Show Released by Western Newspaper Union IT TAKES A LONG TIME TIMETO TIMETO TO SPEND SEVEN BILLION HOW LONG WOULD it take you to spend i if you could call upon Johnny Bull and John Chinaman Chinaman Chinaman Chi Chi- all naman as assistants and with the mass production facilities of American factories and the productiveness productiveness productiveness of American and Canadian farms arms from which to buy Under those conditions our Uncle Sam up to August 31 had worked six months on such a job and had hadI I succeeded ded in actually spending That is a little less than 3 per cent of the seven billion If that represents his top spending speed which it does not it would mean something more than 15 years to spend all the seven billion congress congress congress con con- gress gave him last winter I 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 elther el- el ther delivered or had on order ordel war ma materials ships and food 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 period pe pe- 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 f farms The old gentleman is stepping on the gas and the next six months should show a much greater spending spending spending spend spend- ing speed than he displayed during the first six months but we cannot expect him to get through all that seven billion in less than two years MEETING l 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 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 cased d off to only In 1940 he nic nicked ed us for Now he comes com 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 year for the privilege of driving an automobile That 10 cent movie will now cost you 11 cents You will pay 5 5 cents on each 1000 of the wooden matches you use or you can get away with two cents on each 1000 paper matches If you have a telephone you will pay six per cent of your monthly bill If you go places by rail air boat or bus 5 per percent rent cent of the price of your ticket willbe will win willbe be added for your Uncle Samuel Such are but a few of the many Items we will pay for directly du 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 bill billion on dollars Our children and our grandchildren will have to pay the remainder of the bill through many years If H 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 all cities villages and towns amounted to only but by 1940 that had increased to For 1941 we Americans will pay payin payin payin in taxes an average of per perr 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 advances the town as a social and cultural center It serves week aft after tt- tt er en 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 he result of a poll of Amerlean Amer Amer- lean ican can families on the method they preferred for the collection of their part art of the cost of national preparedness edness Of that number located in all sections of the nation 60 per percent percent percent cent wanted a national sales tax on or their to day-to-day purchases But congress still prefers to use Indirect methods in the belief belie that it t is fooling a majority of at voters The man who carries a dinner pail pall mows knows he pays and he would rather know when he pays and how bow much |