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Washington, O,ct. 7.-"Additional taxation evidently is inevitable; the likelihood of a proposed manufacturers, sales tax is generally accepted. Tax needed is dependent on extent of redu,ction of costs," says Wilson Compton, secretary and manager of the National Lumber Manufacturers, Association, in a letter to lumber manufacturers transmitting a comparative summary of the receipts and expenditures of the Federal government for the years 1914 and l92Z to 1931 inclusive. These data are provided because the N. L. M. A. intends to ,cooperate with other interested agencies in presenting its views to the President, the Director of the Budget and the appropriate ,committees of Congress, that all but essential activities and services of the government must be eliminated.

The letter points out that during the past ten years the Federal government has colle,cted about 32 billion dollars in direct and indirect taxes; during that period such taxes have been more than four times as large as they were before the war.

The figures show that the larger part of the Federal income is expended for past and future wars. In the last ten years the army and navy together have cost the government about 6.4 billions of dollars; veterans' pensions and hospitalization 7.6 billions, amortization and service of the public debt 8.2 billions; public works more than 2 billion dollars, post office department deficits more than half a billion dollars.

From the foregoing it is concluded that the largest. re, maining opportunities for economy are not in the ordinary civil agencies of government so much as in the costs of past and future wars and postal operations.