Newspapers / The Smithfield Herald (Smithfield, … / April 9, 1918, edition 1 / Page 3
Part of The Smithfield Herald (Smithfield, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
BETTER PAY FOR TEACHERS IN JOHNSTON COUNTY The cost of living has rapidly increased in the past few years. It has increased twenty-five per cent within the last year. This increased cost of living has hit the salaried person a hard blow. Salaries in lines of business other than the teaching profession have increased to meet this emergency. It is necessary under con ditions now prevailing for the teachers to receive an increase in wages. Counties all over the country are recognizing this necessity and are giving their teachers substantial increases in salaries. Necessarily the movement is widespread. Johnston County people realize that a fairer compensation is due the people for their ser vices ; that their training and qualifications entitle them to it ; and that to live decently an increase in wages is inevitable. From a business viewpoint better paid teachers is an invest ment.' It will mean more efficient teachers, better schools, and bet ter communities. Better schools mean more valuable property. An acre of land in the jungles of Africa is as fertile, perhaps more so, than the average acre in Johnston County, but it is not so valuable, Why? It is the difference between IGNORANCE and INTELLI GENCE. Better schools mean more intelligent people, and more desirable communities to live in. This means an increased value on every foot of land you own, if you should want to sell it. This proposition will be submitted to the people on April the 30th. There are ninety-eight white schools in the county, two hundred and twenty-eight white teachers, and about twelve thous and white school children. The amount of money apportioned for white schools is $30,990, which gives us a monthly salary for all of the white schools of $38.25, and a yearly salary, on a basis of five months, of $191.25. Perhaps the following questions and their answers may help you in arriving at a conclusion : Question. Are Johnston County teachers paid a living wage? Answer. No. Question. What is the average salary of the teachers in ihis County ? Answer. Monthly salary is $38.25. Question. Do you want Johnston County teachers to go as poorly paid as they are now ? Answer. Of course you do not. Question. Can a teacher live on the salary paid her in this county and retain her respectability? Answer. No. Question. Should we expect our teachers to go to great ex pense to educate themselves to teach and then demand that they work for less money than the unskilled laborer in our county? Answer. No. Question. What is a fair salary for a teacher? Answer. A teacher should be paid enough to live on decently and then enough to lay up a little mite for a rainy day. Question. How much should a teacher's salary be raised to be in proportion to the increase in the cost of living? Answer. Government investigation shows that the cost of living increased twenty-five per cent in the last year; therefore, a teacher's salary should be increased at least twenty-five per cent. Question. Is the proposed increase in teachers' salaries as great as the actual increase in the market price of farm products? Answer. No, it is about half as great. Question. Will we be able to get teachers for the coming year if we fail to provide better salaries? Answer. No. Question. Why is there such a scarcity of tcachers at pres ent salaries? Answer. Because commercial and civil service positions pay larger salaries per month than teaching positions ; a) d also because these positions carry a salary for the entire year, while the teach ing positions last only a few months. Question. Can the schools run next year on the same amount of money they have had this year? Answer. No, they cannot. They will either have to shorten their terms, or in most cases be discontinued altogether. Question. What is this election on April 30th for anyway ? Answer. To raise Johnston's tax rate to keep the schools open. Question. How does our tax rate for school purposes com pare with that of other progressive counties? Answer. It is very low. Question. Why have a COUNTY-WIDE special tax for schools ? Answer. A COUNTY-WIDE tax is fairer and more just than the ordinary special tax, since it would be paid by all the county for the benefit of all the county. Question. Will the country district get as much as it pays in if this proposed tax is passed? Answer. It will get more. A large part of the tax will be de rived from the railroads and other corporations situated in