Beaver County News | 1916-08-25 | Page 4 | government Pensions for its Employes Unnecessary if Fair Salaries are Paid

! Government Pensions for Its Employes i Unnecessary if Fair Salaries Are Paid j By ERNEST DEBERTHAUSER One can hardly reflect on the proposition to pension schoolteachers And government employees without feeling that there is something wrong with a situation that would even suggest it. The salary they receive is either fair or ic is not fair. If it is fair, ;1ien let them Ettve and look out for themselves. If it is not fair, it is incumbent on the nation and the stales to set about equalizing things oy paring down the pay of high-salaried officials and adding it to that t those who are underpaid. In doing the fair thing, let the national government begin with the village post office. Detach it from side lines, out it on a salary basis and pay the postmaster a salary sufficiently decent ;o enable him to live comfortably and lay up a modest competency for jld age.- Let the states do likewise with the schoolmaster and the school-jia'aaj. school-jia'aaj. Then let all talk of pensioning them cease. Let them save, et -we all must save, if they want a prop to lean on when their working ly are ova - " '