Evening star., 1920-05-16
TEACHERS CITE PRIVAT1ONS
ENFORCED BY INADEQUATE PAY
Facts Revealed In Brief Submitted to
Congress in Support of Plea for
Special Bonus.

along the best I can until 1 get my
! check in October. Living expenses
are such that my salary has been ex-
hauSted."
May Have to Quit Teaching.
"Unless teachers salaries are ma
| terially increased soon l shall have
! to go into some other kind of work
in order to make enough to live on
| not to speak of getting some slight
return for the money l invested in
my college education. l should hate
. !, which 1 am particularly interested"
Il teach in day school: have
averaged four nights a week in
which takes one evening and my
Sundays, and will teach for six weeks
II st;il.fI.c:' go -;.i, '.s%-.if: "itfi
small room rent income. Unusual de-
at the present cost, has made It i'm
possible for me to avoid debt
withdrawing my savings is of
course practically borrowing since
lose all benefit of accrued interest.
I have kept out of debt only by de-
nying myself almost every form of
recreation and by wearing old
clothes as long as possible. Also !
have not been able to take care of
my mother as l should like to have
done"
Il live at home and am continually
receiving funds from the family.
whereas my two sisters. who are
a=.:t..rr ii:s:l sct.co! nor normal gradu-
:.t.s ,s..;l employed outside of school,
receive enough to enable them to be
absolutely self-supporting.
Supports Mother and Father.
MY mother was an invalid and
should have had my care. but needed
the money 1 got for teaching because
she and my aged father were abso-
lutely dependent on me. Have not had
a nights rest for three years"
"No one tries harder to make ends
meet than / do, but after bare living
expenses are met nothing is left for
doctors bills which have been caused
by overwork and worry. This summer
is the first one which finds me abso-
lutely without cent to carry me
through the summer and bills not paid
either.
Il have no expenses during the sum-
mer. I stay at home and nothing is
expected from me. During the school
year I live with friends. who charge
me Just enough to cover the actual
expense of boarding me. Being the
smallest of family of five girls, I am
able to use my sisters cast-of cloth
ing. l have them freshened and made
over. My last winters hat was one
my mother wore some time ago. I had
il reblocked l do my own laundry
each Saturday. By doing these things
/ am just able to keep out of debt. If
/ were not SO fortunate / should GER
tainly have to go in debt during the
summer"
Works Night and Day and I'm Vacation
Il should like to state that 1 am in
debt now because of i'll health this en-
tire year, due to being compelled to
work night and day and during the
summer vacations in order to live and
also be able to meet the demands
made upon me-
"My mother is an invalid and re-
Quires constant care, although not
confined to her bed. Our house has
move. At the present rate it looks
as If we will roost in trees. Can't
some kind somebody invent a tonic
which will grow feathers so we can
have a bird Of a time? We may find
a vacant birdhouse, but at present all
see are apartments at 800 to $3.50
per month"
Live at home and receive financial
help Teach eleven weeks in summer
port myself during vacation"
II have bought nothing new for
three years. If my clothing looks
presentable it is because it is re-
modelled with care and with little ex-
pense. Just now. though, it is about
at the stage where no amount of skill
can revive it,
"Conching" Helps Out.
Coaching in the vacation has help
ed me to get out of debt. This condi-
tlon has only been reached after much
scrimping and many years teaching.
For some time the vacation was q
menace rather than rest"
Find it necessary to live on my
family during the summer"
Need employment for this summer.
but cannot find it,
ITO meet living expenses 1 find it
necessary to rent out a part of nv
home and receive the occupants as
boarders."
"It will be necessary for me to bor-
row money this summer to go to p
summer school, as / am anxious to do.
The reason I am not in debt now j.
because l am boarded by my parents"
Finding it impossible to live on nv
salary, l have been forced to do in
surance work in such odd times as J
can find
Heavy hospital and surgeons bills
nave taken summer vacation money
and left me in debt"
II have had to resign twice he
cause Of i'll health, mostly due to the
crowded condition of the schools and
consequent overwork."
Manage my income systematically
on budget plan. Am econornicai
Find it absolutely impossible to make
ends meet. Am continually under some
mental strain over lack of funds"
Il need money badly. Work like a
cally speaking. and just exist. always
hoping for better conditions"
Having been under the doctors
care for illness, I have the double ex-
pense of his bill and u substitute bill
to pay"
Teaches When Physically Unable.
II have doctors bill to pay and
dentists BILL conditions arising from
a rundown condition, worrying over
making ends meet. In losing time
from school I know I must pay a sub
stitute as well as medicine and doc
tors bills. so to save the first of
these expenses i have attended school
when often physically unable"
My sister was injured by a street
car ard another sister had to give
UP her position in order to care for
he, ard EoT' l must keep both. Can
l do SO on my present salary?"
"Af.er twenty years rs teacher
I do not receive a salary sufficient to
support my mother and myself"