Show VIL WARS 5 HORRIBLE WASTE mr ur IL C leffingwell was the as sistr mt secretary of the treasury in charge of finances during the war milie mile be he was in the y tie be became deeply impressed with the magnitude of 90 amment end the looseness loose nessi eacy and waste that are a part of government in mth th ol od 01 all the secretaries of the treasury since the outbreak of the war have shared this feeling of ap apprehend preben elon and concern with sir ur lebling well veil I 1 quote here a recent utterance of hie his on war expenditures of the exclusive of interest on the public debt pent in the fiscal year IM 1021 1101 wad vias spent by the war department by the NATT department on the railroads by the bureau of war rial insurance and by the interior department tn costly I 1 take it for civil war and spanish war ar pen alons a ot total of under these beads heads in the fiscal year IM the war department part ment spent 1610 and the navy department WV a total of US secretary mellon estimates that in the fiscal year 1921 11 the war department will spend 1 OZ and the navy department a total of and that in the alual year lok the nar department will depend nil OK and the nary department a total of thia make makes a three years total of I 1 germany v went ent to u war ar to real realize alze or r her investment in anna arms and amil the burden of un universal hersal tull itar wr erv ice expenditures on the arm in cid d subsidies an ani I 1 doles became ei tolerable she thought slit would re peat wat the exploit of 1370 ani an nuke make a as eo so profitable in ten it ry and imin tittles is ra to recoup herself fur for th tin outlay a 0 40 years preparation tin splendid 1111 of the ano an we I 1 rench nal and of the little buriti force made mide the bho war a futile dream the e manhood and re of the Us austern lc stern tern horld orld it of the britis empire over overseas sens aad and finally of amer lea determined the issue germ in lit suffered econ economic rol collue lue though he lie annlee beaten but not iut rout routed w warr rp artill on ho so german 1 military preparedness was her caudr for making maling war and was lie tile call av 0 in the I 1 sul it a us acl nomac preparedness that matter most today roday wen men women nomen find hit litt 4 chi dyen are starving to lent it in cause of me abes ars horrible wasta nil becu because tiso of the still mure mort barril ie le wast of or after the war amo TV yenta and und half after biml olce beirl two year after pence mee was betack germany and the milies million millions v men are under arnia arms palting nten and went ing rs alia t produce of the belil ranil tv the tt aa vf of a el civilian villan po lail which mutt bear the ln loi I 1 of f tato tat lattan necessary to thin them in to economic levs I 1 11 ile i t v pw f irp pro tv tog gering under the loid lo id of far to 1 great before tile war ar ar aej I 1 in tolerable now their rulers hold tiles selves lit li power by ir and anti dole by playing now on their feti aril aa again on their avarice still n clr of nationalistic vr or allent rn caal jai hatreds tho nalle tun har tinder to insure germanys econ economie omir recovery by insisting upon her disarm ament and the lie pan of eVa rations which menus the development ol 01 a hug huge export balance ba lonie but for them selves 1 they reserve tae doubtful prill I 1 lege of remaining to the teeth we have our mill tary try power ile have shown shoun what may be done in a drw abort short months to make an army and treas it to wage a foreign war I 1 e have no need to be 1 aggressors abroad u we e are insul lerable at home let Is accept wept the re responsibilities of the anition asi tion of lend lead ap aich ie Is oure ours othow the world to t how o to beat swords into plow shares relieve the peoples of the word world of al ap art an lead ead tile ways of pence peace a and nil patst if v ir prepare for war we ue shall bavo it if it ve lend lea d the world tn in prepa preparation rution for peace yence we e roay may have that |