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NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1919, T T T P P S N T T S ) i present . (‘;;l;‘\‘;;‘;;;j“;‘]g;;};lg‘;‘_;gz‘ ) ‘fi@a@@@@em@@@@@@@@@m@m@@@@@@@@@fi@@fi@@@@a@ stma ICE SKATES - ICE SKATES [ i.0n i i e H O ID A Y GI F g I 'S 177 teachers o Nu\\' Britain shov\_'s‘ | Skate Straps, Polo Sticks | " o< o <o | & of Jewelry, China, Cut Glass, Silver- 0YS T e e e L £ i i OLLS and Polo Balls sty # ware, are Gifts of Lasting Sentiment OO0Ks &/ : 10,000,000 o mrade 1o Lo hpptien Our prices And our stock is of dependable quality, style, value. are arranged to meet every purse. Do Your Xmas Shopping Early and avoid the rush of the last week. Y 1 for increasc in the saluries of all the - vania an avpropriation of $20,000,00 OVELTIEA;\ | P » " 1 w was made for the same purpose. ‘I:: 5 3 P n appropriation of REETING CARDS ; T $4.000,000 was voted by the {;g.slu. ture and approved by the governor. | ATHER GOODS In Connecticut cinergency leglslation was passed providing for an increase ICTURE E‘RAMING of $3 per pupil in the average t- er e tendance, grant to be applied solely | to the increase of teache Larie g lN STREE amounting 1o approximately $70 pe HARDWARE 336 MA T . . Open Monday Nights Until 8:30 We have a large as- sortment of the follow- ing articles to select from: Below you will find many Gift Suggestions: teacher | $500 Roost in New York. New York city has voted an T E crease of $500 per teacher to be paid H in three installments of $166 per yeat | = for three years. Boston has provided | . | an increase of $300 per teacher for | inson Drug (0. TEACHERS WILL GET $300 INCREASE . yoke have made similar increases. | { Bridgeport has voted a 25 per cent ! - AS MEASURE FOR TEMPORARY RELIEF | il et 1”2t Ansoniu has granted a flat increase of | 8300 to all teachers. Reports from ! other cities indicate that increases are | | expected or are already under con- | sideration. i i Tabulation pl 1y shows that the | minimum and maximum salaries for | New Britain are considerably lowe: than the average minimum and maxi- | { mum salaries for these ten other Con- necticut cities with which we must | { compete in cmploying and retaining teachers Recommendations of Committee. Your committee believes that but | one conclusion can be drawn from the | facts set forth in the foregoing state- ment. The local emergency should be met (1) by a substantial increase in salaries 1o he operative during the | present school year, and (2) by a revision of the salary schedule. The pittee has taken note of ihe request of the teachers of the | 48k SCHEDULE, city for flat increase of /4400 pe: || teacher and has carefully considered ETATIONERY DEPT. | Parisian Ivory Link Buttons Scarf Pins Waldemar Chains Pocket Knives Toilet Sets Bracelets Vanity Cases Mesh Bags Bar Pins, etc. THE PORTER & DYSON CO. “OLD RELIABLE JEWELERS” 54 MAIN STREET, * NEW BRITAIN, CONN. lowin is submitted as the recom- @@@@@@@@@@{&@ {:}@fi." "‘l::"és "9}"@‘9&{0} Q@@@@@@@@@@@@@ mendatiens of the committee. T — e _ 1400-1500 First, that @ new salary schedule | CONTRADICT OPERATORS 1500-1600 | be adopted as follows. the same to he Miners Say Diamonds Watches Bracelet Watches Plain and Stone rings Brooches Lavallieres Pendants Hand Painted China @@@é@@@@@@@é@e@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Petition For Flat Ralse of 400 is Not Accepted By School Committee— New Salary Schedule i Prepared For Next Year. NEW BRITAIN SALARIES. present salary “hedule in 19-1920: Women- this city is gt} ENGLIS W (,)' ‘ KIT # BAGS Grade. Eipsts vear it e R Second year ....i.. £50-950 1100 (MhirdEvean st 800 900-1000 1100-1200 Fourth year L... 775 850 930-1050 1200-1300 N W vie Ar A e S 900 1000-1100 1250-1400 SUEERS e SRS 950 1050-1150 1300-1500 Seventh year -..... 