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Show UTAH SCHOOL TEACHERS WILL AGITATE FOR SALARY RAISE ! . I Dr. Georg-e E. Vincent, J. W. Searson and Dr. F. M. McMurry to Talk. IK the question of increasing teachers' salaries in Utah does not come up in a rather vigorous form at one of the sessions of the State Educational as-I as-I soclatton, which opens this morning in the tabernacle, it will not be because there is not a strong sentiment among the profession for an agitation of the matter, but rather because no one will take I he necessary step tu launch the movement. "Teachers salaries are notoriously low," said a prominent educator yeste--day, "and this is especially true, now that: the price of everything has gone up I and everybody's wage or salary has risen . except, the teacher's. If teachers are not paid more, the schools will lose all thei r best men and women, especially their men. for the reason that the army is draining every field and creating a. demand de-mand for workers in every vocation. This means, necessarily, that there will be many inducements offered to teachers to leave the profession lor a moro lucrative calling." A few places, such as Salt Lake City, have increased the pay of teachers, but in the grea t majority of cases the salaries sal-aries of school people remain a-s they were before the war. In Salt Lake, an increase, of 5 per cent was made for this year on the recommendation of F,. A. Smith, superintendent of ci Ly schools. In what form this question of salaries will arise in the convention no one of the teachers was found willing to so y, although it is generally predicted that it is sure to cbmc up at one of the sessions. Expect Big Attendance. .1. Fred Anderson, secretary of the association, as-sociation, report s that every I hing is in readiness for' the largest teachers' con-j con-j vention in the history of the state. All told, there are 11000 public school teachers in Utah, and tiits number will be aug-I aug-I merited this ye.ir by upwards of S00 teachers of the Mormon church schools, many of whom will come from ouLslde I the state. Owing to tiie fact that attempts at-tempts are being made this year to oi-ganize oi-ganize an interniountain education association, asso-ciation, many visitors are expected from states adjoining Utah, especially Idaho. Dr. Cieorge E. Vincent, president of the Rockefeller foundation and former president presi-dent of the University of Minnesota, will speak at the afternoon session. lie arrived ar-rived yesterday afternoon, on the same train as Professor J: W. P-earson of the Kansas State Agricultural college, who will .speak t his evening on "The Literature Lit-erature of Common Life." Dr. VincenL's address will be "The Meaning of America." Amer-ica." Dr. Frank M. McMurry of Columbia 1 imiversity and A. 1. Klkus. formerly1 United States a mbassador to Turkey, who are in tho city, are scheduled for addresses before the convention. Every meeting of the convention, declared de-clared D. C. .iensen. president of the Utah Educational association, will begin and close promptly at the appointed time, no matter what happens by way of attempted at-tempted delay. "This is a teachers' convention," con-vention," he added, "and, you know, teachers are supposed to be prompt." Rockefeller Institute. Dr. Vincent Is director of an institution of which people have heard so much and know so little. Tho Rockefeller foundation, according to Dr. Vincent, does not take the place of either the government or of private charity, although it does work in charities. chari-ties. Rather, the institution performs experiments in malaria, yellow fever, tuberculosis tu-berculosis and other diseases, with a view to ascertain whether anyt hing can be done with them or not, and if so, precisely pre-cisely what. "You could never induce private char-it char-it v." he explained, "to do the work of experimentation in tuberculosis in France, for instance, that we are doing there today. to-day. Nor is it likely that tiie government in that country would do so, even if the war were not going on, so many arc the tasks of governments everywhere. But we enter the field, carry on experiments |