The Newark journal., 1922-01-26
Where Your Taxes Go How Uncle Sam Spends Your Money ln Conducting Your Business
 By EDWARD C. LOWRY
 ksandFnan lsnd Authority National usines Method
Copyright. Western Newspaper Unioa
By EDWARD G.LOWRY

spend Tor insurance against attack. And of course that Is not all the cost. What is the big idea? What do you think about it? You will have to pay the bill. Do you think about It at all? General Pershing does. This is what he thinks:
 "As We consider the causes of the World war and comprehend it's hor- TOTS, every thinking man and woman must feel that measures should be taken to prevent another such cal amity. One step in that direction would be to reduce expenditures for armament. Our own estimates for naval and military purposes eontem- plate an appropriation for the fiscal year 1922 of over $5,000,000 for every working day in the year. It is q gloomy prospect that the nations plan expenditures greater than ever before iii peaeetimes.
 Tt would appear that recent ex- perieHces should be enough to con- vince everybody of the danger of a renewal of this competition. But one nation cannot reduce arnaments un- less all do. It is time that enlightened people everywhere should undertake to reach some rational agreement which would not only relieve the world of its heavy financial burden but which in itself would go far to- ward the prevention of war. We are not warlike people. We do not wish 10 expand at the expense of any other nation. and we have no designs on anybody. If other people feel the same toward us and toward each other 1t seems unreasonable that they should be unwilling to consent in principle to some limitation of arma- ments. to be carried out when other nations succeed in establishing stable governments and are willing to recog- nize the wisdom of such a course. Otherwise, may we not seriously ask ourselves whether civilization is a failure and whether We are to regard war as an unavoidable scourge th..t mankind must suffer?
 There are other considerations which should prompt us to make every effort to bring about curtailment of these expenditures throughout the world, particularly in the war=worn countries of Europe. The people of Europe have always been our best l customers and are largely dependent 1 upon Us for certain necessities We must look te them i'd buy the products of fa min fop 1sia The prosperity of our people depends in nc small measure upon the unin- terrupted flow of commodities abroad. We have stocks of cotton wheat and | other products greatly in excess of our own requirements, which the people of Europe sorely need but which we cannot sell and they can not buy because their fiscal systems have broken down, thetr currencies have appreciated, and their purchasing power Is exhausted.
 "The first step to take In the re- mobilization of the finances of all these countries is to reduce the cost of government so that expenses will not exceed the incomes. Expenditures must he lowered everywhere if financial stability is to be restored and If the nations are ever to pay their debts Until stability is restored none can have prosperity that comes from a free and uninterrupted flow of products from one country to another But this | cannot be done If huge sums continue to he appropriated for the malnte- ] nance of large armies and large navies. "The safety of humanity in the future. indeed the peace, the happiness and the prosperity of the race-all appeal alike for an early consideration of the question of limited armaments."
 Broadly speaking It is the man who profits. and not the simple average man who endures, who Is behind all this movement for ever increasing armament. If you doubt this just go out in your own neighhorIood and ask
 hen who were actually in the war, who SAW service In the line, whether they want any more of 1t.
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