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PAGE EIGHT THE PORTSMOUTH DAILY TIMES WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27, 1923 tFresident Makes Plea For States, Counties And Municipalities To Follow Example Of Administration In Cutting Debts Nearing Tax Reductions, Says Harding SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, June 27-- President Harding outlined last what' the federal, government hat -accomplished in decreasing taxes and public debt and made a plea for action along similar, lines by the municipalities counties. The executive said the federal government is 'diligently seeking to prove itself 'a helpful example," in removing, "what characterized as the menace of mounting taxes and growing public Indebtedness, but added that this "was not alone a federal that "the Improved order must come into the units of government into which the federal govern' merit never Introdues." Mr. Harding did not take up in his address any contemplated adminis- tratio program for tax revision in the coming year. He- did say, however, ithat the -federal government was working under a program which "involves extinguishing a half billion of the (pnhlic) debt each year," and -asserted that the payments which the British 'government will make under the British-American debt settlement "will correspondingly relieve the burden upon American taxpayers." The president declared no other country in the world had been able ''to make such a record in public debt reduction as had the United States. to a reduction of more than one-half In federal taxes during the Upast as compared with the warvload peak in 1920, he declared ras the "record of business ad- jMinistration to which the party now control of the administration feels Justified In with no small of satisfaction." The British debt settlement, the executive -went on, has been "ac- claimed all over the tvorld as one of the most notable and successful fiscal 1 accomplishments ever recorded." He added that aside from reducing the burden of Amerlan taxpayers, the 4 had been one of the "most reassuring events since the armis- i Uce," coming as it did at a time of A "widespread uncertainty and misgiv- Ing throughout the world of business IT everywhere." I Lauds Budget Bureau.

To the budget bureau Mr. Harding much of the credit for getting government expenditures to something like normal. Un- ttfer this plan, he declared, the ad- i ministration has been able to f. "awaken a spirit of economy and efficiency In the public service." I "We have Introduced business i i methods In government," he added, Initead' of operating blindly and to suit individual departments which hare never visualized the government as a whole, and felt no concern about the raising funds, we iirescrutinizing, justifying, coordinating and not only halting mountinc cost, but making long iu reducing the cost of government activities. "Perhaps the budget system would not accomplish so much for taxing and spending divisions smaller than the state, but a resolute commitment to strike at all extravagance and expend public funds as one would.

lor himself in his personal and business affairs will accomplish wonders." Figures furnished tu him by both the treasury and the census bureau the president stated, "make it perfectly plain that whereas the cost of federal government is being steadily reduced, the cost of state and local governments is being just as steadily increased year year." "There is but one way for the community finally to get back on its feet, and that is to go seriously about paying its debts and reducing its expenses. Xhat is what the world must face. The greatest and richest government must face it, and so must the humblest citizen. "If I could urge upon the American people single rule applicable to every one of them as Individuals and to every political or corporate unit among them, it would be to learn to spent somewhat less than your income all the time. If you have debts, reduce them as rapidly as you can; if you are one of the fortunate few who have no debts, make it a rule to save something every year.

"Keep your eye everlastingly on thos3 who administer your govern- yon your town, 'state, your aa- Make them un- mental units for your county, your tional government. derstand that you are applying the rule of thrift and (savings in your personal affairs, and require them to apply it in their management of your 'public affairs. If they fail, find other public sen-ants who will succeed. If they succeed, give them such encouragement and inspiration as will be represented by a full measure of hearty appreciation for their efforts." 'Thousands Turned Awav, The Mormon Tabernacle, which seats 12,000 persons, was jammed to the doors last night to hear 1'residcnt were gathered Harding speak. Thousands jnore outside on tliAabnrnacle grounds to hear the address, the sixth prepared speech of Mr.

