Nogales international., 1932-02-06


The taxpayers dollars, once
~ it gets. into the United States
treasury, it liable to be used in
some governmental activity of
which the taxpayer never heard.
An hour or Two spent turning
the pages cf the Federal bud
get will show that Uncle Sam
has more uses for the dollar
than even the taxpayer him elf.
For instance:
Teaching Alaskans how to raise
rc.ndeers, $34,3OO. SURPRISING Alas
kan liquor traffic, $11. .344. En-
plcying valet for President Hoov-
er, $1,000. Recording the Indian
s.gn language, $4,000. Employing as
istant football coach for Howard
University, negro. Employing a head
coach, nothing.
Contributing toward the expens-
cs of the International Society for
Exploring the Arctic Regions by
Air, $500. Contributing toward the
Convention of the Liquor Traffic in
Africa, $55. Transporting high ex-
plosives to the naval ammunition
depot at Hawthorne, New, rather
than on an ocean, $6,401. Maintain
ing prisons in the Ottoman empire,
Egypt, Ethiopia, China and Persia,
$1,000. Caring for the lepers in
Guam, $33,e57, and for Alaska in
sane, $156,0OO. Honoring come mept-
cry by erection of monuments, cele-
,oration of birthday, or the purchase
of birth cites, $2,421, ,007-including
81 500 spent for portrait of late Pre-
sident Harding.
Cc.nplexity OF Government
The completely of the govern
ment is hard to realize. There is
hardly any field in which it is
nos active and in each of these
fields there is much more to be
done than nine out of ten lay
men know. Take the matter clf
money itself. P9coining old silver
co.ns alone cost $646,748 last year.
The paper for the governments
bonds cost $S45,Ooo.
Perhapi the industrial worker
may not see the Importance of
the government annual expendi-
ture CT millions CT dollars in COM
batting various agricultural pests,
such as the cattle tick and the
boil weevil, but on the other hand
it ic likely that the farmer will con-
slider wasted the $1,923,48 spent in
developing trade in foreign coun-
tries. The dentist, perhaps, would
have little interest in either, but
he il hearty supported of the work
the Bureau of Standards is doing
in improving the standards of the
material used in false teeth and
other dental supplies.
Case Of The MOngOose
There are around Washington
hundreds of government workers,
who each morning slip into an
alpaca coat and bury themselves in
SOME work Of which the public never
heard The chances are, however,
that each week these men save the
more than the total
of the:r years salary. AS an ex-
ample, take the case of the mon
goose.
If your knowledge of the mon
goose is based on Kipling, or the |
moving picture of the mongooSe /
battling g cobra, you probably have
8 high opinion of the valiant little
beast. Not 80 with the Biological
Survey. 1t would much prefer you
bring 10 cobras into the country
than one mongoose. Each year no
few of the tax dollars are spent in
protecting America from his raw
ages. The trouble with the mon
goose is that he doesn't sop with
killing snakes. He kills everything
he can get hold Of, chickens, birds
and all ground life. In places /
where years ago he was imported
to handle the snake situation, he
now costs millions OF dollars year
in an indirect damage to crops Or
protected by the birds and /.
animals the mongoose kills.
Indians Costly
Indians cost the government