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Show G. 0. P. 'RECORD UNDER REVIEW Coolliclge Claims Great Progress, Pro-gress, Much Economy During First Year NEW YORK. March 27 Th first year of President Harding's administration adminis-tration has been a period of progress with an almost incredibl' achievement achieve-ment In economy, Vice President Calvin Cal-vin Coolldge declared in an address Sunday before the Brooklyn Institute of Aits and Sciences Asserting that public employes had been reduced nearly 60.000. th" army by S5.000 and large reduction- proposed pro-posed in the naval forces, all of which were beginning to show In Ihe government's appropriation and expenditures ex-penditures the vice pre-dden said: EXPENSES Hi !l I RD rl,-,T- ffi t)ie war the annual .m- proprlations were a little over a billion bil-lion dollars. For the last fiscal year they were slightly more than $6,50.0,-000,000 $6,50.0,-000,000 For the present fiscal year It Is estimated that this will be reduced to somewhat less than $4,000,000,000 and for tho next fiscal year for which appropriations are now being made, there will be a reduction to about $3,500,000,000 If, from present expenditure?, there be deducted those ltenn that arose from tho war and the extra amount now being expended on sood roads and the army and navy, the present cost of running the government govern-ment would not exceed the pre-war cost by more than two or three hundred hun-dred millions. "This represents an achievement in economv which is almost incredible." NATAL AGREEM? N'T Stating that the Washington armS conference 'proceeded on the funda-, mental theory of substituting for the sanction of force in international relations re-lations the sanction of reason.'' Mr. I Coolldge asserted: "It has been a year of progress al- together worthy of a great people, lt does not mean that the burdensf existence ex-istence are to be lifted from man-, kind. It does not mean that military establishments are to be no longer required. An agreement to maintain 1 a parity between navies is not an! agreement to abolish navies. There Will be a great saving of expenditure, i but It will not bo so much La present, costs as in future requirements. These great remedial pollcll which are bo-1 ing adopted are fundamental In principle prin-ciple They mean lhat hereafter a larger proportion of human effort can go into productive activity An adequate organization for ad-' ministering government relief of war cterans was on Of the tirst domet--tle problems, he said, which later was placed under the supervision of tho bureau. "It Is to realize," he added, "what a stupendous task this work Is. when it is remembered that there has nt-rcady nt-rcady been paid to disabled veterans, and their dependent relatives, about a billion and a half dollars and there j is going out of the treasury each day close to a million and a quarter dollars. dol-lars. The government already has I nearly 30. mm hospital beds ami will j soon have 35,000. There are about i 29,000 men already In hospitals who I receive, besides their keeping and I care, from ?80 to $157 each month. I There are about 105.000 men r I slv. j Ing vocational training, most of them under pay and at a maximum cost of $160 each per month. There are 5.000 schools used throughout the country for training ex-scrvlce men and 7.000 institutions for placement I training " He said ihe shipping hoard problem prob-lem was "to get the srovernment out of the shipping business with as little lit-tle loss as possible and to provide -in American merchant marine that American goods might not have to be-carried be-carried to market in the ships of competitors, and that there might be sufficient ships to provide an adequate ade-quate nutlonal defense." There is now a fair prospect, he asserted, that the country will have a merchant marine, mar-ine, "supported from a small proportion propor-tion of the revenue derived from sldp-ninK sldp-ninK arul hidillnL' n nlaei- on the i j worthy of the American people." EUROPEAN TANGLES. Conptruetive economy. Mr. Coolldge said, has been the first thought and the chief effort of the present admin- j Istration, To secure that, he declared, j is to accomplish reconstruction 'There has been a steady determination determin-ation not to interfere In those European Euro-pean affairs with which we hid no direct concern," he said. "When tnere was an attempt to place responslblll- j lies on our government for the firing of the reparations, it was firmly de- ellned, but with tho assertion that j reparations must be met to the limit of ability. "There has likewise been a refusal to participate In the Genoa conference confer-ence out of a feeling that the chief causes of economic dlsturuanco in ! Europe can only be settled by their pwn domestic action and our unwillingness unwill-ingness to become involved In any way in their political -lu-stlon." MEXICO WD KUSSIA. The vice president referred to the refusal of Mexico to execute the treaty offered her "which would have recognized her government and declared de-clared her adherence to thoi principles prin-ciples of protection of the rights of ! persons and of property which are the I necessary mark of a civilized tate." "A more than friendly Interest In the people of Russia," he added, "has been declared in our willingness to consider commercial relations on the; presentation of assurancos tha there"; is (0 be maintained th'i.ie rights of j fre labor, respect for contracts and (jprurltv of property, without which) there can be no commerce, an. I cur; good faith demonstrated by greut private pri-vate charities and the appropriation; of twenty millions of dollars for Ihe relief of her starving populations." Bats are directed in their flight by; a special sense of hearing and by. sound waves. ' ' |
