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Show Federal Employee's Salary Is 92 Cents Appointed Government Collaborator Collab-orator July 1, 1913, With Wage of $1 Per Year. J. Edward Taylor is a government employee. "That's a mistake," the average person will say, "Taylor is state horticultural horti-cultural inspector." It is not a mistake, however. Mr. Taylor is a federal man and has a check for his last year's salary received re-ceived yesterday from the treasury de-partmentto de-partmentto prove it. The check amounst to just 92 cents. A number of Mr. Taylor's friends yesterday urged him to "buy" with the easy money, but Taylor is so thrifty that he will not even cash it. He intends to frame the check and then Uncle Sam will never, get it back. It seems that about a year ago, it was perhaps a week after July 1, 1913, Mr. Taylor was appointed government collaborator. His salary was fixed at $1 per annum. The fact that the check totaled only 92 cents shows what close figuring the clerks do when it comes to checking t Lie payroll and thereby keeping the administration's expenses down to minimum. Another interesting piece of literature litera-ture received with the check was a blank to be filled out by the employee. The industrious horticultural inspector, or rather federal collaborator, is asked whether he is doing any "outside" or non-government work and how many hours he Spends on this outside work. Mr. Taylor says he intends to fill out the blank informing the federal department depart-ment that he is also employed by the state of Utah and spends about seventy hours a week at it. Tavlor is a Republican and is one of the few who has succeeded in keeping his .iob in the face of Democratic demands. de-mands. He says that when some hungry hun-gry office seeker hears that he actually got paid some real money, he expects to be asked to resign. |