East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-09-05
'COMBAIINGHlJN
COSTS VAST sum
U. S. GREAT AID
Red Cross Receives Letter
. From Liberty Loan Com
mittee Explaining ExpenA
diture.

The following letter. received BY
Secretary c. F. Roosevelt ofathe Una
tilla County Chapter of the American
Red Cross. gives an interesting ac-
count of the expenditures bytthe goV-
iernment of vast sums of money, for
the wars prosecution. A series of let
ters issued by the Liberty Loan COM
lmittee is being mailed 10 all Red
Cross chapters:
Il Letter No. 1.
August 81. 1918.
To All Red Cross Chapters:
I This is the fore-runner OF serieA
of four letters to be sefit every littls
while by the National Woman's Lib
lerty Loan Committee These VIII tell
you something of how the vast sums
of money appropriated for the prose-
cutions of the war are being spent by
THE government.
! The money We pay out and what we
get for it is fair statement Of our
war program and of our natioaal
achievement so far. and Indicates de-
finiteN khe magnitude Of our Under
taking. the giant scale Of preparation
aud the standard we have set for our
selves in this great struggle to pre-
j serve our national life and the ciyi-
4ization of the world. What we hay 3
done so far points to what is before
tis--what we must do week BY week
and month by month till the war is
won.
In normal times-in peace times
lit costs about billion dollars year
TO run the government. For the fiscal
year ended June so. 1918, congress
appropriated in round numbers. ih-
Guiding deficiencies, S1s.sS2, 2,OQ0.0OQ-
For 1919 congress has appropriated p:
round numbers at the present session
including deficiencies and ayproprii-
.tion bills pending, $24.s30. 600. 600. :
The mind is often confused over
fand expenditures"
Congressional appropriations fix the
limit of what may be used. Then the
governmental departmenfs' and bu-
reaus spend what is necessary and AT
the end of the year the appropriation
lapses. official figures show that for
the fiscal year 1918, the government
spent Sf2.696, 7O2,471.14, and in addi-
tion during the war months of 1871
distributed $685. 100000 for loans .
allies.
Entente Powers Believed Financially
Exhausted.
Up to the very day we entered the
war, Germany believed that victory
for the central powers lay just ahead.
4 strong factor in this calculation was
their belief that the entente powers
were financially exhausted. "A
Germany had spent fifty years pre-
pairing for a war of conquest. She
knew that from it's very start she
must wage it from within the circle
composed of herself and her allies,
that she must produce from within
this circle her raw stuffs and manu-
factured material, sand by doing this,
though the war has continued far be-
yond the eighteen months thae Ger
many set for its winning--if there was
to be a winning-she has l:ept her
money at home, used il over and over
again, as the same water often turns
the wheels of many mills. =
our allies, on the other hand, oY-
Ing chiefly to their lack Of prepare
ton, had to come into the markets Of
the United States for most OF their
war necessaTies, and in the year of
our neutrality their account with us
totaled approximately $9,455.524547.
A nation and an Individual are alike
when they want to buy anything
they must have money or credit. which
is based on money. Our allies were 4
short on both, and we supplied their
need. We advanced them money and
credit, and we called the TRANSACTIONS
a loan. In the fiscal years of 1917
an 1918 we loaned them 55,623. 600
600. Their securities and government /
al undertakings to repay lie in the !
vaults of the treasury OF the United
States.
What our allies did with that credit I
Dr money is of vast Importance to us.
They looked to us to supply them
with wheat and corn and cotton from
Dur fields, coal and ore from our
mines, and finished products from our
factories and foundries,7 otherwise
hey could not remain at war, so thev
brought this credit that we had lent
hem into our markets and spent 1t
over our counters.
1918 Exports $4,000. 900. 900.
During the fiscal year 1918 our ex-
ports amounted to So, 900. 600, 900. Six
billion is six thousand million. Most
II this went to our allies. and was
urned Immediately and eagerly into
lighting stuff for winning their war
,ur war.
You viii be interested in knowing
ome Of the things our allies reaAy
lid with the sums we lent them
first they used over $3.50. 900. 900 for
eiief in Belgium and Servia. The
eople in Belgium call it blessed
money" Besides the enormous ex-
embraced I'm the term
munitions of war" they have spent
500. 200, 900 for meat and other. foods.
nd 5000. 100000 for cotton. $500
00. 600 for cereals.
The letters immediateiy Following
his will tell the cost of turning a citi-
IN into a soldier. Of the draft, the
,ldier's life and training in the cam
his life overseas and the
sailing of the ships that took him
iere. the engineering pfojects in
rance 10 make ready the soldiers !
,ming. our aircraft production. the :
onderful Liberty motor, and kindred Z
ibjects. Sincerely Yours
CSignedl ANTOINETTE FUNK.
irector Propaganda and Speakers
Department National Woman's lib
erty Loan Committee, Treasury De-