SUNDAY, NOV. 2S, 1917
THE ASHEVILLE TIMES.
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THE STAGGERING COST OF WAR
(The Charlotte Newa)
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Every day the war is costing the
United States the gross amount of
$40,000,000.- The direct military cost
Is only 2M0O.00O, but when are
added the loans being made every
fortnight to the Allies, the gross
amount runs up to the other amazing
total. And the gross cost for Amer
ica outdistances the gross cost of Eng
land which Is given at $39,000,000;
ticrmany which is rated at $30,000,
000 and France which is calculated
as being $21,000,000. Against the di
rect military cost of , $29,400,000 to
America, the war is costing England
in the same way $36,000,000; Ger
many $27,200,000 and France $20,
200,000. Each day every citizen in the United
States is called upon to contribute 28
cents for the support of the war. Ev
ery day every citizen of Great Britain
spends 74 cents; every citizen of
France spends 50 cents and every cit
izen of Germany upends 40 cents, so
at least in this particular, the propor
tionate cost of the war which must
bo borne by the population of the
countries, tho United States is better
off than the balance of them.
Of course, there is not much good
to be done in submitting a long list
of figures showing what 'the war is
costing. It Is literally beyond com
putation. We speak of the cost in
terms of billions and the average man
has no comprehension of what a bil
lion dollars is. Moreover, in speak
ing of the cost of the great war, there
are several factors entering Into the
eauation for which no calculation can
be made. If we figure what a man s
value Is to society, what an individual
human life is worth in the world in
mere dollars and cents, what his rat
ing is as to industry, and then place
alongside this the fearful depletion in
man-power brought on by the war, we
would approach a proposition that
again would run into figures nobody
could understand. Similarly is it in
the mere matter of material losses
sustained in Europe, the spoliation of
property, the irreparable ruining of
ships and factories and industrial
plants of every sort. There Is no pos
sible computation to be made of such
a cost.
Getting down, however, to the sin
gle item of military expenses, we are
none the less stupifled by the colossal
totals that are being piled up. A statis
lcal booklet furnished by the Mechan
ics and Metals Bank of New York
gives us some enlightening informa
tion along this line for those who have
any aptitude at all for comprehending
the figures outlined. From that bro
chure we discover that the daily av-
erage of all belligerents from August
1, 1914, to December 31 of that year,
was $52,700,000, and the total during
the period was $7,900,000,000. ' The
cost during the year 1915 was, daily
average $71,800,000, total $26,200,000,
800. The cost during 1916 was, dally
average $97,700,000, total $36,650,
000,000. The cost during 1917, from
January 1 to August 1 was, daily av
erage $131,000,000, total $27,700,000,-
; 000. The dally average for the three
years.was $90,000,000 for all belliger
ents and the aggregate expenditure
was for the same period $97,450,000,
000. An attempt to gauge the direct cost
of the war on an assumption that
hostilities will continue to its fourth
anniversary, August 1, 1918, doubt
less will be received by the reader as
worth making, says the booklet. Such
an attempt yields a series of huge fig
ures, all of which contribute to make
up a total of more than $150,000,000.
000. Should the war progress to Au
gust 1, 1918. its direct military cost
to the nations will be as follows, bas
ing estimates on the present daily rate
of expenditure, which is augmented
over the past by active entrance of the
United States into the war:
States, ten times as large as the value
of all our agricultural products in a
given year, twelve times as large as
the value of our annual foreign trade,
1,000 times as large as the amount of
the annual American gold output. It
means that this war has already re
quired a sum that would have extend
ed the railway mileage of the United
States to several times its present
length, and that, besides, would have
carried steamship lines to every cor
ner of the earth, rebuilt the world's!!
cities on rational, sanitary lines, pro
vided schools and teachers for every
child living, eliminated savagery, and
endowed science to the devotion of its
efforts to improve the living condi
tions of all mankind.
We further find from this Interest
ing booklet that the cost of the pres
ent war has exceeded the combined
money expenditure for all other wars
that have occurred in the history of
the world. The combined direct cost
of the world's six greatest military
struggles in tho 126 years preceding
this war was $21,000,000,000. One of
these raged through a period of twen
ty-one years. Another lasted four
years. The twenty greatest wars in
the century and a quarter preceding
1914 cost, directly, $25,000,000,000.
That sum measures the cost of five
months' fighting at the present rate
of expenditure.
Following Is a table which shows
the approximate cost of the world's
most notable struggles of modern his
tory:
Napoleonic Wars, 1793-
1815 $ 6,250,000,000
Crimean War, 1858-
1866 ...
