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Show EDUCATORS IT I POVERTY, CLAIM I Wives of California U. Professors Relate Hard Luck Story BERKELEY. Cal., Oct. 14. (By Hi I International News Service.) There ! may bo a lot of honor, respect and HP I teeni attached to the tit'," "profes- flm I sor," but thero la not much nourishing fi I food to th aforesaid title In the I opinions of the wives of professors at the University of Ci.Jifornia. In the first place, declared Dorothy I Hart Bruce, wife of Professor Harold Bruce, of tho department of English. in nn article which appeared in the October Chronicle, a quarterly campus H publication, the salaries of the faculty ' members make It impracticable for the I wives to have bibles, becauso ther Is scarcely enough food for husband and wife to live upon. The article, which was written in collaboration with the wives of other professors, Is frank in Its discussion H I of the matter, and aroused a furore JH I In academic and other circles. 1 Tho writer, who described her article as a "plain statement of facts," j said concerning the lives of professors: SBBlW ''One couple with a baby cooks, iBl eats 'and sleeps In the same room. H Some families have used substitutes H for butter for years; others have no flE eggs for months nt a time. It Is five tBIBal years since some of us have been to LB a theatre, even to a movie. And the HS the economy which enables us to live flH on our salary la for us to have no aE children. SBBBsl "The wives and children of some sBBsf of the well known professors are SBBSK dressed entirely by the charity of I relatives and friends. One of us has Hk not had a pair of high shoes in five H1 years. One has worn the same winter Ed j hat for seven years. 'mttv "One woman with a child Is still iBi wearing her trousseau. Wives of pro- SBSnQ fessors are doing their own and their iHS husbands and their children's wash- iBh! Ing and without washing machines." Describing the economies practiced SBBB by professors' wives, she writes: ssssH "The wife must make most of her HK' own dresses and all her night cloth- Lln Ing and underclothing She must sR make her husband's night clothes. HPI use tho tails of his shirts to patch Hfi tho necks and turn the cuffs." |