The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1911-10-13

Goal NINE inspector .......... 2,4OO.UO
Inspector of oils ............... 100000
Public printer.
Bank examiner ............... 100000
Hotel inspector .............. 100000
Fire warden NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 100000
Highway commissioner ........ 100000
State geologist.
Clerk supreme court.
State chemist.
State veterinarian.
State scaler of weights and measures.
State commissioner of health,
Railway commission, members,
each ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 4,On.OO
Tax commission members,
each .......,......... 5,UVV.Ou
Board of control, members,
each ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 3,OOOOU
Forest commission 5 members.
Board of accountancy, members.
Bureau of inspection of public
offices, members, each ..... 100000
This bureau has about 40 deputies
at $500 per diem each.)
State capital commission 7 members.
Uniform legislation commission, 3
members.
Board of education, eight members.
Insurance code revision commission,
four members.
Puyallup and Stuck river commission,
three members.
First military board, three members.
Second military board, three members.
Southwest Washington Fair commits
sion eleven members.
Library advisory board, 4 members.
Board of medical examiners, mem
bers.
Board of dental examiners, 5 mem
bers.
Board of pharmacy, members.
Board of health and vital statistics,
five members.
Board of embalmers examiners, ? mem
bers.
Board of barber examiners, mem
bers.
Nurses examining board, five mem
bers.
Veterinary examining board, three
Board of optometry, three members,
members.
Harmless insane commission, three
members.
Board of finance, three members.
Historical building commission, three
members.
Board of state land commissioners,
five members.
Board of equalization, five members.
Public archives commission, three
members.
Board of geological survey, four mem
bers.
Board of dairy and food commission
ers. three members.
Public property commission, three
members.
Oyster commission. three members.
Library commission, eleven members.
Highway commission, three members.
Board of regents, University of Wash
ington, members.
President of university.
Board of regents, State College, D
members.
President of State College
Trustees Cheney State Normal school,
four members.
Trustees Bellingham State Normal
school, four members.
Trustees Ellensburg State Normal
school. four members.
School for deaf, superintendent.
School for blind, superintendent.
State training school, superintendent.
Soldiers home, commandant.
Veterans home, commandant.
Insane asylum (Steilacoom), superin-
tendent.
Insane asylum Medical Lake., super
intendent
State penitentiary, warden.
Institution for feeble minded, super
intendent,
State reformatory, board of managers,
five members.
State reformatory, superintendent.
Chaplain of legislature, $1,000 per an
mum.
(Note-Where the amount of salary
paid in the foregoing does not appear 1t
is because figures are not at hand, The
sum total, however of the appointed Of
ficers in this state might well cause
the taxpayer to sit upand wonder what
he is getting for his money!
Just where the state, which, of course,
means you and 1 and our neighbor, de
rives any direct benefit from this horde
of saIaried office holders, it is hard to
figure out OF course many of these of
ficers are legitimate and perform legiti-
mate functions, but many more of them
appeal to the plain citizen as being just
plain, soft berths for a lot of fellows
that otherwise might have to get ous
and make an honest living. Oh, sure,
these many positions, all appointive,
might be construed as forming a well
oiled, far reaching political machine, but
that construction would be UNKIND and
UNWORTHY. Better far to think noble
thoughts and look upon these offices