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Show SCHOOL BUDGETS HELD TOO LOW BY EDUCATOR NEW YORK. Sept. ! 7. School budgets bud-gets In American cities should be twice as large as before the war, according to an analysis of public school statls-tlcs statls-tlcs hist given out by the Russell Sage Foundation. The report maintains tha teachcers" salaries should now be double dou-ble the pre-war figures In order to obtain ob-tain tho same quality of educational service. The cost of school buildings is declared to have trebled in the last five ears Thes" findings are made public in a volume entitled "Trends of Schcool Costs." The author is Dr. YY. I'.andolpn BurgCSS, assistant director of the department de-partment of education of the Russell (Sage Foundation. The study is an application ap-plication to the field of education ot the method of the index number. The volume is a companion to The lndev Number for State School Systems," b Ir. Leonard P Ares. which made i (comparison of the efficiency of the jixdiool systems of different states. Dr. Lurgesa compares the salaries 'paid to teachers with these paid to laborers la-borers and artisans for &0 years and finds that the wages paid to young women wo-men teachers In country schools have Increasea from $2 f0 a week in 1 S 4 1 to $17 B0 now, an increase of 600 per 'cent Salaries of women teachcers In I cities show a similar increase from about $4.50 to $36.60 a week. Me n teachers r-eWed much smaller relative rela-tive Increases. Up to 1915 teachers received percentage per-centage increases in salary nearly twice s great as artisans and laboiors. :Ir Burgess flnd, but m spit. r, ih increases the average pay of teachers ! has never risen as high as wages paiu .to such artisans, blacksmiths, carpenters carpen-ters and painters. no |