the Editor of the "Nomru-Cinxa Darcy News"
SmI agree with Harris Rare-payer's suggestion that overlaid 'Municipal Council employees. should have their salaries reduced sufficient to bring them on a parity with others doing work of equal importance, and that the reduction of the Fire' Department personnel "in the interest of economy" is indeed false economy.
T would further suggest that married men whose wives are om-ployed should have their salaries cut by the amount earned by the wi The spectacle of a man permitting his wife to support his family is not pleasant (o contemplate, The salaries ald to married men in Shanghai are ample to support a family—provided the wife and husband apply common sense in the spending of said salary. There are many unemployed men and single women in dire circumstances in Shanghai because positions are libeld by married women whose husbands are well able to support them, Shanghai, May 10.
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