Anson County has set a bad precedent by reducing the salaries of her officials. The pay of C.E. Ader, county welfare officer, has been cut from $150 to $125 per month; the chain gang superintendent from $175 to $125 a month; and the commissioners are contemplating lowering the salary of J.W. Cameron, the farm demonstrator, from $200 to $150.
“You can’t get a $50 man to fill as $100 job” is a maxim that is particularly applicable to county officers, and it is to be hoped that our estimable board of county commissioners will not contract the Anson County fever. On the whole, our county officers are denied adequate compensation as it is, and to cut their pay would eventually mean that men of the highest type, such as are now serving the people, will find no inducement to venture out into the troublesome sea of public life. It would be the part of wisdom to increase rather than decrease the remuneration of many of them.
From the editorial page of the Monroe Journal, Friday, March 18, 1921
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