Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-01-27 | Page 7 | On Standardization

ON STANDARDIZATION pROPER compensation of public servants ii involves a standardization of salaries This can be achieved only by bj an absolute elimination of any considerations other than the actual value of the services rendered Naturally this appraisement must come on the position itself and not upon the indi indi- vidual The party in power Is apt to regard regarda a vote g getter vote as possessing more value t than an someone who does not bring home the political political cal bacon and pay him accordingly Whereas Where Where- as it is more often true that one trained to specialized work renders a higher and more competent public service Chairman Quinn of the board of county commissioners believes in a standardization of salaries In the county service How he expects to achieve this under unde present conditions conditions conditions condi- condi condi condi- is a problem which is not readily un un- un- un But the principle Is right and we hope the commissioner may be able abl to suggest a yardstick and a method Classification of positions is needed But this classification must not b be fixed by partisan partisan partisan par par- minds which are unable to dissociate party service from public service The people people peo peo- pie p-le generally have long since outgrown the archaic n notion that a Republican Is more efficient than a Democrat or vice versa The payment of party service with public money has always been distasteful The cl classification of throughout through through- out ut the sta state county and city service should be built upon a foundation of uniformity otherwise there can be no genuine standard standard-