Show where your our taxes go how uncle sam spends your money in conducting your business by EDWARD G LOWRY author washington close ups banks and F nanc al at system systems etc contribute contributor cal and econom c art cles to lead ng per od cals and a wr ter of 0 zed author ty on the nat onal government a B business business methods LL copyright western newspaper un on IV WARS HORRIBLE WASTE sir air R C leffingwell leffinguell was mas the as elshant detary of the treasury in cae of finances during the war while he was aas in the treas iby he be caas came biily ply impress d with the mag ot of jov eminent expenditures expedit ures and the looseness inefficiency and waste maste that wis ra jai val t of government meth od all tie secretaries of the treas dry binte aa cne cak outbreak of tie tl e aar w ar 41 ave share 1 tits feeling of apprel en well 0 elon o and concern with voth air mir leafing well I 1 quote here a recent utterance or efen dmd on war expenditures at kor t tie I 1 e 4 exclusive of interest on the public debt spent in the fiscal year 1921 as spent by the war department by the navy depart anent on the railroads by the bureau of war risk insurance and by the interior interim de delait ailment 1 ment mostly I 1 take it for civil 1 wr 1 t and spanish war aar pen alons a total 0 al of under these lie ids in the fiscal year WO 1990 the war de spent 1610 and tt tie e wavy department a total ff df 2 1 0 secretary mellon estimates tl ti at in the fiscal year 1991 the vi IN ar department will spend 10 3 and tie navy department a total of and that in the fiscal bear car 1912 lo 10 tl tie e war apartment will spend and he navy department a total of 1115 this makes a tl ree ears total of 5 germany went ment to war aar to realize or on her lier investment lu ili arms and armies the burden of universal military ice expenditures on the aimy and anc bavy navy subsidies and doles became in tolerable she thought sl e would re I at the elpi it of and make wai 0 PO profitable in territory terr tory and indent aies gitles as to recoup herself for tl e outlay of 40 years prel the splendid resistance of the belgians ai at d tie french and of the little british expeditionary force made the short war a futile dream the untrained manhood and resources of the western world of the british empire oNer overseas seas and finally of amer lea determined the issue germany buffered suffered economic collar se ge though I 1 er armies beaten but not routed were still on ei emy soil soll so germany german s military preparedness was aas her cause tor for making war aar and was the cause of ber defeat in the issue it was mas economic that mitt mattered ered most men women and little chil dren are bt arving to deith in europe be ho licause cause of the war wars s horrible waste and because of the still more horrible waste of after the war two tao year yean and a halt half after almi armistice stice nearly two years after peace was concluded between germany and the allies millions of men linen are under arms eating and wear vicar ing the produce of the fields and of the labor of a civilian population which must bear the load of taxes and inflation Ini latton necessary to maintain those armies in economic idleness the peo 1 pies ples of continental europe are steg gering under the load of armaments armi ments far to great before the war aar and in tolerable now their rulers hold them selves in power by subsidies and doles aby playing now on tt air fears an I 1 again on their avarice still again on nationalistic amb eions or ancient ra thir ial hatreds the allies have under taken to insure Germ economic recovery by insisting upon her disarm ment ament and the i adment of reparations which means the development of a huge export balance but for them they reserve the daib ful lege liege of remaining armed to the teeth we have demonstrated our mill tary power we have shown what may be none done in a f te e v sl ort orl months moritt s to make a i army and transport trans pol t it to 0 o wage a foreign war we have no need to be aggressors abroad we me are insul tie talle at home let us accept the responsibilities of the position of lead embid 1 wl I ich is ours show the world how bow to beat swords into plow shires r relieve tl ti e peoples of tl ti e world of dp ap and lead them back into tin u ways ays of i e ice and plenty it 11 v we prepare for mar we me shall have it if we leid lead the coill 1 in preparation for peace we may have that WHAT PERSHING THINKS tl TI e apprel t nati ns of the five great powers for military and pur poses in the bear ear 1920 alon reached a total of 16 a sum only about moie mote than the total for tl ti e A hole fourteen years be toie loie the war aar it all cones con es down to this so far as aou on are concerned avery morning when alien you go to work or wl en ou stay at I 1 ome sick on duft 4 dvorkin working day or even it if you ere are out of a job it has been arranged for you to pay your fair sl are out of what you earn or should earn of over a day for the support ot of tle tl e army and navy that Is the estimate for the fiscal year 1022 1922 over a daa da I 1 haie general I 1 gs word for it lou will mill have to pay it a five million dollars every barking 10 f issa pile of money to spend for insurance against a tack and of course that Is not all the cost what is the big idea what do vou th about it lou will mill have to pay the bill do you tl ink about it at all general persi ing does this is what ahat he things As we me consider the causes of the world war and comprehend its horrors every thinking man and woman must fed feel that measures should be taken to prevent another such cal amity one step in n that direction would be to reduce expenditures for armament our own estimates for naval and military purposes content plate an appropriation for the fiscal vear bear 1922 1022 of over 0 o OOOO tor for every vor working king day in the year it t is 1 a gloomy pro hect that the notions plan expenditures greater than ever before in peacetimes it would appear that recent ex per lences should be enough to con vince everybody of the danger of a renewal of tits tl Is competition but one nation cannot reduce armaments un less all do it Is time that enlightened people everywhere should undertake to reach some come rational agreement which would not only relieve the world of its heavy financial burden but which in itself would go far toward the prevention of war aar we are not a warlike people we do not nish to expand at the expense of any ther nation and we have no designs on anybody body if other people feel the same to toward nard us and toward each other it seems unreasonable unreason ible that they should be unwilling un Rilling to consent in principle to some limitation of delaa merits to be carried out when other i allons succeed UP establishing 0 stable governments and are willing to decol u nize the wisdom of such a course oti oil era ise may we not seriously ask our ourselves seles whether civilization Is a 8 failure and whether hether we me aie file to regard war aar as an unavoidable scourge hat tl at mani mant ind must suffer there are other considerations which should prompt us to make every effort to bring about a curtailment of these expenditures throughout the horld w orld particularly in the war w orn of europe the people of eurol e have haie always beed our best customers and are largely dependent upon us for certain necessities we must tool 1001 to them to buy the products of our farms mines and factories the prosperity of our people depends in no small measure upon the flow of commodities abroad e have stocks of cotton wheat and other products greatly in excess of our own onn requirements NN itch tl it a e of europe sorely need but which we me cannot sell and they can not buy because ahelf fiscal systems have broken dom down their currencies have haie depreciated and their purchasing power Is exhausted the first step to take in the re habilitation of the finances of all these countries Is to reduce the cost of government so that ex expenses will mill not exceed the incomes expenditures must be lowered everywhere if financial stability Is to be restored and if the nations are ever lo 10 pa layf their debts until stability Is restored none can call have prosperity that comes from a free and uninterrupted flow flou of products from one country to anoil er but this cannot be done if huge sums continue to be appropriated for the maintenance of large armies and large navies the safety of humanity in the future indeed the peace the happiness and the prosperity of the race all appeal allbe alike for an early consideration of the question of limited armaments broadly peaking it Is the man who profits and not the simple average man who endures who is behind all this mo movement movena ement ent tor for ever increasing arma armament lerit if aou ou doubt this jast just so 0 o out in your own neigh neighbors borl and ask men who were actually in the war who saw service in the line whether they leant any more of it |