Harding's western trip, by means of voice amplifying apparatus The assembly hall nearby In the templu grounds likewise was tilled. WOMEN DISMISSED WITH WARNING Mrs. Edna Wilson and Mrs. Ralph "Hewitt, of Jackson street, who engaged in a hair-pulling and fist light Jon Jackson street Saturday because latter Interfered with the gather- ling of some green apples by the Wilton children, were dismissed in ourt yesterday with a warning to avoid trouble in the future by letting each other alone. Ralph Hewitt was also dismissed after the evidence Indicated that lie.

wns merely acting in the role of peacemaker. Hedrick Is Exonerated Ji' I Boy Hedrick, 30, arrested iu Spring-1 velopcd that the property in question I "field and returned here for alleged 1 had been taken by the holder of a "'removing of mortgaged Household I second mortgage. loung was re' Tuesday nt quired to pay the costs incurred by fj Instance of the complainant, Young, who stated that it had de-(for trial. Arthur I the sheriff iu returning Hotlrick here MAY FACE A FEDERAL CHARGE TEXT OF THE PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS Fellow Countrymen: There Is a suggestion of personal tribute in choosing my topic for an address In Salt Lake City. I lave so long as'-, aociated Senator Smoot -with great' problems of have witnessed EO much of his able and faithful- endeavor to enforce economy and thereby lift the burdens of taxation, that I find myself involuntarily thlnk- spending.

This was. that fact does not make the results any easier to deal with. The cost of government, of Business, of ever.t domestic establishment went np enormously. Every business man, and every householder, knows low It affected his personal concern. I want to suggest some of the ways In whicb it affected the whole business when'I come to your State, of of government; government of the cities, the pation, the the expenses of every revenue-raising and sjpendlng division throughout the nation.

Recently I hare been furnished with some specfic figures on this subject of the cost of government by the Bureau of the Census. I am not pro, posing to impose upon your patience to prove itself a helpful example, buti ith an elaborate presentation of the'menace of mounting taxes and growing public indebtedness. The removal of this menace is not alone a Federal for we are recording gratifying progress so far as the Nation is concerned, out the larger nienaqfctodny is to be faced by municipality, county, and State. The Federal Government is diligently seeking the improved order must come in the units Government into which Federal Government never intrudes. There if no particular reason why I should speak of it, except we are all concerned about general public welfare, and I have thought that possibly' a recital of Federal accomplishment would nerve to encourage iu a State" and local work which must be done.

A short time before I became President, a trusted but cynical old friend said to me one day that he understood I intended to make a speciality of economy in administration. I admitted my aspirations in that direction, and he replied: but Tou "Well, that the right Idea, don't tell anybody about it. may think it will be appreciated, but it will not. Every timg you lop somebody off the Government pay roll or keep him out of a profitable piece of Government business, you make him and all his friends and associates your on the other side, not a soul in the country will ever thank you for Everybody grumbles about taxes, and' nobody ever demonstrated any appreciation of the man that tries to save them from taxes." A short time before we left Washington on the present trip another friend said to me: "The administration has saved the country a good deal by reducing its expenses and cutting down the tax burden. But take my advice, and don't talk to any of your audiences about it.

People always grumble about taxes, but they don't want to hear anybody talk to them on that subject. To which I lieved, in the replied that present state I of bt- af- Jns. R. Mitchell, 22, negro, nrrtse.od -ty the police for driving a taxi with- 'out a proper license, was dismissed i if or lack of jurisdiction when the 'case was iu Municipal court Tuesday hut Mitchell will probably have to meet a charge in the T'uiteil States court as it is said the offense charged is violation of the Federal statutes. fairs, all such rules were suspended, and any public man who had anything cheerful to say on the subject of taxes and Government expenses, find plenty of audiences altogether willing.to listen to him.

I believe the American people are so profoundly interested in the subject of taxation and Government costs nowadays, that an audience like this will even be willing to let me to them a few minutes 011 the subject. One of the financial iuqidents to our participation in the war was to loan a vast sum of money to our allies. I wonder how many of you ever stop to think that the which we advanced to our allies, after our entrance into the war, was just about the same as the total cost of the Civil War to North and South together. The Civil War lasted four years and strained every nerve and of both sides was considerably less than the-nmount we advanced to the Allied Governments during the World War. Great War Debt, And- that was only a mild beginning of our financial transactions in war.

