Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-09-08

lOT our fOTuIhnCe OLLihSiS ti-t'AV
complete sets of spur straps; about
&c sets for each officer. We bought
1876, 900 branding irons, or one for
every two animals; and 1t was
specified that the material must
be of copper, Woodrow YVES evil
IDENTIFY planning a campaign for, a
considerable number of maNerlchs,,
We ordered 149, 1851 hard bread
cans and used 3t,500,0OO during
the war. We ordered $2l,oOo,UVu
worth of ambulance harness, ahn
then found our ambulanoes Were
motorized. There was all Sorts Oh
graft Testimony concerning the
construction of Camp sherman az
Chillicothe, o., demonstrated ina
roofing material was piled IKE
cordwood out in the sun, and two
thirds became useless because II
could not be unroIled. Unbrokeh
rolls of roofing material were
hauled to the camp and burheu'
Tons of nails we're hauled to the
dumps. Automobiles listed as
worth $500 were paid $500 for hire
One and one-half ton Bucks were
listed as three ton, and five ton
Bucks were listed as seven toh'
and so cost vast sums more TOT
hire. Two hundred and fifty teams
were on the pay roll with no use
for two hundred and fifty teams !.
Teams were h dden in gravel Pr
or ordered to be turned around 10
appear as II at work. AS many
persons were put on the pay roll as
possible. BOYS were listed as
| iourneyman carpenters. A COM
mon order was for gangs OF men
to get into the clear, to hide III
corn fields or behind houses or IN
empty buildings so they could be
kent on the pay roll. So many ldle
mon were nut on one roof that II
COLLAPSED. Hospital plumbers pu0-
ting in steam fittings for heat gam
bled, shot craps, etc, through the
cold weather and into November
The result was that, there was nc .
heat, and sick soldifrs suffered
horribly. These conditions al
Camp Sherman produced tragic re-
suits. The soldiers who were sta-
toned there shivered, caught cold
developed pneumonia and dled' AZ
one time one thousand dead bodles
| of soldiers for which there were no
collins were wrapped in sheets and
piled away. !.
To 60 into all of the details oil
| the reckless, eXtraVagant, ruthless
waste and incompdtency OF the
| democratic management of the war
! would take up much more time
| than is available for that subJect
at this time. There IS nothing Ike
II in any government since govern
ment began. OF the twenty billion
| dollars collected in nineteen
months at least one-third was
wasted, probably more. II IS esu-
mated by competent authority tnal
between seven and eight blliloi
dollars was taken from one par'
of the nation and given to another
/ mart of the nation without any in
| telligent purpose to use it in the
prosecution of the war Never be-
| fore was there such conscriptlon
of the nations wealth; never be-
fore such a transfer Of private
property. It can only be explained
by the utter incompetency OF the
democratic party to handle the
great business of government.
Cost of Operating Railroads,
| The democratic administrator
Of railways cost the American PEG
Mo sS,375,O00,O00 in twenty-siH
months, and the end is not yet
The democrats seem to nave son'
| money mad and run amuck aholt
the billions. The wilson ADMINS,
| tration spent sl,O5l, 5VO,Oo0 U
build aircraft. When the wal
closed 1t had at the front 740 arr
nlanes, no American fighting planes
and only 1876 planes of American
make. This administration wastec
sI250.O0O. 900 on ship building
This administrator cost the PEG
ME OF this country one billion dol
lars by reason of the president
refusal to permit the sugar boarc
TO agree in the summer OF 1919 t'
buy the next Cuban sugar crop
/ which was offered at six ana one,
half cents per pound; but he dc
hermit Attorney General Palmei
10 agree to prices of seventeen ant
eibteen cents per pound with th'
Louisiana Su6di o. 81. I;c,
cost plus ten per cent prolit pollo
OF the democratic secretary OF wa
in the building of training camp,
cost the country dead Joss u
$3.50, 900. 900. ,,.,u.no.,o,
Ibought seventy thousand new aul'
trucks and automobiles; had then
delivered and stored them in nv
onan air to be spoiled by the
weather, Besides this they assign
ed twenty-five thousand oftlcer'
and men to watch the macnine'
snoil. The cost of the AUTONOMOUS
was one hundred and sevehty-liV
million dollars. The cost OF nav
ing the twenty-five thousand mel
watch them was nearly one nun
tdred thousand dollars gay
While the democrats were spendlnt
about 5000 a ton to build ships In
British were building them a
about $135 a ton. Why the dli .le..
ence? One among many REASON
is that they were charslhS VI
against shipbuilding expenses pan,
concerts, glee clubs, pohce pa
tickets, club bills of individuals
house dues, athletic and footpal
4 tickets, expenses of army and nay,
football games contributions =
chamber of commerce, campalsl
| for a merchant marine, supscrlp
tions to the Elks' convention, SUP
scriptions to st. Johns church u
two ships alone there were charge
off for such items as these on
| million dollars,
The administration at the be
ginning OF the war seized Germa
ships valued at two hundred an
fifteen million dollars, and tried I
sell them after the war to an Ens
fish controlled company for twenty
seven million dollars. 1t was stop
ped by court injunction and a reso
luton of congress. An attempte
loss, waste or graft of one hunure
and eight million dollars. The ad
: ministration took Brice d. Dlsqu,
warden of the Michigan penitentl
airy, put him in charge of spruc
| ,rod,otiop for aircraft gave hi