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Show YOU GET JUST WIIAT YOU PAY FOR. It is noted that some counties have been advised to cut teacher salaries twenty per cent next year in a frantic endeavor to reduce taxes. Of course, no one can be blamed for wanting relief, but we sometimes wonder if we stop long enough to fully analyze these demands de-mands before making them, or place the responsibility where it belongs. Surely, no one but ourselves can be censured if we have developed a scale of living that surpasses any other country in the world. We demand the best of everything, and we kick when we don't get If there is a bump in an otherwise oth-erwise perfect piece cf wood, we yell because 'it is there; if we go into a store we expect someone to jump and jump quickly to give us service; we have demanded fine schools and expert instructors, and off ccmes the head of the teacher who has falied to develop your child's intellect as you thought it should have been developed. Our educational institutions are a tremendous factor in the tax problem, but don't blame the teachers. They didn't incur the indebtedness; in-debtedness; we, the people, did that. And a little more analyzing will reveal the fact that school teachers are a pretty poorly paid lot of employees as a whole in comparison with, skilled trades or other professions. We never heard of anyone getting rich at teaching teach-ing and we notice they have their retirement fund for the old ones who have outlived their usefulness. useful-ness. The county that wants to cut twenty per cent in the salaries of its teachers can get instructors for less, no doubt about that. There are teachers and teachers, just the same as there are automobiles auto-mobiles and automobiles, and in either case you get just what you pay for. The colleges, universities and normal schools have no secret formula for turning out a perfect product; they run the whole scale of good, bad and indifferent and their value is measured solely by salary they are able to command by their ability. |