900 1000 1100-1200 1400-1550 Eighth year .. L. 950 1050 1150-1250 1450-1600 Ninth year and after 1000 1100 1200-1300 1500-1700 1200 1200-1300 300-1400 1400-1500 1450-1 1500-1 1500-1725 1600-1800 n black and tan Cowhide These P soft pliahle PROPOSED SALARY FoXororototorc ot TotaketetatekedoRelo 2% —~— Women —— S povalar, K.1-6 Jun.H.S. Sen.H.S. irst yvear 900 sond vear .. 930 Third ar 1000 Fourth yvear ..1050 Men S it. Jun. H. S, Sen. H.S, 1000-1100 L100-1200 1050-1150 1200-1300 1100-1200 1250-1350 Fifth year L1100 1150-12 300-1400 Sixth yea 115 )0-1500 250-1450 sventh year .1200 50-1350 1400-1500 hth year ..1250 1800-1400 1450-1550 1300-1400 1400-1500 1500-1600 1600-1700 | near | contradicted today by | production in the distric normal were wrence The Winding Gulf mines which have $38 to $50. been unaffected by the walkout, num ! Dwyer, er al board | ber 60 and employ approximately | member of district United Mine | 6,000 miners. pro- | Workers. He said that the Che peake & Ohio railvoad loading figures #iven out for the New River flelds in cluded those for the Winding Gulf dis trict. According to reports given out | tions,” Mr. Dwyer by New River operatars, production | mines are those wh has been 75 per cent. normal. Mr. | respected the miners New | Dwyer claimed that ‘production there| agreement under s of West Virgdinia that l 34 per cent. normal working.” : ° ‘ JP Sterhng POSITIVELY Furnac e GUARANTEED 4 James T. Meslgill pesiding The Y 2 dates announced folow IsadoroiGosingen et al o yilslottits When you can install an “NP"” furnace in your home without heat pipes and registers—at the same Alling, vs. Samuel Cohen, by M. D. | | cost as stoves that heat only two or three rooms—that will heat the entire house and ventilate it as well— Saxe, Monday, December &, at 2 p. that will pay for itself in the fuel it saves—don’t you think it is worth investigating? Come in and let Bvs m.: Louis Cohen, by M. . Xe, V. = ~how you. Ll Ellen G. Gray, by Klett & Alling, Tuesday, De mber 9, at 10 a. m.; | Tuesday, f;‘ 1600-1700 fully operative September. 1920, and { 1700-1800 operative from January 1. 1920, for, 1700-1800 1800-1900 the employment new teache | 1800-1900 1800-2000 Second, that a incre of $300 1900-2000 2000-2100 per teacher be immediately granted | to teachers with the reservation that | } the solary schedule as above proposed be not xceeded in oy . . Statements of Coal There are 19 of the 115 mines of the working, Luke Horsfall Co. i 93 ASYLUM ST, HARTFORD ] New River fields most of duction in West Vikginia - Arve NemE vy s these being the largest of the opera< said. “The active se operators havr organization and which they are€ Wrong—Output Below Normal. The recommendation for increase in New. Britain s $300 flat June, 1919, and the opening of {h 100l teachs present school year, the turnover in suluries to be -effective undil Sep- *the teaching for vepresented ap- tember, 1920, at which time a new proximately 30 per cent of the entire | schedule of wages will go into effect, number in the teaching staff. { was unanimously adopted at a meeting Reasons. for Shortage. ofiitne ehesINonTdll-s0 cveHinE R [N S e e e | proposition was introduced - by the' L | D mitice after tonsldavatinn les i the Yinadeduate salaries paid o teaching ' service, and in thai of a request made by teachers for o for : flot increass of $400, A proposerl alone. The effect manifests itsele in . schedule giving minimum and maxi- the following wa SLUY avien fies to he paid undet the new (1) General uneasiness and discon- wage system in 1920 was read and ac- tent among teachers. cepted hy the hoard. (2) Many of the best and most en- Means $19,100 Increasc. ! ferprising teachers are leaving the It was announced by members of profession for other lines of work. the salary committee that the adoption (3) who remain in the of the motion to pay a $300 increase ' profession are generally leaving low- will mean an added expense for the salavied positions to accept appoint- fiscal year amounting to $49,100, While jnents in towns and clties paying the anjount for the whole year will be 1 por