Arizona republican., 1920-03-18

were put on the payroll of the United States government at S15o0 year. And in the conduct of the world war, In 1 the congress of the United States, you had placed in there to conduct the greatest corporation in the world through the most critical hour of its entire life, a group of men who had the power of declaration of war. the power of controlling the expenditures and or engineering this government, only 5
 of whom had ever employed more than five people in their lives in the business | in which they were previously engaged. "Too Many Laws" We were busy building up and we even forgot that most necessary thing in democracy. and that is the .devel- opment of a certain sort of intelligence on the part of the people composing that democracy.
 "The curse of America today is too
 many laws. In five years, as against
 Ensland's ten years of work in law
 making, resulting in 1900 laws. the United States, in our state and na- tional bodies. passed 62, $50 laws. A
 great many of these are like the law
 on the statute books of the state of
 New Jersey. which reads: That when ever two trains shall meet at d cross
 road, neither shall go forward until the other has passed by That is still
 law in the state of New Jersey. They have law in California that no woman shall wear hatpin longer than five inches. I doubt if there is a woman in California who knows there is such a law. Still it is there and it cost the people of California money to put it on the books.
 Discussing the question of teachers salaries, MT. Trefz said:
 Low Pay Harms Schools
 "You take our schools. We pay our teachers very much less money in this country than we pay the men who use the hammer and Grill in our quarries. Now you certainly cannot think that it takes less skill to work in ivory than it does in stone. The retention of in telligent direction of our institutions in this country in the university and col lege and school is a matter of serious moment.
 "Last year we were trying to place 1 ,930, 900 in positions and we had hard time trying to place those men in posi- tions. On top of that you had 143, 7SO school teachers resign their positions to go into business MT. Trefz cited the case of professor in Leland Stan ford university who resigned his pro- fessorship at 5000 a year when Wein- stock ts Lubin of Sacramento, a large mercantile house. offered him $60oO. as typical of condition prevailing throughout the country.
 t"N ou have that condition all over the United States" he continued. and yet your public schools are creating your citizenship. When you pay a school teacher s760 & year. you will get about $500 return. If you pay $2000 a year you will probably get 5000 worth Of service
 The commercial federation of Cali fornia, Mir. Trefz said. was seeking as its first objective the passage of a state law making non registration of voters punishab bIe by fine of $500; second the elimination of friction be- tween capital and labor: third, making the teaching profession, instead of one of the poorest pai6 professions. one of the best paid and lastly, that the fed- eration was conducting a campaign of Americanism.
 The Federation stood firmly against the closed shop, because the principal was un- American, he said. advocating the open shop IS the only principle tenable under the constitution.
 Summing up his remarks, he said he hoped to see no illiteracy in the United States by 1880; no poverty for the fit, | anc a condition in which mo man Is | to eat cake until all may | have bread"