For every dollar we loaned to our Allies, we spent about three more resource of actual cost the Nation. Yet to the government figures, but I want to suggest a few that will point my observations about the enormously increased cost of government everywhere. Take the cost of state governments. I am informed, that the revenues of the states in 1013 aggregated .5368,000,000, and that in 1021 they had increased to that is, they had increased 161 per cent, and every dollar of that increase had to come in some way or other from the public. The expenditures of the states in 1913 aggregated 5383.000,000, and in 1921 they were $1,005.000,000: an increase of 163 per cent.

The indebtedness of the states' in 1913'amounted to $423,000,000, and in 1921 to an increase of 139 per cent. Turn now to the cost of city government. The Census Bureau has compiled" data on the governments of 227 of the large cities. It is shown that these cities in 1913 collected 5890,000,000 in all revenues, and in 1921 they collected that Is, they were 1 compelled to "take 7G per cent more in taxes in 1921 than they had group of taken in 1913. The same cities expended in 1913, 81,010,000,000, and in 1921, increase of 71 per cent.

The total debt of this group of cities in 1913 was $2,901,000,000. which by 1921 had risen to increase of 49 Jper cent. County administration appears, from the rather limited Information which at this time the census authorities have been, able to produce, to have shown a much larger proportionate increase in cost and tax collections than did the government of cities. It is stated that for 381 counties, -distributed among 38 states, and regarded as fairly typical, the increase in receipts from principal' sources of revenue increased 127 per cent from 3.913 to 1922; that is, for everv hundred dollars of revenue collected in 1913 $227 was collected in 1922. And that is not all of it.

The total Indebtedness of these same 381 counties increased 195 per cent in the same period; that is, 'for every hundred dollars of debt in 3913 they had $205 of indebtedness in 1922. Statistics wei'e not available dealing with cities and towns of less than 30,000 population; nor with townships, school districts, drainage districts, irrigation districts, road districts and other subdivisions which exercised the power to raise revenues and incur debts. It is well known, however, a substantially similar increases have affected all these taxiug subdivisions. The, figures of both the Treasury and the Census Bureau, in short, make it perfectly plain that whereas the cost of the Federal government is being steadily reduced, the cost of state and local governments is being just as steadily increased year by year. In nearly all of the states the it' is fair to consider what our income taxes would be if we lived in some of the other debt-burdened countries of the world.

A married citizen of the "United States, -with two children and an income of $5,000, paid $68 tax on that income in 1922. If he had been a citlMq. of Canada he would have paid $156. If the German tax rate' had been' applied to his it would have cost him $292. If he had been a Frenchman the French rate would have required him to pay $06, and if he hadbeeu a Britsh citizen, instead of giving up the $OS which he paid to Uncle Sam, he would have drawn his check for The same man, with an income of $10,000, would have paid $456 income tax in the United States and $1,128.32 in England.

The great burden of the war was, of course, imposed on the national 'government. The Department of the Treasury states that in 1917 the Federal government's revenues were in 1918 they were in 19191 they were In 1920 they were and -in 1921 they were $4,902,000,000. For 1922 the total dropped to $3,565,000,000 and for 1923 it is estimated at $3,753,000,000. Assuming continuation of the present basis of Federal taxation, the receipts for 1924 are calculated at and for 1925 at $3,486,000 ,000. Not all of this revenue is raised by direct taxation.

The Treasury estimates indicate that in 1923 only $2.925,000,000 and in 1924 $2,850,000,000 will be produced by direct taxation; the remainder will come from various miscellaneous receipts of the government. You will, I am sure, be interested in the Treasury's statement Unit whereas in 1914 the per capita cost to all the people of the Federal government was $6.97, thnt in 1918 It reached $36.64 and in 1919 $37.91. It might reasonably have been presumed that with the war now long past taxes would have begun to fall off, but the statistics show the taxes for the fiscal year 1920 rose to $53.78 per capita, which was the peak of the war burden. Even for 1921 they only fell to $45.22. But in 1923 they will be $20.29 or considerably less than half-as much as in 1920.

