Show J 1 UR f t LOAN AN J TO RAISE AI SALAR AlA I ES I f f lI Pi ent 1 Pay Held Injurious t R V Because Best Equipped 11 Instructors Quit J rS t il ring that last 5 year ear car of I S boys and girls were in- in ct d by Inadequately trained 1 hers because the he salaries s paid pal 1 lt precluded cJu the hiring of competent vie and d women the emergency comI com corn I milt of ot the Salt Lake L-ake Teachers' Teachers atlon Is Issuing a series of wt di ts calling upon citizens gen gen- fe r to vote yote for a a. loan for teachers' teachers 5 s 's salaries l According i t Ac to one of the circulars r oard of f education takes s the oS t nothing bedone done f position on that nothing can be done until 1 the 1921 session of the legisla- legisla t ture Many citizens have Joined the teachers l teachers rs In the position that money mone can can an b be be borrowed under section I dj of tile the 1917 statutes of Utah for a aI period jeriod of from three to five live years I Granite district has already secured y relief J for teachers in this way Other I j j i school districts in the state propose jf to to I hold special elections under section t in order to meet salary needs for r next year i r f Owing to the low salaries teachers have been leaving the profession in numbers In 1916 there I were emergency teachers m in I Utah schools In 1919 there were I 1061 or third one-third of oi the entire teach teaching teaching teach teach- ing body of the state Emergency teachers are are those whose training and I experience e are insufficient to entitle them to a teaching certificate Compared to other cities Salt Lake I does not stand in an enviable position in regard to teachers' teachers salaries Out I of a long list Salt Lake leads in the th 1 i t number of elementary teachers re receiving re- re I less than 1000 The number of these is The median salary paid h here re is 1000 In Seattle Portland Port Fort land and Butte it Is 1600 The attorney general has lias held that the board of educations education has Ure tife right to put the matter of a vote on the loan before the people The committee asks that this be done |