Show WHAT A WAR COST Many statIstics have hen been com com- plied to tile the cot cost of the ar ar bit t time the fiure figures are so large lare that It 13 I impossible for time the 1111 m to grasp their a anee nc In an m effort to the these e figures Into form Jr Dr Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University tells what ml might ht have hafe been Ien done with shim time the billion dollars spent on of time the war ns as follows TIme Tile 0 rill War Var all 1111 told co cost t apart from 30 bIllion lies lies- bilIon With that mone money we could have hullt a 2500 hou house e furnished It 1000 worth of oC placed It on five acres ot of land an acre and given thi home to each and ever every In Australia time the United States Canada Aims Aus- England Wales Ireland Scotland France Ger man sunny and Hu Russia la We Se could have given I en to each city eHy ot of OOoo In in- in habitants and over In each county fined d a five million dollar and anda a ten millon dollar university Out ot of what Was left we could ha e set aside e a sum suu t fhe per cent that would provide a 1000 yearly Jearly Sal Sal- ar Salary ary for n rill ot of l md and anda a lick salar salary for another t f 1 nUre e army Yet there is talk about war It would prObably be going on now Jr If the had the mone or credit whereby It could lie he financed and it seems b bound und to come e And we call this timis and ne ae of civilIzation |