Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 172, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1918 — UNCLE SAM SPENDING $691 EACH SECOND [ARTICLE]

UNCLE SAM SPENDING $691 EACH SECOND

Every time the clock ticks Uncle Sam spends $691 to lick Germany. This is the cost of the war per second to the United States on an estimate of expenditures reaching. $48.683,269,275 from April 6, 1917 when war was declared, to June 30* 1918 This is $1,796,022,160 per month. In two minutes it would pay the annual salary of President Wilson and his private secretary, Joseph P. Tumulty, and allow about S4OO pocket change. In two hours it would pay a year’s salary of the 531 members of Congree, the President, members of his cabinet, the Supreme Court and leave SBOO,OOO remaining for purchasing 40,000 miles of railroad transportation for Congress at the stage coach ten-day trip rate of 20 cents per mile. * , ' ' The total war expenses so far would, pay the ordinary annual expenses of the government as they were before the war for forty years.