The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-10-23
Democratic Waste.

Senator Dillingham; is charging the
Democratic administration with having
wasted the taxpayers money in a wick
ed way. If the departments had been
full OF drunken sailors they couldn't
have spent any more money" is the
way the senator puts 1t, a few ex-
amples Of this wanton waste show how
justified the senator Is in his charges
Here are a few:
The Wilson adm nistration spent ST.
O5l,500 200 TO build aircraft for war
purposes, but when the war C osed We
had at the front no American fighting
planes and only 1856 planes Of Amer.
ican make.
The war department spent $4,000.
900 in building and operating a powder
plant at Nashville Tenn. and got from
it no powder that could be used in the
war. The plant may be salyaged for
$l0.O000O0
The administration paid the Curtiss
Company $4,000. 600 for 4,60S motors
and 27l6 rplanes and sold the same
back to the company Tor $2.720.00O
A year after the war man went to
the war department to sell'it more
auto trucks. With 10000 new ma.
chimes going to ruin in the weather
the quartermaster general refused to
buy. But Mr. Baker bought ~ new
trucks Tor $4,000 and later extra
parts for $l5l,00 more,
In the naval work at Newport News
Va, common roustabouts were getting
5000 week on scale fixed by the nd.
ministration in Washington. This was
I over $4,000 a year, or a third more
than United States senator receives.
The manager protested but Franklin
4 ID. RoOseye I. ass stant secretary OF the
navy, decided that the wage must
stand Mr. Roosevelt. as candidate for
vicepresident now represents the ad-
J ADMINISTRATION on the Democratic ticket
4 Tie administration built a great ter.
mma and storage plant at Port New.
ark N j. General Goethals opposed
the project but President Wilson fay.
ored it, When the time came to use
tbs plant in the fall the admnistra.
tlon fo6nd that It was ice bound in win.
tier This useless plant was built on
Mr. Bakers cost plus plan Cost tC
the American peonle. $4,000 600.
The Democratic secretary of war had
the training camps built on the cost
plus plan that is, the contractor whC
hurt them was paid back the cost oi
the camp plus five to ten per cent as
his profit. The more he spent in
building the camp, the larger was his
own pay for building IT, So most o
the contractors spent all they could
Result the camps that should have
been built for S720000.0O0 cost 1900,
GOO 600; dead loss. $4S0OO0 OO0.
This Democratic administration
speut 50, $50 600 000 In building ships
The shipping board est t'mates tina
these ships are not worth more thar
so 600 000 600. OF the total sum S495
600. 900 was spent on wooden ships al
though all shpbuilders warned TIN
government that these wsuld be worth
, less. These vessels are now part o
| the loss. estimated at 1850 600, ,00C
AZ the building of Camp Sherman
| Ohio. a man getting SS.25 a day wa
set to hauling about all day keg O
mails that cost $4; another man 20
$51 .25 week for watching three en-
PITY wagona; some of the carpenter
| we're kent busy at putting on and tai
ing off the same window screens a
day. many useless worlmen wer
| crowded on the frame of a half.finisl
ed bunk house that Il collapsed unde
them. And the adm 'nstration nai
for It all, with a percentage adde
for the contractor under Mr. Baker
costpus plan
| St Adams Messenger