Show Utah and Its Teachers I IUTA TAH H is one of the few states that has shown a little tittle appreciation appreciation appreciation u UTA for its school teachers Our teachers are paid higher wages than prevail in a great majority of our sister common common- There is some consolation in this thought but it is nothing to be proud of for on the average teachers in America are miserably miserably miserably miser miser- ably underpaid and the wage that now prevails in Utah is not what it should be The Literary Digest in a recent edition gives some illuminating illuminat illuminat- ing g figures in regard to the salaries paid teachers in the nation as asa asa asa a whole It is pointed out that the teachers in this country arc are paid an average salary of a year The figures show that the teachers in our schools are receiving less wages than the scrubwoman employed in the public buildings of the United States government normal school graduates receive less salary than street sweepers high school principals s and superintendents superintendents super super- less than section foremen country school teachers less than the farmer pays the hired man who feeds his hogs h In Illinois there is a certain town where the average wage paid was 21 while the average wage paid teachers was paid miners was S' S 21 17 while the average wage age paid teachers was years year's wages while the salary of oP the high school principal was 65 Let Ld each community concludes the Digest invest in schools so that it may thereby invest in a trained manhood and womanhood that can play their part iI in n the great period of rebuilding rebuilding rebuilding rebuild rebuild- ing and reconstruction that lies before us Let each community set for its goal as far as it is practicable a minimum wage of at least 1000 1000 a year for the teachers of America This would cost the nation perhaps as much as we spent gloriously in but one week of the great war |