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Show TEACHERS ARE UNDERPAID. In the Review of Reviews, s writer says: Tho teachers are probably the most poorly palo this season of any class of American workers. Thousands of able young Instructors Instruc-tors and professors have abandoned aban-doned the schools and colleges, and gone into business pusuits; and many women teachers have found other occupations. Colli g have been making the most strenuous stren-uous efforts to flnd means wlih which to increase the salaries of their corps of instructors. Har vard university, for exnmple. ha organized a campaign for an immediate im-mediate sum or $15,000,000 as fresh endowment, the income of which is to be applied chiefly to .i an Increase in the pay of teachers. Temporarily the shortage of better bet-ter teachers for public schools will be to the advantag of the un trained and Immature, especially in small towns and countrx dis tricts. The larger school systems will, even more than heretofore, offer inducements to the gocd teachers from the country. At least, school keeping will be shaken shak-en out of some old ruts, It is to be hoped that the insulting situation situa-tion may stimulate the movement for consolidating rural schools, and for the adoption of a deliberate deliber-ate policy on the part of state governments for the maintenance of rural life. Country children should be as well instructed as those of the larger towns and ch les One of the results of the shortage short-age of teachers, furthermore, may be the reival of conscious and deliberate de-liberate educational effort in the home Where thn school teachers arc voung girls without professional profession-al training, who engage in the work as a temporary makeshift, it is not wise to rely too entireiy upon schools for educating chii dren A sharp distinction houid be made between professional teachers teach-ers of character, experience and proved success, and those of the casual kind. The professional teacher should be well paid, an. I should he restored to that position of honor and influenci m ihe community com-munity that belonged lo the school masters of an earlier day |