Show 1 0 AL afcin r special to the park record IV washington ASHINGTON D C february ath efforts now being in made ade by both parties here to pare the expenses of the national I 1 government has led to the disclosure of the number of those now actually drawing appy from uncle sam the total as issued as by the bureau of the budget shows that there are arc more than a million persona on the national payroll the exact figures are arc out of this huge number there are I 1 conly only drawing more than 3 a year the civilian employees lead the armed forces with a total of 65 55 its as against the military expenditures of 57 the largest group of all contains soldiers and sailors who receive under 1000 a year but these men receive bo blousing using food and clothing in addition to their pay even the officers being granted extra allowances this condition Is not recognized in the figures figure S is issued s I 1 aed by the budget budeau and would pr probably double the amount this government Is paying tor for armed protection the second largest group drawing draw ing a living from the national government Is 18 in the 1000 a year civilian class I 1 included n in this list are many or of the small postmasters and the poorer paid mail all carriers there are in this one class next to it Is the group in the and 2100 class in which can be found many college graduates who are starting to climb the long civil service trall trail the class totals those subject to the proposed salary reduction of ten per cent on the and up class total in the civilian branches ard in the military A total of civilians receive above bevc against 2709 in the army arm ya and navy and of these there a are re exactly thir ty two who are paid or more a year the army being represented by gen pershing who draws and Is the only high salaried man in all our military forces although eighty three draw salaries between and in all persons would be affected by the proposed pay cut and their gross income co e Is 16 A ten per cent m re reduction faction would save uncle sam less than twenty millions of dollars a year out of the billion arid and a third paid 0 out ut to government employees about 0 one ne tenth or Is paid mcm members bers and workers in the farm board interstate commerce commission the federal trade commission and other agencies one other cent center er of attack by the proponents of economy programs Is the I 1 armament aim alm ament end ot of the government recent figures show this country leading the world in expenditures tor for its armed forces the total spent by the U S yearly aggregates of which about ohalf half is for the navy the air force being included france spends about great britain being a few millions under her while italy pays out 1 and japan germany T cited by the versailles tre treaty Is ls lowest 7 aza lowet ti ell all the great nations b but ut manages n ge to c chend pend on its pocket battle chips and home guard I 1 these figures do not give the true picture however as the actual facts are that the united states pays out less per person for war purposes than any otherl other great nation the U S with its 1 people Is paying out about 5 go a I 1 head for army and navy purposes italy with population Is paying out about and france levies on each citizen and each of his dependents the sum slam of 1366 66 every year great britain with is paying out around 13 00 per capita in addition to paying out much greater sums per capita than this country nearly al all foreign nations are getting better value tor for their dollars than the united states where top prices are paid for or everything on account of higher wages here because of this fact the armies and navies of the three greatest european powers are proportionately much larger and are growing faster than the american forces one thing that brings the altion finance corporation home to farm fann ers is the pio provision vision that between fifty end arid may be lent to agrical turis ts farm interests will tie be taken care of by the new blaid d although such matters will tie be handled conservatively it Is said to avoid taking business away from the regular banks |