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Show SUPPLY AND DEMAND HAVE MUCH TO DO WITH SALARIES OF TEACHERS. One often hems in Price and elscwheic locally that school teachers are underpaid. Considering the expensive education thgy must acquire to be qualified to teach, we are told, the salaries are far below what should be a just wage. There arc two sides to the question. It cannot be denied de-nied that supply and demand is n determining factor. Our educational system provides excellent excel-lent mental equipment if followed. And all necessary nec-essary to acquire it arc parents able to foot tho bills while it is being done. The education itself is practically fiee. The result has been that pcisons graduating from high school, or the preparatory schools and colleges that follow, have in an extraordinarily large number of cases decided that the best field for their labors was to teach school. Our educational educa-tional system fitted them for that first of all. To the teaching profession our educational system sys-tem has been as a sort of vocational institution. The result has been a larger supply of teachers than the demand called for. And when the supply sup-ply of an article is great, the price is low. School trustees invariably have taken advantage advan-tage of the situation. They haven't paid more because they didn't think it was necessary. Teachers will say that there isn't much morality about such a proceeding, but it is the same system sys-tem that everyone must contend with. The way to raise the salary of teachers very quickly is to curtail the supply. But that is manifestly impossible. im-possible. The next method is for those with good educations to seek other lines of employment, employ-ment, though it may be necessary to study a little longer. |