Figures, especially the figures which represent such an authority as the Treasury Department, are conclusive arguments. These figures show that for two years after the war ended federal taxes continued much higher than at the height of the. struggle. They show that in the first two years of peace the-cost of government was still continuing above the 1918 level, but that since ttuf point of 1920 they have been reduced more than one-half. It is a record of business administration to which the party now iu control of the administration feels justified in referring-with' no small measure of satisfaction.

I the cost of state and local governments increased from 1910 to 1922. The Treasury made vp statistics on this point for one group of 10 states-in our own account. In a little more Arizona, Connecticut, Michigan, Min- Police Investigating Girl's Statement The police are looking tor two "young men, who. it is claimed, iu- idwed 15-year-old End girl to accompany thoni on nn automobile jrridc- to the West Side and then as- llsaulted her. The victim of the al- assault only recently came to from Kentucky and she jfurnishe.d thft police with a license which is the only clue the "officers have in their effort tu apprehend the guilty persons.

Dr. Hawk At Meetings than three years, between the day war WHS declared and peace was signed, we spent twice as much money out of the Public Treasury as had been spent by the National Government in all of its previous history. 1 am not going to talk to you today all or not, the 'results were worth all they cost, and a good deal more. What I propose to present to you now is some about whether the money was wisely spent. Whether it was Dr.

J. 11. Hawk superintendent of conlsU eratlon the fact that no 0rt mOUt matter how cheerfully we incurred tho dblipitions, we had to fuce at the pud the big and very practical reality that those obligations must be paid. Portsmouth district of the M. K.

church, wns in Delaware yesterday attending inoptlnc held in the interest of the World Service program of the Methoilist Episcopal church. This morning Dr. Hawk attended meeting of the Wep.leyan Foundation of the- Ohio Conference. Lost $1000; Will Not Take It Back William Anderson, 1013 Third I I feel fine and have none of my 'Portsmouth, employed at the N. former trouble.

If anyone thinks -W. fliops lost the above amount World's Tonic is not a wonder mcdi- He said this is how I cine, all I have to say is, just let 'lost it, I went to the Minstrel Show on Campbell near Jacn- ami swallowed one free "dose pf World's Tonic. Thehuoment he swallowed World's Tonic he lost tin- thousand dollars Jor within an hour a ho arrived Tonic will do ami I nm not a i his home tile monster parasite much chance in offering that had luado his life miserable from him. Speaking of his experience. 1:." "Yes I lost the thousand dol them try it." Health Kvangplist Dyar laugher! when asked about this case and explained a it is just another proof of ixm- skeptical some people a "Of course 1 know what World's You have Inferred from what I said a moment that we spent roundly on the World War.

How many of us ever stojvped to think that a was rather more that the total wealth of the Nation at the time of the. Civil War. We paid of our current taxes, while the war was Roing on. more than 2.1 per cent of its cost; that is, as much as the entire natioual wealth so lute as the year 1R20. At the beginning of August.

tilt- public debt reached the highest point in its history. S27.riOO.000.000. That was just about ten timps the amount of the national debt at the close of he Civil War. We are still tof close to the events of the (Ireat War to le able, to realize the enormous burdens placed on our country. Quite ns-ido from the large operations of public finance which it necessitated, private finance has been called upon from the very beginning in 1014 to make sppci.il ar- nesota.

New Hampshire, Ohio, Oregon, South Dakota, and Wisconsin. For this representative group it is shown that while Federal taxes paid by these 10 states declined from over a 'billion dollars in 1920 to SG50.000.000 in 1922, their state and local taxes rose from to $965,000,000 in the same period. In another tabulation, covering 28- states, which wss the entire number for which the statistics were available, it was shown that from 1919 to rxn there were increases in local taxes in 23 states and reductions in only five. In spite of the enormous burden of paying for the wat- and paying interest on the war debt, state and local taxes in 1922 represented 60 per cent of all taxes paid. In Other Countries.