salaries. $100,000. Discussion brought out the (4) The lessened caciithatihoptensh esate \‘ teachers makes It increasingly diffi- {m,‘,",“ ‘:v";’:‘\"h"‘;}‘& e ;h““ cult o fill vacancies in communities HONUS o g $70, bringing their o wages to within $30 of the national J‘-‘,‘]*,']]‘“ 21 ‘;) rager : ssocintion’s figures. Chairman E. ¢ ”“ "‘“’_"“‘ ‘“ 0% asais| 00dwin, of the committee, nioved the | rolled in Normal foteat) report. A committec State- | the 300 ( incres I ot t perators of the present 5 | angmented by s state grant of proximautely $70 per teacher TRIAL DATES SET | | | | CITY ITEMS e “Bluebird” Electric hine. Conn. Lt. & e famous S Sundelius, Litigationfs Wil Be Threshed | Washing Power Co.—Ad singer, Ma- consented to in . concert u the auspices ¢ Swedish Lutheran church some ifter New Year's at Fox's thea his will be for the purpose of ng funds for the reduction of Out ir City Court During Comi Week—Short Calendar Dates, Assignments of matters e Ay short. calendar court were ehurch debts S. carnival, Bungalow, tonight. | toys i sunply of good ¥, toys Come and Gladding's. break in the hall this morning nis in tl for part apparatus used the December 9, at 2 p. m., P. VAR Alfred schools Johnson, by M. H, Camp, vs off to Bluchivd” 1 ic Washing e ower Co—Ad Beth El, have taken an option Corliss property at “of Winter and Summer the adjoining property of Glover for the evection ynagogue. ¢ reported price perties is $16,000. The until April 1, 1920. [ennedy’s dancing school, Tue. at galow beginners' class form- Beginners, 7:30.—advt pdgment 1 »ulation has been rded the plaintifi in the case of sainst Leon Cafata- umary process action in ct. The plaintiff has heen possession of premises and Klett & Alling were nsel for the plaintifi and Lawyer V. Upson for the defendant. b[1y Three dance, 31 Church street vt rominent members of the p lon hald rded 6 costs Washing Conn. T.t. & Power Co.—Ad LKS MEMORIAL TOMORROW, nited Atto by of rtiord John will‘be the princi spealier at the-annual vitail Fox's theater tomor o’'clock. The the =ublic. The front will be reserved the loeal [2lks and the thente for t memoria lodge, exercises @ H. Bishop 1 usical pro- s. The affair will L. 0. 1. 10 ELECT. ction o \. Harty I tomor plac TAD FOR ARMY. Previ- {_adoption of the of iIx. d 15, M. prepare a repart the hoard of the matter propriation. The was prs a for urged to ing. held in the The report of the as submitted to the Elihu . Vibherts, G. W} Pratt w to be submitted to finance and will require a special its excellent work. Members of the attend the school s nam to taxation as special ap- committee board wer school exhibit be- Burritt | Superintendent of Schools Holme nounced it the best school pro- he had ever seen speci memh committee is Committee’s Repor The committee I mation covering in the country ge has the 1y, of Connecticut and New F in New result we are Britain in convineced that a ney contront | { people in the grave dangers which lie secured salary infor- gland, and articular. the Amer in (1) a lack of a sufficient supply of | efficient teachers to officer and, in (2) a consequent the efficiency of | the wWork of tr the schools lowering of the teachers in serv- | ice and a reduction in the quality of e schools. L recent report (1 w special tional ement question veal shortd be rly estimate further ers—" We this emerg al. bu . for frec democratic of civilization teachers who are follow America. Situation Same The situation in Connecticut and in differs .in i which who are to of the future of New respect Britain from other parts the there which present tine of Clonnecticut el of teache hich are bein who are unfit In our never been Ul the positions filled been are seven vacancies in by ain schoo and is made. & the itsell own a time commission Education 919) issued of the Na- association, the e two of e studying the that achers may .000 teach- vear convinced that is not only education- continuance of government rests and even