The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-27
How Funds Raised by Sale Of
Liberty Loan Bonds Is Ex-
pended by Government.
FIGURES ARE STAGGERING
Estimated Total of Loco, 900 900
Will Be Spent This Year for Prepa-
ration and Maintenance Of
Our Fighting Forces.


States are to be asked in the Fourth
TENDER % and continues three weeks,
to lend the government at least twice
as much money as has been asked be-
fore, the treasury department realizes
that there Is natural curiosity on the
part of the public to know for what
all this money is being expended. The
amount already spent on preparation
and the maintenance of the fighting
forces staggers the imagination, and
the prospect Is for an even larger ex-
penditure in the present fiscal year.
the total being estimated at $4,000
100000.
Figures received at Liberty Loan
headquarters for the Seventh Reserve
district from the war department give
an idea of the vast sums which have
been expended and which will have to
be spent to win the war, and, this in
formation brings home to all Ameri-
cans q concrete idea of how much
money 1t takes to wage modern war
and how our money is being used to
win victory.
The following figures are an answer
to the query of the average Liberty
Bond buyer: "Just what will Uncle
Sam do with the money from my $500
bond? A single bond does not go far to-
ward meeting the expense of war, it Is
pointed out, but when the bonds of
millions of Americans are brought to-
gether, the total of cash provided
reaches stupendous totals.
Since the United States entered the
war in April, 1917, the war department
has raised equipped, trained and, with
naval help, sent across the sea upward
Of million and half Of soldiers, and
has practically as many more under
training at home. OF all this vast
number of men sent abroad, the num-
Der lost in transit as result of
U-boat attacks up to September /,
1913, was less than 500.
During this same time 100000
rifles have been made, inspected, as
sembled and issued, and the weekly
production Is growing.
The total amount Of money directly
appropriated by congress for the ord
nance program, for which authorize
ton has been given to incur Obliga-
tons, amounts to approximately $12,-
OOO,OOO,OOO.
From the beginning of the war to
June 80, 1913, the last day of the past
fiscal year, contracts We're placed by
the ordnance department from appro-
priations and authorizations existing
at that time amounting to $500 O00,-
600. 1t is now estimated that during
the present fiscal year ending June 80,
1919, the actual cash expenditures for
ordnance will reach u total of $1,000
100000.
The major items for which cash ex-
penditures were made or for which
contracts were placed up to June 80,
1913. were as follows:
Artillery u .oSo, eco COG
automatic rifles S So ,0oo, egg
Artillery ammunition .......... 1901, 600, DOS
Small arms ammunition. 340,00O,0Oc
Small arms, ammunition pracs
stores and supplies personal e''y''sSS
horse and organ;zatiOn) No.. 5000 10000
$Armored motor cars.............. 1G0,O0O.00O
s4.1oo, 900, 900
The principal items for which con-
gress has nude appropriations avail
able for the present fiscal year IRE Us
follows:
Automatic rifles SOC. 00o. pCo
Artillery nmmurition3 2,65O, 600
Small arms ammunition 955, 000, 600
Small arms ammunition prac- ~
s.orss and supplies person.i $500 J. . =