Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-31

our country spends as much money EVERY IA
MONTHS as was spent IN the previous l44
YEARS OF OUR HISTORY. HoW's that again?
EVERY TWO YEARS our government is
collecting in taxes much as the nation collected
in its entire previous history. Don't CO. You
amt heard nothin yet
Our government also is borrowing EVERY
FIVE MONTHS as much money as it had bor-
rOWed since the Constitution was adopted
In the LAST II YEARS our government has
collected in taxes a sum of money that would have
paid ALL the expenses of our government in
peace and throughout ALL our wars including
World War | and the Civil War, FROM 1889
DOWN TO 1888. More a-comin' up.
For eUery dollar collected in taxes extra
$3.50 has been borrowed and $3.50 spent. In IL
years total expenditures wil be than
third of TRILLION dollars.
We are SPENDING EVERY DAY now more
than ALL THE WORKERS in the land are now
EARNING.
MR.. PHELPS ADAMS gives the exact and APP
I1 palling figures if you are interested
- He points out that in Andrew Jackson'S time
our entire national debt could have been paid off
by collecting THREE CENTS PER HEAD from
the population.
DEBT YOU WOULD HAVE TO EXTRACT
FROM EVERY MAN, WOMAN, BOY. GIRL,
AND BABE IN ARMS THE TIDY SUM OF
ABOUT $4,000 Have you got yours handy? Can
you shake that much out Of Juniors piggy-bank?
In our last trip through the hell of hard times
the theme song was, Brother Can You Spare
Dime?" Our next theme song might well be-
Baby, Have You Got $4,000 in Your Didies?"
T Asst year tax was collected (from those who
l. could pay it equivalent to S335.73 for EVERY
MAN, WOMAN, CHILD IN THE COUNTRY,
Yet the debt was INCREASED BY $37714
FOR EVERY HUMAN BEING OF ANY AGE.
NJ a. oyp1
-Ho.U much be piled the camePs back and
carried across the long dry desert? For the desert
is yet to cross-the deadly dull grind of peace
that must follow the wild, heroic landscape of
War. War has its horrors but they have
their grandeurs.
1t has deep ravines of pam and woe but also
its high peaks of Sun-flooded grandeur. Countless
men and women are pouring forth their blood
but with the tears of individual grief are mingled
cheers of national pride and triumph.
THE vast bulk of our billions has been wisely
i and honestly spent. But inevitably there has
been tremendous total of billions SPENT UN-
WISELY, DISHONESTY.
We could not have afforded to lose this war
at any price. But we cannot afford to waste one
dollar one dime on a N0NvITAL expenditure,
We cannot afford to keep up the flood of
billions one moment after the victory has been
assured.
Every nickel n,isspent is a nickel that
body else rUW haze to repay With extra toll
selfdeniai to pay future tax.
LIVERY neglected task or botched job every I'M
Il justified strike or dereiction of duty is
SABOTAGE, a tax on somehhy else-or a BE-
TRAVAIL OF OUR FIGHTING FORCES
The government has issued through the bu-
reau of labor an official statement showing that,
in spite of all the pledges that there would be no
strikes during the war; there were NO LESS
THAN 610 STRIKES DURING THE MONTH OF
LAST MAY AND THEY INVOLVED NO LESS
THAN 900 WORKERS.
The bureau of labor totals the strikes since
Pearl Harbor at 1860, involving 100000 workers
and aggregating loss of 21,476,000 man-days.
In The lost time the bureau estimates that
5000 planes could haze been built, 400 Liberty
ships, or an ncolculobie number Of tanks, guns,
or munitions. -----
I,HE soldiers in the field have not known much
L of what has been going on at home. But they
have had strong notions of what was NOT