Show GERMAN SCHOOL SALARIES I Our consul at Kiel IGel sends to his government the figures res for the city of or Strassburg which he regards I I II I as ns t typical of all German Germany of the salaries paid to German teachers The authorities of Strassburg have ha established a new schedule of pay with advances advances advances ad ad- vances of from 2 to 10 per cent Under this schedule schedule sched sched- ule the thc men teachers in the elementary schools receive receive reee re re- re- re ee ve from per annum up to and women women women wo wo- wo- wo men from to according to the length of service ser the highest pay coming after twenty nine years cars of teaching In the thc secondary schools which arc are akin to our high schools women receive per annum and the men 95 in addition to the rates in the elementary elementary elemen elemen- tar schools This makes the maximum of tary pa pay women women wo wo- men as us high as and that of men but this has to be bc after twenty-nine twenty years of service But these teachers are arc subjected to th the severest tests at every stage of or promotion In the five years rears preceding preceding- 1 1906 OG 1 the number n of L nun men tt teachers in increased increased in- in creased per cent and the women teachers per cent while the number of pupils increased only 91 per cent The rhe total number of schools in the latter latter latter lat lat- lat lat- ter year were and the total number of pupils was This was 94 per cent of the lie total children in Germany of school se age leaving only 6 G per pei percent percent cent for the private schools which must include practically I all the children in Germany A Marge large proportion of the work in German schools is devoted to industrial trade and when we think that all the children in that country are arc being educated educated educated edu edu- and und that more stress is paid to industrial training training training train train- ing than any other we can see at a glance wh why Germany Germany Ger Ger- many is making very great and solid progress in material material ma ma- prosperity and in commerce but Especially in manufactures Plent Plenty of university graduates in Germany are working in iu German factories anc and since Germany has established her bel merchant marine marino so gO that she can deliver her own goods and carr carry back the tho raw material she has Las to buy in her own ships it itis itis itis is not strange that she is making tremendous encroachments encroachments en en- on English trade There are arc a whole lot of lessons which this country country country coun coun- try ought to learn from the example of Germany She has nearly of people crowded into a space not so large as California but she finds profitable profitable profi profi- table work for them then that is while the salaries are arc low and while because of the nature of the countr country the utmost thrift must be e used still she is progressing progressing progressing progress progress- ing faster than Hn any other land beyond the sea |