The Jones County news., 1921-06-30

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carriage ana. these 200 carriages
cost ibe Government the sun Of sio.~
l5s2,les.ss
IN August ie,s, Representatives. O
tha War Department. entered into a
eontlaei VIII ihe Jones & Laughilu
steel Co OF pittsbprg, Pa, for the
manufacture of ,oluol and am
monium solphate at certain price.
AZ thc signing of the
armisilce the company had not pro-
dcced a gallon OF tolaol or a pound OF
ammonium sulphate, and, the war be-
lug over, the contract was Cancelled,
Iho company put 10 a claim for toe
profits q WOULD have earned ii the war
had been continued. -and we're paid in
settlement ofthis claim $500, ,Ol0 3v.
mo wonder The war made 20, 900 new
mulionnires in those States.
bot The record shows even worse
thau lhs, waste Tor wastes sake.
prior 90 The signing CT The armisr .
we had Sufficient motor vehicles In
France for an purposes; under the
terms OF the armistice we received
large quantity OF motor vehicles from
Germany. Yet The War Department
transported TO France 80, es3 new auto
mobiles and after they had been de-
livercd upon French soil the repre-
sentativcs of this administration
lpromptlg sold such automobiles to the
French Gogtrnment Tor twenty per
cent OF the coss price, and allowed that
government ten years Ia which to
make tho payment therefor.
"And thnt Is not the worst. The
! Wilson war admlnlswation acted like
r a drunken sailor. II Communicated
u Iorty PR cent Of the foodstufgx OF the
- United States aud at the enA Of the
y wha Nsss H%rrs N1s~stvs ~ Sstx-s ~
sh Ne MA ~ NartiN a&.zs41,-ss ts.ss 1,
or was not until June, 1919, thai tbe Wal
20 Department declared surplus ol
az foudstnhs. Congress had voted $780,
0O0.000 tor Mr. Hoovor TO purchase
Y food for the hungry 10 Europe. Mr.
Is Hoover purchu sed %, 900, 900 pounds
e pounds OF meat from the War Depart
y meot He did not purchase the 200,
$ 600 0o0 cans of vegetables. The Ma
r tionnl Cannor'i Association becams
= disturbed l.st this enormous
r Quantity oi vegetables should be-
/ dumped upon me market sna xot the
, president Of ihc association. Mr..
{ Frank Gerber, 10 write 20 The War
J Department protesting. Colonel Da-
) Wis, Directof Of stornge vas "vlad
to be able to relieve his mInd.i' All
canned vegetables, be declared,
would bo ADDED 10 the ration list. And
so the American people we're not al
lowed even to buy back the c1nned
vegetables that They had already paid
for.
WORST OF ALL
But when Mr. Wilson and Mr..
Palmer determined not to buy Cuban
sugar offered 70 them at six and
halt cents pound and forced the
price Of sugar here up to ~ and 20
ccnts. the Var Department sold o.
900 0On pounds OF sugar 10 France at
two cents pound rather than disturb
, industrial conditions" In this coun-
/ try by selling It at home.
r And fioall5 when the armIstice was
signed, our government had in France
toodstuifs, clothing and automobiles
OF ~ approximate value o. 81, 2,000,-
COO 900 which we're sold to the French
government for sio0, 900, 900. or twenty
per cert Of ils real value, on long
tern Payments.
II IS unbelievable and yet true that
while we we're an complaining of the
| high costIof living in America great
bulk Of the toocstntfs OF this country
were wasted upon contracts made by
the War Department after the ar
misticehad been signed and the war
ended.
NSo the Democratic administration
by It's methods managed to leave an
empty Treasury and war debt Of
S25, 900, 900 900; OF which more than
one hall was a5sclately thrown away"