The story of the map of Europe, its making and its changing . ^ and all of Belgium, aterritory amounting to one-fifth of the whole ofEurope, were scarred and burned and devas-tated. It will be years and years before thesecountries recover from the effects of wars Death invasion. For every man killed on the field of among battle, it is estimated that two people die amongthe non- j- r- o combatants the noncombatants. Children whose fathersare at the front, frail women trying to do thework of men, aged inhabitants of destroyedvillages die by the thousands from want offood and shelter. In the trai
The story of the map of Europe, its making and its changing . ^ and all of Belgium, aterritory amounting to one-fifth of the whole ofEurope, were scarred and burned and devas-tated. It will be years and years before thesecountries recover from the effects of wars Death invasion. For every man killed on the field of among battle, it is estimated that two people die amongthe non- j- r- o combatants the noncombatants. Children whose fathersare at the front, frail women trying to do thework of men, aged inhabitants of destroyedvillages die by the thousands from want offood and shelter. In the trail of war come other evils. Peopledo not have time to look after their health oreven to keep clean. As a result, diseases likethe plagues of olden times, which civilization. (253) 254 The SUyry of Plaguesand fevers The survival ofthe unfit thought it had killed, come to life again anddestroy whole cities. The dreadful typhusfever killed off one-fifth of the population ofSerbia during the winter of 1914. Choleraraged among the Austrian troops in the fall ofthe same year. For every soldier who is killedon the field of battle, three others die fromdisease or wounds or lack of proper care. In time of war, the first men picked are thevery flower of the country, the strong, theathletic, the brave, the very sort of men whoought to be carefully saved as the fathers of thepeople to come. As these are killed or disabled,governments draw on the older men who arestill vigorous and hardy. Then finally they callout the unfit, the sickly, the weak, the aged, andthe young boys. As a general rule, the membersof this last class make up the bulk of the menwho survive the war. They, instead of thestrong and healthy, become the fathers of thenext generation of children. In th
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