Show SALARY CUTS SINCE INCE time immemorial the ins Hins have bent their efforts toward pushing their salaries upward improving their worl working conditions find and making maling things just as easy casy for themselves them them- selves as possible This is history in public service and ItIs it itIs Is a natural human instinct Entrenched soon come to regard their public jobs as their own private possessions and guard them Jealously against any attack from the outs Now the outs arc are those who look upon the ins as a favored class whereas it is axiomatic that many a man and woman on the public payroll could earn a great deal more money and be worth more to themselves themselves themselves them them- selves in private pursuits pursuit Having striven to land themselves in public public pub pub- lic lie jobs and having been there long enough to become inoculated with the serum of misconception misconception misconception mis mis- conception public regard themselves themselves themselves them them- selves as immune from the same reactions which affect men and women of their class in private employment In Salt Lake City finances have f len into a pretty pickle due to the cumulative effect of many years of bad management Extravagances of various sorts prodigality of expenditures and of departments departments depart depart- ments living beyond the known income income all all have contributed d to put the city in such a financial hole that its credit is strained to the utmost to keep going Now a good public servant whether he hebe hebe hebe be a lowly typist or a department head will recognize this emergency accept a salary cut and render just as good service at a reduced income as he did at a higher Another type of public servant will resent the cut and grumble along grudgingly This type probably probably probably ably wasn't worth its salt in normal times and would be worth much less in abnormal times But public servants servant must come to know that their living habits will have to undergo the same readjustment as has been forced upon their fellows in private enterprises They must come to realize there is 15 nothing sacred about a public payroll They must be made to understand they are not to be ex exempted exempted ex- ex empted from the general wage-cutting wage process And the sooner they accept the situation with good grace the better it will wiIl be for them and for public service |