The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-30
ficers to take prompt precautionary measures, but the situation, generally speaking, is in no wise alarming.
County Teachers and
 the Council Plan

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 County Teachers and the Council Plan THE suggestion of a committee of
 ~ Jefferson county teachers that they form an association to be known as the Teachers Council will receive more than passing consideration.
 Several teachers, it is stated, signified their intention of allying themselves with the Federation of La- bor, but it is believed large ma jority will oppose such action.
 Every individual not in the public service has right, of course, to join a union, and to strike if he sees fit. Many industrial unions have been of distinct benefit to both their mem- bers and the public. But it is mani festly out of the question for police and fire departments or the army and navy to become unionized. The strike of the Boston police played havoc, land there will be no further attempts in that direction. The lesson of the Boston riots was country wide. The teachers may think there is no more harm in their joining the Fed eration of Labor than there is for wage workers in other callings to do so. They have no mind to resort to a strike, but no-strike clause, such as has been proposed, would amount to nothing, for without a right to lstrike the organization would not be Ia union.
 It has been suggested in school cir Yes that the council plan by which all teachers become members auto matically without expense would not only be the most democratic method by which teachers could make their grievances known, but would be the most satisfactory in every way.
 It is understood that the County Board of Education would be glad to have their teachers give such a plan fair trial. Certainly" as one of them remarked, "more can be &C., ,complished by cooperation than by any assemblage of pugnacity"
 There are problems besides that of salary. This proposed council, com- posed of far-visioned teachers, would discuss these questions and through a small committee present their rec concentrations to the superintendent and the board. The plan is surely worth trying.
 An educator of wide experience well says: Mot all wisdom rests within the board, nor again all within the teaching force. The board las the all-round and distant view, the teachers the closeup and intimate view of school questions. Therefore, 
 by uniting all these factors, there is bound to come the golden mean that will rebound to the benefit of the schools"
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 The report that King George is backing Herbert Hoover for President of the United States should not be recklessly bandied about. It may cause George to acquire an exaggerated notion of his own importance.
 An official of the treasury department says. "The public refuses to buy low priced articles As previously, if not ex- clusively, predicted in this column, the public is going to wake from it's trance some day.
 1 x # # 1 Officers of a Boston shoe company were fined s1oo0 each for profiteering, a total of 5000 As the company has probably made millions. it must be terribly de- pressed over having to pay out 5000 in lines
 The wife of a New York bootblack who is suing him for divorce, says he makes s225 a week. Most of the large incomes nowadays go to persons who work with their hands
 | Charles Garvice has been called the Harold Bell Wright of England In other words. MT. Garvice is not one of your authors who live in a garret. l As * x The late Admiral Pillsburv was called the Darwin of the Deep" He knew far mere about what goes on in the ocean than Annette Kellerman.
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