The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1922-01-13

WHkNk YOON MOC6 AO60
l am indebted to the late DR.. Z. B.
Rosa, Of the United States bureau OF
standards, whose analyses of govern
ment expenditures l have already
quoted in these articles, for the fol-
lowing comprehensive survey of how
| the taxes you pay to the government
are apportioned in expenditures. 1t
will give you the clearest and best d
Of where your money goes. For his
purpose Doctor Rosa took the actual
appropriations for the fiscal year 1870,
amounting to a total of $3.50 ,OO5.7O6
as given in the regular supply bills and
three deficiency bills prior to May l,
1920. For convenience he divided the
purposes for which this money was
spent into six groups as follows:
Group I.-ObligatiOns arising from
recent and previous wars, including
interest on the public debt, pensions,
war-risk Insurance., rehabilitation and
care of soldiers, deficit in the opera
ton Of railways, expenditures of the
shipping board, European food relief
and the bonus to government employ
ees to cover partially the increased
cost Of living due to the war, a total
of 1856, 4s2,5 S6.
Group II.-War and Navy depart
ments-expenses somewhat above a
permanent peace-time basis-$1,424,-
1857.
Group I1I.-Primary governmental
functions, including congress, Presi-
dent and White House staff, courts
and penal establishments, departments
Of Justice, state, treasury, interior,
commerce, labor, interstate commerce,
and other commissions, one-half the
/, District of Columbia, including all the
necessary functions Of government
| other than defense, except the com
mercial activities of Group V and the
, research, educational and develop
mental work of Group VI-$1S1, 087,'
225.
Group IV.-Public works, including
rivers and harbors, public buildings
reclamation service, post roads, ma
tional parks and railway in Alaska
$168, 2O3, 557.
Group Monumental or self-sup
porting activities, including the pos
office, land office, Panama canal ant
housing corporation, which, taken to
gether, earn their expenses.
Group VI.-Research, educationa
and developmental, including the Wild
range Of work of the Agricultural de
partment, geological survey, bureau o
mines, coast and geodetic survey, bu
reau Of standards, bureau of fisherie:
bureau of foreign and domestic con
MERGE, bureau Of labor statistics
r women's and children's bureaus, voca
= tional education, colleges for agricu
ture and mechanic arts, library Q
Il congress-, Smithsonian institution an
the public health service-$57,O 93,661
Total groups I to VI-$5,6S6,OO5,7O t
Summary. Pc
Ger
Group l. Expenditures
arising from recent
J. and previous wars. 81, S55 Az, SS5.6O ".
Group II-War and Navy
ii departments .......... 1.42A. 13S, $780, q.
Group III-Primary gov
80 ernmental functions. N,OS7. 22o.4l ..
n. Group IV-Public works 1853. 2O3, 567.46 h
re Group VI-Research. ed
ucational and devel-
, opmental ..,,,,......... 67.0s3.s 60.ss l.
Id Total E.6ss. 0O5. 1861 81 100.
The first two groups togeth'
amount to 02.8 per cent of the tota
public works amounts to 8 per Ger
primary governmental functions 8
ut per cent, and research, education
nd and developmental work, 1 per Gel
The population Of the country bell
er about 11O,OOO,O 900. the total budget
Ier about fifty dollars a year per capt.
&c of which fifty cents q year per ca
tia Is expended for the wide range
as research, educational and develo
1t mental work included In Group vi.
ed "That Is, Of the fifty dollars a We
he per capita collected for all purpos'
lor q dollar and a half a year per capits
ne Doctor Rosa went on to point o.
ne twas spent for what Is here call
'as primary functions Of governmer
lsh nearly as much more was put into pr
ed lie works. and fifty cents a year "
put back into research, education
and developmental work, to prone
lly, scientific research, to increase prod
her ton and efficiency, to develop veal
ing to promote the public health and
conserve our natural resources. II
uss Is a very small part Of the tota
wi hardly enough to be regarded as
ked burden on the nation.
lily. "Indeed, one ia led to won'
the whether the total burden Of taxat
top would not be lighter If the expen
he'd ture for scientific and development
she work were increased; If, for examl
it were one dollar a year per cap
Ire instead of fifty cents. In other VOL
self II $11O,O OO, 900 were expended an
but ally for this creative and product
ress work, would it not be easier to coll
oily the Ave and a half billions for OF
p%urposes?"
ut The big money. of course. goes
me. war, past, present and future.
not that Is where the saving must be m,
hen
'out Thirty thousand persons are XII
uss, or injured in the United States ev
Jay.
stop
saw. MOTHERS CHOOSE