Show where your taxes go how uncle sam spends your money in conduct in ing g your youir business by EDWARD 0 LOWRY ach aguior chu ca vt up bh B h a rt W B antan tow if cirba qA bulf fill nt til VI nd d L i abw to I 1 ld ow aa a briw of tb tir I 1 N wal W al G t buatu b tt abod hadi IN P pw U ui ir UNCLE SAM AS EMPLOYER I 1 ahe he unite MW I 1 blates goal Is tt e largest single 1 of men and annn bromen in this country at the I 1 r so c I 1 time in the exec executive utile civil service of 1 1 I deral feral e tint nn I 1 exclude of tl e an I 1 navy there are em ein rioted nal npr roxi roil mouly to workers or one in aj ol 01 all till on ameri inn tan poll oll tin cora cars of age of or nor oer en kneed in cull galt fill ful occupations A little ualle eg ag I 1 wl ul en on II 11 e auml er of f deral enil emia 1 MIS uni even larger than it Is I 1 n w ine tine person out of en caery ery ca in tl if e anitol state states who aho had any eort sort of a jol jul at nt all aft vai a for or the govern covern fp f rort P r t these are based nn on re nt estimate etl males odthe of the bureau of the he aru in antic anticipation put on of the results nf nt the fourteenth gene general iral census I 1 to the lie outbreak of the war in 1014 2114 the number of men and women in civil position tiou in ae executive servi ervice ee was wa OW in im IM 1010 it had grown el own to tow Z APP in 11 after our entry into the mr it was wa toa on june 30 1010 the number was the number on july 31 1020 an ila these floured ore are ap arp tone lona since the signing odthe armistice the nut riler of federal cm em 1 has been decreasing un the dee a in f ice nul continue to I 1 e ms ie for months to come tint but the grimh of the gobern ment ht hi sinea anc in the post few ears hat ha t I 1 len f n uch such a tn to arke mr ke it n larger air izirer in the post v r period tl if nn an it 1 nd eer been in the pr loL tl ese tl 11 olumn 14 1 of fit nun n ai I 1 3 domn rom n a f r the gm en ment comprise piera ape of ability anil and IntillI intelligence gence duties n ranee of activities lint tint far exceed that exercise 1 for other put he or private employers fi I 1 estilus ef itile it its tak task of law malina and law cn forcine of national defante and national nation til finance the government is I 1 charcey with ith prompting pro routing muting the health and welfare of iti its people of promoting their home interest their agricultural mining shipping ping fish ina 1 and fal Ini te erest resti to da this it must investigate con arol ro nn an I 1 eradicate dis eaic that att cb ek peron person plant plants and anti 11 it must inspect 11 estock adi and dru drus q it mut study conditions end and progress pro a grets in education labor anti commerce it mut men or groups of if men from front unfair busl nei nie thode in banking transportation por tation trade or n the must administer admina ater pit pill I 1 lie lands fonds and the alftin 1 of the indiana indians end and educate cl ildren in alaska it pimente of anen it ats the CIO clock oka of the country foreen sfA the weather wr and malad of the roars and heavenly hie it construct constructs daba d als roads bridges bridge i Ini gatlon works builds canals ind aeroplanes aero planes make makes oni ordnance nance and n doeding dort ilni and other applies supplies for its it soldiers eold ler and allor it makes ell all itt its own money end nd does all ita its own printing it die dle tributes all mail and many the government rioe does every tag that any employer in the united states does in to a great grent anany things that no other employer does I 1 how low does it treat its people Is X it food good employer or a had employer are its it employ 11 cei con anted these are question questions that I 1 should alvise the railroad men mm the miners and otter other workers who eek peck nationalization of industry to look into before lefore they corn nit mit themselves let them caa fad out for themselves the melves what government ownership would mean to them the first thing they will discover as a 1 I discovered lla covered when I 1 began the present inquiry la Is that dobony known knows and nobody in at service Is with kl ming the exact of emp luire in the service from day to day een more ins ing nobody knows or t is charged nith even approximately the uin sum of the payroll of the united state states it Is I 1 not possible to find mod out within hundred hundreds pf thousands of dollin how nuch the united states ws paa yearly or monthly in salaries ea larte and ages I 1 went ent tn to the treasury department to the lie appropriations of cm cree grea gre a and el elsewhere where etire I X thou slit tie tl e taught t aba lole I 1 but nob nobody nobly ly knew I 1 wits wa told vaguely that the government wa as net not run on ui an acet rt and liability basis en an I 1 tl trefor ere for it nos wa no emry to krio v the e ex act rt number of ernp loees 0 ov the payroll if the average compe matlon Is tl 1 HO the federal cliff payroll now amounts to mote thin than seian ht indred million if d liars the largest single branch Is ha ia post office mee department vitic jtb nearly n pl ocen the liar ar department lot lu nore thin MOM 12 SP el villon employee tl ay about itil tie ile treasury department about go 0 no o other branch hae has ai as many as 0 21 employees any that pm ploys oa 0 in of all this tiffs centry cr work ra and find alia calls for the unav of suds a large part of tur sur annual ree nf Is entitled to our berlus aerl ua con enn lintton you and vu ou alone put up the ivimey |