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...number of graduates from the schools of education at our college and university (we have no "teachers' colleges," as you implied) corresponds to the general decline in overall enrollment at these institutions . . . Your statement that 400 teachers in Utah, angered over their salaries, quit their jobs in disgust, is far-fetched and leaves an erroneous impression. In 1952-53, despite our low rank in ability to support education, Utah paid its teachers a higher salary than the average of our surrounding states and higher than the national average . . . All factors considered, we are doing well by the teachers...
...have just read with disgust your article on the Hartley baby [TIME, Jan. 4]. It seems to me the doctor who tried so hard to make this child breathe is not a humanitarian but a mad research fiend...
...When Henry Clay, defeated for the presidency, sourgraped, "I'd rather be right than President," John C. Calhoun, just elected Vice President, said: "Well, I guess it's all right to be half right-and Vice President." But it wasn't all right. Calhoun quit in disgust and got elected to the Senate. Teddy Roosevelt referred to his election to the vice presidency as "taking the veil." Later, when he had succeeded President McKinley, Teddy was annoyed by the tinkling of the enormous "Jefferson chandelier" in his office, and ordered it removed. "Take it to the office...
...while enrollments have been rising at the rate of 5,000 a year, the number of teachers graduating from the state's teachers' colleges has been dropping at the rate of about 200 a year. Last summer, angered over their salaries, 400 teachers quit their jobs in disgust, and last fall Utah barely escaped a general teachers' strike. Even prosperous Salt Lake City has felt the pinch: its schools have been so short of funds that they had to abandon their home-study program for blind and crippled children...
...original Civil Service Act was passed as a result of bipartisan disgust with the expense and inefficiency of the post-Civil War spoils system. The nation should not have to suffer again before it decides to make these reforms stick...