Show Murray Jurray Teachers To Ask l for Raise A special committee of teachers Is 15 prepare prepared to present a u rea reasonable and an feasible plan for or a general t salary In Increase Increase Increase In- In crease before the thc board of or education o of Murray school district at Its regular regular reg reg- ular meeting of or time the board tonight ht The Time conference of the tho teachers and board members to t at some definite system for fOI giving a fair all salary to ur C evory cery te teacher In iii the tue district is hs the time outstanding feature o of tonight tonight's 1 session The rile l board is understood to be he In tn accord with the teachers' teachers request und and is willing to act I Jr If if a legal wn nay canIo can I Iho lo Io found to secure the time necessary Cnn funds a. a AMU iII AM 1010 Mk We e rice re not at liberty to 10 divulge ullo the proposition wo we will set act before tho time board said Mrs Mamo Fraser of or tho Continued on page 7 MURRAY TEACHERS 11 I ASK FOR AN INCREASE Continued from Page Pate 1 1 committee last night Suffice to say m. m wo we will ask a a. fair fall and just wage Wo Ve Verece rece received d a slight Increase soon after aCter school opened but tho the constantly advancing advancing ad ad- cost of living HYing offsets that increase Increase in increase In- In crease consI considerably crabl A high standard of teaching prevails in Murray district j as practically all allI I the teachers hold certificates said Mrs rs Fraser Fraber Very few of oC tho 1110 teachers however howo have been able ablo to advance anco themselves to th the maximum salary of 1000 The committee that will wait walt upon tho the board of Murray lurra district consists of tho the following Mrs Fleming Flemin- Miss 1188 Barkley Miss McMillan cUllan and Russon Husson all aU of ot Hillcrest high school and Mrs Ir Maine Mamo Fraser Frasor Arlington and Miss Mies Mary Iary Boucher Liberty Libert school chool representing representing rep rep- resenting tho the elementary schools A V A splendid relationship exists c be- be t the teachers and the board of or ore e education of or Murray school chool district and the board boal will twill In be bo glad lad to consider an any suggestions or establishing a standard standard standard stan stan- dard WA wage e scao scale scalo among tho the teachers at tonight's ht's said G. G E. E Gaufin Gau Gnu fin in superintendent of oC schools In lit his opinion Mr 11 Gaufin believed the board will go o over ovel an any plan the teachers teachers' committee presents pr gents and will try tr to tho the best of its ability to arrive at a legal wa way of raising a fund to meet the thence nce needed ed Increases The board Is glad slad of ot this opportunity opportunity opportunity to assist the teachers in solving the tho high cost of living living- problem Our teachers have ha been faithful And to retain experts in the Murray schools I realize that Just fust salaries must bo ho paid It is this idea of keeping up the standard If de efficiency in the teachIng teaching teaching teach teach- ing s system of oC Murray lI district that the board of or e education has uppermost In mind Considers Children The board might arbitrarily raise teachers' teachers salaries and make up the deficit at tho the end nd of the thc year from next years year's budget but such a move would not bo be legal It is not unusual however for a school district to end tho the year car with a deficit The bu budget set this year is a adequate for or present salary needs If It a general raise of salaries were not put in o effect this year ear It might be established next year b by an ap Increase of the tax lev levy The Tho welfare of the children is the main consideration We Wo want to take care of the teachers Utah h must how- how er eer ex er retain the best educational system system system tem possible an and It can be bo done by making tho the teachers contented I r 1 believe Tho The Herald expressed this sentiment In its editorial on raising raisins teachers' teachers salaries in asking an in In- In crease They must have ha proper living conditions I Salary Increases Are Urged in New Nev York BT Ift Associated led Press b. b Now York Jan C. C G- G Material 6 Material increases In Increases increases in- in creases in teachers' teachers salaries were urged to today a in a a. program formulated by public pub pub- pub pub-I I lie lic education officials from nine eastern eastern east east- I ern states as aH a a. means of relieving a I critical shortage of teachers which h hu I closed hundreds of oC public schools and threatens to close moro more Tho The public schools o of the nation are arc facing a critical situation says say sa t the program In the states of oC the Atlantic Atlantic At At- Ian lantic lie seaboard hundreds of 01 schools are ale closed because teachers arc not available for or thorn There are arc being employed as teachers teach teach- ers large numbers oC persons who do donot donot donot not possess tho the qualifications that havo have hitherto been required A loss of stu students in the state normal schools school amount to 25 30 and in some states 50 per pel cent 1 Indicates that young persons persons persons per per- sons are arc turning turning- their attention to oc occupations occupations occupations oc- oc other than teaching Commercial Com Coin mercial Industrial lal opportunities I Ithe l are arc not on only attracting teachers from the schools but the they are drawing away from florn I supervisory ory positions in education those upon A whom Ahorn whom horn a reliance for leadership leadership leadership leader leader- ship should be placed Education as the chief chic concern o of tho the people related closely to their every every overy ev ov- ery social civic and industrial enterprise enterprise enter enter- prise must havo at once the serious attention of all citizens to tho the end that tho the compensation or teachers be established on such a a. piano plane as will attract into an and hold in all schools rural village and city competent Instructors in instructors instructors In- In of youth that a high standard standard standard stan stan- dard of qualification in tho the schools be assured that there be suitable encouragement encouragement ement as-ement to young men and women to enter upon the work of oC teaching teaching- that power initiative and skill be retained In supervisory super positions The pressing problems of oC the thc present present pres pres- ent time tho the settlement of oC tho the new problems should cause people to see that public o education be not permitted to suffer any lapse It Is a paramount dut duty of oC tho the local committee of tho state and of the tho nation each in its appropriate wa way to pre prepare para forthwith to meet tho the necessities of a most urgent urgent urs- urs ent situation |