The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1918-09-06
FINANCE PROBLEM
IN EASY TERMS
Government Must Have twenty
four Billions in a Year.
WILL BE RAISED By SAVING
Sixteen Cents From Each Dollar Each
One Earns, and the Rest by Sell
ing Liberty Bonds to Patriotic
Citizens.
BY lABERT ST. CLAIR.

The problem or government nnahceS
Ia just as complicated as we choose
10 make IT, Approached from difcF-
ent angles, il can be made as battling
as a Chinese puzzle or as simple as
the operation of AN old-fashIoned
dasher churn.
If one attempts TO delve into the
ramifications of the expansion Of cur
rency, and all that sort of thing, he
is very likely TO develop stiff neck
from craning up and down columns
of figures and wind up 10y declaring
that figures lie horribly.
On the other hand, If lie faces the
situation in broad, concrete way
and compares it with the problem of
financing his home, or some similar
| everyday expenditure, he cun grasp
! and master il as he would the handle
of the family pump.
Here is the governments immediate
financial problem in a nutshell In
the next twelve months S24.OOO,0OO,-
900 probably will be required by the
| United States government to meet war
| expenses. The total income Of every
| person in this country Is only about
! 10000, 100000 Il year. Therefore. II
the cost of the war for the next year
| We're to be assessed pro rata, every
| PERSONS share would he forty-eight
cents on every dollar that he or she
| earns.
Needed to Beat Off Murderers.
| Now let us bring the proposition
| little nearer home. Suppose that
| band of murderers, in blood-smeared
uniforms of gray having slaughtered
their way through the helpless waves
of women and children In nearby
cities just as the Hun has done in
| France and Belgium, established
themselves in the woods at the edge
of our town with the fixed purpose OF
waging slaughter in our midst Then,
If il were announced by the authori-
ties that il would cost forty-eight
cents Of every dollar that every earn
er in our town made in the next
| twelve months to conduct defense
against the murderer, that would be
clear, wouldn't it? And if the authOri-
ties were to go further and say that
they would assess sixteen cents OF
this forty eight on persons who could
afford to pay il and accept the other
thirty-two from persons who, out Of
their zeal to aid in the defense of
their homes and their loved ones,
would take the promise of the local
government to repay it, that would be
plain, too.
There isn't IA bit of difference be
| tween the local case | have described
and the present case Of United States
| government The Hun is in the Otiing.
the government needs an average Of
4S-One hundredthS of everyone's earn
ing in the next year to conduct its de-
| fenSe, and ii plans TO raise this money
on onc-third tax and two-thirds bond
or stamp sale plan. Within the next
year approximately SS,0O0,0O0,000 will
be raised by taxes and $4,000 10000
by the sale of government securities.
Must Be Raised by Economy.
| There Is the situation, and the ques-
ton now arises: How in the land Of
Goshen are we ever going To raise
such Il sum as S24.000000,000 The
answer is: Save as we never have
before.
II will not be pleasant TO skimp our
selves, for we have not been used "a
skimping, but we simply shall have to
do it. That old S24,0OOO00,000 re.
quirement is going to stick TO us like
burr to pair of mittens, and We
simply must raise it.
We must practice the same economy
to raise the money with the Hun 3,
600 miles away that we would If h,
We're in the grove out at the edge OF
town. He may be 1900 miles away In
person, but at every beat his lustfu
heart spans that gap between your
daughter and mine and his fingers
have virulent 5000 mile itch FOL
your money and your farms.
The question of what each of u'
must econOmZe on can be settled only
in our individual minds and Mt Oul
own firesides. If the Hun were in thr
grove literally. would any of us asl
our neighbors what we should Sacri
fee in order To help raise our reSpec
tive shares Of the forty-eight cent
on the dollar? | thiuli not.
Ny notion is that the question ever!
patriotic American should ask hiunsel
Is What must | have? The query
What can | get along without? is no
searching enough.
Hcber Grim's Story Apropos.
Every time the idea OF saving 90
ours to me think of old Heber Grim
character out Ia my western Indiana
town who had Il perennial habit o
joining church. lust as regularly a
revival meeting time rolled around
Heber would get himself all het u
over his sins and, along in the las
days OF the meeting, he would com
rearing and Snorting down the asl
and join up.
Somehow, though, Heber never 90
around 10 making any sacrifices i
behalf OF his new found religion. II
always kept right on chewing tobacco
swearing like 81 mule driver, drinkin
| like n Ash and worst Of all soua pdel