The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-08-30
Summer Earnings Keep Them Going
So They Can Make Both Ends
Meet, Poll Of Country
Shows.
PITCH HAY ON FARMS
Women Act as Governesses and Help
Out in Homes While Men
Go to Harvest
ing.

! NEW YORK, Aug. 30-America'
. army of public school teachers will
return to the classrooms next month
. a richer and wiser lot For they have
been making hay while the sun shone
this summer-many of them literally,
iothers figuratively.
/ When high price waves hit the
ranks of the pedagogs last year, thou,
sands of them were forced to seek
employment in other branches Of en-
ldeavor, while hundreds of others OBJ
tanned part time work to aid in keep
ing the wolf from the door until the
session OF school was ended. Still
others resolved to draw on their al
ready 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 superintendent, boards OF
education and teachers societies were
asked in several cities how the
teachers were spending the summer,
and how many of them were doing
other than school work, with a view
to re-entering the little red school
houses all over the land in Septem-
Der with a fattened pocketbook
! Some Of the replies to queries fol-
low:
| NEW YORK-Of the 21,321 elemen-
jtary, high school and vocational
teachers in the greater city, most
available figures show more than S.
800 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 personally con-
lducted tours to nearby summer re-
sorts, ETC., while $50 were reported as
doing chautauqua work. No accurate
record was kept at board of educa-
/, ton offices.
| CHICAGO-Incomple records kept
by the teachers federation, the board
! Of education and parent-teachers' as
sociations. show approximately $500
Of the S,55S teachers in Chicago did
part or full time outside work this
summer. Most of them tutored acted
as statesmen in department stores and
in the field, conducted summer camps,
and worked on farms. About 1000
attended summer schools in and out
of Chicago. while more than 500
taught in night schools.
INDIANAPOLIS-E. l.. Hines, sup
erintendent of public instruction, said
that scores Of high and grade school
principals were working as clerks
and helpers. in the automobile indus
try, while hundreds had gone to the
farms.
zone cannot blame the teachers if
they seek outside work. as they de-
serve more than the $500 year they
now get in the schools. We will be
about 700 teachers short when school
opens this fall"
ATLANTA-Thirty percent of At
lanta's school teachers were away at
college summer schools this summer
trying to increase their efficiency"
according to w. F. Dykes, superinten-
dent of schools. About 20 percent of
the high school teachers have re-
signed, and their places will have to
be filled by others this fall, Dykes
said. This was done because Of low
salaries paid, he said. Those not at
tending summer schools are working
as clerks, statesmen and farm hands !
in and around Atlanta.
DETR OIT-Teachers of Detroit are /
working in automobile factories. and
selling insurance and school books.
Many are engaged in educational pro-
paganda work. No records as to
actual numbers or percentages were
kept.
The board of education at Detroit
has filed a suit against the city to
compel payment of a bonus to teach ,
ers promised in contracts for the {
coming year. The city controller has
refused payment and many teachers
declare they will not return to school ,
houses this fall unless the matter is r
favorably adjusted {
DENVER-Coaching students for t
high school and college, newspaper
reporting, working on farms and in t
and doing clerical work l
nave kept Denver teachers occupied 7
his summer. Scores of teachers of
both sexes have been attending sum- {
ner schools. Chances favor an in O
Increase in teachers pay, education a
board officials declare.
NEW ORLEANS-Twenty percent 4
If New Orleans teachers attended g
summer schools, many are selling in b
;urance, while twentyfv percent got q
obs at teaching in summer courses
One is running for congress. 7
prospects or an increased pay check l
or teachers this fall are bright. &c ;
,ording to J. NJ. Gwinn, superinten, !
lent. A proposed constitutional
amendment will be voted on empow- ?
,ring the state to levy a T-mill tax .
IN all property for school purposes s
NEW HAVEN-Acting as COVER S.
lesses, nurses, saleSwOmen. agents
md summer school teachers have 5
,een vocations picked out by New
haven school teachers TO fatten their T
ocketbooks this summer. T
New Haven teachers are hopeful 8
hat the coming school year may not l
,ause them as much want as was /
experienced last year. A thirty-three 2
percent increase in pay is effective >
& - .