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Show The Cost of Navies The American citizen pays less per capita in proportion to income to maintain the Navy than the citizen of any of the other large naval powers. Secretary of the Navy Adams recently gave 01U some Interesting comparisons. According to Mr. Adams the cost of the navies in various countries coun-tries per capita in 1930 was as follows- Great Britain SG.21. France $3.39, the United States $3.24. Japan Jap-an 2.08, Italy S1.S4 So, it seems that the average Englishman and Frenchman pay? more for his navy than does tr.e American citizen, although in the figures above t r.e expenses of the air force is not included in 'lie Tngtish and 1'ifr.ch figures, while the American f!i:uifs include the cava) aviation branch. The comparison is more surprising surpris-ing when we realize that the average av-erage income pir capita in the United States Is considerably higher high-er than that in eny other countries. coun-tries. . The figures given out by Socrrtary idams, for the same ye-r. how an n come per . capita as'fclliws. I'uitea States SrC. Great ' i'.ritain $42u. France t'.n Italy $105 and Japan $87. Therefore, There-fore, the .American citizen should be "able to pay more per capita foi 5( BJldflO . J3d 3tU03Ut SSBJSAB 3l) and still be taxed less for it than other " citizens. Considering both the average ecst of .the Navy per capita ana saop.au. uum.. osuojop BAEU Sill will be seen that in Japan each citizen contributes one dollar out of every forty-two dollars to maintain main-tain a'nnvy. In Great Britain the cost of ' the nayy takes one dollar out of every sixty-seven dollars of the income.' In the United States, however, the cost of the Navy-represents Navy-represents only cne dollar out of every two ; hundred and thirty-our thirty-our dollars of average income. |