Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-04-12
THE NcoNcElVAeLE SUM or $aa, COG, ,ooo,oo LASTS ONLY ~
 TWO YEARS.
GUARANTEE WORLD FREEDOM
Third Liberty Loan, When carr'ed to Successful tssus, Will os
 Mueh to Win War 0Alo'<lXs

ing the United States one billion dol
 lars a month, or more than $25,00Q, 900 a day. Appropriations already made
 and bills now pending in Congress
 make it certain that the first two years of the war will cost America
 thirty three billion dollars. These fig ures are conservative. Indications are the expense will be many millions
 more daily.
 Few persons have grasped the mean ing of this stupendous sum. What does this huge sum mean to the people ot the United States? Here are some of the things it means:
 That an obligation of $S30 has been piled up against every one of the 100,- O00, 900 men, women and children in the United States. If it were neces- sary to pay off the present war debt at once, the head of family of four would have to pay $1,320, more avail able cash than the average family of that size has.
 Freedom comes high. Every 2z hours Uncle Sam must spend and is spending more than $25,000,000 at % cents day for every man, woman
 and child in the nation. The expenses of the government are 16 times aa much under war conditions as iu peace times. Not until 1910 did the expenditures of the United States I reach billion dollars ill year. This
 year, the first in the war, Congress
 appropriated $18,802 ,027,501. In 1898 the year of the Spanish-American war the total appropriations were less thar half billion dollars-$485.002.0 .044, or about one thirty-sixth of the cost o1 the first year in the present war. In addition to voting more than SIS, 000, 0,000,000 cash for the first year ot the war, Congress authorized the gov ernment to enter into additional con 1 tracts which aggregate $2,511, GOO 900 l to be paid for at later dates as the work progresses.
 Where millions of dollars formerly created interest in Congress, billions l of dollars scarcely arouse a moments attention, because everybody a. Wash l ington realizes that the best Way t1 1 win the war in the shortest time is to throw the whole resources of the na tion into the struggle and support the brave men who are lover there" The war machinery for year will
 cost in dollars and cents an amount
 that staggers the imagination Here
 are some of the estimates submitted to Congress by the military branches; i Army. $6,610, 0,223,2O9; Notifications $3,S32,445,122; navy, $1,039, ,80o, QUO
 sundry civil, $1 ,242,9ss. The navy has just asked for an additional ap propriation of $300,000,O00 to speed up and increase the building of war
 ships necessary to combat the sub marine menace.
 The people should realize that .he
 vast sums appropriated to conduct the
 war are absolutely necessary to win the battle against the ruthless Prus sian. Unless America spends now she will be ensiaved later. Unless the
 people support the government to the 1 limit Uncle Sam will be forced to de
 rive the money by taxation.
 Uncle Sam hopes and believes th( people will voluntarily lend him the
 money necessary to conduct the war The Third Liberty Loan campaign
 which will be launched April $. should have the support of every man. woman
 and child in the nation. Invest in Lib erty bonds and make the victory moi 1 only sure but quick.