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Show H 'I The Wastes Of 1 War Hi In these days we are kicking mil- m-1 lions around the country like foot- i bails. A blllloa dollars, the expenditure expen-diture of which by a single Con- 1 gress was once considered a great : j. extravagance, Is now a minor item. m Now every dollar of this monoy is H'f well spent It It is efficiently used. l. I It "will be worth a great many bit- ' 1 - lion dollars to administer a thorough Ht licking to Germany. We should not ; begrudge' any amount of money It ; . can cost. But a. great deal of mon- j cy can bo saved by-prudent atten- E , tlon to. details, H' ' For Instance, observers who, this inisS -winter went over one camp which H? had to be abandoned temporarily on H iV account of weather conditions, found H t a deplorable lack of care for the Hf i equipment. As one observer reports, K I it looked as if hit by, a hurricane. Hl,-" Great, numbers of teuUwere being, Hi 'K torn, to pieces by the wind. Baled Bf .' hay was left unprotected. Steven K ',.," an tamp kitchen eauipment were m left exposed and rusting. Ice and KjJJ ', W covering valuable equip- K f nient. It was claimed that the totj Hjjif , loss of property, would be. 1300,000. Hn'; The expenditure pf 1300,009 B would not be regarded for a moment K ' if It produced any millUry advan- H "' tage, But thlshasty abandonment Bl $ did not help a particle. It would net H ; v 'have hindered military efficiency It H n force of men had been left to care H v for that property. On the other band Kj it would have promoted military ef- K i t iclency, by giving -the. men training K ,- In care of equipment. nR ; H pK o- . Military llfe-wlth, Us demand for HI aSi W W , Instructlonn and rigid com sBsl uiiiF 1 , IpMaJewlth orders, sometimes briide m ;. narrow responsibility. An officer H I' may see something all wrong, Yet it Kj vy tt does not come strictly n his de B .' partment, he will say it is not his H(1l! business to attend' to it. The army Hm' men ought to have, a watchful eyo gBlC out .all the time to atop the wastes, BnsMtcin.s H . of war, to pick up the loose ends, Hft Y- and hold down the costs where it H f can be done without military loss. |