Show TIME TO CHANGE NOW compain compared ed in values as measured in living costs at the time the legislative pay in utah was set and the present day with that thai faiai salary y arrangement still obtaining tile the figures are so different that they are startling tile the legislative pay of tour four dollars a day was established in 1895 at ta the I 1 e time the utah constitution ution was written hotel rates at that time were not more than a dollar and quarter a day meals might be purchased tor for thirty five cents each and mens choice suits could be secured for twelve dollars hotel rooms nowadays are seldom below three dollars a day in the la large rge cities regular meals cost all the way from seventy five cents to a dollar and a quarter and mens good suits seldom may be purchased for less than fifty dollars interesting too Is the comparison on salaries in 1896 a store clerk received on the average twelve dollars a week a traveling salesman was paid about one hundred and twenty five dollars a month a lady elementary school teacher was paid about forty dollars a month a man in the same classification receiving about fifty five doll dollars ra today the average store clerk will receive thirty to forty dollars a week traveling salesmen will on the average be paid about tour four hundred dollars a mouth month and the feminine elementary teacher has a monthly income of one hundred and twenty dollars tile male instructor in that class being paid about one hundred and forty dollars a month these fagues are of course of a general average nature and may not prevail in every case striking at a happy medium but they do give an excellent illustration of the income changes which have been made over the years during all this time the pay for legislators in utah has remained at four dollars a day a ridiculous figure which Is plainly out of line with all sense of proper proportion pro porton it Is time that the state of utah bring its salary scale for legislators at least up to a level that will permit the lawmakers to have sufficient income while serving the state to pay their expenses blast the abw buy war bonds and stamps |