Let me present another aspect of the same matter. We hear much about the grievous burden of the income tax. and everyone of us who it. is able fully to sympathize with everyone else who pays it. But rangenients for financing the huge foreign trade resulted from Kurope'M extraordinary Long before we were In tbe war our tlniincial machinery had been coi pe.lletl to shoulder the financing of nn lars but I would not tnlJe a or ten times that much iaud dollars for a tape Wiirm or parasite a il fails to remove.

will do this and 1 it but the rewnrd is offered just to convince! enormously exaggerated export trmle people of my to the warring powers. For a time have tried to make a thousand Kurtnio withdrew gold from us li. the horrible thing inside of dollars but. I have never yet luul 1 great but presently It re- ngaln sucking my life awiiy. iay it.

1 i pay it will- turned in yet greater, bringing I took World's tonic 1 WHS in ingly and gladly nut! i a word and tu the F.iiropenn countries the miighty bad slmpr. 1 was always of argument if 1 ever lo a i toi dilneult jn-olilem a i a i i tlfc but never received any produce the results I claim." I eM-lmnges ami supporting the gold Tonic is solil l.v WurMor's standard. I'nsts of everything rose Pharmacy nml Stewart's Drug Store nourishment from my food. 1 would bloat and suffer after online. cotwlpatcd, always having hMdnchrft nothing I could do to Klvo me any relief.

I believe World's Tonic saved 'my life. The best of it Is a now and all good drug stores dollar per huttle. Is also demonstrated at the free minstrels. Campbell Avenue near nstreet each to nn a i i i a high Imsis, and in every direction expenditure wns Altogether, the war was not only greatest horror the world has i known, but the grcateM orgy of Cuticura Heals Itching Burning Eczema On Head When I was about two yeari of age I broke out with eczema. First it started In small spots and then ran together until my head was covered wlthsoreeruptions.

There were also a few spots on my face. It caused great disfigurement and loss of sleep. The Itching and burning were something awful, causing me to be very cross. My parents decided to try Cuti- cura Soup and Ointment. After the first treatment there was Immediate relief, and before they had finished one cake of Cuticura Soap and one box of Cuticura Ointment I was completely healed." (Signet!) George Bolle, DuPo.

Illinois. Cuticura Soap, Ointment and Talcum are all you need for evcry-day toilet and nursery purposes. i i Soldmrr- lmfntSindf.Ofl Tutamtte. witlwit mm. S.S.S.

stops Rheumatism "Vf Rheumatism it all gone. I feel wonderful again in the free motion I used to have when rny were I can thank S. S. S. for it all! Do not close a think a health, free motion a strength are gone you forever I It is not 10.

S. S. S. is waiting to help you. When you increase the number of your red-blood-cells, the entire tern undergoes a tremendous change.

Everything defends on blood-strength. Blood which is. minus sufficient red-cells leads to a long list of troubles. Rheumatism is one of them." S. S.

S. is the great blood-cleanser, blood- builder, system strengthened and nerve invigorator. I S. S. B.

it mid tt fool drug, stores ia two liiei. larger tin mora economical World's But od Medicine have observed that the cost of war to our government was around $40,000,000,000. After paying a generous share, about 25 per cent, ft-om current revenues collected while the war was in progress, we still bad to narrow enormously. At its highest point, on August 31, 1919, the national debt was $26,596,000,000. I know you will be interested to be told that from that day, August 31, to June 30, 1923, we have reduced it to reduction of considerably more than a billion dollars a year.

Moreover, we are now- working under a program which involves extingulshiug a half billion of the debt each year. No other country in the world has been able to make uch a record. In addition to all this, we have vithin the past year settled the Brit- sh war debt to our government, ar- anged for its funding and its gradual xtinctiou over a long period of ears. In recognition of the notable ervice of Secretary Mellon, his ns- ociates at the Tresaury, and the members of the Debt Funding Commission and the Americau ambas- ador to Great Britain, I wish to say that this settlement, of the Brit- sh debt has been acclaimed all over he world as one of the most notable successful fiscal accomplishments ever recorded. Not only does it inure that the regular quarterly payments which the British government vill make to cur Treasury will cor- espondingly relieve the burden upon America taxpayers, but the more important fact, in a time of widespread mcertainty and misgiving through- jut the world of business everywhere, hat these two great governments i could get together and arrange such a settlement has been one of the most reassuring events since the armistice.

