Show Released by Western Newspaper Union IT TAKES A LONG TIME TIl TIMETO TIMETO I TO SPEND SEVEN BILLION HOW LONG WOULD it take you to spend if you could call upon Johnny Bull and John Chinaman Chinaman Chinaman Chi Chi- naman as assistants and with all the mass production facilities of American factories and the productiveness productiveness productiveness of American and Canadian I farms from which to buy Under those conditions our Uncle Sam up to August 31 had worked six months on such sueh a job and had succeeded in actually spending That is a n little less than 3 per cent of the seven billion If that represents his top spending speed which it does not nol it would mean something more than 15 years to spend all the seven billion congress congress congress con con- gress gave him last winter That sum represented what Uncle Uncle Uncle Un Un- cle Sam had actually delivered to England and other war-torn war democracies democracies democracies in the first six-months six pe pe- During that time he had ei either either either ei- ei ther delivered or had on order war ma materials ships and food representing representing representing rep rep- resenting a total of and had decided what he would buy as rapidly as he can get it up to a total of In the way of quick deliveries the farms did a better job than the factories During the six-month six period period pe pe- nod food represented a total of ol with only from the factories and the ship ship- yards Of the total purchases Uncle Uncle Uncle Un Un- cle Sam has made ordered or decided decided decided de de- de- de upon will come from American and Canadian farms The old gentleman is stepping on the gas and the next six months should show a much greater spending spending spend- spend ing ng speed than he displayed during the the first six months but we cannot expect him to get through all that seven billion in less than two YE years ars MEETING UNCLE SAMS SAM'S HOUSEHOLD EXPENSES BACK IN THE GOOD old days of 1913 which does not seem so very long ago to many of us our Uncle Samuel picked the pockets of some Americans especially those with plenty to pick from rom of the comparatively comparatively comparatively com com- small amount of By 1922 when we were paying for World War I he was taking from more of us By 1932 he had eased off to only In 1940 he nicked us for Now he comes along with witha a new demand for and has so fixed it that none will escape contributing a share for we will pay either directly indirectly or both both and and in practically all cases it will be both Uncle Sam will charge you 5 a aye ye year r for the privilege of driving an automobile That 10 cent movie will now cost you 11 cents You will pay cents on each 1000 of the wooden matches you use or you can get away with two cents on each 1000 paper matches If u you have a a telephone you will pay six sL per cent of your monthly bill If u you go places by rail air boat or bus 5 5 per percent cent ent of the price of your ticket will willbe willbe willbe be added for your Uncle Samuel Such are but a few of the many Items we will pay for directly and know we are paying Indirectly we will pay on everything we buy Even with all of this we will not pay enough to meet Uncle Samuels Samuel's keeping house expenses by several billion dollars Our children and our grandchildren will have to pay the remainder of the bill through many years If our Uncle Samuels Samuel's bill were the only one that is skyrocketing it would not be so bad Our state and local expenditures have also reached the stratosphere altitude In 1913 the total of state tax collections collections collections amounted to By 1940 they had jumped to In 1913 the municipal taxes of ot all aU cities villages and towns amounted to only but by 1940 1910 that had bad increased d to J For 1941 we Americans will pay payin payin payin in taxes an average of per individual individual individual in in- or per average family of five And we will pay it whether or not we know it The tax collectors collectors collectors tors will get it either directly or indirectly indirectly indirectly in in- directly or both TAKEN FOR GRANTED THE ONE INSTITUTION which does most for its community is the newspaper It promotes the town as a market place It preserves and nd advances the town as a social and cultural center It serves week after aft er week year after year and we take the service rendered very much for granted without attempting to realize its value A RECENT issue of Colliers Collier's gave the result of a poll of American American American Amer Amer- ican families on the method they preferred for the collection of their part of the cost of national edness Of that number located in all aU sections of the nation 60 per percent percent percent cent wanted a national sales tax on or their day to purchases But congress still prefers to use We indirect methods In the belief belie that it t is fooling a majority of voters The man who carries a dinner pall pail knows he pays and he be would rather know when he be pays and how much |