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Show TIME TO CHANGE NOW Compared in values as measured in living costs at the time the legislative leg-islative pay in Ululi w-s set and the present day with that salary arrangement still obtaining, the figures so different that they are startling. ; The legislative pay of four dollars dol-lars a day was established in 1835 at the time the Utah Constitution was written. Hotel rates at that time were nut more than a dollar and a quarter a day, meals might be purchased for thirty-five cents each and men's choice suits could be scurcd for twelve dollars. Hotel rooms nowadays arc seldom below three dollars a day in the large cities, regular meals cx,t all the way from seventy-five cents to a dollar and a quarter and men's good suits seldom may be purchased for less than fifty dollars. Interesting, too, is the romj)arl-son romj)arl-son on salaries. In 18!)6 a stoic clerk received on the average twelve dollars dol-lars a week, a traveling salesman was pal(l about one hundred and twenty-five dollars a month, a lady elementary school teacher was pal about forty dollars a month, a man In the same classification , receiving about fifty-five dollars. Today the average store clerk will receive from thirty to forty dollars a week, traveling trav-eling salesmen will on the average be paid about four hundred dollars dol-lars a month and feminine elementary elemen-tary teacher has a monthly income of one hundred and twenty-five dollars, the male Instructor In that class being paid about one hundred ond forty dollars a month. These figures are, of course, of a general average nature and may not prevail In every case. But they do give an excellent Illustration of the Income changes which have been made over the years. During all of this time the pay for legislators In Utah has remained remain-ed at four dollars a day, a ridiculous figure which Is plainly out of line with all sense of proper proportion. It Is time -that the '.state of Utah brings its salary scalp for legislators at least up to a level that will permit per-mit the lawmakers to have sufficient suffi-cient Income while serving the state to pay their expenses. |