Show i LL CLARK WA MI f That His II Talk Before Literary Club Was Not Ladles LadUs s Reported Correctly WRITES TO SUPT suii CHRISTENSEN Teachers With Income Not ot charge p pid but tut Said That Salaries teCC Were Too LOw will wilt doubtless News Nes of ot the tho i rw Prof s n H Clark clork th the dramatic reader vho ho appeared a r weeks wee ago ngo was wall severely e ral re alleged to have larks for ter r crl made In a talk the t va ttA dub CU ot city eLt That it re Literary not to say wHO were evident tram from the fat fol rue is s written b by the h id I t Supt letter ChristenSen f of ot the tty city elt schools I Clark says fas sa of ot Chicago April I 4 1 Tb cie Christensen Salt Lake e Cit lr n D II n for tor iri than you MV I 1 Dear jear ear attention to te tho the newspaper r W m my j et left left Halt Bolt Lake Iata In BUCI lIuch n a 1 aU pl that I 1 hud hail time LImo only U Ce 00 report of ot my talk at th the to not retain a I cop COly or of the tho paper in U dIt It bleh that tha t sea Fen It u IJ t quite ha report port are likely to provo prove In tle t l to those thoM tho a who did not henr hear and It therefore gives mo nia moIn moch PI pr ch pleasure to t Let Itt OU kno know what I did Fa saY saYI that In n a city cI ty of ot tho 1 Cf I t Silt Salt Lake jakO ake It was necessary to tot lU two months or ornea orye t e II ilose the before the tho regular time month one I nea ye out why h tile the citizen Ion and general aR 9 a 0 I way a to remark that ot of m ray nt out for fOl knoW the reason down don In SAlt and that tbt It was as for tor the tho ot Cf education to investigate tho the tax tox ta problem certaInlY stated Hated most 1 small too MI callY that our were that thaI I In superintend IB i l of of ot education were vero tM 8 d who engage teachers to t he wy very tar far Wow below the tho standard In ed cd J were rete and an am experience I that all th teachers foil felt below Mow tho the ay And nd that this was wan Se 11 l trUe in rural maJ districts district I added too that hat the tho teachers were doing far totter better paid for and mOte more work than they were you then that the criticism won was nife rede lIa e not 50 10 o much flUCh on tho teachers na LL on te communIty statement stat ment regarding tho the colon of teachers was wag of ot course Soon jocular Vr lar hr The ilea Hea was this that the tto teach bC slon Itself should unite In In on O a higher standard l for tor teach toach eli us in Ia order that only those thoo who hail ha a high school course should fc t permitted to teach In this way wo 0 hould elevate the tone to no and standard or ot atthe the He profession nail thus thUM lend up to high higher er tr 1 salaries It must certainly Ito be con cen cent conceded ceded t td that no matter how good your are Ire they the could co ld bo be o much uch tiler It U you spent me tue money on morn mom they tUy deserve dume and ami no matter how good jour our teachers are their could b Ii bt greatly rully Increased If It their eateries w iere raised to where they ought to be he heAM Aol AM laII since tho salaries are uro not net they should be the superintendent l 1 II compelled to retain some teachers ho he willing drop drell from tho the roll rolli while shile In IA I other ether cases he would often otten drop not because of ot but Haply m ly because CAUSO h he could get et better ones once for lor the tf larger salary IThe The paragraph regarding the tho daub doub tog lif of ot salaries etc is la pretty clear ex e for tor or one thin It omits emits the state statement ment I made to explain why wh SO SOp p tr r cent of the teachers of ot the tho city be compelled to retire If Ir salaries HIM lit 5 doubled for double tho tile salary solar wo we get et the pick of et the best beAt In ID th tb Ih country Slut But the thc SO O 0 per pel cent wall be dropped In any city II 1 the board of ot education should offer to Increase the pay P of et teachers per nt It t is clear therefore that I was wat rotting making no particular criticism Im of ot the of any nn city In fact tact my lilY arsu neat was nas that our teachers receive BO so 10 little hilt pay that they the have not the th money k tu on books boeka education and tray trav travel 1 el 1 which are arc so se absolutely necessary to au luke motte the best teachers In this con cen LIon I 1 should houd Ilko liko to add athi that when I 1 stated that 60 80 per cent tent of t your teachers would bo ho dropped 1 I distinct U Jo aided that most of these encouraged il 17 1 j the rospe t IR of ot higher salaries J M find the th means menna of getting tho the higher Wr edu alien nion that would aula bring the th cruter lal return In one Word wOId I was WIS not blaming the th mother for tor or lack Inck of ot preparation but bu t tho the wm that cut rut down for tor any an reason ronson Iba IIams Vs nf ot those to n whom were ero en wi rusted baited e l the of et the future ott un ROl M of our land lon I thank yo you yeu f for tor P asking tor for t tIK this 4 11 of ot Iny In remarks I 1 IK that as the they n they have ha ve given feu II a rong r Perhaps too I e lucher them them if tt so Pos OU are ar Rt at liberty to copy cw this to and s 11 out M IlA n a circular or read IUd it 11 to theIR M as a body bOlly 4 Yours truly 4 8 II 1 CLARK |