The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1920-12-09
TEACHERS PAY
IS TOD SMALL
WORSE OFF THAN SHE WAS Be
FORE THE WAR, FINDS COM
MlTTEE OF INQUIRY.
CONDITIONS IN $50 CITIES
Average Increase in Salaries Has Been
81 Per Cent, While the Cost of Living
Has More Than Doubled Since 1913.
1914
Ry JAMES 2. HoRNApAY.

MHSNlUgiOU.- IN view or lNe ue-
creased purchasing power of the doll
lar the average school teacher iu the
United States is worse off than she
was before the war, is the conclusion
drawn by a committee Of 33 secretaries
of chambers of commerce and 81 SUI
pcrinteudents Of schools who have just
completed tie report Of an inquiry re-
gawiing the schools of $50 cities with
population of 5000 or more.
The decision to make the survey re-
suited from a conference of group
of superintendent of schools with a
few chamber of commerce secretaries
held at Cleveland in February 1920
an the invitation of the American city
bureau Al this meeting the national
committee for chamber of commerce
cooperation with the public schools
was organized. That committee made
the survey, with the cooperation Of
the American City bureau. DR., George
u. Strayer Of Columbia university Is
chairman.
The questions 20 which answers were
sought ana obtained IN $50 cities were:
"H0w much training do your teachers
haNet no" wen 90 you pay your
scn"oI eu'pI"yeeS' ana Nl'"l Spr''"'
inducements do you offer the teachers
In your schoolsf" The inquiries TO be
reported later are "HOw well do you
house your school childrcnT "What IS
your elucaloil''I program lIoW ""t'
q""le'y 40 you soIesuoru 'I'' ''l''''' i' y
H'"''h! now I1u'n ou'S '''u,"''""
cost your Guy ana no" Will '''e
'S'lls Cost 1' 'n''
meanS raising wore revenue
In' PIool'Hl OF lr"'I''F7 S'Ia'I'7 ~.
IN 'He 'as' "h"I|NlS' ne P'oO'''i' VI
support ana taxation the report says
Ni'l' ana women VINO WISH wen lot
'''''r communities 'h" are "','II''''''"
I" .I'1l'a'n l'r S''I''I''i" "' '"oII', '''u.
"""'h NI'''Il ms a'r'""y pee" never
"I'" IiuN' ''''i'N 'I' terms "' II''S' .'''
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community are u" b' I'm goo" '' ''-''
81 ms li''S We're lh I"I"-lf' ''' com.
mummy mus u"u''e Iur '"I' ~ '"N.
otI'n douh." the NaINalI'h "I prop'r'N
upon Whlrh i"N's are I''i'', or ma
new sources OF revenue,
IU' so.aiy inquiry may ne '""up"t
"I "s ah Iu0'N q" the SITUATION on me
hl'ahci"I sue sln'' lca'h'r" Sa'arlrS
nuke "p CONSTITUTING ''"Ir '""h 'l''"
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me average increase I'D salaries "I
t'ar""Fs 10 Inc 'I'ln'h'or| Juh'"r
hlEh ana senior h'in Schools mas D''i'
~ per cent slu'" lol"-Ii' 'l' report
STATES ana curing li''S p'IIou me 'oSl
OF ''lilE ms 'h'r'aSP' more man y"
per cent me grouping VI S"'ar'eS III
Ihr'' '''NN's "''"'u''lI /" 'I'e I'oP".
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"I SaI'fI'N IIi 'o''' group "I" y l'n.
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more man me N'Eh'r ones, Inc com.
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'F~ receive I'NllH wage, oui 'ha'
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essential w securing 'o'np'i'hl ''o'n-
"rs ana administrators '.'nt the S"I-
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