Job Wanted

Sixty dollars a month for eight months of the year is the average salary of North Carolina public school teachers. That is about equal to the wages of textile workers. Last fortnight North Carolinians were shocked, ashamed to read in the Raleigh News and Observer this "job-wanted" advertisement:

SCHOOLTEACHER OFFERS SERVICES Have taught almost 14 years. Have degree of Master of Arts. . . . At present am administrator of six schools, serve as principal of one, have five periods in classroom daily, hunt up delinquent children, find clothing for the indigent, keep school busses running, raise money to carry on athletic program. . . . For past two years my salary has been lower in my town than that of any local mail clerk, mail carrier, business manager or administrator, preacher, and of certain filling station employees and retail clerks. . . . Assets: one car (runs best in garage); three suits clothes (when wearing two of which I find a strictly upright carriage advisable) ; one pair worn shoes (but feet in good shape). Also one sense of humor, somewhat groggy or in a comatose state (seems to be result of trying to explain to children the value of education in North Carolina).

Last week the advertiser identified himself as School Superintendent J. C. Pugh of Red Springs. Salary: $1,272 annually. Superintendent Pugh had received four offers, would probably become editor or advertising manager of a biweekly paper.

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