four ministers in a thousand. accord ing to the survey. receive S5,000 year. In no instance, whatever the denomi- nation. does majority receive S1.0o0.
 Cotton Packers Better Of.
 Are you a Congregationalist? In 2,7S3 churches he yearly pay to your ministers has been loss than 1000. Are you a Presbyterian? You are then on the less thar 1000 list with 6.4l5 ministers. iu the event that you are a Methodist the charge is that 4.719 pastors are trying to exist on the s20 week that you pay them. EpisCo- palians do a little better. yet half of their re2tors receive less than the S1,500 a year which governmen ecouo- mists regard as the minimum on which family can be decentl.' main tained.
 The initial cost of the cheapest "fliv- yer" on the market is less than $500 but a very good, conscientious pastor. it is shown. can be hired for rear for that sum-
 Ministers i'll the South are preaching to fifty or more cotton pickers who in dividually are paid more for picking cotton than their entire neighborhood pays to the preacher in year
 One of the aims of the present co operation of the worlds Protestant de nominations is to end this disgrace of the underpaid minister. With uIiver- sities, business houses and municlpali- ties daily taking action to provide for the comfort of their workers. the church Is to keep pace with the times, and to arrange not only for adequate pay for it's workers. but to provide pen sions for those no icnger able to work.
 It Is to move the public to prevent untavorable comparisons of pastors and puddlers. Until then, as for pud- dler swappin, jobs with pastor draw ing an ordinary" salary The lowest salary paid to pastors is lower thao any wages paid In the entire steel industry.