The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-09-07
SURVEY SHOWS
  HOW U. 5. TAX
  MONEY IS SPENT

WaShin gton, Sept. - GrumbIins as he pays his income tax and irri- tated by the extra cent or two which he pushes across the bar at the soda fountain, MT. Averiage Citizen occa- sioanly feels the pinch of Federal Dor. and decides that an awful lot of money is needed to keep the Goverrl- ment running, but seldom realizes where all the dollars that Uncle Sam gathers into his Treasury go.
 Secretary of the Treasury Mellon. in his first estimate of the cost of op- erating the Government, figures that about four and a half billion dollars would be required to keep the official wheels of the nation revolving dur, ing the present fiscal year The Sec-7 retary told Congress how much the Government needed, showed neat tions, and then the House proceeded to slice there and trim here in ac- cordance with their own ideas of how much money Uncle Sam could get along with-or without
 Departmental estimates of expenses are being given the careful ''onca over" nowadays under the suspicious eye of Charles Dawes, official watch- dog of the public Treasury, but bu- reau chiefs-those who decide how much they need to keep things going are set in their ways and hard to budge. The effects of the war, when
 
 increased enormously, are still felt: and although efforts have been made to return to normal working condi- ticns, I is improbable that the coni- par< " cheaply operated governs nient Of pre-war days will ever be restored RiIion Required for Interest - The biggest single item in Secre- l tary Melons list of estimated ex- penditures for this fiscal year is the 0y1 doh+ ioI, iz | placed at almost a billion dollars or nearly one-fourth of the total re quirements of the Government.
 There is to be, it is estimated, an expenditure of s545,20 ,2O4 to the railroads, under the Transportation act of 1920, and s551, ,s4,se5 for the retirement of the public debt, as re- include: Sinking fund, $265,754, s65: War Savings Securities, s1oo, ,00O,oo6. miscellaneous debt redemptions. from foreign repayments, $50. .5O0,- | GOO: redemption of bonds and notes from estate taxes, S25,000, 900; retire. ment of Pittman act certificates. | S70, ,000,000; retirement from F. R. | B. franchise tax receipts. $60, 900, ,006. Some Other Spenders. The legislative branch of the Gov- ernmenf estimates that it will need while the Executive Department will get less than two million, it's expenses l being estimated at S1,S97,751.
 The estimates list their require- nentS as follows:
 State Departments, s1O,S44,oOo; De- partment of Justice, s17, 100000; Post i Office Department, s2,200,000; Inte- rior Department, including pensions and Indian claims, $332, 100000; De- partment of Agriculture. SIPS, ,000.- 1 900: Department of Commerce, S19,- BPS, 900; Department of Labor, s5,- 252,SS7; independent offices, s13s- 4S4,5R; District of Columbia, $22s- 1S7,665; uiscela1neous, s62, ,500, 00d; postal deficiency, 6o,O00,000: Bu- reau of War Risk Insurance, s2S6.- 00o,OoO Public Health Service $47,- | 900, 900; collecting revenue, S53.110s- l139: all other Treasury departments, | see457.795: Federal Board for Vo-. 1 cational Education, s162, ,655 ,14; Pan- | anna Canal, 10,0G0,000. | ------
 Miss Mildred Bond of Seaview ave-s nue. spent the weekend and ho1f-