THE INDUSTRIAL TITAN OF AMERICA 



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A BLAST FURNACE OF TODAY AT SOUTH BETHLEHEM 



Although the area of Pennsylvania is only one one-thousandth of the earth's land sur- 

 face and only one-half of one per cent of the inhabitants of the globe reside within its bor- 

 ders, it produces one-sixth of the world's pig iron and one-sixth of its coal. 



Adequate pay for school teachers is 

 one of the first items in the program. 

 One can scarcely realize that there are in 

 such a progressive State more than eleven 

 thousand teachers receiving salaries of 

 less than $500 a year — a sum that even 

 an unskilled laborer would turn up his 

 nose at today. 



These teachers are pursuing a calling 

 second in dignity and in usefulness to 

 none. They are influential factors in the 

 intellectual development of the future 

 citizens of the State, and cannot but be 

 handicapped in their work by the less- 

 than-living wage they have been receiv- 

 ing. 



Pennsylvania is joining the ranks of 

 those States which realize what a debt 

 American civilization owes to the faith- 

 ful, overworked, and underpaid school 

 teacher, and which understand that no 

 investment can be made that will yield 



greater returns than the voting of living 

 salaries for instructors. 



In the realm of higher education, no 

 State is better equipped nor has more vig- 

 orous institutions. The University of 

 Pennsylvania has an enrollment of some 

 5,000 students, most of them from the 

 State, but with a minority drawn from all 

 of the other States and from some fifty 

 foreign countries. It has 30,000 living 

 alumni. The University of Pittsburgh 

 possesses a department of industrial re- 

 search and is one of the country's fore- 

 most engineering institutions. The Penn- 

 sylvania State College was once called 

 "The Farmers' High School." Now it is 

 a modern collegiate institution, with 

 schools of agriculture, engineering, lib- 

 eral arts, and natural science. 



Lehigh University and Swarthmore 

 both have famous engineering schools. 

 Then there are Bucknell, Dickinson, La- 



