Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-04-18 | Page 4 | Soldiers on the Rhine

SOLDIERS ON THE RHINE. 1 A coast paper presents the argument that, inasmuch as there is uo immediate prospect "Qf America being coinpensated for the serv-, serv-, jces of our troops m Europe, the soldiers should-be withdrawn. The "line of thought is based on the almighty dollar that and nothing more. Stating that it costs $1,220,000 a day to maintain the boys on Hl 'fro Rhine, this paper says ; 1 "It is useless to say that Germany is getting no more , J. than snc deserves. We may recognize that and also the evi-Z" evi-Z" dcilt bad fjlith in respect to disarmament proved by the H' nbundance of arms and ammunition in Germany available j to any army raised for any purpose. That does not get ug .. anywhere. The fact is that the taxpayers of thcvUmfcl States are paying at the rate of nearly half a billion dollars a year for maintaining a little army on the Rhine, widen certainly does not do us any good and probably does no j good to anybod-. The expenditure of the sum named by t ; Congressman Kahn as the daily cost of our army on the Rhine figures out at $445,300,000 a year, less whatever small amounts may bo squeezed out of Germany. No wonder , taxes continue high. Incidentally, even the Germans would seem to have reason to complain if our little army of 12,000 j r r 15,000 men on the Rhine costs,' as Congressman Kahn Kf sa.vs ifc does, at the rate of $445,300,000 a year. That is H; r " about two anda half times the total annual expenditures Bj! of" our war department as late as 1916. Wc trust that an H' extra cipher or two got into the dispatch in transmission." "What an exhibition of petty criticism! Suppose it does cost $443,000,000 to maintain our 15,000 boys on the Rhine. If they are not cared for there, they must be fed, clothed and sheltered else-j else-j where at a cost approximating the expenditures in Germany. Fur- ; thennore, tlie soldiers are performing our part of a sacred obligation Ht to make impossible another Avorld debacle such as occurred between -t August, 1914, and November 11, 1918. T i. America, it is certain, owes the world something more than a dol-Jftr dol-Jftr performqnee a serving for price. America must do her full part in the carrying out of the terms H - "of the. armistice as relate to the making safe of all nations from sud-Hl sud-Hl . den and uncalled for attack. 1 i a smalL soul who measures everything in money and. knows H;: nothing of the bigger promptings of humanity. . ' .J .