The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-12-16
BUDGET BUREAU TELLS
HOW MONEY IS SPENT
BY U. S. GOVERNMENT
PALLADIUM NEWS BUREAU


WASHINGTON, Dec. 16.-Estimates
of appropriations for the governments
fiscal year. beginning the first of next
July, prepared by the budget bureau
demolish that standard piece of fiction
that 80 cents out of every dollar ex-
pended by Uncle Sam goes for war pur-
poses.
The average dollar appropriated will
be spent as follows:
For the legislative branch of the gov
eminent, cents; veterans bureau,
lao cents; other commissions, boards
and bureaus outside of the established
departments, / cent; department of
agriculture, 40 cents; department of
commerce, 6 cent; department of in
terror. 10 cents; department of justice,
including the supreme court and other
federal judiciary, 6 cent; department
OF labor, 2 cent; navy department, 10.1
cents; state department. 5 cent;
treasury department, including appro-
priations for payment of interest on
public debt and reduction of principal,
46.5 cents; war department, including
administration of the Panama canal,
river and harbor improvements and
other non-military activities, 80 cents;
District of Columbia, 8 cents. The
postoffice department is largely sup
ported from postal revenue.
Explains Expenditures
Another chart furnished by the
budget bureau also shows that the
United States is far from being a mill
taristic nation, for this chart indicates
that for every dollar now appropriated
only 1875 cents goes for purely military
and naval purposes in the interest OF
national defense. The total expendi-
lures charged as military functions
are 32.7 cents out of every dollar. This
includes the 1875 cents referred to and
1872 cents for pensions, retirement pay
and the veterans bureau.
A table which accompanies the chart
prepared by the budget bureau com
pares the expenditures of the present
fiscal year and the estimated expendi
lures for the next fiscal years with ex
penditures for the next fiscal year with
expenditures as far back as the fiscal
year of 1915. This comparison shows
general reduction in all classes oil
expenditures, but the greatest reduc
ton to be in expenditures for military
and naval purposes. In 1915. 41.6 cents
out of every dqelar was spent for mill
tary functions.
The frontiers in continental United
States have vanished. The era o.
cheap land will never return. From
now ON the price of land will be in
creased, a government survey shows
because of the scarcity of tillable areas
and the increasing cost of cultiyating
land which is tillable.
According TO the department of agri
culture there are 100000 acres Of
absolute desert. 270,O00.000 acres Of
forest land and 500 100000 acres of land
which is semi-arid and suitable only
for grazing.
Those who wish new lands can fine
plenty in cut-over sections at prices
ranging from 81 to $50 per acre. the
survey shows. However, the. depart
ment estimates that it would cost al
the way from $50 to 5000 per acre t.
clear such land and make it ready foi
cultivation. There are 81, 600, 900 acre:
of undrained land that also can be pur
chased cheaply, but the cost of drain
age is shown to be almost prohibitive