Che hank teller at Us window, tor HO bills. His esse hlSh with bales or HO e Is coon tins 100 bUis every He vockb ten boors a day. dsjo a week. He i& trylns to count the money spent on the world war. Set be will never, never be able t*> dolt—not be, nor bis son. nor

cooat oot in HO b0'« tb* money >^ent on sold take more than 1.000 years. who lived to be 889 years o!4 t have done It by WorUnc sights. No other 1 could. not be overlooked that Methnselah. r in bis own time or oars, would noon have i oot of currency. The world does not have. r will bare, in money of any denoodna- , the eppalUac eom of f22i.OO(X0OOjOOO. Somc- : like that is whs? the world has spent on rar that is pasting into history, writes Glraa AM vine la the New Torit Trtbone. ecaioc the wisest man that ever lived. The mt of the war transcends all the monetary con ttsrcs which even a financier can coojorv up. is It much easier to conceive the toil of life tat the war has tagen. Great Britain alone has lest la the war about .000^000 men. France has lost perhaps 100.800

r the Third liberty loan parade, totaled that t of marchers- aE day long Huey marched

cn who have "gene west” inarch down tb* The next day there is a timBar parade, t next, and the next For ten days the

that was would require the daylight b weeks more. And for the other brave allied fighting men we must reserve a fortnight- Two months and a half for the allied dead to march past a rglven point The enemy dead, although definite figures are not available, number about tSuC.OOO. For them to pass In review would require more than six weeks. v Throughout all the daylight hours of June, July. ■Aenri and September, thee, the ghastly proce?vdon would continue- It is an appalling picture to

As preUmlnaiy punishment for the fugitive kaiser, for whom so many horrible fata hare

Lowered race vitality. Decreased birth rate. Outalicd education. Moral degradation.

For cim to stand at aitantien Jhroughcn: Four hot stunmc- months, while the ghosts of those be sect to death pass la constant review— jsarely. that might Inflict mental agony enough to

floes involved. They wllT eventually place the toO of dead at 11008X00 or thereabout. They Jky decide that rhlpping was destroyed to the value of J^ooo.ooa.ooa But never. In competing " the cost of the war, will Jhey be aUe to ostteale •crairately these indirect losses: Physical suffering.

It would take more than 1,000 years to count in $10 bills die money spent in • t’le war. log proper, without furnishings—<W0.000.000 days of work wtn be necessary, involving, together with buQdfng material, an outlay of 20.CX)u,000,030 francs. “As regards personal property of every desertpttoo. either destroyed by battle or stolen by the Germans, there stands an additional loss of »t lerst AOOOjMOBMO francs. This valuation of lost personal property does not Indude—as definite figures are lacking as yet—the countless war contributions and lines by the enemy, amonnang also

Cargoes sunt 1 Property damaged toy idleaeaa. Industry crippled toy dl version of men. Production diverted from creative to destructive

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EusU.ei» sJUvcIcpeaeat checked. Inflation of currency and

Of These indirect

which has been redeemed by tb* allied armies.

iAnfire Tardive. Trench high eumumls

United States, says: ,

“The territories which hive bees • ■occupation foe four yean were tl part of France. Their ares ad not exceed 0 pec ■cent of the whole country. They paid, however, 25 «Mr cent of the wus. total of our taxes. These rerrijocie*, which have been ooropted again by us wt the cast of oor own Wood and the blood of our allies, are acre tn a mate at rata even worse than wre had antidpatad. Tto* very ground Is tarn.

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. and for mooths. maybe for The fruit tree* have the lev*! of the grousd. te dries and viliagm

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"I need hardly say that. Is those wealthy lands, no agricultural resources are left. The losses la horses and to cattle, boric? and bovine species, beg*, goats amount to 3J»10,(X*3 bead—to agricultural equipment to 454.000 raacnines or carta—the two Items worth together ,6X100.030000 francs. “Now as regards ledustrire. the disaster is even more complete- Then* districts occupfid by tho Germans aind whoa* machinery bos been methodically destroyed or token awuy toy the enemy, were. Industrially speaking, the very heart of France. They were the very backbone of our production, as shown In the following startling

figures:

"to ISIS the wool output of our Invaded regions mted to S4 per cent of the total French production. And corresponding figures were: For flax from the spinning mills. 90 per cent; iron ore, 80 per cent; pig Iron, S3 per cent; steel. TO per wt. 60 per cent; coni. bt. 45 per cent. Of all nothing is left. Everything has bean carried awuy or destroyed by the enemy. So eompleto Is the' destruction that, to the case of our great coal mines to the north, two years of work will be needed before a stogie ton of coal ea® he extracted, and ten years before the output Is hack to the figures of 13X3.. » *nd to carry out that kind of .■eennat ruction only there wtn be a need t of pig iron, nccriy fjQOO.OOO toes of i *

these different Items we reach as regards Industrial needs a total of 25.000,000.000 francs. “To resurrect these regions, to reconstruct the* factories, rtw materials alone are not sufficient; we need means of transportation. Now the enemy _ ■ railroad tracks and railroad track equipment. One roUIng stock, which In the i of the war. to 19’.A was reduced by has undergone the wear and tear of 9 months of war. on the other hand, has lost more than a million tons through the swbmarino warfare. Our shipyards during the tost four year* have not built any ship*-. For they have produced for us and for our allies cannon, ammunition and tanks. Here, again, for this Item ■ of transportation we n ‘ “ I a expense of 2,500,000,000 franca. This makes, if I sum up there different items, a need of r - material which represents to cost, at the present tat* of prices in France, not less than 50.000,000,-

30 francs.

And this formidable figure does not cover everything. I have not taken Into a croon: the loss represented for the future production of France by the transformation of so many factories which for four years were exclusively devoted to war munitions. I have not taken Into account foreign markets lost- to us as a result of the destruction of on-quarter of our productive capital and the olnwst total collapse of oor trade. 1 have not taken into occount the economic weakening that we shall suffer tomorrow owing lo the loss of 3.000.000 young nnd vigorous men.' Compared to these, the losses accrulnc to the United States as a result of the war are. of course, •light. . America has scarcely been “bloodied." It Is true that the war may cos; the United States possibly 50.000 li.-es—-every one,a precious offering to fre-'doin—but several times as many Americans huve died nt home during the recent Infftieaea epldanlc. When w* consider the number of Americans who died to our aril war. our present losses seem almost trlvlaL The deaths from all causes la the Oril war totaled 6IS.52S—about i5 times m many lives as the world war cost the United States. Those killed in action on the I'nlon side -lone—110,070 men fighting for the North—outnumber more than two to one the Americans who have recently died fighting overseas. The financial contribution America has made te ■ ward defeating the central power* is magnifi'” ot —bet comparatively n small satriSee for the richest country In the world. To date the total war ladetotednee* of the United States Is n7352.rrT.CW. distributed as follows:

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A 3fth tarn to being planned to help defray the rvisS of the war. The tax b!B now under coauUderation by cougre** aaul other taxation will md net the remrindtr America ha « spent, or wlU sqwmd to finish up tb*: fftoagreaabte Job. Be: even If the war finally oasts America g35c j '300.000.0«»—other estlaaate* have varied from ' S2OXW3J0OC-OOO tn «a8|000X10eUWt»—«h»l U a smalt j portion ©f its national wealth. Bow the mswwm: the United States has spent on the war oocnp «■* with Its ecaaane wealth and how these figures staid tor she prtndpai ..tber brfUgereet* may I-* J seen from the fufflcwiag eatlnutr*. no exact fig- i

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