The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1920-04-30
TWO VIEWS.
By Scott Nearing.

By Scott Nearing.
Soviet Russia is under the ban. Tht
American Eagle is screaming her note
If triumph to the clouds, All is ended
according to TIN papers, and soviet
ism is cast rever into the QUITE,
aarknessl
Just moment, please, before the
decree is made irrevocable. Note thi'
dispatch from the correspondent oi
The Manchester Guardian in which hi
describes the work that the soviet
government is doing for it's children
nursing mothers are the object Of
special care; they are still assisted q:
the precious child grows older; ther
there are children palaces with ia
cifities for recreation and education
then there are the reorganized school:
and the colleges and universities, al
designed to prepare the Russian chill
for future usefulness. All Of these
measures Russia has adopted in the
two years following the revolution
and she has done them despite ths
war, despite the blockade, despite tn;
immanence Of destruction. In her dark
est hour, Russia was busy caring fol
her children.
Now for the capitalist nations thai
have been seeking to blot Russia ou
OF existence-one of the first acts
in Great Britain and France, aftel
war assumed serious proportions, was
to let down on the work of education
In the United States, during the year,
from 1915 to 1918, when the cost o.
living came near to doubling, teachers
salaries. according to an estimate re
Gently published by the United States
16 per cent. With this increase, thei
commissioner of education, rose abou
average salary was $630.64, maxim;
their average monthly salary abou
$5S.
These figures lead to some inter
resting reflections on the relative re
wards given to teachers and to thos
employed in certain other lines o
activity. The railroad wage commits
sion, in its recommendations for wag
|iperssSes to The -16 lowest paid branch
es of the service, suggested wages o
loss than 500 per year for only tw,
classes of employees messengers an.
attendsnts" and "section men, Il
New York city, where teachers salaric
are comparatively high, the elemertar,
school teachers receive practically tn
same wages as butchers, chauffeurs
clerks, walters, etc, few of whom re
quire anything like the period of pc
paration for thier work that is dem
anded Of teachers.
A recent report shows that in the tel
ritory centering about Cleveland an
Chicago, head bakers receive 1868 NOR
per year than teachers; blacksmith
receive $500 more, and machinis
$1,lSS more. Equal discrepancies az
pear if the salaries of teachers ar
compared with the incomes receive
by those who are engaged in othc
professions. Insofar as financis
return can serve as a deterrent or as
stimulus to enter a profession, tn
United States is doing everythin
possible to discourage young men an
women of ability from entering th
teaching profession.
Special provisions for expectar
mothers' Maternity insurance. Chill
ren's palaces' They exist here onl
in the most rudimentary form.
Soviet Russia rewards those wh
produce children Capitalist Americ
rewards those who produce wealth.
tho long years that are ahead-in I'll
estimation Of the future-which syste
will stand highest-the one that pr
duced steel rails and textiles, or Il
one that produced meni
Two views of life are eontondir
for supremacy in the world Oh
places the, emphasis on profit; ii
other on service. In one view it
property that is sacred, in the 9th
it is humanity.
Never yet have men drawn bloc
| from stones.