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tinued study. Mr. Sokolsky points out that “the truck driver, who may never have been to college, may find that his wages and fringe bene fits bring him more for his family than a professor who knows how to build an atomic reactor.” The salary for professors in the state of California, one of the better paid states, for “seven-year t r a i n e d Ph.D’s ranging from instructor to professor runs from a low of $4,512 a year to a high of $9,384 a year before taxes are deducted.” He comments that, “A bit player in Hollywood showed such a salary would laugh at the offer. But we entrust the intellectual development of our next generations to men who have to dress like gentlemen and who have to maintain a position in the community but whom we pay so little that they must be concerned about how to make ends meet.” Postwar Problems The Dallas News has issued the following alarming information: “From 1940 to 1950, census figures show America had the greatest divorce rate in history. In the peak year, 1946, 4 out of 10 marriages ended. Even this isn’t a complete picture. In one year it was found that less than half the broken homes had had a divorce decree; the homes had been hit by desertions, annulments or separations.” All this may explain why “today persons under 21 account for nearly half the arrests in most major cities.” The News editor quotes Socrates who warned the heads of house holds long ago: “Why is it ye turn and scrape every stone to gather wealth and neglect your children to whom ye must some day relin quish all?” Hopeful Sign in Education A short time ago the Board of Education in Phoenix, Ariz. ap proved a resolution against hiring graduates of teachers’ colleges to
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Church Building Expenditures to Increase “New religious building construc tion will increase by 1956 as part of a spectacular boom in U. S. building over the next 10 years,” says the building magazine Archi tectural Forum in its December issue. “By 1966, total new construc tion of all types is likely to be run ning at a rate of nearly $64 billion a year, a massive 45% above this year’s record volume of $44 bil lion.” The forecast is the result of a special study made for Forum by a Washington economist. Forum puts current 1956 reli gious building expenditures at $750 million. “By 1961, annual expendi tures will have risen approximately 13% to $850 million a year.” P T A Revolt PTA members in the Los An geles, Calif., area have flared up at the state organization for its “gag rule tactics.” PTA policy, say the dissidents, is decided from the top down, and local groups are not per mitted to discuss both sides of an issue once a national or state PTA “stand” has been proclaimed. Pay of Teachers Mr. George Sokolsky, a writer for King Features Syndicate, Inc., has consistently warned America of a grave danger and threat to our national welfare, namely, the low pay for teachers. He points out that many people object to “any arith metic which indicates that a teacher is paid for 52 weeks’ work. Some say that a teacher works only 40 weeks but is paid for 52 weeks per year.” He says, “A teacher, whether in a kindergarten or university, not only teaches but has to learn. A teacher who stops learning has nothing to teach; he or she becomes empty-headed and useless.” It must be assumed that a teacher’s salary also includes the expense of con
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