Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1920-02-06 | Page 4 | The Open Forum

e- e e I l L eL The Open Forum TEACHERS SALARIES Editor Edior Herald I taught school loSe ol months at Spanish Fork Utah which time I 1 was compelled to r leca because use 1 my amy v wag wages s 70 TO Pe per Der m were ln Inadequate d ju 1 to to n meet ct expenses expense an anthe ShIP an anthe the tue demands made malo upon me I ya i called caled two weeks before com om to attend Institute I had I to I pay jay a board d and amid room rent remit while another nother no sahr salary Two o months later I Institute was held which ct extra expense for Cor car fare etc The Thc for forepart fore part of or the tho term the schools IS were we closed down on term account of of beet dl J ging vacation during which time Milf the thc teachers teachers' wages deducted ant of or course their expenses expenses' continued lb w the lame iame ter LaterI I wa was upon to UK tak t a correspondence course which ct COt 10 Then In imm December another In in- in II 0 was held at Salt Lake wih with eS es- es SI- SI of or 2 25 and nd L no iio 10 offer RD of oC aIA j addi L cover er ima LII pa pay to When I considered that the greater part of oC tho ho time I 1 was paying over So Soper i iper per month for board and nO I ft clothes in the meantime I thought hotter bettor to resign n. n These are onlY thi th few of or tho the expenses confronting teachers Such conditions are arc ruining P th schools of or Utah and amid man many other Steps StepA shou should be taken Immediately bt Increase e the thc salary aJar of or teachers Tet rr should demand o. o 0 state A rage Illiteracy will wJ continue w ta such rules incer under crease rules I I J. J B. B B yours our Fruita ruHa Colo Cob S