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Show 15 MILLION A DAY RUNNING COST Of GOVERNMENT It is costing Uncle Sam something llko eight times as much to run his establishment now as It did In 1014 before the European war began Its devastation., and ihere Is" no further relief In sight In liquidating war costs at least for a year. All appropriations for tho current year havo been made. They carry up to June 30 next and they aggregate aggre-gate nearly five billion dollars $4,859,890,327 to bo exact. It is costing an average of better bet-ter than fifteen million dollars a working day to run the government now as compared with but a trifle more than two million aday back in 1914, when the country was "hollering" "hol-lering" over billion dollar congress-es congress-es and tho Democrats were promising promis-ing economy. In Tact on Thuisday the 13th llu dally statement ot thu treasur.. shows disbursements for"thV single day of $1G,796,0GG." This sum cov-pred cov-pred only tho ordinary disbursements Public debt disbursements which were largely offset, totalled more than flvo hundred million dollars for tho day but this represented tho retirement of a series of ccrtlficstes of indebtedness. ' Practically ,all government conls are higher than they were a fow years ago, but most of tho great expenditures ex-penditures now going forward Is due lo the continuance of war organisation organisa-tion and Inability to get tho wrr machine ma-chine haltod. Just two years ago tho war machlno was running at Its maximum speed and power. Two jcars have not sufficed to stop 11 nucl Uncle Sam Is having a hard time getting down to living within o m his swollen war income. War taxes are still running and unless expenditures are brougnt sharply down they will contlni'-j to run. Thcro Is not a single Item ot government gov-ernment that has not Increased In cost, but It Is agreed in Washington that tho greatest burden Is the one directly Incident to the war. This admlnlslratlve'organlzatlon in Wash lngton became top heavy and Is still top heavy with more than 100.000 persons on the government pa roll In a city of little more than half a m,llon- ' 'iJfigW |