the towns, and all of this special levy will be equally apportioned as the county fund is now. Question. Why have increased taxes for schools now? Why not wait until the war is over? Answer. Because war conditions have put the schools in des perate straits and at the same time the conditions which will fol low the war demand imperatively that the schools be kept open and strengthened. Question. What have England and France done for their schools since the beginning of the war? Answer. France has doubled her taxes for schools, and Eng land has greatly increased hers. Question. What does President Wilson say of schools and the war? Answer. He says the schools should not only be continued but in every way improved and made more efficient in order to train citizens to meet the severe conditions which are going to fol low after the war. Question. If a school has a special tax and has money enough to pay its teachers a respectable salary, how will the county-wide special tax affect such a school? Answer. The committeemen can ask the county commis sioners to cut down their special levy as much as the county levy adds on. The tax on such a school would not then be any more than it is now. Question. If any township carries a special tax election will it be valid in that township even though it fail in the county ? Answer. Yes. Question. What is the best paying investment a citizen of the community can make? Answer. The tax he pays for school purposes. Question. Why is this the best investment he can make ? Answer. Because a good school is the greatest inheritance his child can receive, if he has a child ; and if he has not a child, be cause wherever in North Carolina the schools have been made more efficient the selling price of property has advanced in proportion. Question. Board, clothes, and all other expenses, such as books, professional magazines, and summer school attendance are higher than ever before, and will there not be an advance in all necessary expenses for living next year? Answer. The wages of every other class of salaried people has been increased to meet the demands of living expenses. Why not raise the teachers' wages too? This is a letter from one of the rural teachers in reply to the question, "Do you expect to teach next year?" I do not intend to teach next year unless teachers' salaries are raised. Board and expenses were so much this year I did not make enough to pay them." KIXKKXKX K K X I X X ? K IK * BUSINESS NOTICES. * * ? XXXXXXXX ******* WE ARE IN THE MARKET EOR several farms, of different sizes. If you want to sell see us. Abell & Gray, Smithfield, N. C. SAVE THE QUARTERS and SEE THE DOLLARS GROW. BUY WAR-SAVINGS STAMPS! FRESH JERSY COWS FOR SALE. E. F. Boyett, Smithfield, N. C. SEVERAL VOLUMES OF RILEY'S Poems just received. Herald Book Store. SEE US FOR ASPHALT ROOFING. Cotter Hardware Co. TAKEN UP MARCH 26th ONE stock hog, swallow fork in right ear and half moon under left ear. Owner can get same by paying for this notice and trouble. Herbert Hartley, Princeton, N. C., R. 2. LET US SCREEN YOUR HOUSE now. Cotter Hardware Co. A MCE LOT OF BIBLES JUST HE ceived. Prices from 35 cents each to $4.00. Herald Book Store. 100 BUSHELS SEED PEAS FOR sale. Good price while they last. Roberts, Ccrbett & Woodnrd, Selma, N. C. FOR SKIN DISEASES AND BLACK heads, use Dr. Muns' pile and ecze ma ointment. For sale by all drug gists. TWO CARS OF STOVES AND Ranges just received. Cotter Hard ware Company. FOR THAT BAD CASE OF PILES try Dr. Muns' Pile and eczema oint ment. JUST RECEIVED AT COTTER-UN derwood Company's a car load of Red Rust Proof seed oats. IF YOU WISH TO SELL YOUR farm it will pay you to see us. Abell & Gray, Smithfield, N. C. IF YOU WANT TO SELL YOUR farm it will pay you to figure with with us. Abell & Gray, Smithfield, N. C. THOROUGH-BRED JERSEY BULL about one year old for sale. Best strain. Is a bargain at $50. C. M. Wilson, Wilson's Mills, N. C. TWO CARS OF STOVES AM) Ranges just received. Cotter Hard ware Company. WHY HOARD YOUR MONEY yhen we sell 16 per cent. Acid Phos phate for $18.75 per ton for the cash. Farmers Mercantile Co., Sel ma, N. C. IF YOU WANT TO SELL YOUR farm to the best advantage See us. Abell & Gray, Smithfield, N. C. FOR SALE? 15 FRESH MULES, 5 second hand mules. Must be sold in the next 10 days. See Sam Mus grove at Clayton, N. C. for a bar gain. JUST RECEIVED A LARGE LOT of New Testaments, ranging in price from ten cents to $1.40 each. Herald Book Store, Smithfield, N. C. THE SMITHFIELD BUILDING & Loan Association has helped a num ber of people to build homes. It will help others, and maybe you. New series of shares now open. See Mr. J. J. Broadhurst. BUY YOUR ACID AND COTTON seed meal from the Cotter-Under wood Company, Smithfield. Full supply now on hand. OUR ARMY AND HOW TO KNOW IT for sale at THE HERALD of fice. Price 25 cents. 