Cancellation Impossible. There had been too much talk of possible cancellations or repudiations of the war debt. Such a program would have wrecked the entire structure of business faith and of confidence in the obligations of governments throughout the world. There was need, pressing and urgent need, for such, a sign of confidence, assurance, and faith in the future as this settlement furnished. When the British and American governments united in this pledge that their obli gallons would be met to the 1" shilling and tho last dollar, there was renewed financial confidence in the world.

I undertake to say that no event since the conclusion of hostilities has contributed so much to putting the world back on its way to stabili zation, to confidence in its governments, and to the established conviction our social institutions are yet secure. No consideration of public finances ran omit the fact a the single Item of interest on tlu public debt ex worts $1,000.000.000 annually. For the fiscal your 1923, this Horn will hi Beyond this, wo wil ro'liii'i- tbf public delit this year by no.xt year by tip proxlmutoly S.IOO.OOO.OOO. That Is over 3, por rent, of tlio natlonnl revenue will this year go to paying in torM or extinguishing the principal of tilt public dflit, I have not boon able to gather conclusive stntistU as to the uccom pllshmente of states, cities and counties, to compare with this showing of the Federal government. But with some general knowledge of the fiscal positions of states and cities in general, I feel quite safe in proffering my congratulations to any state, any city, any foreign" country, which has made a better showing in the matter of reducing Its public debt within the Iperiod.

since the war. I most earnestly regret that all have not been able to make a similar showing. On this-lattcr point I wish to say word further. Taxation decidedly is a local as well as a national question. Prior to the war Federal taxation was an unimportant item: so small thatvin 1917 state and local taxes, In a group of 10 representative states, In all parts of the country, constituted 73 per cent of.

he entire tax burden. The Federal tax was indirect and unfelt. Then came the enormous cost of the war, which the Federal government had to bear 1 and In 1918 state and local taxes constituted only 42 per cent of the entire tax burden. In 1919 they represented 44 per cent, of the whole; in 1920, 41 per cent. But iu 1922, the last year for which figures a're available, stutc and local taxes were again in excess and represented 00 per cent of the entire tax burden.

The states represented iu this calculation are Arizona, Connecticut, Michigan, Minnesota, New Oregon, South Dakota, Washington and Wisconsin. Spending Habit. The world, its governments, its quasi-public corporations, its people, acquired the spending habit during the war to an extent not merely unprecedented, but absolutely alarming. There is but one way for the community finally to get back on its that is to go seriously about paying its debts and reducing its expenses. That is what the world must face.

The greatest and richest government must'face it, and so "must the humblest citizen. No habit is so easy to form, none so hard to break, as that of reckless spending. And on the other side, none is more certain to contribute to security' and happiness, than the habit of thrift, of savings, of careful management in all business concerns, of balanced budgets and living within incomes. If I could urge upon the American people a single rule applicable to every one of them as individuals and to every political or corporate unit among them, it would be to learn to spend somewhat less than your income all the time. If you have debts, reduce them as rapidly as yon can; if you are one of the fortunate few who have no debts, make it a rule to save something every year.

Keep your eye everlastingly on those who administer your governmental units for''you; your town, your country, your state, your national government. Make them understand that you are applying the rule of thrift and savings in your personal affairs, and require them to apply it in their management of your public affairs. If they fail, find Other public servants who will succeed- If they succeed. ive them such encouragement nspiration for. their efforts.

and institutions instead of the great machinery of This brings me to a brief reference to what has proven so helpful to the Federal -government in effecting the approach to the expenditures of normal times. For first time in our history we have the national budget, under which there is an effective scrutiny of estimates for public ex-. penditure. More, we have co-ordi- nated government activities in making the expenditures which Congress authorizes. It now unbelievable that we should have been willing to go for a helpful agency of business administration.

But we did, and only now have we come to an appraisal of the cost of this great neglect It has been no easy task to establish the budget aiid make sure of its acceptance. Out of long time practices the varied and many government departments felt themselves independent factors in government administration. They often got all they could from Congress, and made it a point to expend all they got. Under the budget plan were able to reverse the policy and awaken a spirit of economy and efficiency in the public service. We not bnly insisted that requests for appropriations should stand the minutest inquiry, but after reduced appropriations were granted, we insisted on expending less than the appropriations.

