Education: Teachers' Troubles

Axel Anderson, fireman, had almost won the hand of Rita Coates, teacher, when the Lynn. Mass, school committee intervened last month to say that Miss Coates could not have both her job and Axel. "This condemns me to the life of a spinster," mourned Rita Coates. "I have no choice unless I wish to desert my father and mother who are absolutely dependent on me."

In countless U. S. cities marriageable teachers currently find themselves in the same fix as Rita Coates. Last week the National Association of Women Lawyers, meeting in Los...

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