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DUSINESSLDUGATOR
Vol. IX. No. 1. COLUMBUS. O.. SEPTEMBER, 1903. Whole No. 56
Salaries.
Within the past five years we have noted a gradual growth in the salar-
ies of commercial teachers. What are the reasons for this increase ?
The first cause, though not the pri-
mary one, is the general prosperity that'has been and is so prevalent. If
this were the chief cause, then the compensation of commercial teachers would fluctuate with the times and markets. The second cause for increase in
the wages of commercial teachers is
the popularitv of business education. To its growth and development is due a demand unprecedented in educa- tional circles. And as we are just
experiencing the beginning of a new type of education which is destined to become quite universal, the de-
mand will continue indefinitely.
Wages for commercial teachers will
continue to increase, with a corres- ponding demand for increased abili-
ty in the way of more thorough prep- aration. Half-baked, partially pre-
pared, superficial ability, is receiving better wages today than it will to-
morrow. The sudden and unexpected demand for commercial education and educators has been greater tem- porarily than the supply, hence the demand for almost any kind of abilitv. The third cause for better pay for
commercial teachers is the growth of
the commercial department in the high school, and the commercial high school. The public always pays its
employes proportionately better than does the private employer. This public school commercial work has drawn from the private business schools many of the best teachers, and as a natural consequence private schools have had to increase wages correspondingly. The second and third causes of
increase in salaries are such as to
make the outlook for the commercial teacher enviable, and therefore worth preparing for.
The Business Educator believes in fostering commercial education on the part of private and public schools,
for education is something more than a private matter, though it is none the less the matter of private enter-
prise for being a public one as well.
Here's to the coming commercial teacher—prosperity seems to be your outlook ! Prepare, and you are sure of a good, desirable employment, than which there is no more honorable or
desirable.
When the Salvador arbitrators met in
Washington a year ago, to decide a dispute between the two countries, they were limit-
ed as to the time in which the decision should be rendered, according to the terms of the protocol under which they were con-
vened. The time limit had nearly elapsed before a decision was reached. Under the terms of the protocol copies of the award and the opinion on which it was based, were to be made for the various parties
interested.
At the Milwaukee meetingof the National Shorthand Teachers' Association, Mr. Frederic Irland, of Washington, made a
speech in which he told how the long opin- ion of the arbitrators was finished on time. In doing so he failed to make any mention of the work of Mr. Edward B. Russ. engross- ing clerk of the State Department, who made the engrossed copy of the award itself
(not the opinion) that is the official notice to all concerned of the decision of this
international court. Mr. Russ, as he had stated in a letter to this journal, worked all
night of the last day to engross the parch- ment ; and Mr. Irland says it was a wonder- ful piece of work. When Mr. Russ wrote the letter that was published in these col-
umns, a copy of it was sent to Mr. Irland ;
but that gentleman was in the Rocky Mountains, and knew nothing of the matter for weeks afterward. When he returned to
Washington, he and Mr. Russ had a talk about the case, and they join in requesting the publication of this statement. While Mr. Russ was working all night to engross the award, the stenographer to whom Mr. Irland referred was toiling over the long opinion. Mr. Irland's story related solely
to that, and Mr. Russ was quite right in
feeling that his part of the work deserved mentioning as well. Anyone reading Mr. Irland's account and the letter of Mr. Russ might suppose there was a conflict between them. But as one related to one thing, and the other to another, both gentlemen are
correct, and there is no controversy between them. Incidentally, they state that the
correspondence was the means of their get-
ting acquainted, and they are both glad of
Progress our Watchword
This is an active age. Doubtless the most active since time began. Change and improvement are the
orders of the day. Few things are as
they were twenty years ago. Those that are the same, are, as a rule,
twenty years behind the times. This is true of the street car, the telephone,
the railway car, the typewriter, the
electric light, and nearly everything about us. The art of writing is subject to the
same law. The styles taught twenty vears ago are now largely obsolete. The methods then employed in teach- ing are now much modified. Greater speed and legibility are now de-
manded. Twenty years ago we heard much of beautv and accuracy. Shade and flourish were then sanctioned even in accounting. Not so today. The rapid, the plain, the easy, the simple are now in demand. Progres- sive teachers everywhere now recog- nize this. And as a consequence, common sense is now taking the place of one-idea methods, ridden-to-
death hobbies, and superficial prac-
tices. Yet, in spite of all this push and
progress, now and then we find one who is content to preach and teach the things he advocated twenty years'
ago. Thev know no change, no pro-
gress. They face the past rather than the future. The Business Educator believes
in progress and proposes to practice
that which it preaches. It believes
that the art of writing is better to-
day than ever before, and that tomor- row it will be better than it is today.
To keep up with the times we must therefore meet the need of the new day bv changing and improving and discarding the old. By so doing we keep from becoming "back num- bers," and only by so doing.
If you want" the best, the latest,
and the most progressive in penman- ship lines, keep your eye on the
Business Educator.
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ALL MATTER FOR THIS DEPART?IENT SHOULD BE ADDRESSED TO THE EDITOR.
