Show snappier looking teachers by JEAN NEWTON aws a MONE who has reached jopho X more knows eliat people with brains in their head w ho are con cerald with intellectual matter coca mand respect without having to resort to the snappy garb of jazz musicians and other gay dressers some of the ablest teachers in our schools may be two or even three years late in their fashions and yet are two or three years ahead of mod era thought they might it they could dress snappier but they dont all get the salary of cloak models my readers are wondering doubtless hy all the excitement I 1 have merely quoted one of the colorful retorts in d colorful new york newspaper on the plea of the ident of the national educational as ocl atlon for better dressed teachers in fact stylish schoolman scho olma ams something was said about dowdy dress indicating a dowdy mind and that teachers should give more thought to their appearance and fashion bow what Is so terrible about that to bring down on the bead of its au thor mention of jazz and others I 1 for one am heartily in favor of the idea of snappier looking teachers tor our oung I 1 believe it has al ready been demonstrated that children who like to go to school will learn more and also more easily also that children are no exception to the rest of the human race that will go a long way for something or some one who la rood to look the hare to look like a cloak model or a fashion plate which incidentally Is a far cry from dowdiness or indifference to clothes and fashion but to my mind the beneficial effect upon our children of a snappy looking teacher one whose clothes are of modern mintage and pleasing to the eye la able indeed I 1 should go a step fur ther than clothes and becom mend an occasional visit to the beauty parlor that the ensemble may be at and if it la a matter of money as the saying goe the remedy Is obvious raise their salaries lou know we do so much for our children 2 1131 bell syndicate |