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Show LOSSES DOWN TO MINIMUM Warfare Mortality Statistics Should Qlve Comfort to Thoce With Loved Ones at the Front. Great as tho danger and lnrg as tho losses In tho aggregate, tho Individual Indi-vidual soldier lias plenty of chunces of coming out of tho wnr unscathed, or nt least not badly Injured. Based on tho mortality stntlstlcs of tho ullled nrmlcs, n soldier's chnnces nro ns follows: Twenty-nino chnnces of coming homo to ono chntico of being killed. Forty-nine chances of recovotlng from wounds to ono chniicu of dying from them. Ono chance In 500 of losing a limb. Will live live years longer because of physical training, Is freer from disease dis-ease In thu army than In civil life, and bus better medical care at the front than nt home. In other wnrs from 10 to 15 med died from dlsenso to ono from bullets; In this wnr ono man dies from dlsenso dls-enso to every ten from bullets. For those of our llghtlug men who do not escape scathless, tho government govern-ment under tho soldier und sailor In-suranco In-suranco law gives protection to the wounded and their dependents und to the families and dependents of those ,who make the supreme sacrlllco for 'their country. |