Show REDUCE SALARIES OF PUBLIC OFFICIALS My Myton ton Utah June 21 1932 Dear Editor Mr Hollenbeck recent article in your paper on tax reduction is very timely and should interest every taxpayer but while we are advocating reduction in school salarIes salaries salaries sal sal- aries and compensation let us go goa a little further and demand a reduction reduction reduction re re- re- re in all aU governmental state county and municipal salaries all of which ought to be materially reduced My personal opinion is that the salaries of the President Senators Representatives Supreme Supreme Supreme Su Su- Su- Su preme Judges Circuit Judges and mony others too numerous to mention mention mention men men- tion should be reduced 50 The governor of the state and all state county and municipal officers should be very materially reduced We Ve are paying too much for the service we get The purchasing purchasing purchasing pur pur- chasing power of the dollar is 50 per cent greater than it was five or six years ago hence salaries have increased in that proportion Wage cuts have been made in nearly all lines of industry the farmers Income has been reduced 50 per cent or more why not re reduce reduce reduce re- re duce salaries in proportion to wage earners and farmers farmers' incomes The amazing thing about this depression the worst the world has ever known and wholly uncalled uncalled uncalled un un- un- un called for is the apparent ignorance ignorance ignorance ance of congress and the called so-called constructive minds of capitalism and the total lack of knowledge of what to do to end it and of the intellectual bankruptcy of the capitalistic class In all its naked and reality Instead of being men with advanced ideas and intellectual equipment as the people people people peo peo- were led to belIve these In Industrial Industrial industrial in- in pirates and racketeers who have profited by the system are shown to be men with drawled intellects whose only intellectual asset is an acquisitive instinct and anda a disposition to rob and steal ina in ina a legalized way In county state and elections let us cast politics aside and elect men and women who are capable of doing the work of their respective offices and do away with so much deputy work Another thing that would materially materially materially ma ma- reduce taxes would be to annex two or more counties into one thereby doing away with so many county governments Congress is hunting up every I possible means that their pigmy brains can conceive of to tax in order to balance the budget I wonder they haven't thought of abolishing the senate a useless adjunct to the law making power or reduce the membership of congress congress congress con con- gress 50 per cent And then cut their salaries In half It Is necessary to bring more people into the producing class and eliminate th the parasites j This I talk talk about t overproduction Is all alla l la a hoax not until all the people Inthe in inthe inthe the nation are arc supplied with abundant abundant abundant dant food clothing and shelter can there possibly be any When the unemployed unemployed unemployed un un- employed and the other millions of ot time part-time employed are put to work and become assets instead of ot liabilities and the hours of ot labor labor labor la la- bor reduced so BO that all those desiring desiring desiring de de- de- de siring work can find employment each receiving the full social value I of his or her labor there will be beno beno beno no over production I Yours truly I A. A E. E EDWARDS |