Ogden Daily Standard | 1918-12-05 | Page 4 | Efficiency as Money Saver for America

oo FOR AMERICA NEW YORK, Dec. 5. Ordinary efficiency effi-ciency in public administration would save the people of this country $600,-000,000 $600,-000,000 a year, United States Senator Charles S. Thomas of Colorado told the 'Association of Life Insurance Presidents Presi-dents in a thrift conference which began be-gan here today. Senator Thomas is a member of the senate committee on finance. 1 "The war leaves us a legacy of a stupendous stu-pendous debt," declared Senator Thomas. Thom-as. "It will reach, if it does not exceed, ex-ceed, $35,000,000,000 or tuice as much as the combined debt or the allied nations, na-tions, including Russia, when the war began. The annual interest upon this aum Mi uu $i,'iuu,uuu,uuu neany twice the net total of the nation's annual pre-war expenditure. This means a vastly Increased rato and radius of taxation. The people must bear tho burden; for Germany cannot mako indemnity. in-demnity. They will bear it willingly if economy in public administration becomes the policy of the government. They will not and should not he content con-tent If the gross extravagances of the past continue." Senator Thomas declared that American Amer-ican shores have been flooded with a raasa of humanity apparently unassim-ilable. unassim-ilable. The emigrants' colonies havo become "breeding places for all the ugly disorders of the century." Disruption Dis-ruption of the central powers, he believed, be-lieved, would remove all restrictions upon emigration of their people. "The dam " ho declared, "must bo erected on this Idc of the Atlantic and no time should bo lost In its construction construc-tion "