Show DEFENSE IS MADE MADES S OF EXPENDITURES High Cost Reaches Govern- Govern men me Claim I 7 LONDON LONDONo Nov o 30 A A spirited defense defens against ch charges of ot tb the l popular term for or oW official ial ext extravagance I 1 Imade imade made by Captain Frederick Guest Joint secretary to the trea treasury Captain Guest says he doesn't ee e wh where shere re rethe I the government can cut down expenses In lii a letter to a political correspondent published in the London Times ho he examInes examines exam exam- ines tiles the expenses of or departments of or tho the state thus The navy and The army The personnel of or the tho fighting services has now been re reduced reduced reduced re- re practically to prewar numbers In one 1914 1911 shilling however h rp per the tho e day private ai He soldier o now received receives two shillings and nm pince There has bas I been a corresponding increase In the pay of naval men The result is that while the fighting cost 86 in 1913 14 owing to these and other consequential consequential consequential conse conse- increases the figure is today S In II 1914 the interest on the tho national debt was today It is 1 I War pensions pensions pensions-In In 15 1914 these were ere nil today Education In In 1914 13 this cost 19 I OO t today id og Bread This subsidy This year jear ar It has cost 45 Old ago age pensions pensions pensions-In In 1914 15 these cost 13 Today they cost Unemployment grants to soldiers ex-soldiers 4 27 il P O l Railway and arid housing subsidies 4 52 32 j These Captain Guest states are th the most considerable items in the govern government government ment expenditure for toi the year No lib lib- ral nil in the country he declares will wiil wish to retrench on education As for the theother theother other items no fruitful suggestion baaso has baa hasso so far been made a sto how o they h can b dd be reduced and u a and no o P case of ex cx- cx It has as been made out against the administration I The more the financial commitments more of or the it wilt will be n realized are h how examined profoundly un themore the tho tho tue war has affected national finance and how d difficult it is for the e eV government V th UI f et with the best intentions t in t tile the word to keep down the national expenditure Captain Guest declares |