200,000 RED CEDAR SHINGLES just received at Farmers Mercan tile Company, Selma, N. C. JUST RECEIVED BIG LOT CAN vas cloth for tobacco beds. Cotter Underwood Company. RED CEDAR SHINGLES, NO. 1 Heart, at Farmers Mercantile Com pany, Selma, N. C. DONT PUT OFF SCREENING house. See us at once. Cotter Hard ware Company. SEE US FOR NEW WAY ENGINES. Cotter Harware Co. SE ME AT ONCE IF YOU WANT to buy what I have for sale. I want to sell two new Dodge automobiles and one new Ford trailer. B. W. Lee, Smithfield, N. C. WE HAVE ON HAND A FEW GOOD mules and horses for sale. Cotter Underwood Company. SAVE THE QUARTERS and 8EE THE DOLLARS GROW. BUY WAR-SAVINGS STAMPS! DON'T PUT OFF SCREENING house. See us at once. Cotter Hard ware Company. SEE US FOR ASPHALT ROOFING. Cotter Hardware Co. SEE OUR BIG TYPE TESTAMENT, big enough for very old people to read. Herald Book Store. SAVE THE QUARTERS and SEE THE DOLLARS GROW. BUY WAR-SAVINGS STAMPS! Show your patriotism by contribut ing to the American Red Cross. FOR SALE, CASH? 160 ACRES land. In three adjoining tracts. Will sell together or separately. Four miles from Liliington, one mile from railroad. About ten acres cleared. No buildings. Some timber. Miss Mary Bethea, Lillington, N. C. FOR BURNS AND OLD SORES, I)R. Muns' pile and eczema ointment is a valuable remedy. I WANT TO Bl'Y twenty-five Jersey heifer calves. These are all the cattle I want to buy at present and they must be old enough to eat their own feed. J. M. Beaty. WHY SUFFER FROM ECZEMA! Get a jar of Dr. Muns' pile and eczema ointment. A FIVE-MONTHS OLD RED SPOT ted sow , weight about seventy-five pounds, has strayed from my farm in Pleasant Grove. Any one having her shut up, please notify L. O. Par rish, Benson, Route 1, on my farm or me at Benson. ? A. L. Stephenson. RINGLET BARRED ROCK EGGS, from fancy type. First prize win ners every year. $1.50, $2 and $3 per 15. Hamilton Bros., Smith field, N. C. MERCHANTS WILL NEED FLOUR Certificates to be signed by their customers and we have the blanks for sale 100 for 35 cents, 200 for C.O cents or 500 for $1.25. Apply to Beaty and Lassiter, Smithfield, N.C. We have it and guarantee it O We have recently secured the agency for the famous DFVOF I Th, Cjaran,eed LsL^i V V_yJL^ Lead and Ztnc Faint Fewer Gallons ? IVeors Longer This paint is absolutely pure ? 100% paint and nothing else ? paint to the last drop in the can. The guarantee formula on every can tells just what the contents are. It proves that Devoe con tains no whiting, no china clay, no silica or other worthless stuff. That's why we guarantee that Devoe will take fewer gallons and wear longer than any other ? paint. Come in and let us show you the economy of painting Devoe. Ask for helpful painting booklet ? "Keep Appearances Up and Expenses Down." COTTER HARDWARE CO. Hardware, Farm Implements, Farm Fencing SMITHHELD, NORTH CAROLINA "The Big Fight" by Capt. David Fallon-~Price $1.50, at Herald Book Store. Read It! You Can Find In our Dry Goods and Ladies Department Any Thing You Want To Dress Well, Look Well and Be Comfortable. We have a big stock of Latest style Silk Dresses, waists and Skirts. Also a good assortment of medium and cheaper grade skirts and waists, children's dresses, etc. A Big Supply of Silks of All Kinds and Colors We can please even the most particular and tasteful. Our big stock of Voile, Poplin and other dress goods, Waist and skirt goods makes it easy to select something to please you and the quality keeps you pleased. We have the best stock of Dry Goods to be found in town. Our stock of slippers and nice dress shoes is being added to almost daily and at our store you can , find something to fit any member of the family with just what they want. Ladies' White Boots a specialty. Q 11 P0ff,irr^e We are glad to announce that we have ob OLa.nQ3.rO IT alicrns tained the agency for the famous Standard Patterns which are always ahead in style, yet are simplest in con struction and give a perfect fit. Siandard Patterns reproduce the smartest styles illustrated in THE DESIGNER and the STANDARD QUARTERLY. See the very newest fashions at our Standard Pattern Department. A big new stock now on hand. Roberts Corbett& Woodard Selma, N. C.
The Smithfield Herald (Smithfield, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
April 9, 1918, edition 1
3
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75