The summer convention Che of the National Educa- Boston tional Association call-
Conventions ed a great host of teachers into New En-
gland, and the various departments of the splendid Association were well
attended. The Department of Busi-
ness Education never before drew so
large and lively an assemblage of
commercial teachers, and we believe
that so many public commercial teachers have never before gathered in any convention. This is all very-
encouraging for those who have the
best interests of the cause at heart.
The meeting of the Private School Managers, following the sessions of
the X. E. A., was not well attended, owing possibly to the fact that
proprietors of commercial schools at
this time of the year are very closely
engaged in getting out advertising matter and planning the campaign for the coming year's business; and, possibly, too, to the fact that they attend the regular meetings of the two large Commercial Teachers' As- sociations, besides, in manv in-
stances, local state conventions. To most commercial school men this is
a sufficient draft in time and money, for the average proprietor of a com- mercial school is neither a man of leisure nor a man of wealth. A re-
port of the meeting of the New Eng- land High School Commercial Teach- ers' Association appears on another page.
Che Onward In the high schools in
march of all parts of the country Business there is undeniable evi-
Cducation dence of the onward and upward march of
commercial education, and every- where new commercial departments are being opened in literary institu- tions, former commercial depart- ments are being enlarged and Strengthened, and greater consider- ation than ever before is being given to this phase of educational work. Not only are new commercial de-
partments being established in all classes of institutions giving a gen- eral training, but commercial teach-
ers are in great demand, and salaries
have risen so much that what form- erly was considered a princely salary is now looked on as common. One of the most aggressive private school managers said recently, in speaking of this feature of the question, that the high wages and more attractive conditions offered by the public schools were drawing from the pri-
vate schools so many of the best teachers that it took a very good salary to obtain high-class men. This is an unexpected effect of the addition of commercial courses to high school teaching; but the move- ment has merely begun, and no ade- quate method of increasing the sup- ply of well-trained teachers has yet been put into operation. With an active demand and a limited supply, the wage question is sure to become a serious one, for the best teachers in all parts of the country, we happen to know, are ready to step from the private into the public school work.
Commercial J^ t 'east one of the State
Courses in Normal Schools in each normal of the states should have Schools a commercial course so arranged that trained teachers, or those who are training to become teachers, may receive thorough in-
struction in the technical commercial subjects and in the best methods of presenting these subjects to classes. A large proportion of the teachers in the private commercial schools got their training by main strength and awkwardness. They remind one of Dr. Hewitt's expert oculist, who, in admitting his skill, said, "Yes, but I spoiled a hatful of eyes." How- ever, better teachers of their special subjects cannot be found in anyclass of schools than are to be found in the best private commercial schools, for they are the result of a process of selection, having been chosen, gen- erally, from among the students, be- cause of favorable qualities ; and then allowed to assist in teaching, gradually being advanced until they were made independent teachers, and finally heads of departments, principals of schools, or founders of
schools of their own. But this pro- cess is too slow for the requirements of the period through which we are passing, and therefore we are glad to
note that here and there a State Nor- mal School has prepared to do pioneer work along this line. Dr. Theodore C. Noss, of the California (Pa.) State Normal School, will open a Commercial Department in that school this month. It will be in
charge of Mr. C. E. Sisson, who last
year directed the commercial work of the Warren (Pa.) High School. We shall look with interest for the re-
sults of the work in this school and for the influence of the movement on other similar institutions.
The Indiana (Pa.) State Normal School has also been doing good work in this direction, we learn,
under the guidance of S. L. Lowrey, who has charge of the Commercial Department. If there are others, we should be glad to announce the fact.
The establishment of Our new distinct departments Departments for the consideration of
matter and methods re-
lating to the principal commercial subjects is a movement without a precedent among papers commonly read by commercial teachers ; but we believe that not only teachers but students also can be greatly bene- fited by this specialization, and we trust that teachers of commercial law, commercial geography, com- mercial arithmetic, commercial En- glish and office practice, will freely submit suggestions, criticisms, and questions. The editors of these de- partments are trained teachers among the most successful in their respect- ive lines of work, and they earnestly desire the co-operation of their fellow teachers in order that their several departments may be made as useful as possible. We were unable to announce, in our
June number, the editor of the De- Eartment of Commercial Geography, ut we can assure our readers that in
Mr. Frank O. Carpenter we have se- cured a man of experience and schol- arship, a resourceful, enthusiastic specialist, who will make his depart- ment of great practical value to all
who are interested in commercial geography, whether as teachers or as students.
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DEPARTMENT OF
Cornrqercial GeoigfajDijy. Frank O. Carpenter.
Hu Editor o/ rftta DeDarrmenJ mow b< addressed dtrecrZp at the English High Srlt'Kil. Bnstou. .Muss . />»t eommunfcafio ris requiring a reply must in all cases '»/">< <> '"' " y.M-M./. /.. iiisiiir .1/ entinn.
Fcrc^word.
In taking up the pleasant duty, which, by the invitation of the publishers of THE Business Educator, the editor of this
department is permitted to do, a few words of explanation seem desirable.
The subject of Commercial Geography is
so new in the schools, and the field that it
covers is so wide, that no method of teach-
ing is yet complete or can be called the best, as all are still in the experimental stage and are being tested by scores of keen- brained teachers, new to the subject though skilled in other lines of teaching. The edi-
tor, therefore, wishes to say that it…