Show PLEA Pl A FOR BETTER SALARIES Why Wy Teachers in Salt Lake Ike Schools Should Receive More Re Remuneration Remuneration m To The Salt Lake La e Herald Herld The Th recent discussions relative to t H B Bl l which provides proVide for the tho increase of f the tax ta from 5 SY to P 64 mills miUs for the school maintenance fund Cund in cities cUe of oC the first class claa leads me to ask for space in jn your our valuable paper for this article artice writ written wrt ton ten from Crom the standpoint of a taxpayer When hen the salaries salar s paid to our teachers are compared com red with wih those thoe paid by other oilier oher towns of our rank in the west we w fall taU considerably below blow In Salt Lake Cit City the grade teacher receives from to ii 7 J per year jear or while in Seattle the th maxi mal 10 mum for grade teacher is 1000 tier per an annum annum annum num In Los Angeles Angele grade gade salaries rang range from Jt to S 8 per pr an annum num lum while in their high school the sal salaries salaries salaries aries range from front o to I f 0 which i s far tar above abote abe our schedule the minimum there being nearly nearl equal to our maximum The salaries at Boise Bols Butte and arid Denver are arc much in excess of what they the are ar here here It is worthy of note hate that the the schedules schedule I in a all of these the e cities have been modified within the past pat twelve Welve months because of ot the increased cost of living I vm g The salary question queston is under discussion In n all al pans pars of the country hio and In diana have hae recently reC reseed laws fixing the fhe he minimum salaries of or teachers and amid 1 a similar law is now before the Kansas Innus 1 IR legislature The teachers of Sew New Jersey this year have received an increase of or JD per er cent During the past seven years e the salaries of ot Missouri teachers have baye in increased Increased increased creased 41 it per cent cent In a New ew Jersey Jere town Lown of only 30 Inhabitants the min rain minImum mum Is 5 with a I maximum of ot poo In Knas Kansas City Mo Io the salaries range from JOT O to 5 in ten monthly pay pa payments ments Let It be remembered that the cost Of pr living in the east especially Ip In the central states Is II far below blow the cost hero here her From the statistics It published in The Herald Jerald a few fa days das ago I glean some in interesting n In facts relative to the tho cost of liv living I v vIns lug Ins under the title tte of Expenses Expanses of or Teachers While these thes thet statistics re referred rt fem entirely to local conditions a glimpse at a recent bulletin of the na us national bureau burau of ot labor No o 65 G published In July Jub 1006 1906 1 throws additional light upon the subject According to this au authority authority authority the prices of or out of thirty articles arice of pf staple food tuffs are higher than they have Jave been bEn since 1 I f understand the teachers schedule of ot sal salaries sl aries gries Irie at the present is just about abut the same saIne as it was ten or twelve years ers ago One hundred dollars dollar then meant more than IO means menns now o and ant while the sal salaries salaries aries ures may maj ma have hae been lic n adequate for tor th se iso le times of ot financial depression today they thy are entirely inadequate anti and ant the poor por teacher teher has difficulty In making both ends meet No teacher can cn do justice to her work or to herself without sufficient salary salar to maintain her ber professional and ad social IQ lal standing and to furnish a little littlemore littlemore more than actual living expenses for or twelve months montha in the year The efficiency t s 1 1 I t will VI be in direct proportion to the recognition nion of ot the efforts of or time the teaching body bod Non to get et to the point of this com corn communication communication I wish to ask What at is the most businesslike method of dealing with wih this situation Is I it i not to t meet it i in iri inthe the same manner that has been b en pursued by b competent business men in commer commercial commercial cial lines of activity In the bulletin 1 to which reference was wa made above aboe a table tf g industries is given showing that I since 1904 10 wages wags have hae in v n of those these the indus indu industries tries tres In an editorial in iii lt The Tte Herald I think a i few re weeks ego ago was given a list lUt lat of oC grasping corporations all al gen of which have advanced wages on an all average of f 10 per r cent within the past few months months Moreover It t will wi be recalled Unit that the na no national ton l house of ot representatives has hal juet jUIt acted favorably y upon the postmaster gen geri generals recent reent suggestion that ht it would be b e necessary no eslary to increase the wages of mail mai clerks In order to retain rtin competent men menIs menIs Is Js it any less necessary that teachers wages be b Increased for or like Ik purpose p it I has ha wisely wise been said that th a process of weeding needing has hs beet b In vogue v gue among teachers for the past pat few ew years ers But it itha has ha been ben a weeding out from among the roost rost competent ones ne because they found foud better compensation in other lines Jine of oC work work When we consider the vast t influence tf t tH H a teacher teach r upon the lives and characters 1 of the tim coming generation It I would seem wise to secure the best bet teachers teacher to be e had hadnot not the t e best to t be had for such Q a niggardly sum sure as some sonie citizen might be satisfied to have have offered and it Is 1 my m candid opinion that any at attempt tempt to curtail curti salaries al res so that they i will barely barly meet the expenses of ot living wi Is ft L serious blunder that on m n business 1 principles alone the thinking taxpayer will wi hesitate long Ions before mak making rk making ing Especially ls I this true when we consider at what wat small Iman expense to t the taxpayer the conditions ian can be b remedied the passing of ur a Jaw law making possible when v hen necessary neer an increase in the tax tac ta taIe levy Ie of 1 I mill mi 10 tO cents cent on the hundred dollars dollar On a valuation of or s 2000 o this ti t would amount amont to a a tax of oC 2 2 per annum or r just the amount that some parents parentI paid for a months tuition tulo per pe child a afew tow few years yearn ea ago when WhO the t 9 revenue epu was ws Wf ex ox exhausted exhausted hausted before the th end of the school year tar For this reason alone U It I would oa be 0 I economy in the song long run rn to the taxpayers 1 ers era of Salt Lake Lmke City as as welt well wel ns as sound Bound business policy for the legislature to pass p the bUll bill bUl making possible the increase n rae of tax tX levy je whenever such increase be beC cemes emes C e necessary n essar Superintendent reco for increased salaries an are a along niong the thu right I nOl Lot Lt us hope bopp that the th legislature will wn make i It possible Jot or orile ile the school fc l board to OI put mit lt them th t in Wi force Y r |