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Great Falls Daily Tribune
Great Falls, Cascade County, Montana
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New York teachers' leaders petition Republican chairman Will H. Hays for an education plank in the party platform, citing teacher shortages, low salaries, and rising illiteracy; with woman suffrage, teachers plan to vote for education-supporting parties.
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New York, April 4.--A petition urging the adoption of an educational plank in the national platform of the Republican party has been presented to Will H. Hays, chairman of the Republican national committee by Judson F. Wright, president of the New York State Teachers' association; William T. McCoy, chairman of the Illinois schools committee, and Olive M. Jones, president of the New York Principals' association.
Teachers are "not attempting to dictate," Mr. McCoy said, but with the likelihood of woman suffrage becoming a law, thus giving the vote to 80 per cent of the 700,000 teachers in America, they feel that the most important service they can give will be to see that their vote goes to the party that most definitely pledges itself to remove educational limitations from the children of the country. "Teachers have never been so keenly conscious of their responsibility in politics, but they are alive to the situation as they never have been before, and are going to the polls next November with that situation uppermost in their minds."
There is a "great and growing deterioration in public education, caused by a tremendous loss of trained teachers, and a great lowering in the standards of quality of incoming teachers," the petition stated.
The average yearly salary of the teacher in 1919 was $803, the petition said; and there had been only a 10 per cent increase during that year. More than 50,000 rural schools are without teachers, it continued, and added:
"The desertion of farms is largely due to removal of farmers to cities where they can get decent schooling for their children. Illiteracy, which disqualified one out of every drafted men for effective service in the great war, is on the increase."
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New York
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April 4
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petition presented urging educational plank in republican platform; teachers plan to vote for party supporting education; noted issues include teacher shortages, low salaries ($803 average in 1919 with 10% increase), over 50,000 rural schools without teachers, increasing illiteracy.
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A petition was presented to Will H. Hays, Republican national committee chairman, by Judson F. Wright (president of New York State Teachers' association), William T. McCoy (chairman of Illinois schools committee), and Olive M. Jones (president of New York Principals' association), urging an educational plank in the Republican national platform. Teachers, especially with impending woman suffrage giving votes to 80% of 700,000 teachers, intend to support the party pledging to remove educational limitations. Petition highlights deterioration in public education due to loss of trained teachers, lowering standards, desertion of farms due to poor schooling, and increasing illiteracy.