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as follows.” The report for Portland,
.Oregon; is the only one here reprinted.
"Since 1942, salary adjustments have
been made at the beginning of thé fis
cal year on July U (for Portland clfy
employees) o nthe basis*Vf ’$1 per poifit
above iW which was determined to be
the 1939 salary range. N o adjustment is,
made unless the index changes two
points of more and the changes^ apply
up to $>',200 of .salary. Price indexes
for the preceding September and De-
cember are averaged, 111 points de
ducted and $1 per point paid/tjb eaçh
employee per month. Since the begin
ning of the w at all employees have had
at least,-a $ 57-per-month pay /increase,
¿|p5<of this increase having been granted
on July 1, 1946, and *$15 on January
1, 1947.”
BORROW ING p N T H E FUTURE
Although .Milwaukee, Wisconsin, has
a .; non-partisan ' city government, the
m atter pf
bond .issue-is a sore pointy
bectu’se Milwaukee has taken great
pride in
fact that it is), one of -the
few debt-freecities in the country. In
Apfil the people. y'oted\on whether the
•ci qH should issue public improvement
bonds.
The Milwaukee Journal has pointed
out that the city actually-is not debt-
free) One editorial stated:
"W hen ypu fail to keep up yoiir
plant or make public improvements
that :,ar^. becpming necessary, you are
^borrowing against the future as surely
as if you floated bonds ,<>r went out
and negotiated a cash loan . . . A city
run down, to the point where its. very
exisfenceis threatened is not debt-free
even though f t, may not owe a dollar.
It has m ortgagedits future and it has
to meet that mortgage.” /
American C ity, March, 1947.1
The fate-,, of Lot’s wife was all her
own fa u lt;. she firs t turned ¡to rubber,
and then turned to salt.H
—-H ighw ays o f Happiness.
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