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says- Government and ifs 'TAKEm exceeds the -total' income of the Western haif of the United States-and the end is not yet. IN 1938,, the incQme of the dark- ened area of this map was $17,- 696,000,00. But in 1938, ÇQoverinment, Eed- eral, state and local, spent about $18,000,000,000. That's more than the entire West -realized from its gigantic relief fo distress 'for the needy. Everybodv agrees to th e rightness of doing th at. But it will surprise many to le arn that only one dollar out of' six was spent for relief.' Most of the other incrëases? in spending go for innovations in government' service. The last few years haveý se:en the creation -of 67 new Federal boards, commissions, adminis.- whether the country wants ex- pansion of government, which mnust be paid for by increased taxes- Or wants expansion, of busi- ness, which pays in jobs and wages. For the increased money that now *go e s into Government spending is the money that for-* merly went into new and im- proved produets, new and en- larged factories, bigger payrolls and dividends. T h e r e isn't'