Show Government Costs an and the H. H C. C L L. By Bj RA RAYMOND Yi PITCAIRN National Chairman Sentinels of 0 the tle Republic With the next session of or Congress only a few weeks away there has been a cheering revival of discussion on methods of checking waste and extravagance In our government A group of Representatives news i dispatches report will study the entire entire en en- tire Federal picture with the idea of determining why expenses should mount so swiftly The question is where to begin Well they might look at the growing growIng grow grow- ing list of Federal agencies and agencies and the huge payrolls thus created d for American American Amer Amer- ican workers to meet These have been expanding for lor years at a much faster rate than our population Here for example are some recently published figures on the thc subject Since 1900 1000 the population of the Uni United d States has increased about 60 per cent During that period the number of Federal jobs increased not 60 but per cent Since June 30 1933 1033 the population has hns increased a little over 1 per cent During the brief per period od between then and June 30 1935 the number of Federal Jobs increased not 1 1 but 25 per cent No wonder these are boom days in Washington No wonder the capital Is congested congest d with jobholders recruited by scores of job-creating job commissions whose payrolls and other expenditures are paid by the people through taxes which boost the cost of food and shelter helter and clothing and everything else we use No wonder with this constant drain on his production and his earnings the average citizen continues continues continues con con- to orry over what headline writers call caU the H. H C. C L. L Today the High Cost of Living and the High Cost of Government are closely related What the people and and the politicians politicians must t realize is that one way to reduce the first Isto Isto is isto to deflate the second |