Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1932-09-22
SEEKS A FORMULA
FOR FINDING FEES
Writer Would Have Fog of
Doubt Dispelled-

.Gentlemen," said George e. Cal
fious. at the weekly meeting OF the
Itewanis club, Il do not know when
anything has intrigued me as has
The formula to be applied 10 ali sal
aries OF state officials. employees
and apIoinfees. % that they may
understand and realize what they
VIII be paid in the future / had
thought at first that this formula
was something thought MP hy the
state board OF accounts. or s0Fne
other accounting organization. but
they tell me that il il written into
The law. If. for example. you are
drawing pay from the great state
nf Indiana, and nnul uish ta-knnR
how much you will obtain. after the
cuts authorized hy the general as
sembiy have been applied. the Iaw
takes you By the hand leads you
10 a pad and pencil. and thereby
directs what ron must do
You divide your annual salary by
100. Then you multiply the result
BIZ .0d25. Subtract the answer you
obtained from ~ Your next step
IL to multiply the figure So reached
by the total annual salary. and the
result viii be the new annual sal
arr. Now. then. | viii admit that
this looks simple, ut least To 4 GER
tilted accountant But when ! en-
deayored to see how ii worked out
I was led to believe that III il not rs
simple as it looks | took a salary
of 1900 a year because that seemed
easy. Then I applied the formula.
went through the various steps. and
got s269 as the amonnt anybody who
had been getting 500 a month would
receive hereafter. By reference TO
the corrected salary table | learned
that the amount / should have fg
ured was $1.152~ Where / made my
mistake / have not been able 10 de-
termine- asked a gentleman who
was familiar with the work of the
legislature each day ii was i'm sTT-
ciaI session. He said the formula
was a simple thing To work ID y
pect.' he said. that you did mot sub
tract properly. You know y0a must
take n four place decimal from =
three place decimal Perhaps he
was right. would NOT venture t.
say. All I know is that whenever
I took the legal formula and worked
the problem over / GOT a different
result At any rate. / could mot &C
cuse the procedure OF inducing mo
notony.
a-0ne trouble about these simple
formulate is that they invariably
bring about the asking OF additional .
questions We cannot. oh viii mot
take a plain statement OF fact and
let it 20 mt that We insist that IL
be repeated. Recently / was waif-
ing to ask q question ut the Union
station information window A WON
an lust In front Of me asked MEzaf
time the next Monon train left for
Chicago She was told wherefETp0n
i expected her to move out OF the
WAY Instead she asked again. and
given the same information She
inquired If the clerk was sure. and
he said be was. She informed him
that she had been thinking all the
while that the train left an hour
later He said such "A conclusion WAS
Then she brought forth
her contract and repeated the orfgf
NAL information He repeated il for
her, and then she repeated 1t again
Eventually. with doubt ON her face
she Nft the window 1 arm confident
she thought the clerk was wroEa~-
Il feel the same way about this
formula for salary fixing I hare Il
been told that 1T Is the law. that Ii
Ks simple and that a child could or
crate IT. Put the longer i work Mt
1t the more i am convinced there il
a Joke about 1t sumexheFp- A friend
Says it can be worked by algebra.
but that Is no comfort tO IRE I am
Inclined to think that III III read more
I'm the form OF N recipe for cooking
that 1t might be under
Suppose the Law read In
this fashion, Divide the annual sal
zry by 100 Add the white of two
and beat hriskiy until the sal
airy has attained a rich. brown COX
DR. Multiply the result bv 1Hkg5
Breathe deeply for fIve minutes. with
Nil windows open Stir until the
mixture comes to n boil. then drain
"A bit of cheeseclofh- Sub
the answer from ri. Add dice1
carrots. n pinch OF parrika and n
of chires- noil as in biscuit
Tough and shorten to suit Multiply
he figure so reached hy tine total