The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-12-06
WHERE THE FIFTY BILLION
DOLLAR WAR FUND WAS SPENT
Southern States Fared Well-Can Mr..
House be Credited with the Cen
erOus Treatment of Texas?

are counting the cost, and wanting 10
know where the money all went, the
following figures show by contrast
which sections of the country profited
most by the war industries.
While the south has mainly confined
itself to agriculture and the great
manufacturing and mining industries
have grown up in the north and west,
where the water power, transporta-
ton and shipping have produced
wealth and population, the rule of the
southern democrats in the house has
turned to their section more than dou-
lie the amount of money expended by
the government thruout the remain
der of the country since the beginning
of the war for the erection of train
ing camps for the soldiers and plants
for the making of munitions. This in
spite of the fact that the south is
deficient in skilled labor and is largely
dependent upon the negro for common
labor.
Thus Alabama has had constructed
ir it by the national government, as
the result of the legislation of the
southern combine, under the supervis
ion of the secretary of war, four
camps at cost of $9,386,14 Arkan-
sas has three at a cost of $11 ,409, ,572,
Florida has three at cost of 7,278,-
201, Georgia has seven at an expense
of $21, ,710,845, Kentucy one at an ex-
penditure of $8,375,239, Louisiana
two at $6,240,474, Maryland three at
S28,104,6 4,619, Mississippi two at S5,544,-
SD, New Mexico one at $4,518,871,
Oklahoma three at $5,t74,646, South
Carolina five at $19,045,2s4, Tennes-
see one at 81 1,672,1O Texas twenty
five at $32,652,744, and nine in Vir-
ginia and West Virginia at $50,696,-
257.
Of the industrial side there are two
nitrate plants in Alabama, built at
cost to the government of SOL 1886, ,145,
a picric acid plant in Arkansas at Sd
100000, another in Georgia at $1,000
900, nitrate plant and an arsenal
in Maryland at $10,0S2,832, smoke
less powder and other plants in Vir-
ginia and West Virginia at cost of
S176,103,472. The total expenditure
for the southern states in this field
during the past year and half has
reached the enormous sum of $780,
306.991, without mentioning the con-
stant advantages for the south of up
keep and importation of labor from
other sections.
Contrasting the Figures
Contrasted with this there has been
spent by the government in the pros
ecution of the war for such camps
in other states total of $200,559 ,222.
California has five camps at a cost of
s9,342,39S, Illinois three at $11,878,-
15O. Indiana one at $5S2,000, Iowa one
at S8,518,975, Kansas one at S11,611 1898
Massachusetts one at $11 ,480,837,
Michigan two at $11 ,980,17s, Nebras-
k;, two at $549, ,266, New Jersey three
at S2O,976, 6,268, New York nine at ST.
$685. .965, Ohio four at $16,116,364,
Pennsylvania three at $1,418,732,
Vermont one at $1OS,S23, and Wash
ington one at $S,750,647.
For munitions making California
has two INT plants at cost of $14,-
$50 1893, Michigan picric plant at $5,-
250OOO, New Jersey five powder and
other plants at $51 ,109,884, New York
a picric plant at $225,000, Ohio a nj
trate and amonia plant at $4,000, 900,
ard PENNSYLVANIA a smokeless powder
plant at $7,000,000, and a nitrate of
amonia plant at $475,000. AS COM
pared with the tremendous advantages
that have been given the south in the
placing of thes plants, those of the
north, east and west, considering their
resources pale into insignificance.
And this expenditure of money for
war purposes in the south is not con-
fined to camps and munitions, as evil
dcnced by the fact that the war indus
tries board reported only TINS week
that it had made the following pur-
chases of lumber since the participa-
ton of the United States in the con-
flict: North Carolina pine 432, 100000
feet; Georgia Florida pine 53,S6O,0OO
feet; Southern Pine Emergency Bu-
reau S15,9S0,0O0 feet; Alabama and
Mississippi Emergency Bureau 99,-
$4,000 feet; Fire Protection Board
l5O, O,4sO, ,0OO-all up to this point from
the south; New England Spruce Emer-
gency Bureau 24,54O,00O feet; North
ern Hardwood Emergency Bureau 3d.
$4,000; Redwood Emergency Bureau
27,2sO,OOO feet; and Pennsylvania
Hemlock District 10,175,000 feet. of
the total of 2,213,695,0OO feet pur-
chased, 2,O51 ,955,OOO was bought in
the south