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Show SCHOOL TEACHERS AND BARBERS. Under the NRA cede in the city of Richmond, Va., bathers are guaranteed guaran-teed $728 per year for 52 weeks. Country school teachers in that state last year received an average of $033. This year they will receive a great d.-al less. The training required to make a good barber is a fifth grade education educa-tion or less, ;nd an apprenticeship of about throe months. The training re-. re-. quired to make a g:od country school teacher is a high school education of four years and two years in a state normal school. Thereafter the teacher is expected to keep abreast with edu-cat edu-cat ion UiiU.Kh extension courses or by attending accredited colleges of education. . b.'iiber's responsibility is to his . customer and to certain sanitary regulations reg-ulations of the municipality or state affecting, his trade. The responsibility of the teacher is a sacred trust for faithful performance of duty to the pupil and society, a performance upon which our c.vilization depends. . The barber's art has to do with his customer's fancy as to style of hair cut, kind of shave and facial massage; mas-sage; the teacher's with that which pertains to all the implications of culture cul-ture and human progress. Even the barber's business would be radically affected should universal education coase or be materially reduced. Of course the National Recovery administration deals with the problems prob-lems of stabilizing private business, but a congress which will set up such a plan, that will appropriate billions of dollars for public works and loans to private and , quasi-public interests and not provide simultaneously for universal education, cannot well defend de-fend itself against even the mild charge of being, short-sighted. Certainly the -return of prosperity through the NRA program will be a poor compensation to those several million childen who are now being deprived of proper educational opportunities, oppor-tunities, to say nothing of the loss of culture to the social order through that deprivation. Upon those in high places at this time who are not doing all that they can possibly do for universal education, educa-tion, odium will fall. for the social recession re-cession that is surely in the making. Upon those greedy, selfish persons ... who were primarily the cause of the existing economic, recession, those who caused the break in the rhythm" . of prosperity by depressing securities and comf ittlng other acts of retarding social progress, must came and surely will come odium from millions yet unborn. Congress has not hesitated to appropriate ap-propriate billions of dollars in an effort ef-fort to put business on its feet, and to save the financial face of some of the very men who wittingly or unwittingly un-wittingly pulled down our social and industrial structure. It should with . i-oual zeal of purpose appropriate what is needed to place our public schools in a condition to prepare the rising generation to carry on in even a more complex state of society than now obtains. Millions of our children are not being be-ing properly trained to meet the problems prob-lems of the new social order and their own personal maintenance, and literally liter-ally tens of thousands of our teachers teach-ers are falling behind in education they need to train children for that momentous social change. |