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THE M'HENRY PLAINDEALER Published every Thursday at McHeixry, t-- HI., by Charle# F. Reaich. Entered aa second-class matter at the postoffice at McHenry, 1ZL, under the act of May 8, 1878. > One Year Biz Months .|2.00 .41.00. A. H. MOSHER, Editor aid Hnupr Pay of Qove'rnment Officials Moralist^ in Georgre" Washington's ... day were not embarrassed by the ".fact that there were corporation ex- ~ ecutivcs, movie stars, baseball pitchers, home-run cloQters. and others, • who received a higher, salary than V 'that of, the President, there were no f lasrpe "corporations, no prizefights, no 5^^baseball' Herges,- no njovie stars and, 3wbile bysiness men of the time may //** »vMve. ha4 higher commercial incomes, 1,- : probably no man-received a higher &tt , - ' / > • v i t u f l s a l a r y t h a n t h a t o f t h e P r e s i d e n t . !Fhe " Dmsi'on. of .Infotmiation and "Publication of the United States I,-.; * *.v George Washington" Bicentennial ' 'Commission reminds us thet" Washp5^^^^ »^Ft('n's"®®!aty.;Was.fixed by the First < A -.V ' Congress of the United States at $2§,- t A A' :000, which was by far higher than any other government salary of the ~ time. Just to give us a line on the Washington Bicentennial "Commission . A"A'• has taken the trouble to learn the pre- - cise salaries they paid to all govern- : - •. • merit officials. Evidently, to judge by Jj. • this difference, Congress thought Washington well ^orth whatever the ' " ""government could afford to pay him. • ' This $25,000 was made the fixed salary of President Washington by r the Act of September 24, 1789, later • J „• confirmed as permanent legislation by "an Act of February 18, 1793, and for • .A eighty years $25,000 remained the fixed salary of the presidents. At the I end of that time, in 1873, presidents A ' A ; o f t h e U n i t e d S t a t e s r e c e i v e d s o m e - [ - 1 thing of a salary boost when the Act | of March 3, doubled their pay to $50,- --- ' , 000 a year. There was no delay about fA* * it, either- The raise was made effec- A. tive"bn"the following day, March 4. The next pay increase was a little less long in coming. Afty«®Phirty-six ilA ' .. years Congress lifted the president's ./• salary to its present status at $75,- v 000, with the Act of March 4, 1909, A ^ . . making William Howard Taft the ' first president to benefit by the timely " : aid. - , - Curiously, the office of vice presi- , 'dent seems always* to have appeared worth to congress aB<ratr one-fifth that of the presidency, from a salary stand point. The same acjt of congress that fixed George Washington's salary at $25,000, made that of John Adams, as vice president, $5,000. Today the vice president veoeives $15,000 a year, against the president'^" $75,000--still the one-fifth ratio. Cabinet officers were," from the beginning, let in on. the ground floor. It Klems odd to look back and learn that a secretary of state of the United States once received a salary that in these days might be sniffed at by the sub-assistant' to the creditor manager of a department store; Yet Thomas Jefferson, our first secretary of state, was paid precisely $3,500- So ,was the first man to hold the office now filled by Andre>v Mellon. The great Alexr ander Hamilton drew down his $3,500, and no more. As for Washington's secretary of war, General Knox, , he was let down with a mere $3,000. During Washington's administrations, the United States Attorney "General had so little to do that it was a parttime job, and its holder had tojMsly on other sources x>f income. The cabinet which consisted of these four original members in 1789 had become a cabinet of six in 1799. By then the secretaries of state and the treasury were raised to $5,00b a year. The secretaries of war and the navy got $4,500 andHhe attorney general and the postmaster-general drew $3,0Q0. In 1819 the secretaries of state, the treasury, war and the navy were, given $6,000. The postmaster general got a lift to $4,000. But the attorney general was still the poor member of the_/amily on fe salary of $3,500. , In 1853 congress placed the entire cabinet oh an- even basis at $8,000 a year, and by. then there was a seventh member, the secretary of interior. In 1873, the year when j^'ie president's salary went up to $50,000, a generous congress raised cabinet salaries to $10,000 each- In,1907 the salary was Day Phone McHenry 256 Night Phone McHenry 137-W Peterson's Garage TIRES-OIL-GAS ;• Expert Repair Service - One Block East of Fox River Bridge, Route 20 f $12,000, and in 1925, the year wl^a congress raised its own salary, the'present cabinet wage of $15,000 year# was established. As for members of congress, the story of their struggles for a living wage is even more full of incident. When the^United States government came into being, as established by the constitution, under the presidency of» George Washington, tlfC members of Congresr v.'ere treated from a salary standpiont, as day laborers, and their endeavors in statesmanship seem. to have been regarded as piecework. At any rate they were paid a.daily wage of $6.00 and that only while attending sessions of congress and paying strict attention to business. The speaker of the house alorie fared better. He received a daily pay of $6,00 for being speaker, in addition to his regular $6.00 as a representative from his district. In 1816 the*-senators, representatives, and delegates-irom the territories vdted to pay themselves a yearly salary of $1,500, with $3,000 to the speaker and $3,000 to the president pro tempore of the senate when there was no vice president. But