American Civil War,
1861-1865 ...
Franco-Prussian
1870-1871 ...
South African
1900-1902 ...
Russo-Japanese
1904-1906 .
Great War, 1914-1917
(three years) .....$97,450,000,000
In the following table is. given the
present daily direct rate of war ex
penditure in each of the countries
chiefly engaged in the hostilities:
Direct
: Population Cost, Daily
United States.104,400,000 $ 29,400,000
Great Britain. 47,000,00O
France .. . 40,000,000
Russia . , . . .175,000,000
Italy ....... 30,000,000
Belgium, Por- :
tugal, Ru
mania, Ser
bia ...... 26,000,000
War,
War.
War,
1,700,000,000
8,000,000,000
3,500,000,000
1,250,000,000
2,500,000,000
Such Is Decision of Judge
. Waddill Inhuman
t Treatment Alleged
15,000,000
20,200,000
18,000,000
8,000,000
Washington, Nov. 24. White House
picketing suffragists stood victors to
night in the first round of the legal
battle for- their contention that they
should not be held in Occoquan, Va.,
work house, but Instead, should be
housed in the more comfortable dis
trict jail. However, the district Com
missioners propose to appeal from the
decision of Federal Judge Waddill,
rendered in Alexandria, Va.
Women's party headquarters suc
ceeded in getting more picketers'
diaries from the workhouse today al
leging new hunger strike experiences
and inhuman, thug-like treatment by
men guards.
Speaking for his wife. Dr. John
Winters Brannan, of New York, de
clared she had been forced to do pris
on labor; that the suffragists had
been deliberately terrorized when they
entered Occoquan, and were treated
with great brutality by men. guards
who knocked them about with the
fury of thugs under the immediate di
rection of Superintendent Whittaker
himself, who called out that men
would be glad to get their hands on
them.
Brannan charged Whittaker had
threatened Mrs. Brannan, aged 61,
with the straight-jacket and gag; that
some of the picket prisoners still
"bear bruises;" that Mrs. Henry But
terworth, of New York, was left alone
in the men's section all night without
a matron near.
The secret diary of Miss Elizabeth
McShans, of Philadelphia, read:
"Now eight days on a hunger strike.
Very weak and ill. Fainted yesterday
afternoon in cell. Foroibly fed some
hours later. Food poured into a vom
iting stomach. Left in cell all night
unattended. Fainted and was found
at 5 o'clock lying on the stone floor."
President Wilson today granted Dr.
Howard Kelly, of Baltimore, permis
sion to investigate Occoquan. He is a
brother of the hunger striker, Mrs.
Dora Lewis, of Philadelphia.
6,000,000
Total. Allies 428,000,000 $115,600,000
Germany ... 68,000,000 27,200,000
Tur-
key, BuU -" .' ; , . .
garia .... 79,000,000 16,000,000
: Central
Powers
,147,000,000 $158,800,000
Total
Military
Cost.
$ 97,450
68.150
Daily
Aver.
Three years, to August
1, 1917 . $ 90
One year, to August
1, 1918 .. 159
Totals, four years... $107 $155,600
(In millions add "000,000.")
The above calculation means that
there will have been laid out for mil
itary purposes, if the war does not
end before next August, a sum greater
than the developed wealth of any sin
gle nation of the world, othce. than
the United States. It means that, for
war, there has already been 'expended
an amount three times as large as the
total indebtedness of every nation in
the world, as that indebtedness stood
in 1914, four times as large as the de
posits of all the banks of the United
Totals, all. 675,000,000 $168,800,000
Pro-rated' over the entire popula
tion, the direct daily cost of the war
means much more to Great Britain
than any other belligerent. France
is second on the list, Germany third,
the United States fourth and Russia
last. The war Is costing Great Brit
ain a shade more than 74 rents daily
for each Inhabitant. It is costing
France 50 cents, GJermany 40 cents,
the United States 28 cents.
It is interesting to study the direct
war cost of the people of the various
nations in relation to their normal In
come. Thus the following table has
been prepared, to register the average
income of the chief nations engaged
in the war. together with an average
of the war bill, at the current rate of
expenditure: ,
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United States 28 105 $103.80 $385.00
Groat Britain 74 70 279.60 255.00
Frice ..... 50 51 180.00 197.00
Russia ..... 10 11 36.60. 40.00
Italy 22 32 80.60 111.00
Entente
Allies .
Germany . .
Austria
Hungary... Central
Allies .
