The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1920-08-30
Teachers Toll to
Recoup Finances

NEW YORK, August &c. UNITED
Press. Americas army Of public
school teachers will return to the
classrooms next month d richer and
wiser lot. For they have been maxi
irg hay while the sun shone this sum-
ner-Amany Of theih literally, others
iguratively
When high price waves hit the
ranks Of the pedagogs last year,
thousands Of them were forced to
seek employment in other branches
Of endeavor, while hundreds Of others
obtained part time work to aid iii
keeping the wolf from the door until
the session Of the school was ended.
Still others resolved to draw on their
already salted-away resources and to
stick 1t out until the summer vacation
arrived, then to spend the hot months
in working to put the money back.
School superintendents, boards Of
education and teachers societies were
asked In several cities how the teach
ers were spending the summer, and
how many of them were doing other
than school work, with view to re-
entering the little red schoolhouses
- - a.
all over the land in September with
a fattened pocketbook.
Some of the replies to the queries
follow:
NEW YORK. of the 1881 ele-
mentary, high school and vocational
teachers in the greater city, most
available figures show more than II
500 obtained work on farms and in
offices. Approximately 400 worked
at tutoring backward students; 1000
attended summer and vocational
schools; 600 worked at canvassing,
selling insurance, school books, and
other field work; 100 conducted Boy
Scouts camps and PERSONAL---VERY.
Quoted tours to nearby summer re-
sorts, etc, while 150were reported as
doing chautapqua work. No accu-
rate record was kept at board Of ed
ucation offices.
CHICAGO Incomplete records
kept by the teachers federation, the
board Of education and parent-teach-
ers' associations, show approximate
" $500 Of the 1858 teachers in Chic
ago did part or full time outside work
this summer. Most Of them tutored
acted as statesmen in department
stores and in the field, conducted SUM
mer camps, and worked on farms.
About 1000 attended summer schools
in and out Of Chicago, while more
than 500 taught in night schools.
INDIANAPOLIS f. L. Hines,
superintendent of public instruction
said that scores of high and grade
school principals were working as
clerks and helpers in the automobile
industry, while hundreds had gone
to the FARMS
Zone cannot blame the teachers if
they sceA outside work, as Cheg de.
serve more than the $500 year they
now get in the schools. We viii be
about 700 teachers short when school
opens this fall"
ATLANTA. Thirty per cent Of
Atlantas's school teachers were away
at college summer schools this sum
mer trying to increase their effcien-
cy," according to w, F. Dykes, SUI
peiintendent Of schools. About &c
per cent Of the high school teachers
have resigned. and their places viii
have to be filed BY others th;s fail,
Dykes said. This was done because
Of low salaries paid, he said. Those
not attending summer schools are
working as clerks, statesmen and farm
hands in and around Atlanta.
\ DETROIT. Teachers Of Detroit
are working In automobile factories
and selling insurance and school
books. Many are engaged in educa-
tional propaganda work. No record
as to actual numbers or percentages
were kept.
! The board of education at Detroit
has filed suit against the city to
compel payment of bonus to teach
ers promised in contracts for the
coming year. The city comptroller
has refused payment and many teach
ers declare they will not return tt
school houses this fall unless the mat.
ter is favorably adjusted.
DENVER. Coaching students fol
high school ard college, newspaper
reporting, working on farms and in
orchards, and doing clerical work
have kept Denver teachers occupied
this summer. Scores Of teachers Of
both sexes have been attending sum
mer schools Chances favor an in.
crease in teachers pay, educationa
board officials declare.
NEW ORLEANS. Twenty pc
cent Of New Orleans teachers attend