now training and us in the shapi Elsewdi ne exists in country. At the dre r There taught inexperienced., ny schools are closed for are more by teachers untrained and schools there has for two vears when the schools. have At the present the February | number will doubtless e Petween the close time there New Brit- this larger still. the school y i either be ! the Ame n { for teachers. situation | in the cities | profe: | who (6) Schools in large numbers must obliged to suffer f untrained and inexperienced teachers who are unable to do efficient and satisfactory work. Higher Salaries Needed. a measure of people must meet thi providing higher salar: There are othe siderations of justice to teache but these are of minor 1s compared with ion of our situation by , et consideration that of the pre- What is a fair that justice demands that the teacher be g 1 faiv salary. What, then, is a fair sal 4 A fal alary is, first of all, more than a mere living cnable the teacher, who is endowed with average husines nse and fore- thought, to save sufficiently to pro- vide for the emergencies of illness and for the reduced earning capacity of old age. A fair salary is, in the second place, enough more than mere living salary to enable the teacher to maintain a standard of living, not extravagant, but is approved and expected in a s respecting citizen who takes his place worthily in the community and con- tributes a r share toward com- munity life and activities. A fair salary is enough more than salary? Tt said enough upon the | @ mere living salary to provide means for study and improvement through ional courses, lectures, con- certs, travel, etc., so that the teacher may keep alive and alert and con- stantly growing in professional ef- ficiency Mor fliciency, More Pay. It will be conceded that increased length of service accompanied with inc ed efficiency should be reward- ed by a salary which increases each vear until a reasonable maximum is reached. Tor still to establish herself and to prove her fitness and efficiency, a minimum must be fixed that will en- able her to live well, to keep well, to enjoy life, to provide for professional improvement and to save a small amount. This minimum has been variously estimated at from $900 to an alarming extent. A, M. closed, or, if not closed, are | om the teaching of | ling:; self-preservation | con- | | ski, by J. G { man, government and ! is often | alary to | such as ' the beginning teacher, ! Rutherford, by Klett & Alling Wednesday, December 10, at 10 a. m., Albert Halpern, hy I B. Hunger ford, vs. Andrew Milowshevich, by J. G. Woods: Wednesday, December 10, at 2 p, m., Guiseppe Poletto, by Upson, vs, J. Krenn, by Klett Wednerday, December 10, m., Daniel Beauchamp, by % senberg. vs. . W. Durkee, by Coo- Minlk; Thursday. December 11, 9:30 a. m., Joseph Benson, et al, ; W. F. Mangan, Joseph Salin- Woods; Thursday, De- cember 11, at 2 p..m. Samuel Lait- et al, by H. P. Roche, Hannin, by M. D. Saxe. OF MU C. A, PERRIN, Director. 259 Main St. Room 57 Violin, Piano, Mandolin and Guitar Class and Private Instruction. Booth’s Block. HIGH COST OF CHRISTMAS GIFTS? Not When You Give Photographs A Dozen of Our Artistically linished Sepia Buff Panels Will Go to 12 of Your Friends and Relations and Will Be Thankfully Accepted. ARCADE STUDIO " The Photographer in Your Town WARM AIR o WARM AIR COLD AIR NP Sterlin Furnac Factory Engineer will be here all week and you can have his advice free. let him look over your house and show you how to have it prop- vy warmed. Throw the Stoves OQut Stoves heat part of the home —incompletely. An NP Sterling 1'urnace will heat the entire house abundantly. No heat pipes.. Come in and see it. SPECIAL CLUB TERMS THIS WEEK. ‘This week will be the wind-up before will ¢dll—you can pay while using at the ( | A.A.MILLS 80 West Main New Britain ather—don’t wait—come in today—the actory Man™ 80 West Main New Britain

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