Show TIME TO CHANGE NOW compared in values as measured in 1 n living costs at the time the 1 legis az wr ithai dative jet pay in utah was set and 1 the present day with that salary arjang merit still fill chiming the figures are am so different that they are startling the legislative pay of four few dol lars tit a day was established in 1895 at the time the utah was written hotel rates at that time were ere not more mom than a dollar and a quarter a d day a Y meals e might b be pur PI chased for tb thirty y five xv con cenas ce each and reens mens choice suits could be se cured for twelve dollars dol lairs hotel ofel rooms nowadays are seldom below three dollars a day in the I 1 large a caties catie rac tie x regular meals cost all 1 the c way from seventy five cents to a dollar and a quarter and mean a good suits seldom may be purchased for less than 50 51 interesting too is the comparison a on sailous salaries in 1896 a store clerk received on the he average tieh e dol ia lars week a traveling salesman vas oas paid about one hundred and twenty Ave bollam a month a lade lad c elementary lary school teacher eacher was paid about forty dollars a month a man in in the same e receiving about fifty two dollars today the average store clerk will receive from thirty to forty dollars a week meek traveling salesmen will on th the av average be paid about four hundred d it dollars a month and the feminine elementary teacher has a monthly income of one and twenty five do dollars its the male instructor in that class being paid about one hundred and forty delta dollars a month these figures are of course of a g general cral average nature and may not 17 prevail in every case striking at a 1 happy I medium but they do give an excellent client illustration of the income changes which have been made over er the year during all of this time the pay for legislators in utah has remained at four dollars a day a lous figure which aich is a pla ining out of line with all sense of proper P proportion it is time buic that the p state late of 1 utah b bring n g 1 its l 1 salary I scale for legislators ah is isla tors ma at t least art up to a level that will permit the lawmakers to have sufficient t income while serving the state to pay their expenses i slip I 1 p G covers vc fb fabric for slip covers should be strong enough to withstand use for a reasonable length of time the colors should be fade resistant and withstand washing and dry cleaning |