Show where your taxes go how uncle sam spends your money in conducting your business by EDWARD G LOWRY author W bl at CIO api upi bunts mid d F financial 1 1 I etc t contributor PIl tini and economic articles Artl clea to L dang merw and a anter 0 of f R anthonty Anthont 7 on tho bat methods Ut thoda 41 Cop copyright Maht vi r ua union VIT VII WARS HORRIBLE WASTE mr 1 11 c Lell ingwell was tile the assistant secretary ecret ary of the treasury in charge of nuances luring during the war while lie was in ili the he treasury lie became deeply lill impressed pressed with the mag niti itle of expedit uiel and the looseness inefficiency and waste that lie aie a pait of government method all the secretaries of the treasury since tho the outbreak out bieak of if the war have shared this feeling of apprehension and concern with mr letting 11 ucal el I 1 I 1 quote here a I 1 recent utterance of his on oil war expenditures of the e exclusive of interest on tile public debt spent in the fiscal icar 1921 32 mis ivas spent by the war department 59 by tile navy delai dehait t ment on the railroads by the bureau of war nar aish insurance and by the interior department mostly I 1 take it for chil war and spanish war pensions a total of under these heads in ili the fiscal acar 1920 the war department part ment spent and the navy depa department rement a total of 2 secretary mellon estimates that in ili the fiscal year 1921 2921 the war department will spend 1025 and the navy department 1 a I total of and that in die fiscal year 1022 1922 the war deVart department ment will spend and the navy department 5 15 00 a total of this makes a three years total of germany went to war to realize on her investment in arms and arin armies les the burden of universal military service expenditures on oil the army and navy subsidies s and doles became intolerable she alio thought slie she would repeat the exploit of 1870 and make will wai so profitable in territory and andem cities as to recoup herself for kllc outlay of 40 years preparation the splendid resistance of the belgians and the french and of the little british expeditionary force made the short war a futile adreani the untrained inn hood in rp i p or cne ane western estern I lorac boria or ane britian empire overseas and finally of 0 america determined the issue germany german suffered economic collapse thou 1 I her e armies beaten lint but not rc routed it d w I 1 still on enemy soil so gel Geiro anys military preparedness was lier her cause for making war and was the cause kofl of her defeat in the arsue it was eco I 1 L preparedness that mattered most t today men women omen and little children are starving to d eath death in europe because of the wars horrible waste and bebau ui of the still more horrible waste of after the war two years and a half after nimi stice nearly two evirs after peace was concluded be between ticen germany ard the allies allias millions of men are anre under arms eating and wearing the produce of the fields an and 1 I of tile the labor of a civilian population which must boar bar the load of taxes and lunation necessary to maintain thesel those s in economic idleness the peo pen pies ot 0 continental europe are stag geian under the load of armaments far t to 0 great beffie tile the war and intolerable flow now their rulers hold themselves in ill pow er by sub subsidies sadies and doles lay dy placing now on oil their fears and again on their avarice C still again on oil nationalistic ambitions or ancient ra cial hatreds hat reds the allies have under taken to insure germanas germanys Germ anys recovery by insisting upon her disarm amont and the payment of reparations which means tile of a huge export balance but for then them seles they reserve the doubtful olivi lege of remaining armed to the teeth we have demonstrated our military power we have shown what may be done in a few short months month to make inake an array army and transport trans it to wage 1 a I foreign war nar we have no need to be abroad we are insul at home let us accept the responsibilities of the position of lead call enship which is ours show the world how to beat swords into plowshares plow shares relle rollee e the peoples of 0 the world of ap and lead them back into the ways of peace and plenty it if we prepare for war e shall have it if we lead the world in preparation for peace we may have that |