In leased pay for Teachers
The necessities of a progressive civilization easily suggest the wisdom of raising the salaries of the schoolteachers in the United States, few of whom receive compensation commensurate with their financial needs or in any sense adequate to the exacting duties of their noble calling in good. The consensus of view of intelligent people familiar with present conditions is that not only must salaries be increased, but some kind of a retiring allowance must be provided for all schoolteachers if we are to have a profession of teaching that will command real talent. Recognizing this great need, there is no bit of a sustained movement; practical or the States to press upon it to give promise of the development of the entire educational system to a higher plane of usefulness, in which also the profession of teaching will be lifted from the confusion which now attends it by desertions or more lucrative employment and the haunting fear of indigency in old age.
The movement is one that should be fostered by the public to the fruitage which its importance suggests. When Lloyd George kissed the King's hands and when King George spoke of "my army" and "my navy" and "those aims for which I entered into the war," democracy laughed. It is surmised that even some of the loyal British soldiers in the trenches  chuckled a little.
Germany's Response
BY a prompt response to President Wilson's note. Germany again takes the initiative from the allies and forces them to assume an attitude of criticism and of self-defense. 