The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1920-05-28
Where the MilIionaires Come
From and How They
Were Spawned.

Hon. Cleveland A. Newton, {
member of Congress from Mis-
souri,. has put into the Congress
ional Record some facts thai
ought to be in the head of every
white American Citizen.
Read what Representative
Newton has to say:
Our people are complaining about
the high cost OF shoes. yet when we
examine the testimony taken by the
committee on Expenditures in the
War Department we wonder that
shoes are not today infinitely more
expensive.
At the date of the Armistice we
had 3.7OOO.OO0 men under arms.
while We had more than 100000
600 people engaged in civil life.
The testimony taken by the COM
mittee shows that to have filled the
the orders made by the Ordnance
Branch the War Department for
leather goods for use in the army
would have required 300. 900 more
hides than the sum total of all the
hides produced in the United States.
The testimony further shows that
the War Department had for use in
the army 391 900 horses and mules
and yet the records of the War De-
partment show that the Ordnance
branch of the department ordered
for use upon these horses and mules
945, 900 saddles and over 1000
600 sets of double harness. The War
Department purchased 1887 1877
horse brushes. 2.O29. .418 nose feed
bags; PAT 1854 horse covers, 1880
853 halters. which was enough to
coyer more than 2 200. 900 horses at
one time. and all Of this equipment
to be used on 391 900 horses. lis
difficult to comprehend. in the face
of these facts. how. officials of the
administration in power expected
100. 600. 900 people in civil life to
procure the necessary leather for
shoes.
$4,000 WASTED HERE
As above stated. the War Depart
ment owned during the war 391 900
horses and mules. 1t was decided
that these horses and mules must
be branded. The testimoney taken
by the committee shows that in
September. 1918. representative
of the War Department entered into
a contract with Henry Moss & Co.,
OF New York. for 1876 900 branding
irons. This was more than one |
branding iron for every two horsee
in the army. The contract required |
that these irons should be made of
copper which was both scarce and |
The contractor purchased |
70 .952 pounds of copper. wich was
20. 600 pounds more than needed to
make the irons, and officials of the
stated that they paid 80 1-2
cents per pound therefor. The
War Department paid the company
39 1-2 cents per pound for this |
copper, and then Immediately sold
il back to the company for IL cents
per pound. We won the war with
out branding the horses and mules
because no branding irons had been
delivered at the time the armistice
was signed. But the records of the
War Department show that officials
Of this administration compromised
The claim of this company by pay
ing them $4,000.
CHEAP AUTOS ON TINE.
The Testimony taken by the
Congressional Committee further
shows that prior to the signing OF
he armissice we had enfflcient motor
in France for ambulance
for the transportation of
and supplies. and for
1thers purposes sufficient to win
he war; that under the terms of
he armistice we received large
of motor vehicles from
However. the records OF
he War Department show that be-
:ween the signing OF the armistice
,n November IL. 1918, and the 6th
lay Of June 1919. the War Depart
nsot seprsssntine this adminis-
ration during time when hundreds
i thousands Of soldiers were being
home. transported TO France
70 QQ9 nnu automohs1oa and eet>,t