Cleveland County herald., 1920-08-05
MINISTERS COST
 LESS THAN AUTOS
World Survey Figures M+aal How Badly United States Is
 Paving Its Pastors.
MANY LIVING ON $500 A YEAs
One of the Aims of Present ProtestaHS co-operatlon5as to, End Disgrace of underppld preaoher-pen-
 slons Alag to Be Provided.

What are the chances of young
 man who intends to be. lawyer of
 making $3,009 a year1 What are the ister or the manufacturer? The lawyer has exactly one chance | in five. The doctor's' chances are one l in seven. It is ten to one against the manufacturer. The modern minister. however, who formerly ranked with
 the doctor and lawyer as member Of
 the learned professions" has fallen
 hopclessly behind He is 100 to 1
 shoe.
 These figures are part of mass of astonishing :acts brought to light by
 the world survey being made by tho | Interchurch World Movement and l whose sources of information are such
 that many economists and statisticians ] are availing themselves of the results. itThis survey puts America's minister I.at the bottom of the ladder of the na- ftion's income receivers-and with re- which equal those of any , captain of industry.
 A worker in s silk mill, a laborer in I 6 rubber plant, a paper maker. a l worker In q shoe factory-sll are get fting higher average wages, the sur t'vey shows, than does America's min lister, city or country. Nor does the icity man receive the luxurious salary Itthat many persons. including many Stcountry parsons. believe he does. Not flour ministers in a thousand. accord ling to the survey. receive $5,00o year. In no instance. whatever the denonfh nation, does n majority receive $1.000.
 Cotton Packers Better Of.
 Are you a Congregationalist? in 2,7S3 churches the yearly pay to your ministers has been less than s1.o0o. Are you Presbyterian? You are then on the less than s1,0o0 list with s.415 ministers. In the event that you nre a Methodist the charge is that 4.71s pastors are trying 10 exist on the S20 a week that you pay them. Episco- palians do little better, yet half of their raetors receive leEs than the s1,500 year which government econe- msts regard as the minimum on which q family can be decent. main tained.
 | The initial cost of the cheapest "nly-, yer" on the market is less thar $500 9but very good, conscientious pastor, it fig shown. can be hired for a !sar for that sum.
 Ministers in 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 uaiver- sites. business houses and munjcjpaH=, ties daily@taking action to provide for the comfort of their workers. the church is to keep pace with the times. ,.nd to arrange not only for adequate pay for its workers. but to provide pen sions for those no longer able to work.
 It is to move the public toy prevent unfavorable comparisons of pastors and puddlers. Until then. as for pud dler swappine jobs with pastor draw ing an ordinary" salary-nsver! The lowest salary paid to pastors Is lower than any wages paid in the entire steel industry.