A world in perplexity . © Harris & Ewing Birds-Eye View of the Cantonment under Construction at Quantico, Va. ships, and their submarines. All skies are speckled witharmored craft. The Price We Pay The fourth year of the war found fifty million menunder arms, notwithstanding the loss of thirty million bydeath, wounds, and capture, during the first three years ofthe conflict. And w^hile this appalling wastage of man-power has been going on, the money loss has likewisebeen enormous. Conservative estimates place the costof the war for the first three and a half years at one. Harris & Ewing 10 JOS
A world in perplexity . © Harris & Ewing Birds-Eye View of the Cantonment under Construction at Quantico, Va. ships, and their submarines. All skies are speckled witharmored craft. The Price We Pay The fourth year of the war found fifty million menunder arms, notwithstanding the loss of thirty million bydeath, wounds, and capture, during the first three years ofthe conflict. And w^hile this appalling wastage of man-power has been going on, the money loss has likewisebeen enormous. Conservative estimates place the costof the war for the first three and a half years at one. Harris & Ewing 10 JOSEPHUS DANIELSSecretary of the Navy of the United States The Nations at War 11 hundred twenty-five billion dollars. These figures stag-ger the human mind. A billion! There are fewer thana billion minutes in nineteen hundred years. The ex-penditure of a billion dollars for this war represents adollar for every minute that has passed since the birthof Christ to the close of 1900. But this war has costone hundred twenty-five times that sum, which meansthat in three and a half years these nations have spenta sum equal to one hundred twenty-five dollars for everyminute of the Christian era. During the first ten months the United States hasbeen in the war it has cost the Government seven billiondollars. This is an average expenditure of twenty-fourmillion dollars a day, one million an hour, or $277 asecond, day and night. What might not have been ac-complished had this money been used for the saving oflife and the betterment of living conditions! When and how this am
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