Show Handwriting for Stuffed Shirts Measures taken by various government government govern govern- ment merit agencies to reduce the salaries paid to corporation officials either by direct compulsion or through the force of ot publicity are part of a leveling down process which has many advocates in high places these days Just how far this operation will go and Just what good or harm it will do Is anybody's guess 0 Of Ot course the real question is not the amount of the salary paid but whether it is earned There can be no doubt that many corporation salaries with added bonuses and fees have been grossly in excess of the value of the services rendered After all aU most people are pretty I good sports they do not object to a aman amon mon man making a fortune in a business which he has built up from nothing to great and useful proportions They recognize the element of risk the uncertainty un tin- certainty the staking of ot his savings on fortune or failure But when high salaries salaries sal sale aries fees bonuses and commissions are paid to the higher officials of ot a company by what is to all intents and purposes their own action and without without with with- out the slightest financial risk to the officials themselves the public is skeptical to say the least But there can be no standardization of salaries and no permanent gov government govern rn ment interference with such remuneration remuneration a on without real danger of at business sta stagnation This country has not r reached ached the point where it is in the general interest in interest in in- terest to eliminate from irom the life of the ambitious individual the ity of ot making either a fortune or a large Income But If It our corporate managers wish to avoid the sure coming coming com com- ing lag of sucH a condition they will wili take warning and curb their all too frequent Ire fre quent tendency to reward themselves out of proportion to the service ren rea- dered Saturday Saturday Evening Post |