Show spending money on ourselves S HOOVER has bald 1 that expended each oar car for oil ten years would complete nil all the really necessary anil nil valuable waterway Y power irrigation reclamation and flood control projects project i now contemplated thus for a n billion dollars the nation would filah work that would add far mora tha thattil nhat hat to the lie reductive productive and industrial capacity cap capi city of the country in enter prise that would be considered good business if it firm had tho the capital or could rould borrow in at a low rte arte rat of it would bo foolish indeed it it did not increase ita its plant to pro produce Illee worth far intire than the capital nested umsted uncle sam spent afraid to iaia niao stich tile cry cu of 96 economy is 13 too sweet in fit the barg of tho tile masses cen when it makes not a penny difference to the vast majority of them whit tuch mich economy ecanow may not me sale a dollar to them it might lose them many because the promotion of f general prosperity felpi all take the boulder dam project as an instill o if it berc cro not built the arage california citizen would not gaie A dollar in ili taxes on that account if it wire built the boost it would give to general prosperity per would gi gio e him many a dollan I 1 we went blithely into the world war and expended twenty billions of dollars dol larg beside besides lending ten billions more we ave seem unlikely to get back again we spent money like UP the traditional drunken milor now we 1 e seem scared seared at the tile pry ery idea of invest investing ing a few millions ill in perfect sano sane projects project a to promote the general welfare elfare ii it 11 1 was tho the same when the panama canal ii was ai built wo we horror ceroi ed money loney Il at low interest for that project not an all american citizen m was as out a dollar because of it yd yet it was belied at and fought aud and wan wag almost defeated on the groni ground idof of cost and no now look at it look at whist california alone is getting out of it enough california oil just one product goes through the canal to pay its cost of construction X 51 would be the same se with the great inland waters ys kaied transcontinental highway s this boulder daia data project and other na dional L not a citizen bould wo nid have hae to pay P dollar but every one ifould w benefit if only a portion of the reduction in the war ivar debt each ear were mere thus put into permanent pc manent improvement improve tho the whole nation would prosper prosper from it |