A Most Important Problem of America: I
Proper Payment of Our Teachers
.By MAJ. GEN. LEONARD WOOD, United States Army
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u One of the most important problems confronting
B our people is the proper payment of teachers and pro
f fessors in our public schools and colleges. Today these
men and women, to whom we turn our children over to
be educated and who incidentally have the greatest in
fluence in forming their characters, are receiving sal
aries below that of many unskilled laborers. Many of
t the professors of great universities are receiving salaries
I below that of the skilled workman.
| The teaching profession is entitled to and needs
the best brains of the country, and must have them if
we are to build and maintain a sound nation. 1 here is no body of men or
women in this land whose services are more important. They are the
principal builders of our Ship of State. At present the Ship is being
built by underpaid, and consequently dissatisfied, workmen. Many of the
more skilled are leaving the profession; this is a dangerous situation.
Many are staying because they have the missionary spirit, but they know
that, they are not receiving just or proper recognition and that the position
of the teacher has been degraded. We must pay the teachers and profes
sors enough to bring to the profession the best brains of the country.
If we want a right-thinking public, we must bring our children under
the best minds of the nation during their school and formative period.
At present we are neglecting this in most reckless fashion. Those who
teach our youth are fighting the noiseless battle, upon the success of which
rests the stability of our institutions.
We must stand for a government under the Constitution. Every step
from the Constitution is to step toward anarchy. We want neither an
autocracy of wealth nor an autocracy of labor, but true democracy of both
—a spirit of co-operation and mutual helpfulness. Labor and capital are
interlocking and interdependent. Those who destroy one destroy the
other.
We must stand for one Flag, and that is the Flag you men and your
fathers carried in battle. We must smash the red flag and those who
carry it, support it and follow it. It is an emblem of disorder and lawless
ness and is against everything this government stands for.
We want one language in the grade public schools, and that is the
language of the Declaration of Independence. We can have but one loyalty;
that is loyalty to the American people. There can be no divided al
legiance. The only kind of American we want is the 100 per cent
American.
We must work for national solidarity and try to build up a strong,
pure American spirit, helpful and generous to a world in trouble but dis
tinctively American. We must avoid loose-fibered internationalism as we
would avoid death, for it means national death.
NEW JERSEY
LEADS FIGHT
FOR LIQUOR
TRENTON, N. J., Feb. 19 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The battle in New
Jersey, led by Governor Edward I.
Edwards, for state rights as against
constitutional prohibition, is being
fought along two lines. An effort to
induce the legislature to contest the
validity of the eighteenth amendment
in the United States supreme court is
the first, and a movement to enact a
state law permitting the sale in New
Jersey of beverages containing more
than one-half of 1 per cent of alcohol
is the other.
Steps necessary to fight the prohi
bition amendment in the supreme
court have been considered in con
ferences between the new governor
and the state attorney general. Two
bills have been introduced in the legis
lature, one to permit the sale of bev
erages with 4 per cent of alcohol con
tent, and the other 5 per cent.
Governor Edwards was elected on j
an issue of ..“personal liberty.” He
-gave a pledge in his campaign to in
sist upon the right of the people of
New Jersey to say how they should
live. His attempt to fulfill that pledge
has made this state one of the few
remaining battlegrounds for the right
of a man to buy a drink, and has at
tracted attention throughout the
t country.
j. utj governor, in auciu^uus ^
sert and maintain the sovereign rights
of the state as against federal con
stitutional prohibition, must deal with
a legislature controlled by the Repub
lican party, while he is a Democrat.
New Jersey not only failed to ratify
the federal prohibition amendment,
together with Rhode Island and Con
necticut, but went further than any
other state in the Union, and its legis
lature absolutely rejected the amend
ment. The governor has urged the
legislature to refrain in its present
session from now giving its ratifica
tion.
Although Governor Edwards holds
liberal personal views concerning the
use of intoxicants, his friends say that
he has not taken a drink of intoxicat
ing liquor in more than thirty years
upon advice of his physician.
Your eyes fitted. Compound anc
stigmatic lenses replaced. See Os
borne.
BOY BURIED ALIVE U HOURS
Boy Rescued by Neighbors After Hav
ing Been Entombed Thirty Feet
Below Ground.
Barber, Idaho.—To escape with
his life after having been buried 30
feet below the surface of the earth for
24 hours was the experience of Paul
Bennett, eighteen years old, of Bar
ber, Idaho.
Young Bennett descended into his
father’s well for the purpose of dig
ging it deeper, but had hardly reached
the bottom when the rotten walls col
lapsed, completely covering him be
neath the debris.
The young man’s father summoned -
neighbors who frantically began to
remove the tons of earth which buried
the youth. It was nearly dawn of the
following day, however, before the res
cuers succeeded in allowing Bennett
to escape from his prison, little the
; worse for his experience.
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Chops 90 Cents and
No One to Claim Pig
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New York.—Patrolman Joe Jo
haba propounded a problem for
the supreme court when he led
an excited and squealing young
lady pig into the Greenpoint po
lice station and booked her on a
charge of vagrancy.
“No visible means of support
and therefore a vagrant,” said
Johaba, still puffing from a chase
of half a mile, during which the "
prisoner once upset him by run
ning between his legs.
“With pork chops at 90 cents ,
a pound?” the desk sergeant ex
postulated, “why the lady’s
worth $35 at least.”
“Not alive, she ain't worth it,”
Joe persisted.
“Then kill her,” the sergeant
suggested.
“But she ain’t convicted of
murder.” **’
The policeman tilted bis cap
nnd scratched his head.
“All right,” he said, “I'll waive
the vagrancy charge.”
Miss Pig is being held without
bail till her owner comes.
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Works New One. [
Minneapolis, Minn.—A smiling, well- .
dressed woman sold Mrs. C. A. Stein
a “membership in the League of Na
tions” for $6.50. Police are fboking
for the saleslady. 9
Woman Rivals Burbank.
Centralia, Wash.—Rivaling Luther
Burbank, Mrs. S. O. Davis of this city
has developed a new variety of aster
that is a marvel of beauty to local
loral enthusiasts who have seen it.
The flower petals are purple, em
broidered with white and were devel
oped after four years of careful se- *
lection along Burbank lines by Mrs.
Davis.
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