Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1906 — ECONOMY IN THE WAY [ARTICLE]

ECONOMY IN THE WAY

Nothing Else to Prevent Competent Teacher? Getting Maximum Pay. LAW PROVIDES FOR THE RAISE Mighty Few School Boards, However Pay the Same—Thugs Play f a Joke on a Doctor, Indianapolis, Dec. 20.—The report of the state educational commission, appointed by Governor Hanly, under a joint resolution passed by both branches of the last legislature, shows a rather remarkable state of affairs as regards teachers’ salaries. It shows, in effect, that present laws are not so deficient relative to teachers’ salaries as has been but that the maximum salaries that may be paid under the present laws have not been paid in the great majority of the cities, towns and townships of the state. Teachers Should Get Busy. The report points to the moral that higher salaries may be obtained under the present laws, if each local community only wills it Under these circumstances the report, in a measure, puts the matter of better salaries up to the teachers themselves. On this point, the report says: “The remedy, it seems to us, Is largely In the hands of the teachers, who should direct more effort toward the cultivation in their communities of a healthful public sentiment in favor of fair compensation to teachers and a lengthening of the school term.” They Are Economioal Communities. In bearing out the statement that the maximum salaries are not paid now under the present laws, the report presents the following: “A study of the report presented to the Teachers’ association and adopted by it discloses the fact that only two of the eighty-four cities of the state were, at the time, paying the maximum salaries to teachers possible under the law; only twen-ty-nine of the 224 towns of the state, and only twenty-one of the 1.016 townships of the state were paying the maximum salaries to teachers possible under the law. \ “Money Saved Is Money Earned.” “Investigation discloses the fact that , many school corporations In the state neglect or refuse to avail themselves of the full, or even a part, proportion of the benefits of the local tax levies permitted them under the law. In many corporations the officials refuse to pay more than the minimum rate of wages nnd even insist upon employing teachers of inexperience or low qualifications, commanding the smallest rate of pay, and do this not because of any scarcity of funds, or the lack of means to raise them.” % THUGS DO A MEAN TRICK They Leave a Doctor’s Stolen Hat in a Store Which They Robbed. ■% Greenfield. Ind., Dec. 20.—Dr. Warren R. King, of this city, president of the Morton monument com mission, was placed in an embarrassing position last Saturday. Burglars who robbed a jewelry store at Peru last Friday night left a hat in the room. In the hat was a card bearing the name “Dr. Warren R. King, Greenfield, Ind.” The cltv marshal of Peru telephoned the police department in this city asking if such a man lived here. Inquiry developed that Dr. King had attended a union church service at Tomlinson hall, Indianapolis, a few weeks ago, and at its conclusion he found flint his hat had been taken from where he had left it and another substituted. The doctor was surprised to hear that it had turned up in a Peru jewelry store. Money for Orphans. Fort Wayne, Ind., Dec. 20.—An effort Is to l>e made by the women interested in maintaining the high standard of the county orphans’ home here to obtain n more favorable law from the next legislature. The present law limits the per capita amount that may tie devoted to orphans’ homes to 25 cents a dny, and the women want it Increased to 35 cents. Her Premonition Verified. Terre Hante, Ind., Dec. 20.—When Brakemaif Fred Miller, newly married, started on his run his -wife had a premonition and galled him hack three times to say good-bye. Next day his dead body was brought home. A towermnn on the Vandalia, near Reelsvilie curve, forgot an order and two freights collided head-on. Engineer J. F. Ross also was killed. Stole a Big Bunch of Change. Decatur, Ind., Dec. 20. Harley Ranm, a local thief, stole $l4O In nickels and pennies from the National Express company, transit from Washington, to the' Warren bank, and wjjich had been left at the Clover Leaf railway station. Baum opened the sacks and carried the money to his home, concealing It In bis bed room. Robust at the Age of 02. Crawfordsville, Ind., Dec. 20. —Nine great-grandchildren were among tho guests attending a family dinner served in honor of the 92nd anniversary of thq birth of William H. Schooler, Montgomery county’s oldest citizen, who is hale and hearty. He came here from Ohio with his parents eighty-three years ago.