Judsonia weekly advance., 1922-01-12
, Newspaper Union
LII. 2 OF BILLIONS

@A4A OWiuS lllc lhSl CuiDiC k0(1r head. Neither you nor GG has the faintest concep- at one billion dollars really ea &6miliarly of billions as pIace but most of us live ] f&fJ11g of hundreds.
 kosvl you that every one . Ronann and child, in this ' Nst year $53.77 each < IT port of the government. 6xSrT person does not pay A great many pay
 oEae pay less; but those he most try to take it out hQ pay the least by increas- 1c4e Of what they have to aekyices rendered or work no that it averages out at 01u4 pay more than their 'f8 Yay less. This is called t Q taxation. The whole at e all pay; that we pay SthGh we ever paid before ; E no present prospect of our for some years.
 ay we have all paid our
 World war. The net cost
 prise to date has been
 Os or, including our loans
 pEernments, which have & "a, $33, ,455, 100000. These ]. t{ sury figures. Do not 9eS Ign over them lightly. se b1llnn four hundred and 1illion Aollars is an almost anSlble sum. The cost of he natbnal government is q $5, ,00OpOO,OOO a year. The ] that fdc the next two or e cost f the government q lend beldv about $4,o0o,- "a dearly toAderstand the the magnituA the over
 of such \sums. We q abillions nowNays with bst knowing Wat is a 6 ne try to bring X home
 now, roughly speaking, X Nylhce the birth of ChEist. [ know precisely and aceu- gh1t hour and on what day R Rb0fn. But under the Gre eHQpr, according to which re& ion time, we have a Ih4p pays since January first r 0 e, Anno Domini. From in83of the year one to Jan ,1Hthere elapsed about 70l,-
 to reduce it further, hQ 4rs, which being reduced lI11* l ,009, ,S24, ,480 minutes. k bu to remember that the OH of the modern world irs6 second of the year one t aecond of the year 1920 Expressed into 1,009,8 9,824,4 ,480 |s suppose that with the |}s the Roman authorities E fates had established a
 !cer at Jerusalem on the xe year one with instruc-
 Qut S5 a minute day and { and holidays included, M trough the centuries to 3 day, 1921.
 hef had been given $5,6S6,- efart him on his long spell That is one estimate of lat 1t cost to run this gov 1920. On the morning of 1&1, this mythical dlsburs- WY1ng money away at the Minute, would have spent 9322, 400, and would still De richest men in the V e would have left on
 3O6 of the original sum.
 the rate of $5 a minute EHan 1900 years. he would &pk pace with the cost of Eh14 government for the, one
 2$O.
 imaginary government fz been authorized to pay |a of $23 a minute through 1e4 He would not have ? january l, 1921, paying lreiot the cost of the World ne $7S4.036, He would nQ&h left over after paying , ,O40. He would have been
 nrly 40 cents every sec )cl }ticked for more than 19 Xlf out being able to dis
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