Show National Men and Affairs New Watchword For Administration Productive Economy Cruisers Should Have Backed Gib Gib- Gibson's Gibsons Gibson Gibsons Gibson's sons son's Smile Spend Money Money- in Order to Save Money By WILLIAM HARD lARD Copyright 1927 1527 Consolidated Press fress Association IF 11 IF TUB THE watchword ot or this administration has been economy its it's I dollars loiters to doughnuts that the watchword of or the next tion will be productive economy A few rew illustrations follow Collow Hanford MacNIder er assistant secretary of or war a tall and vivid and burly and emphatic young man has been putting up a great fight light to get ammunition for Cor the army It has been his bright ht Idea Ideo that an army without ammunition might night be cheap for tor the moment but would not produce victories It might therefore ultimately be bevery bevery bevery very expensive Our present situation speaking broadly is that our our army array Its has a II cartridge belt without cartridges It the present administration wont won't buy bu them the next administration will have to The expense has been deferred lint But Its It's bound to come There there's theres theres T. T V. V OConnor O'Connor chairman of or the shipping board and ond theres there's Albert D. D Lasker of or Chicago the former chairman of or that board Laskor Lasker wanted anted to develop d an American an merchant ma ma- marine marine rine by a subsidy to private merchant vessels Congress wouldn't let him OConnor O'Connor has wanted to develop the services given by our publicly owned merchant vessels The theory of or sellIng Belling those ves yes vessels sole sels to private Interests in order to avoid public expense has baa check mated maLed him Result A poor American private merchant marine a poor American public merchant marine a steady decline in Amt lean Ican shipbuilding and a steady decline in the proportion of o our for for- foreign foreign eign commerce carried carrie l In American ships Outlook We Wa shall either cither get chased off ort tho the seas teas entirely or else we st's presently will make moke quito quite large appropriations to help either our our private ships or else our public ships to stay atay afloat Again an sn expense which has been deferred buL but which is bound to fall upon us In the future Also Hugh Gibson our diplomat with e. e smile who tried to smIle the British at Geneva out of or building cruisers Secretary of o State Hughes smiled at them at Washington in 1022 1922 10 on the sub sub- subject of ot battleships and got them to 10 agree to limit their building of or battleships but he had big appropriations behind him He lie could threaten to build battleships himself We failed tailed to 10 back Mr Gib- Gib Gibron's pon's pons smile with big appropriations for cruisers Never again will no wit go to a cruiser conference without taking with us a long Hoe lIoe of stow now cruisers built and aud building The way to disarm the Euro Euro- Europeans Europeans has been shown to be through arming ourselves We have to spend money on cruisers In order to be ablo able to stop slop spending money on cruisers So that expense Is ia coming too And there are arc at least a dozen other Illustrations Its It's a per per- perfectly safe safo bet that spending money mone in order to save 6 and money and In order to make snake money will money will presently be the keynote kenote of or the federal government It can be heard beard already In the department ot or Dr Julius Kilen head of or the bureau ot or domestic com commerce cout- cout merce in the ot or commerce makes lots Iota of or noney for tor American business men lUen through exploring trade trado opportunities for them abroad and through telling them Just how to lasso those thole op opo 1 for the tho interest of or their dividends In the fiscal year 1021 1521 congress let him hint have Just a II little bit snore morO than two millon dollars for the expenses ot or his work ork This This' year jear ar even the tho flinty bosomed bureau of or the tho budget was as so BO molted melted by his hilS that it Jt allotted him almost three and a halt half million dollars That will be the coming cry Sow to money reap money moner Productive economy nom S |