the next year this act was repealed and the.] senators and representatives went back to a wage of $8.00 for each day of attendance at sessions. The two exceptions were the president pro tempore of the senate and the speaker, who got $8.00 a day extra- 'T It was nearly fifty years until congress fixed the Compensation 6f its members at the 1 annual salary of $3,000 in the act of August 16, 1856. But this time the president pro tempore of the senate was given $8,000 a year, and the speaker $6,000. At the next raise in 1866, we hear nothing more of the president pro tempore of the senate, but senators, representatives and delegates were raised to $5,000 a year, and the speaker to $8,000. In 1873 the&T salaries were again -raised $7,500 and $10,0000 respectively. In 1907 the speaker was given $12,000, while the salaries-of representatives and senators remained the same. Since the act of March 4, 1925, senators, representatives and delegates have received the present salary of $10,000 annually, with the .speatfer raised to the cabinet wage of $15,000. In thus increasing its own pay, congfess came in for some good natured banter, but after* all it had been generous to others and modest toward >itself. It.did raise its members from $6-00 a day for an honest day's Work to $10,000 a year, but it allowed" 136 years to pass before doing'- 1 Aftfl»Typfc*M 5irw TeMlfiand Wldal, a native of IV fl*r* lad professor in th# Paris ftec* ulty, collaborated with Ohautemess* In his early work on preventive vaccinatlons against typhoid fever, and made his mark by his discovery of bacterial agglutination in 1895, and its application In the diagnosis of typhoid. Sir Almroth Edward Wright, professor of pathology, made $pho!d vaccination practicable in iSuti and i8»7, inocuiat-, Ing over 3,000 soldiers in India in 1898. 1LLE1 Zfy f r jl ust Arrived! THEATRE . 'WOOOSTOCK f For Negro Advancement The ^pingarn medal was instituted by J. E. Spingarn, director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, for the negro making tR^highest or noblest achievement during the preceding year. It was lnaxiefttrafeff In 1914. German Submarine* Busy\ At the time of our entrance into tbe Wo^id war the rate of slnking/\£as nearly 900,000 tons of shipping' a month, the total allied and noutra/l tonnage then being about 34,000^000 tons and the rate of new construction only about 177(V>0 tnnc nor mnntl. V , B£ S E A T E D AND IRON IN V* THE TIME You dan »it down to your job when you iroit ah on electric ironor. All you do is guide th# Individual pieces on to ^ the padded "roller . pick them up as they come sliding off, smooth ond warm. It does men's shirts, aprons and Wy pieces as well as flat things. Yo^H hardly call it work at all--and you're through in^one^ fourth the time if used to take. •s7 M 4 ZLn Or ireeer that - rfrtB en any table b only ~ $7Q50 4^ "UMe by Uttle'* ie Uotlilleo tt Ironar thai tern* liifff d'porcaJoin-lcpped table whan not ia uM l* $11.07 down "Uttla by Uttla" A J U N I O R WASHER FOR J U N I OR WASH I NGS "For the mid-week wash .. . for baby's "daily dozen".. » for filmy^underthings that must be gently laundered, we recommend the Whirldry --a midget electric washer that works as efficiently as a grown-up model. Only 18 inches high, it has a five-shirt capacity. Washes clothes dean, then spins them almost dry. lot lili show you how simple and handy it Is. finished in colored enamel, >»4^2 $M7 down "Little by Unto" |M yetir r«Mle S«rvic* Stor« y«iH,ll aUo find a display ragvlar^ixa wetMiif machine* (torn* with ironer attachments), automatic electric iron* that hold"any hedt you want, and laundry »tove*"-for heating water boiling hot. Your Neighborhood Appliance Dealer alto carries t.hii equipment for the hona taMfdry. PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS v ^ E. J. LAJRiLN. Utat. Mgr. Ml Williams8U,CryaUILaki /OyMal Lake Phene 28* ' ' Woodstock's Beautiful Play House ^THURSDAY, " FRIDAY Wturner Baxter in "THEIR MAD MOMENT' • witiii •. Dorothy MacKaiU v Comedy and News • ; •• -• • • ' ^ "•SATURDAY ^ Guest Nii» i 2 for 50o • "Annabelle's Affairs" . •with j ^ Vl«t«r MeLaglaa JtaMtte McDonaM COMEDY AND NEWS ' ; Jp-aa SUNDAY-MONDAY 50c Family Mat. Sunday Raman No-rarro "Son of India" Also Bobby Jones How I Play Golf No. 7--4*The Spoott** COMEDY AND NEWS - .TUESDAY WEDNESDAY Guest Nite Tuesday 2for50e CtarlM Rvggtet r. " in' _ "Girl Habit" Comedy and News These New «« Fall Wash Dresses For Girlsi : • f" . e first of Fall's newest--bringing a glimpse of the styles to come-- new colors in fine durable prints. So jaunty, s^ptrky---so indispen* 1 sable for school wear. And to caj| I the dimax they're only A \'f Si Sizes 7 to 14 m ^Daughter is certainly deserving of a Half dozen of these smart schoolxffe^ies... arid she can have tliem, too, if mother will take advantage of this early opp>rUnity t j ar.tici* pate daughter's fall needs at the,? low price which comes with this event, for these dresses are very specially priced Eg .•!.•<!!•»!>!l Join the crowds and SAVE! in 10 years! Elgin^s X Thursday, Aug. 20th Elgin1! greatest Dollar Day will b e lield THursday, August 26th. All representative stores will pa rticipatev witb tbe grei^st value# they've offered in over 10 years. ~ Sbop at stores displaying official great and white Dollar Dajr pennants. Thmir value# are guar aBtt^^ntXfc i ^ ' Plan to come early for the best b argains. ,y^S*ores will be opes. Iron 8 a, m. to 8 p. me (Standar d Time)6^ , | " El^in merchants will live up to their high rdputalion for ordinary values cpurteous# f riendly servioe. 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