The Oregon state employee. (Salem, Oregon.) 1944-195?, January 01, 1948, Page 43, Image 43

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H sôund organization, m'ôdern pro­
cedures- and mechanized equipment can
màkUit,' -
Cities can afford to pay current
wages | only to able-bodied, able-minded
^tnd well trained men and women.
."Fewer and better” is fhp policy'which
intelligent city management ‘must ap­
ply to its, personnel problem., This
means, among other things, that there
must be better methods of personnel se­
lection, higher standards- of admissioh
and ihore and better in-service training.
The efforts of good employees are
often thwarted by bad organization.
Unwieldy boards and commissions^ di­
vided responsibil^& ^the absence of
trained and experienced supervision at
the right spots, are costly errors to be
found over and oyer again in city /govr
ernments.
Progressive private industry has been
^meeting the problem of higher wage
"scales by increasing the productivity 'of
the individual employee.1 It has given
him a better machine or installed stream­
lined procedures which multiply the
results of his effort.
This comment applies,. of course, to
all levels of (government. I
Peace is different from butter and
lamb chops. The more people want it,
the more there
to go around.
The man who doesn’t - read good
boots has no advantage over the* one
who can’t read them. ,
It is all fight .Ltd think before you
speak,g but I don’t go to sleep while
.-U. y U.’U
meditating.
Better to wear out than rust out.
Dr. E. Boring,
BORING OPTICAL
383 COURT STREET
SALEM, OREGON
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Roseburg
Phone 6506
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has reported state capital news, follow­
ing the capital from Oregon City to
Salem to Corvallis to Salem.
It still is reporting the news—all of
it—fresh with your morning coffee. I
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