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Show I THEY GO TO SCHOOL, j Next month 24,000,000 children are going to return to school Some, to the country school ; some to more elaborate buildings of the j cities. Some of them will see ''teacher" for the first time Ruddy-fai ed, sinned up for fair, pig-tails hanging down their backs and "high-water "high-water marks" temporarily eliminated 1he.se little boys and girls, many of them, are to make their bows as pupils. What are they going to find" Reducing the 700,000 teachers to a composite picture, "she," for 80 per cent of the teachers arc women, will be found to be an underpaid person, trying her besl to keep body and soul together as she teaches the young idea how to shoot, and almost afraid to ask the sciiool board for the rnie i1 ought to be glad to give her without asking J. "W. Crabtrce, secretary of the National Education Association, Associa-tion, says that last year 18100 positions of teachers remained vacant. va-cant. He expects a much higher percentage this year He says that last year 42,00(1 teachers' positions were filled by teachers who did uot hold even the lowest grade of certificates so as to keep the schools going at all. The reason only one poor pay Better pay up. A little more pay for the teacher in this country, coun-try, will he a mighty good investment, taxpayers arc beginning to believe. |