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Show WHERE YOUR MONEY GOES 1 am indebted to the late Dr. E. B. Itosa, of the United States bureau of standards, whose analyses of government govern-ment expenditures I have already quoted in these articles, for the following fol-lowing comprehensive survey of how the taxes you pay to the government are apportioned In expenditures. It -will give you the clearest and best idea of where your money goes. For his purpose Doctor Kosa took the actual appropriations .for the fiscal year 1920, amounting to a total of $5, GS6, 005,700, as given in the regular supply bills and three deficiency bills prior to May 1, 1920. For convenience he divided the purposes for which this money was spent into six groups as follows: Group L Obligations arising from recent and previous wars, including Interest on the public debt, pensions, war-risk insurance, rehabilitation and care of soldiers, deficit in the operation opera-tion of railways, expenditures of the shipping board, European food relief and the bonus to government employees employ-ees to cover partially the increased cost of living due to the war, a total of $3,855,4S2,5S0. Group II. War and Navy departments depart-ments expenses somewhat above a permament peace-time ha-sis $1,424,-13S,077. $1,424,-13S,077. Group III. Primary governmental functions, including congress, President Presi-dent and White House staff, courts .and penal establishments, departments of justice, state, treasury, interior, commerce, labor, interstate commerce, and other commissions, one-half the District of Columbia, including all the necessary functions of government other than defense, except the commercial com-mercial activities of 'Group V and the research, educational and developmental develop-mental work of Group YI $1S1,0S7,-225. $1S1,0S7,-225. Group IV. Public works, including rivers and harbors, public buildings, reclamation service, post roads, national na-tional parks and railway in Alaska $1CS,203,557. Group V. Commercial or self-supporting activities, including the post -office, land office, Panama canal and housing corporation, which, taken to- -gether, earn their expenses. Group VI. Research, educational and developmental, including the wide range of work of the Agricultural department, de-partment, geological survey, bureau of mines, coast and geodetic survey, bureau bu-reau of standards, bureau iof fisheries, bureau of foreign and domestic commerce, com-merce, bureau of labor statistics, women's and children's bureaus, vocational voca-tional education, colleges for agriculture agricul-ture and mechanic arts, library of eongress, Smithsonian institution and the public health service $57,093,001. Total groups I to VI $cLGSG,005.70S. Summary. Per Cent Group I Expenditures arising from recent arjj previous wars...S3.So5,4S!.5r5.00 67.81 Group II War and Navy departments 1,424,13S,G7G .3.7 25.02 Group III Primary governmental gov-ernmental functions.. JK1.0S7.225.41 3.19 Group IV Public works lC$.2l.3.5o7.i3 2.07 Group VI Research, educational ed-ucational and developmental devel-opmental 67,003,600.33 1.01 Total S5.GS6.005. 705.97 1O0.C0 The first two groups together amount to 92.8 per cent of the total; public works amounts to 3 per cent, primary governmental functions 3.2 per cent, and research, educational and developmental work, 1 per cent. The population of the country being about 110,000,000, the total budget Is about fifty dollars a year per capita, of which fifty cents a year per capita cap-ita Is expended for the wdde range of research, educational and developmental develop-mental work Included in Group VI. "That is, of the fifty dollars a year per capita collected for all purposes, a dollar and a half a year per capita," Doctor Rosa went on to point out, "was spent for what is here called primary functions of government; nearly as much 'more was put Into public pub-lic works, and fiftv cents a year was put buck into research, educational and devolupmeninl work, to promote scientific research, to Increase production produc-tion and eliieicncy, to develop weaith, to promote the public health and to conserve our natural resources. That is a very small part of the total hardly enough to be regarded as a burden on the nation. "Indeed, one Is led to wonder whether the total burden of taxation would not be lighter If the expenditure expendi-ture for scientific and developmental work were increased ; if, for example, it were one dollar a year per capita instead of fifty cents. In other words, if $1 10. ('00.000 were expended annually annu-ally for this creative and productive work, wou'd It not lie easier to cobec: the five aid a half billions for oilier pnrposis?" The big money, of course, goes for ear. pes;, present and t'utu e. and thai is w!.e;e the saving must be made. nomarlnb: Whiskers. A hair-raising adventure is reeoutit-e.t reeoutit-e.t by a. London ac:or. Arthur Itour-chier. Itour-chier. vl.o .aire, hoii.g rust for the parr of Henry VII';. disenabled to grow ii beard suitable lor il.e r,,;e. 11,. tool; a tlnvo-v. ecks' v acation and re h od info dai!,si Cornwall upon tl.i- nils-bo. eluc-giig .".! the end of the poi'Vll w.tli considerable progress visiolc. IIowomt. it i-eoi.ied best to repair to n hairdresser for a li;tle hastening ircntnu" t. A;l went well until o;:e w-ri-k-. ml a' Xor !;;:r.i!.erl.-:nd. whf.i Mr :,.!ir-!.i.T decided to l..u!ie In tiie sea. 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