Evening journal., 1920-08-28

NEW YORK. Aug. 2s UNITED Press)
Americas army OF public school
teachers Will return TO the class
rooms next month a richer aud "A
wiser lot. For they have been making
hay while the sun shonc this sum
mer-many OF them literally, others
ilguratVely.
When high price waves hit the
ranks of the podagogs last year,
thousands Of them were forced 90 seek
employment In other branches OF en-
doaVor. while hundreds others OBJ
tanned part time work iO aid In keep
ing the wolf from the door unit
the session Of school was ended. sun
others resolved 90 draw on their NJ
ready sailed away resources and TO
stick 10 out Until the summer Naca-
| ton arrived then TO spend the hot
months In working 10 put the money
back.
school superintcndcn's, boards Of
education and teachers societies were
asked In several cities how the leach
ers wrc spending the summer, and
how many OF them were doing other
than school work. with view io
re-entering the little red scholhOuscs
all over the land in September with
a fattencd pocketbook.
Some Of the replies to queries fol-
NEW YORK-of the 1891 elemen-
lary, high school and vocational
teachers In the greater city, mos,
available figures show moro than
5000 obtained work on farms and
IN Offices. Approximately 400 workc,
at tutoring backward students; ION
a. a a a|NaI n
schools: COO worked at canvassing
selling insurance. school books, ant
other field work: 100 conducted 30,
SCOUTS camps and norsonally-con-
Quoted tours 10 nearby summer re
sorts, e,c., while $50 were rporie'
as doing chaulauquc work. No ac
curate record was kept al board o.
education Offices.
CHICAGO-ln incomplete records Rep
by the teachers federation, the Doar'
, OF education and parent-teachers' as
sociations. show approximately 4,D
OF the s,15S teachers In Chicago dl'
/ part or full time outside work TN
4 simmer. Most Of them tutored, actel
I as statesmen In department stores am
Z IN The feld. conducted summer camps
and worked on farms. About goo
attended summer schools In and on
OF inlthkut WilllD nuIt AluN ~
taught in night schools.
INDIANAPOLlS-T. l. Hines, Super
intendent Of public education. sal
that scores OF high and grade schoo
principals were working as clerks an
helpers in the automobile industry
while hundreds had gone 90 the farm,
zone cannot blame the teachers
they seek outside work. as they dc
serve more than the $500 year the
: now get In N schools. We VIII b
u about 700 teachers short when scho'
, opens this fall"
. ATLANTA-Thlrty per cent OF Al
lanta's school teachers were away
college summer schools this summ'
N trying TO increase their efficiency a'
, cording 90 W. r. Dykes suporintcI
- dent Of schools About 20 per Ger
NJ of the high school teachers have r.
y signed. and their places will ha'
ID 10 be filled by others this fall, Dyk'
10 said. This was done because OF To-
a salaries paid. he said. Those not a
m tending summer schools are workiI
,c as clerks. salesnien and farm ham
Is In and around Atlanta.
DETROIT Teachers Of Detroit a
IN working In automobile factories, al
,v selling insurance and school bool
il Many are engaged In educational pr
paganda work. No records as 20 a
e tual numbers or percentages We
in kept.