The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1920-12-03
SALARY INCREASE DESERTED

SALARY INCREASE DESERTED
On several points Maui News must take issue with an editorial on
the subject of the increase in teachers salaries which appeared in Wal
of the last paragraph quite as much as to any words which preceded il.
while it is possibly true that some of the teachers are underpaid
IL is equally true that some Of them are not worth what they are get
ting now. The working hours of the average people in this territory
While the school session is only four and a half hours there is the
day just passed, the solving of class problems and of the individual
and a half to nine hours will be found much nearer the average. And
m addition to those hours the teacher must continue his II her study
being worth their pay, it is true only so far as is the case with persons
When a surgeon performs a major operation it may be completed
in less than an hour: He is paid not for the hour merely, but for the
that rests with him. VI "N "' N
A teacher spends several years in preliminary preparation for her
life of the pupils rests with the teachers who start them on the path
goes far away from home, perhaps to one of MauYs rural schools, she
is away from Libraries, from music, from lectures, from entertainments
TO education she is giving up all of her waking hours, since she is
denying herself pleasure, recreation and culture. To make a success
have "tact" This is ne half day job.
father or the mother is not capable or has not the time to give child
The education ean1 it should have. If nothing is too good for the child the
tanned If nothing is too good for the child the parent will not be
clad, fed and contented teacher rather than one who is underfed,
anaemic and unhappy, one whose heart and spirit is in her work, rather
than one who is harrassed and worried, not capable of giving her best
rt me lew teachers RS, VINO I are INC not m worth their hn pay seldom las last long
petent ones, the patient, persevering Conscientious workers are the one.
that are found at their desk year in and year out.
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the mainland and it must always be kept in mind that if one wants to
have some one else do that which he is unable, incompetent or refuses
to do himself he must expect to pay full well for such services. SO
must it be with teachers salaries and the parents must expect to pay
taxes to meet the expense of making their offspring valuable members
OF the community. Manufacturing the raw material into the finished
product, the child to the citizen, this is the work of the teacher. The
parent gives the child life, the teacher makes it possible for the child
to do something with life. Assuredly the "laborer is worthy of the
hire"
Sailors get okohhao; fine light says a head line. Does that means
they bought it for illuminating purposes?
EawaiTs legislature has made a splendid record of accomplishment
at the special session. 1t did all that was necessary, did it without
quibbing and then came home. And the voters and the taxpayers like ii
While getting a county library it would be well to get territorial
support and assistance from the Carnegie institution at the same time.
The more funds available the better the library.
What a convenience wireless telephony would be while the legis-
lature is III session! Keeping the ear to the air would be more salts
factory than keeping it to the ground.
Perhaps the easiest way to settle the Territorial Fair problem would
be to hold it regularly on Maui in connection with the Maui County
Fair.
While others talk about Improvements Maui raises something more
than $SOOm to carry out harbor and wharf betterments. Once more,
money talks
It's only a few years ago that more shipping came to Kahuui than
any other Island port except Honolulu. History may repeat itself in
the near future.
tourists that is being done for the latter Island. Thanks, neighbor.