Barbers Make $35 A Week; Teacher Make $55 to $65 A Month, October 1918

From the News & Observer, Raleigh, as reprinted in The Monroe Journal, Oct. 22, 1918: Mr. W.N. Smith of 608 Polk Street sends the News and Observer a clipping from the advertising columns of this paper. One of the advertisements on the clipping is for a barber at $35 a week. There are two other advertisements, both of them for teachers. They offer $55 in one instance, $65 in another, and $60 in a third. Thirty-five dollars a week for barbering—sixty dollars a month for teaching. No wonder teachers are so scarce. Any kind of work pays better than teaching, and yet teaching is at the foundation of individual and national success and happiness. Verily, in the minds of the people before there will prevail the right idea as to the reason for the present scarcity of teachers.