Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1909 — Hoosier Teachers Desert Us For Better Positions. [ARTICLE]

Hoosier Teachers Desert Us For Better Positions.

Robert J. Aley, state superintendent of public instruction, says the schools of the state of Indiana have recently lost sixteen of its best educators, who have gone to other states where conditions were more attractive. He says this is caused by several reasons:

First. Other states offer better pay; second, Indiana develops her teachers more rapidly than most other states; third, the teachers of Indiana are not knockers, but they never fail.to boost a fellow teacher, when another state wants him. Mr. Aley deplores this fact, but he says it is true, nevertheless, that other states lure our best teachers away.

Sixteen prominent educators are in the list prepared by Mr. Aley of those who have gone away. The list is as follows:

F. A. Cotton, former state superintendent, who became president of the state normal at LaCrosse, Wis.; H. B. Wilson of Franklin, who went to Decatur, Ill.; Lotus D. Coffman of Connersville, who went to 'the normal school at Charleston, Ill.; E. A. Turner, of the same place, who went to the state normal at Normal, Ill.; W. H. Sanders, of Bloomington, who went to the state normal at LaCrosse, Wis., with Mr. Cotton; H. S. Hippensteel, of Auburn, who went to a normal school at Steven’s Point, Wis.; J. O. Engleman, of the state normal school at Terre Haute, who went with Mr. Cotton to LaCrosse; C. A. Prosser, of New Albany, who went as principal of the Associated Charities schools of New York; E. E. Holton, of Noblesvllle, who went to the same school; C. S. Me£k, of El wood, who went to the Boise City, Ida., schools; E. S. Monroe, of Frankfort, who went to the schools of Muskogee, Okla.; M. W. Deputy, of Columbia City, who went to the normal school at Charleston, Ill.; F. M. Merica, of Gary, who went to the presidency of the. University of Wyoming; R. M. Grindle, of Oxford, who went to the Colorado Springs schools, and -D. T. Powers, of Rochester, who went to the professorship of education in the University of Louisiana.

William Van Horn, a motorman, was hurt in the abdomen Saturday night when two city cars collided head-on on Franklin street in Michigan City. The vestibule of the car was wrecked but no others were hurt, the passengers jumping from the wrecked car.