27 48 $100.50 $t75.75
40 44 144.20 162.00
21 26 75.50 94.35
31 ' 39 $114.00 $140.50
Totals, all.. 29 45 $103.60 $166.30
Present daily war cost in cents,
t Daily Income per capita In cents,
Present annual cost.
Annual income per capita.
-J- Asheville Chapter Red Cross -J-
Chairman, JUDGE J. C. PRITCHARD
Secretary, DR. FRANCIS B. BOYER
17 Biltmore Avenue. Telephone No. 2093
BY
. In Police court yesterday, the war
rant against Carl Cassada, charging
reckless driving of an automobile at
the time Theodore Parker was injur
ed in a street accident, was amended
to a charge of- exceeding the speed
limit. It was alleged that when Cas
sada struck Parker he was going at
more than the seven-mile limit pre
scribed for travel at the Intersection
of streets. The police record of the
accident stated that Cassada's ma
chine skidded 78 feet. The defendant
was convicted and fined the costs in
the case.
Parker, a 12-year-old boy, wns
found guilty of riding a bicycle on the
sidewalk. He was fined the costs and
the fine was cancelled.
E. I. BURN 15 MADE
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E. I. Burn of this city, who is at
tending the second Officers' Training
camp at Fort Oglethorne. Ga.. has
been commissioned first lieutenant and !
assigned to the 54th Infantry, station-I
ed at Chicamauga park, according to j
a message received here last night.
it is expected that announcements'
will be made the first week of the !
commissions for all of the men who '
are now attending the camp, who will
receive appointments.
Increased activity and output of
hospital supplies has marked the past
week's work in the Red Cross quar
ters, 17 Biltmore avenue. The large
and well lighted workroom Is open
all day and there has rarely been a
moment between 9:30 o'cock in the
morning until 6 o'clock In the even
ing that some women have not been
engaged there.
The working attendance, as report
ed by Mrs. John A. Campbell, chair
man In Immediate charge, has varied
from 90 to 125 a. day, the average be
ing about 110. Some of the ladierf
give their time in the forenoon and
others in the afternoon. The two
periods of the day mark a division
of the work. The mornings are de
voted chiefly to the making of surgi
cal dressings and gauze work, and
the afternoons to garments, pajamas,
sweaters, bed shirts, etc. Red Cross
bags, which are sold or the benefit
of the supply fund, are made Saturday
afternoon.
But more workers are needed, more
hospital supplies are imperatively
called for by the head of the Red
CrORS In the war zone. Officials say
it will be too late to speed the making
of dressings after American troops go
Into action for when the casualty, list
grows large the dressings will melt
like snow before the sun. They must
be accumulated in Europe because the
sinking of one cargo ship might leare
American surgeons without bandages.
One surgeon alone will use a thousand
dressings a day, It Is stated.
For the troops at home the Ashe
ville chapter is nowpreparlng Christ
mas boxes. It is desired to have these
uniform and therefore donations of
cash are more available than, gifts of
material, anu more "economical since
flhe Red Cross gets the lowest prices.
In the mtter of wool alone the Ashe
ville office is able to sell at lower
prices than merchants can buy It for.
ROBERT HARRIS STRUCK
WITH BOTTLE LAST NIGHT
Robert Harris, a chauffeur, Is In
the Meriwether hospital, suffering
from a deep cut across the upper lip
and in the, forehead and the polluce
at an early hour this morning were
looking for Dewey Johnson as a re
sult of a fight between the men at
the corner of West College and Hay
wood streets at 11 o'clock last night.
Johnson Is charged with assaulting
Harris with a bottle, both cuts being
deep, evidently coming from severe
blows. Details of the fight are lacking.
BY POLICE YESTERDAY
A large attendance is expected at
the annual dinner of the Good Samari
tan Mission, which will be held at the
Langren hotel, Tuesday evening at
6:30 o'clock, at this meeting the re
ports of the work of the mission will
be made and plans perfected for the
work to be done during the year.
Several shoe addresses are on the
program and a tempting menu has
been arranged for the dinner. Tickets
for the dinner can be secured at the
mission headquarters on Spruce street,
telephone No. 1796.
Up to 2 o'clock this morning the
police had arrested nine persons, two
of the number being charged with
drunkenness. Three cases of assault
were on the docket, Otis Styles,
Charles Sullivan and Earl Smith, be
ing charged, with engaging in a
three-corner altercation, although the
police report that no serious damage
was done to any of the parties par
ticipating. The other charges were for minor
offense
V. P. I. Beat Roanoke.
Blacksburg, Va., Nov. 24. Virginia
Polytechnic ran away with Roanoke
college here this afternoon, 70 to 0.
