The Coolidge examiner., 1935-12-27

her citizens, you would he aston
iShed.
Likewise, if you were told that
every dollar of all the federal-aid
money the government has spent so
unstintedly in helping oil the states
to develop their highway systems
comes from New York, you would
be amazed.
But wait! AS the old shOwbOat
captain of radio fame exclaims,
THAT is only the beginning" For
when Uncle Sam sat down to reckon
up what the state of New York did
to help him pay for the running of
his government in 1882, he diScov-
cred that she supplied him with in
come taxes and internal revenue
receipts reaching the grand total
of 100000. He next found that
if New York had paid her taxes on
a per capita basis, her share of the
national excise would have called
for only S269,0OO,00O. When he de-
Quoted this amount from the S144,-
100000 actually paid i'll. he found
that New York had given him
S47j.000.O0O more than would have
been required under per capita
quota.
That $475,000,O00 certainly proved
a gOdsend to Uncle Sam in meeting
his ever-intenSifying problem of
financing the operations of an in
creaSingly exacting household. He
found that with it he could pay for
each and every one of the follow
ing items in his budget: every dol
lar voted to every state for federal
aid whether to roads, National
Guard, forest protection, or agricul-
tural experimentation the entire
expenses of the legislative branch
of the government, including the
Library of Congress; the entire cost
of the judicial branch, including all
federal courts and prisons; the cost
of the independent offices and bu-
reaus, from the Smithsonian insti-
tuition and the National museum to
the interstate commerce, the fed
eral trade, aud the civil service
commissions the cost of the De-
partment of the Interior, including
the general land office, the bureau
of reclamation, the geological sur
vey, the bureau of Indian affairs,
the office of education, ETC.; the
whole outlay for the Department of
Labor; the cost of the Department
of Justice; and the expenditures
required in the scientific bureaus
of the Department of Commerce,
from the bureau of standards and
the coast and geOdetic survey to
the bureau of fisheries, the patent
office, and bureau of mines.
In other words, all that Uncle
Sam gives the states in federal aid,
as we'll as all that he spends to
maintain two of the three branches
of the government and three de-
partmentS of the third branch. plus
all that he spends for scientific re-
search in a fourth department, plus
the maintenance of the Independent
offices, can be met out of New
York's added quota of taxation.
Abounds in Dairy Farms.
The traveller roundabout the state
of New York readily discovers that
much of the attractiveness of it's
rura. scene is due to the marks of
careful tillage upon the face of it's
fertile acres.
With population that is five
parts urban and one part rural,
there is a vast demand for milk
New York city itself must reach
out 800 miles for its supply. Dairy
farms therefore abound everywhere
And they call not only for grass
lands, but also for cOrntieldS and
general crops, with the resultant
mOSaics of color, alike in the Hud-
son valley, the ST. Lawrence region,
and the Mohawk country.
In 1929 the state produced S0,000,-
900 gallons of milk, enough to fill
a vat ten feet deep and four and
One-half wide, extending from the
southern end of Manhattan to the
eastern end of Lake E rie.
The vineyards, the orchards of
small fruits, and the truck gardens
that flourish on the slopes that en-
viron the inland lakes, because the
warming waters of the latter cut
short the frOstS of the springtime
and hold back those of the fall, add
as much to the beauty of the area
as they add to the prosperity Of the
region. The vineyards in the Cha
tauqua country and around Keuka
lac are especially noted.
The Empire state is welded to
it's inland waterways. Through its
canal system as a whole it is pos
sible to send ships of 1O-fOOt draft
and 3O0-fOot length from New York
city into Lake Champlain, to Duluth
by way of Buffalo or Welland, or
to Watkins and Ithaca by way of
| Seneca and Cayuga lakes.