The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-22
LEAGUE 1924 BUDGET
PUT AT S4,2OO,OOO
Surplus Reported First Year,
With S2,O0O,OOO of Last
Appropriation Spent.

Details of the past EXPENSES of the
League of Nations and the estimated
amount to be spent in the coming year
were made public yesterday by the
Ieague of Nations Bureau of the League
to Enforce Peace, of which William II.
Taft is president.
1T is now possible to form n pretty
correct idea what the world will have
to pay for the new form of insurance
represented by the league" the state
ment says. "As the figures now stand
| il seems as if the premiums would prove
surprisingly small"
The first budget provided for an esti-
mated income OF S1.2O0.000 for the time
between May 5, 1919. when the prelim-
mary organization of the secretariat was
formed. until March 81 Of this year, but
the States which came in contributed
actually $1,396,372. OF this s544, 142
was spent.
The second budget, extending. from.
April l last until the end of this year,
was S2.0O0.O00 All Of this was spent
and included the expenses of winding up
various postwar tanglcs, such as the re-
patriation OF prisoners to and from Rus
STA and the first payment on property
seat at Geneva.
1t is planned 70 spend during 1921
total of S4200,000. This is divided into
several items Permanent headquarters
and equipment 100000 council. assem-
bly, and secretariat, $1,230,000; various
permanent organizations. 100000; re-
serve fund, 100000, and labor office,
S1,400.000.
Concerning the method of raising this
money the statement says:
''An international commission has been
At work on a system providing for an alb
solutely just apportionment Of the total
cost of the league among the. forty
members and its report will come before
the assembly for action. In the mean
time the system used by the Postal Union
has been applied. 1t divides the total
cost into a certain number of units, then
all the nations are divided into seven
| classes that have to pay from one to
twenty-five units each"
There are ten countries in the first
class. paying 20 units or s104.760 each.
of the amount levied to the end of this
year. These are the British Empire,
Canada. Australia, South Africa. British
India, China. France Italy Japan and
Poland. Spain. in the second class.
pays SS3.6S0 Belgium. Rumania,
Brazil CZecho S,ovalxia Hol and.
s9Wtttll anu t0NAAAtIliliut III Nlit NhAiu
class, pay S62,7G each; Denmark. Nor
way, Portugal and Jugo-5lavia, in the
fourth c ass pay $41,640; Argentina,
Chile Colombia, Greece and Peru, in
the fifth class. pay $2O,920; Bolivia,
Cuba. Guatemala. Haiti, New Zealand,
Panama. Parasuay Persia. Salvador,
am, Uruguay and Venezuela in the
sixth class. pay S12,552, and Liberia
and HedJaz. in the seventh class. pay
Salsa.
The League TO Enforce Peace COM
pares the cost to the United States for
the com ng year had she entered the
league-$22O, 296-with 1919. 211. 155, the
amount appropriated by this country in
1913, year of peace. for army, navy
and other military expenses. and with
the sum Of S10,22t, 231 .435. the amount
appropriated by Congress in 1913 after
we had been at war one year
such a comparison shows that be-
longing to the league next year would
cost US exactly one-tenth of one per
cent of what we spent on ornaments
during a single year before the war
while 1t would amount TO someth ng like
two-thousaudths OF one per cent. of what
the direct cost OF our belligerency
reached in 191S,' the statement says
what the war cost US indirectly dur
ing the same year IS Of course past
reckoning. but the sum was undoubt-
eddy so great That the mere bookkeeping
expenses exceeded the entire cost OF
running the League OF Nations"