New Britain herald., 1918-12-06
THRIFT SHOULD BE
 NATIONAL VIRTUE
Ordinary Efficiency Will Save
 Billions Annually

New York Dec. 6.-Ordinary eff save the people of this country $600 100000 a year, U. s. Senator Charles s. Thomas, of Colorado, told the As sociation of Life Insurance Presidents in a thrift conference which began here yesterday. Senator Thomas is a member of the senate committee on finance.
 ,~trThe war leaves us a legacy of stupendous debt" declared Senator Thomas Tt will reach, if it does not exceed, $35,O00, 100000, or twice IS much as the com oined debt of the al- lied nations, inclu ding Russia, when the war began. The annual interest upon this stupendous sum will be 100000, nearly twice the net total of the nations annual pre-war expenditure. This means a vastly in- creased rate and radius of taxation. Tho people must bear the burden; for
 tarmany cannot make indemnity. hey will bear it willingly, if economy n public administration and the appli- cation of every dollar to the public needs shall become the policy of the government. They will not and should not be content if the gross extrava- gances of the past continue.
 Tn 1910, Senator Aldrich declared that ordinary efficiency in public ad- ministraton would annually save the people S300,000,0O0. It would now save twice that sum. If the taxpayers
 
 a radical revision of our public serv- ice, a consolidation of duplicating bu- reaus and the institution of a budget system in appropriations, it will be done. If they also rigidiy supervl3e public expenditures, taxation can be largely reduced If they fail to do this our appropriations will keep in. creasing, for every demand made upon the Treasury is compiled with when political or organized force is behind it, and everything in these days is or ganized except the man who pays the taxes"
 Senator Thomas declared that American shores have been flooded with a mass of humanity apparently unassimila The immigrants col onies have become national plague spots, breeding places for all the ugly disorders of the century" Disruption of the Central Powers, he believed would remove all restrictions upor eInigration of their people.e Tho dam," he declared, must be erected on this side of the Atlantic and ro time should be lost in it's construc- tion.''
 Your city typifies the general slt77 oJi 4 ,+oiv r,F social and political disorder Parts Of it's press are constant and competent 9ewers of sedition. From such .,on genial soilewero brod tho Black Hand and ]. W. W. A powder magazine us guarded ia not more dangerous to tho community.
 Into tho face Of this sinister me1,- aco wealth fauntG the orgies of the Great Whito Way. It thus supplies tho East Side with text and justlAca- ton. population, suilen with tho diScontert of poverty. confronted with tho vulgar and osteatatious display of lavish extravagaa will not always remain quicsccnt An explosion fs in cviteble.
 Tt is 2 sinister fact that exceptinx Lenine, nearly all the leaders of Rus- sian Bolsh evtsIn graduated from tho uwarn11y contars of New York, Chi- caeo and Philadelphia. Their bloody program was formulated hore, and horo they proposed to test it, whom opportunity beckoned and Russia be-. came thoir victim. From that corti- mental slaughter house they salute their accessoriep in America and urgo