Block made a record for himself,
kicking ten goals from touchdowns.
Lafayette Overwhelmed.
South Bethlehem, Penn., Nov, 24.
Lehelgh crushed LaFayette by the
score of 78 to 0 here this afternoon.
This was the worst defeat suffered by
either team In the 331year period they
have played each other.
Total Receipts, $60,000.
Cincinnati, O., Nov. 24. Total re
ceipts cf the footholl game hero Nov.
17 between the Camp Sherman and
Camp Sheridan teams was $61,000, It
was announced today. Expenses
were about $4,900, leaving $56,000 for
the Camp Sherman emergency fund.
Francis Otilmet Won.
Englenwood. N. J., Nov. 24. Clnd
In his uniform as a member of the
United 8tates army, Francis Oulmet,
teamed with Jesse Guilford, this af
ternoon defeated KIrby and Anderson,
on the EngleU-ood Country club
course, two up.
Statement of the Condition of
The Battery Park Bank
of Asheville, N. C.
At the Close of Business, November 20, 1917
Resources
Loans and discounts . . . $2,014,365.68
Overdrafts .... 228.90
Furniture and Fixtures ................ 1.00
Banking House 28,000.00
Stocks and Securities .... . . 2,000.00
UNITED STATES BONDS (Liberty Loan) 32,593.00
NORTH CAROLINA STATE BONDS'... 175,000.00
CASH IN VAULT & IN OTHER BANKS 704,537.95
$2,956,726.53
Liabilities
Capital .... . . ...... ;". ;...$ 100,000.00
Surplus and Undivided Profits ...... . . ... 229,418.67
Interest Reserve . . 17,500.00
Bills Payable .. . . ... ....... .. . . . .. . . . . NONE
Bills Re-discounted ... . ............ NONE
DEPOSITS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 2.609,807.86
$2,956,726.53
I, C. Rankin, cashier of the above named bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true to the best of my
knowledge and belief. , C. RANKIN, Cashier.
C A RVYSOR Subscribed and Sworn to before me this 2 1th day
ERWJN SLUDER - of November, A. D. 1917. GRAHAM BROWN,
C. RANKIN, .' .. . tloQiQyP"C
Directors ' commisslon expires August 15, 1919.
No Loans Are Made by Hiis Bank to any of its Officers or Directors
T. C. COXE, President v.".....
ERWIN SLUDER, Vice President
Officers:
JAMES P. SAWYER, Chairman of Board.
D. C. WADDELL, Jr., Vice President
C. RANKIN, Cashier.
JAMES P. SAWYER
C. RANKIN
Directors:
T. C. COXE
C. A. RAYSOR
J. W. NORWOOD, Greenville, S C.
ERWIN SLUDER
D. C. WADDELL, Jr.
EDWIN L. RAY, President
JULIUS C. MARTIN, Vice President
JOHN A. CAMPBELL, Cashier
WM. F. DUNCAN, Asst. Cashier
Statement of the Condition of
CITIZENS BANK
Asheville, N. C.
Resources
Loans ;. $635,987.43
North, Carolina 4 per cent Bonds 10,000.00
Furniture and Fixtures . . . . 5,000.00
Cash on Hand and in Banks . . . . . 136,877.81
$787,865.24,
Liabilities
Earned, $50,000.00 . . . ......... $100,000.00
Capital Stock Paid in, $50,000.00;
Surplus and Profits 5,790.67
Bills Payable . . 60,000.00
Deposits 622,074.57
$787,865.24
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The enllrfl icrnnd floor of The
TTMK8 bulltllfiK for rent. Pmxemlon
given December 1. Heat and light
furnlnhed. Cull at TIMFS' office for
particulars. tf
JULIUS C. MARTIN
Lawyer
H. TAYLOR ROGERS
Bookseller, Stationer, Printer
S. LIPINSKY
i Dry Goods
F. STIKELEATIIER
Insurance, Real Estate
Directors
C. BREWSTER CHAPMAN
Capitalist and Vice-President
R. J. WOODCOCK
lien) Kstote.
W. R. WHITSON
Lawyer
GEO. S.POWELL
Investments
M. II. KELLY
Water and Sewer Contractor
II. C. JOHNSON
Proprietor Aslii Ulle Grocery Co.
JOHN A. CAMPBELL
Cashier
EDWIN L. RAY ,
PrcHident
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