There was no proposal to diminish government activities required by law or demanded by public need, but there was first the commitment to efficiency and then commendable strife for economy. We effaced the inexcusable and very costly impression that 'government departments must expend all their appropriations, that no available cash should return to the Treasury. And we sought to inspire as well as exact, in the practices of economy. Saving Can Be Made. One illustration will not be amiss.

On June 8, 1021, before the budget was in operation, word came to me that the business head of one of our institutions, far from Washington, was puzzling how to expend $42,000 which needs. he had in excess Ordinarily such of actual a matter would never reach the Chief Executive. But this one did, and I wired a warning, and followed it with a letter reciting the need of retrenchment everywhere, and expressed the hope that every government official with spending authority would in reducing the government outlay. The appeal was effective, and this one government agent not only saved mos.t of his available $42,000 for that fiscal year, but 1922 he saved $81,000 more. He proved what could he done, and we are seeking to do it everywhere.

Do not imagine it has all been easy. It is very popular to expend, and there are ruffled feelings in every case of denial. But there is gratifying results in firm resolution, and the insistent ness methods. application of busi- The Budget Director is the agent of the President, and he speaks on the authority of the government's Chief Executive. One day last winter the director came to me in great anxiety, telling me that a department chief would not sanction an $8,000,000 cut in his estimates.

At that time we were seeking to prevent a threatened excess of expenditures over receipts amounting to $300,000,000 for the next fiscal year. I sent for the department head, and he as still insistent in his opposition to the reduced estimate. I called for a conference of the department experts and the budget experts, and told them that they could not agree, I would decide. They conferred, and Instead of returning to me for decision, the estimate was cut more than $12,000,000. The point is that we hav introduced business methods in government, and instead of operating blindly and to suit individual 'departmentifwhicb had never visualized the government as a whole, and felt no concern about the raising of funds, wo are scrutinizing.

Justifying, co-ordinating, and not only halt- Ing mounting cost, but making long strides in reducing the cost of government activities. Perhaps the budget system would not accomplish so, much for taxing and spending divisions smaller than the state, but a resolute commitment to strike at all extravagance and expend public funds as one would for himself in his personal and business affairs will accomplish wonders. It is largely unmindfulness that piles up the burden. Able and hon orable men often press for a Federal GOOD LOOKS GOOD HEALTH WENDELL'S SALTS, BRAND-- that's the answer. cf you ladles who read this may tave complexion disfigured ty liver spots and dlacolorations If tblg Is the ea.se don't worry about It and aon't use face lotions.

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expenditure to be made in their own community or iu other ways helpful to their own interests which they would strongly oppose they were not directly concerned. This "is true of Federal appropriation as well us municipal, county and state expenditure, and 1 know of no remedy public officials are brought to understand the menace iu excessive tax burdens and indebtedness, beyond ex- tinguishment except in drastic action, resolve to employ practicable business methods in government everywhere, and resist Qie assault of the spenders. It is too early to know whether there is a repubic of ancient times with which appropriately to parallel our own. We kuow of their rise and fall, and we may learn, the lessons in their failures. A simple-living, thrifty people, with simple, honest.

and just government never failed tu grow in Influence and power. The coming AT extravagance and profligacy in private life, and wastefulness and excesses in public life ever proclaimed the failures which history has recorded. I would not urge the stingy, skimpy, hoarding life of individuals, or an inadequate program of government. The latter 'must always rise to deliberate public demand. Hut private life and public practices -are Inseparably associated.

I 'would hav our government adequate in every locality and in every activity, and public sentiment will demand it and secure it, and require no more, if we may Jiave the simple and thrifty life which makes the healthful nation. To Go On Securely. These reflections, my 'countrymen, not conceived in doubt or pessimism. AVe have so nobly begun. we are so boundless in resources, we have wrought so notably in our short national existence, that I wish these United States to go on securely.

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