Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 123, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1919 — WANTED! [ARTICLE]

WANTED!

The following advertisements lately appeared in the same issue of the Raleigh (North Carolina) News and Observer: WANTED- — A. colored barber for white trade in camp town; permanent position. We guarantee $25 a week. Right man can make $35 per week. Let us hear from you at once. Fleming & Elliott, 6 Market Square, Fayetteville, N. C. WANTED —Teacher of Latin for the Lumberton high school, Lumberton, N. C. Salary, S7O, W. H. Cale, superintendent. An army officer stationed at Raleigh sent the two clippings to the field secretary of the National Education association, with a .letter asking: “What incentive is there for a person to prepare himself to teach in a high school when a colored barber in the same town, who probably cannot sign his own name, can make as much in two weeks as a high school teacher can make in a month?” Susan B. Anthony told a convention of teachers many years ago that any profession carried mainly by persons who could not vote was. sure to be undervalued in public estimation, and underpaid. Add to this that the teachers have been mostly unorganized and you have the case in a nut shell—Woman Citizen.