Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 November 1945 — Page 6

[Harvest Time "| By Thomas L. Stokes

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THE PRICE OF TALENT PRESIDENT TRUMAN proposes a general pay raise in they | ny the federal civil service, with some really good salaries | tangerines, d a tl” ‘for the more important government officials. , ALAUR

Supreme court justices would get $30,000 a year; appellate judges $22,500; district judges $20,000. The vice |. " : president, speaker of the house, and cabinet officers would “wl wholly di with

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The first embarrassing question, of course, is: Where's ‘the money coming from? Senator Byrd of Virginih—who's against the pay raise, incidentally—makes another suggestion which might bear on that question. He says the thing to do is to cut the number of civilians on the government payroll, now around 8,000,000, back to 1,000,000. That would have a lot of money. And third as many government workers might : get more on Sy If we kept the best third, they would FOREIGN AFFAIRS—

be worth more pay. . * A second embarrassment will be a demand for sauce : U. S. Prestig for all of us ganders in private life. And there's the ques- i ) : tion of what happens to the price-wage formula. By William Philip Simm But if we keep talking about embarrassments we can’t ; get around to discussion of those interesting round figures for the high officials. The big contracts in government | . service and business and professional life are the rewards | for top talent. : A $10,000 federal judge may have to decide a court argument between a couple of lawyers whose fees and | retainers total 10 or 20 times as much. An efficient vice president of a sizable corporation may get $75,000 a year, but a congressman, who is a director in a business institution with assets and liabilities larger than 100 big corporations, 'gets $10,000. ¥ “2 ® 8 . » * VWHILE $10,000 may be a lot of money in Keokuk, Iowa, =" it falls so far short of meeting the legitimate living ‘expenses of a senator in Washington, D. C., that many a lawmaker not otherwise heeled has to fumble in his pockets r look the other way when the luncheon check is being picked up. A senator is hired for six-years. But a member ‘of the house has’ to get re-hired every two years. He doesn’t get his seat warm before he starts running for re-election, which means treats for constituents, contribu- | jo. ha tions fo their charities, ‘radio time, travel expense; and | agree even on a final heir deputi keeping two wet fingers to the wind and, two ears to the Jett DIG 4% NORAD FUNTIRE Vo Wu TeApuetve. ground, harkening every minute to pressure groups instead | This leaves the whole dangerous busiriess up in the of serving the public interest. "] i * A good congressman is worth $20,000; a poor one isn't ‘worth two cents. If alt our senators and representatives were really worth $20,000 we could well afford to pay them, because they could save the taxpayers billions. In private business we accept it as a general proposition that cheap help is never really cheap; that, after all, we get what we pay for, and that real talent comes at a premium, - = Is there anything peculiar-about-human nature which makes that general rule not applicable to public service?

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WHAT HAPPENED IN WICHITA? AN advertisement in New York newspapers invites inws dustries to locate in Wichita, Kas., a city proudly i & described as “Center of the U. S.” The thing that seems to us interesting, unusual and pretty fine about this invitation is that it is issued ip the it name of labor. The advertisement is inserted by the Inter"national Association of Machinists, an A. F. of L. union. % It boasts of Wichita’s wartime record for “the nation’s E . best labor-management relations—no strikes or lockouts— = produced more aircraft per capita than any other city.” : It gives references: “Managements at Beech, Boeing, . Cessna, Culver aircraft companies will testify to the war- (% time job we did for them. Labor can do the same for you % in Wichita." 3 And it suggests that industries write for a brochure, B “Mechanized Wichita,” to J. T. Higgins. Mr. Higgins is i secretary-treasurer of the union's District Lodge 70. He * 8 also, the advertisement says, a member of the Wichita E of Commerce. : ~ We don’t know how many industries will move to Wichita as a result of this invitation. But we think it

to investigate what's been going on in Wichita. to find out how, by a union’s own testimony, labor i ment have been able to work peaceably together profit and the general welfare of a community.

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