Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-31
BOARD Meets Soon
/. ON TEACHERS RISE.
Dinner Beeber Says Canvass Is
Being Made to Get Quorum
Together
OPPOSES FLAT INCREASE

p;,,ror Rccber. member of the finance
.o,,n,ittee of the Board of Education,
stated over the phone from Atlantic
C;ty today that special meeting OF
.,L"poard Of Education would be called
VI" sonn as possible to consider the
Question of teachers salaries.
no said that canvass is now being
do ~ tbe members to see If a suffi
n;omt number can be assembled to act
IN the question and that meeting will
no called as soon as quorum can be
raised.
any plap of giving a fat increase among
the teachers.
onposed." said Mr.. Beeber. but the
principal one Is that such fiat distri-
hutton. equal to each one, would not be
satisfactory.
'Tbe Dick plan. which provides grad
mated advances for the teachers accord
ing to their grading. is more satisfac-
tory. and the moving up of the schedule
for year would make their advances
reasonably large. The $500 900 that it
Is proposed to divert from the $1,000
OOO school loan would be needed to
carry this advance Of the schedule into
effect In fact, II would take from 81,
200. 900 to 81 400, 900 to make this ef-
fective.
~ understood that the citizens com
mittee was committed to S40O fat
increase per teacher. but even though
they might be satisfied with less the
principle is just the same.
Board Knows It's Problems
1.-THE citizens committee cannot pos
aibly know the intricacies Of board
problems as the board itself does, and
any commitment to a fiat rise for the
teachers would put the board in an un-
tenable position.
Even If the board committed itself
to no stipulated rise in salaries. an ad-
vance of the kind recommended by the
citizens committee would eventually
lead to trouble: as the teachers, IL they
got a smaller rise next year, or none
at all as the case might be, would cause
trouble.
''If Mr.. Gratz or Mr.. Wanamaker,
however. should desire to have a meet
ing of the finance committee to consider
this proposition. should be ready and
willing at any time to attend"
Franklin Smedley. another member OF
the finance committee. on the other
hand indicated that he was in accord
with the plan of Simon Gratz to ask
the citizens committee to interest
financial men in floating the loan.
He also stated that the stipulation OF
George Wharton Pepper. acting chair
man of the committee. that the money
be divided in the form of fat and
equal distribution or increase to the
teachers, appealed to him as a fair one.
"Of course" said Mr.. Smedley. ~
should like to see the whole matter
definitely before the committee before
saying what I would do, but the plan
sounds reasonable to me.
Wants ITO Proceed
ANY plan that will insure the teach
ers more money and at the same time
take care of the other employees Of the
board is satisfactory 20 me. Ny prin-
cipal concern is that we proceed within
our legal limitations.
Since Mr.. jenkins has declared the
plan of offering the bonds for sale over
the counter a legal one, we will ad :
vertise it again and would just as soon
have it sold through the citizens com =
mittee as in any other way.
I'VE divised the counter sale method
of disposing of the bonds as the only
method left for us to raise the necessary
money for the teachers. / will be in
the city all summer and will be ready
at any time to get together with
members of the finance committee or
the board to consider the question