The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-02-29

country is short $1,000 teachers ana
there are 5000 incompetent teach
ers not teaching, just holding
school. Tho teacher colleges and
normals over the country report that
they have 20 per cent fewer students
in these courses than ever before.
The enrolment OF every school in
the country is increasing because
the population is Increasing. The
state Of New York, which, with the
exception Of California, had the best
paid set of teachers in the world
Every county in oklahoma is short
OF teachers Ardmore is short-we
are forced to send as substitutes
senior girls to take the places of
teachers who are required to be at
least normal graduates--at least two
Years above the high school-with a
wears study in pedagogy and science
of teaching.
"What is the cause? Teachers
/ have left the profession because the
commonest Of laborers make more
! money. The men who mind the
| train receive twice as much as the
men who train the mind. \ hieh
"chool graduate with little expert
ence in business can make as much
or more than a normal graduate or
a college graduate teaching.
"a chart showing the com parison
Of teachers salaries in five middle
western states with the union scale
of wages Of certain occupations was
here shown by Mr. Rinsland).
This chart Will show some fir
ures OF comparative salaries in five
states. You notice that machin!5ts
athcrs, blacksmiths, plumbers, car
penters, hod carriers. bakers, all r.
ccivc more thar even high school
teachers, yet Wa require n teacher
to invest four years in high school
and four years in college, from
which at the time they go TO schoo
they receive no salary and thor
when they are graduated we pas
them less than hod carriers who's.
average education is below the ski
grade and we expect these people f.
teach citizenship. To me It Is ,
wonder that bolshovisin did no
break OUT amongst the teachers.
"Thc business world is calling 1D
tine trained mind-teachcrs have thci
minds traincd--surh advertisement
1rl inducements as this one | al
holding up before you is being mailc,
10 every teacher in this country
tMr. Rinsland held up a big advu
tiscmcnt calling for teachers TO lcly'
their professions and enter othc
work because of higher pay. Alr
Rinsland asked how many teacher
in the room had received this "a.
/ vcrtisemont Practically every teach
er present held up her hand. ON
teacher said, The one rcce'v,
from this company was printed O,
branded red paper,O
"Thc only way we are going t
hold these teachers Of CITIZENSHIP
and Amoricanization for our futur
| state is to place the salary mar
up with those of these offers. Lii
ing has increased 100 per cent
. shoes and clothing you and | know
/ have increased nearer l50 per cent
and yet | know of no school whcI
teachers salaries have increased ha'
tS Ulutn III ill' SilIllt lIInt, SilCt "
, went to war Moreover, reports fror
the federal department of labor shoy
{ that foodstuffs and necessities hay
increased 20 per cent from Deccn
/ bcr 10, 1919 to January 10. 1920 O
if these things keep on increasing "
, will have a normal increase Of a
| least ~ per cent more in a year
t so that from the time teacher sign
/ her contract until the last month
| under which she works under tina
2 contract, living goes up "A per cen
ask you why should the most pg
triotic Of public servants bear al