Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-06-12
SQUARE DEAL. IN
EDUCATION, PLEA
Of JOHN CONWAY
State Superintendent De-
pIores Efforts Being Made
to Reduce Salaries OF
State Teachers.

Especial Correspondence to The Journai)
East Las Vegas, June 11.-State
superintendent John V. Conway
addressed an audience of about
about 1000 teachers at the llfeld
auditorium here Friday evening.
II have a special message for
you" said the superintendent,
"When we defeated amendment g.,
1 thought the fight was over, but
now. there is new battle against
those who would cut teachers sal
aries TO the point where no SER
respecting, real-for- sure, qualified
teacher would be willing to serve.
Education is on trial. Even To-
night these wiseacres and lax
hounds are in town, holding
meeting. Teachers, we are not flght-
ing for more money, not even mere
" for a certain number OF dollars
and cents already being paid, but
rather for a principle, for square
deal in education to the children OIL
the state, and l want to say TO you
that we've licked that element once
and we are going to give EN- an
other drubbing this time"
superintendent Conway drew a
vivid contrast between the three
month, $50 schools Of 1910 and the
present intelligent, efficient sys-
TEN and pointed out what the pro
posed schedule would do toward
ieviving. the old condition. THE
schools cost more because we are
giving the people the rural as well
as the urban, a square deal, and
challenge anyone to prove to me
that there is a single qualified
teacher for third grade pay The
speaker pointed out that the pro-
posal to take Chaves county as a
standard of the low salaries paid
there was not fair, since living con-
ditions and costs vary throughout
the state. Grant county, he said,
has minated that it will resent
any effort to cut school expenses
at the cost of education so long as
the is mill limit has not been
reached. Other counties have eX-
pressed similar sentiment.
Is Superintendent Conway announc-
ed that he would be candidate
in the fall and would run squarely
upon the platform of continued ed
vocational progress and enliGhten-
ment and would fight to the last
ditch, politics or no politics, and
election or no election. He chal-
lenged any member of the group
lie calls "tax-hounds" to run for Of
flee on platform of cut pay for
qualified teachers. Let 'em try
that" he said, land see where they
getv To illustrate his point Mr..
Conway called attention to the fine
system of schools in Albuquerque
and asked if the citizens of that
city would be likely to listen to a
proposal to go back to the cheaper,
inefficient system Of Is or 20 years
ago. mo, SIR" he exclaimed.
These taX-hounds couldn't get
away with that bunk in Albuquer-
que and If we keep our nerve and
gumption they won't get away with
it In the rural systems, either"
Mr.. Conway closed, after many
Interruptions of applause, by stat
fng that he expected to meet every
teacher in the state and tell them
the situation this summer and that
he hoped that the profession would
~ SNSlS way JuStlIJ tiAO SltAliio AAI
was making for IT.
Other numbers on the program
were rendered by the Normal Or
chestra and the Glee club. both new
for the summer, but already func-
tioning in pleasing style. The Foun-
tain Trio from Mesilla, consisting
of Misses Tile and Elizabeth Foun-
tain and their brother. Henry, ap-
peared in Spanish songs and dances.
The singing and dancing of Miss
Title Fountain was the best thing
in the way of colorful Spanish en-
tertainmeDt Las Vegas has ever
seen. Her castanet dance in Sc
Vile costume was a whirlwind of
graceful movement and of color.