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Show such measure. Not so much as a letter let-ter waa aent out by the president of our Teachers' association soliciting their sentiments on tho satary question. ques-tion. Many Inquiries were directed to me. as to the source of the publlo statements und by whose authority they were made. I assured them that eurh a decision had not been reachad by the executive committee of the association. as-sociation. The decisions made by that body were that each new teacher com-iniT com-iniT into the district was to enter at a reduction of $100 per year under tha aalarles paid the new teachers entering enter-ing last fall. All the old tcachcra retained re-tained were to receive their present salaries, though they were to take on extra work. If necessary, without extra remuneration. This seemed a satisfactory satisfac-tory arrangement to all teachers with whom I conferred. Now. If any reduction In salaries for the retained teachers were Included In the schedule aubmltted to tho teachers, they were very aubtly put across. Certainly Cer-tainly the author of the schedule mad, . It ho clear that there eould be left no doubt in the mlnda of the central committeemen com-mitteemen as to the Interpretation thereof. We were assured that even the "elastic clause" was not intended to change the salaries of the teachers; I remaining In the district, except whera a teacher had been underpaid. In that case a alight raise might be given. We do not dispute ihe right of tha hoard of education to make a reduction reduc-tion In salaries wherever or whenever they deem It necessary, but we do dispute dis-pute the right of any committee to give forth the opinion of teachers tar-fore tar-fore having made any effort to give those teachers any opportunity to have any voice In the isaua. Itecauso of the hidden manner In which tills measure was "put over," we are forced to take a stand, aa did our pioneer ancestors, an-cestors, against "taxation without rcpi resentatlon." In behalf of the teachers who ara not algnlng their contructa, I am ploc. Ing these extenuating circumstance, before the putdlc. that all mav know that we are acting as indlvlduala. No agreement having been reached by tho asaoolatlon of teachers to accept a reduction re-duction In salaries, these teachers are not to he Judged, aa disloyal or unprofessional unpro-fessional in their attitude toward me association, the superintendent, tho school .official or tha pairona of tha .. district. Respectfully aubmltted. L. D. WRIGHT, Secretary Executive Committee, I LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Objection Made To Salary Procedure ED I'AOK WKHNKSIIAV LKTTKRS I'.dltor Telegram: Hid the tearhera of Hevler dietrlrt take tho Initiative In the present change In teachers' sala-rlea? sala-rlea? Had we not been given to understand un-derstand that the general public opinion opin-ion of the teachers' salary reductions was gained through a misinterpretation misinterpreta-tion of the adopted salary schedule; and that the reductlona were not at all likely. Thla explanatory article would have been made public Immediately Imme-diately following the publication of the suppoaedly mtainterpreted statementa contained In the county impera, that the cltlien might know that the general gen-eral body of teachers of the dlatrlrt were nof considering themselves overpaid over-paid and that they had nothing to do with the asking for a reduction In salary. sal-ary. Tha statementa In the Richfield Reaper would Indicate tha,t the total teaching body had been conferred with and had mutually agreed to offer to accept a cut In their present salaries, la reality they knew nothing ot any |