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Show ROOSEVELT j mM Oil i w rinK ; I ks ullld Government Is Over-i Over-i grown Business With Leaks. Tin's is trip sci-iKui of :i si'tics j liy ilii.i -nm, itl ClnviH'r, 1 1, c. j ni'icspimcVnl., iI-m riliin- (In-Uii:i.vcr's (In-Uii:i.vcr's diillnr :mi! ulirre ii fi'lM'S. liy KAVMO.M) ( r.Al'I'Kii (r'npyrislit. li:i.'l. I,v United Pli'ss) i VVASHiXCTOK Jan. (U.PJ When Pivsident - vU-vl IJoosevclt takos o'cr 'th.:? managenioit of the world's biggest business two month? from today, lie will I'iml it an over g r o w n establishnu'id . leaking at many pores. Foi- i.istannc, ho will I'iinl win liuirau sion,lin,L',' $1,750.1101) ,m wiW lil'o at the very limp another .le pai-tmeiit is sending uj) an alarm over the discovery that 300.000 tn 400,000 homeless American youths, most of them under twenty-one, are wandering helplessly about the land, scavaginp; on the thin leavings leav-ings of a four-year depression. Mr. Roosevelt has set for one of his first objectives the execution of the Democratic campaign pledge I to knock off one dollar in every j four of federal government ex; penses. This is expected to be one I of the questions he will discuss with Democratic congressional ; leaders in New York tomorrow. When the incoming admin istra-I istra-I starts checking up on the $3,77.1,-j $3,77.1,-j 000.000 being spent this year, il I will find what Mr. Hoover found ! - that there are few short cuts to ! ""onomy. Bet Deinoivatic !e:iduv : here are convinced that no matter ; how laborious the job, it must be : tackled. Otherwise they will be ; tonipeliuu -to mitr taxes"" again in ; spite of the fact that the American i people are earning a third or less ' of what they were four years ago. I Th. icughly, is a general state-j state-j meiu which covers the thousands j of facts tucked away in the bud-; bud-; get. ; The budget is set down in a book 1 , twice as large as the Washington i telephone directory. It is the gov- ! : "t-nment Bible. It contains a thou-; thou-; sand pages and is almost two inches inch-es thick. ! The first sMihbnrn facts that : President-elect Roosevelt will bump hard up against are found in a series of black line charts on page A-3. There ,lhe taxpayers' dollar is broken up into small change. The $100 in taxes which the man of mod era t e moans paid to Washington last year, is being spent about as follows: National defense, military pensions, pen-sions, life insurance, etc., $-13.13. Debt, interest and debt ret ire-ment, ire-ment, $33.35. Public improvements, $3.22. Promotion of marine transportation, transpor-tation, $1.35. General and other, civil functions. func-tions. $lti.09." Refunds, $2.26.. |