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Show wig of ir mm THRIFT 28 Cents a Day Per Capita Is Cost Estimated by Savings Director. 53,C00,000 FIGHTING Those at Home to PIake Up for Man Power Absent From Production. livery man, woman and child in the United States must contribute not less than 2 cents a day, to bear his just share of the enormous cost of winning the world war against German autocracy. In other words, even' person in this country must save and loan to the government gov-ernment 2S cents every day of the year if thCj United States is to be properly provided with funds to win the war. and if every person is to do his share toward standing behind the men at the front who are offering their lives to save t lie homes, the liberty and lives of those left behind tiie fighting lines. Such is the startling showing made by an elaborate tabulation of figures showing the cost of the world war which has been prepared by L. B. Hampton, chairman of t he city war savings committee, as an argument in favor of thrift and the investment in-vestment uf savings in war savings stamps. As a preface to his financial table, Mr. Hampton has prepared a table of the man power involved in the great conflict. It shows that there are C3.OUO.000 men of the entente allies in the war service, while t lie Teutonic, allies have 20.000.000 men engaged, making a grand total of 53,-000.000 53,-000.000 men employed dlreetely in the work of war. These men, as pointed out by Mr. "Hampton, are removed from the field of production and are engaged in destruction. As a result those left at home must make up in production for the man power lost from this field and they must support these men who are engaged in the destruction at the front. This can only be done by thrift, Mr. Hampton contends. con-tends. The cost in man power to the entente allies to August, 1P17. was 4. "37. 000 men killed and 3,183.000 wounded. The cost to the Teutonic allies was 2. 667.000 killed and ,9315,000 wounded. The grand total of men killed is 7,004,000 and those wounded is 5,119,000. Figures Show Cost. Mr. Hampton's tabulations, which are based upon official government figures and estimates, place the grand total cost of the war up to August 1, 3 918, to all countries involved, at the enormous sum of 5150.600,000,000. This Is nearly twenty times as great as. the most expensive war in previous history, that being the war of the rebellion in America, with a cost of $S, 000.000,000. Of this grand total the cost to the entente en-tente allies is 5106,400,000,000, while to the central powers it is $19,200,000,000. The cost to the entente allies is divided as follows: United States, ?13, 000,000, 000; Great Britain, $34,000,000,000: France, S23.S00.000. 000: Russia, $21,500,000,000; Ttalv, $7,500,000,000; Belgium, Serbia, Portugal Por-tugal and Rumania, $6,600,000,000. The cost to tho central powers is as follows: Germany, $29,500,000,000; Austria-Hungary, Turkev, Bulgaria, $19,-700.000,000. $19,-700.000,000. The per capita cost to the entente allies al-lies is as follows: United States, 2S cents on a. daily per capita Income of $1.05; Great Britain, 74 cents on a per capita income of 70 cents; France, 50 cents on a per capita income of 51 cents; Russia, 10 cents on a per capita Income of 11 cents; Belgium, Portugal, Rumania and Serbia, 22 cents on a per capita income of 32 cents. This makes the average per capita dally cost to the entente allies 27 cents on an average per capita income of 4S cents. The per canlta cost to the central powers pow-ers is as follows: Germany, 40 cents on a per capita income of 44 cents; Austria, Aus-tria, Turkey and Bulgaria, 21 cents on a per capita income of 26 cents. The av-era?; av-era?; per capita cost to the central powers pow-ers is 31 cents on an average per capita income of 39 cents. The average per capita cost for all countries involved is 29 cents on an average per capita Income In-come of 45 cents. Extravagant Nation. Mr. Hampton is authority for the statement state-ment that the United States, which is the richest nation in the world, is also the most extravagant- In support of ' this he points out that there are only 112 persons in every 1000 of population in the United States who have savings accounts. ac-counts. Italy has 2S8 savers per 1000 of population; Japan has 270, Austria has 300, England has 332, Germany has 317, Holland has 325. France has 346. Belgium Bel-gium has 397, Denmark has 442 and tiny Switzerland has 544. Figures produced by Mr. Hampton show that the peoole of the United States spend annuallv $1,200,000,000 for tobacco. $120,000,000 for soft drinks, $200,000,000 for confectionery, $100,000,000 for tea and coffee, and $13,000,000 for chewing gum. Mr. Hampton finds that out of the average av-erage 100 men at the end of fifty years sixty-three are dead. Sixty of these leave no estate, three leave some wealth and thirty-seven are still living, but dependent de-pendent upon relatives and friends. Thrift is the solution to the problem, he declares. 'Tf a man witl savo only 25 cents a day it will amount to nearly $100 per year," says Mr. Hampton. "Save and buy war stamps, because they are an Interest paying investment and they will not only help win the war, but will teach thrift the gTeat thing which this nation needs to learn." Frank Holman, spoke at the PJast high school yesterday morning on the thrift stamp. He outlined the history of the present war and ended with an explanation explana-tion of the thrift stamp campaign. Pupils Aid in Sales. ; Monthly reports from district school ' superintendents received by Dr. K. G. j Cowans, state superintendent of public Instruction, indicate the great extent to which the pupils have entered into helping help-ing war activities, such as buying liberty bonds and thrift Htamps and aiding generally gen-erally in the war savings campaign. Dr. Gowans is calling for prompt transmission trans-mission of these monthly reports. Super! Su-per! n tend en who have so far sent in their information are C. E. Gaufin of Murray, W. O. Bcntley. Jr., of the Washington county district, and J. Preston Pres-ton freer of the Nebo district. The Rev. P. A. Sfmpkin returned yes-terdav yes-terdav from a trip through Emery county in. behalf of the thrift campaign. While there he addressed audiences aggregating aggregat-ing 2400 persons at the towns of Cleveland. Cleve-land. Huntington. Ferron, Orangeville, Castle Dale and Price. Reports from the postmaster at these towns received by the si a te committee stated they had "sold out" all savings stamps following the visit of the "parson." |