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Show COST OF THE WAR. The first comprehensive report ou the "direct and indirect" cost of tho I world war to be made by au Amcricau I agency has just been compiled by tho Carnegie endowment for- international peace. It represents tho work of several sev-eral months in compiling statistics and furnish a startling illustration of the fearful totals credited to the Prussian effort to override nations standing in tho way of imperial ambitions. After taking each of the countries separately, those ou both sides, and thcu summarizing tho total direct and total indirect costs, the report gives the direct cost as $186,000,000,000. and states that the indirect costs hao amounted to almost as much more.'' The capitalized value of soldier human life, which is given among the "indirect'' "indi-rect'' c,osts, is placed at t33,66i,276,80, The property losses are divided as fol lows: Ou land, f 'J9,900,000,000.; to shipping and cargo, $6,SOO.OOO,000. Loss of production pro-duction is an indirect cost of the war which has meant to tho nations $45,000,-000,000. $45,000,-000,000. War neiier. added $1,000,000,-000. $1,000,000,-000. The loss to neutrals through the indirect cost to them is placed at $1,750,000,000. Tho total indirect costs to all nations, those engaged in the war and the neutrals, is $151,(512,54,500. Tho report, which was gathered from hundreds of reliable sources by Ernest L. Bogart. professor of economics in the University of Illinois, in estimating the "capitalized' value of human life," flies the worth of the individual at figures ranging from $3020 in Bulgaria, Turkey, Greece, Japan, Kumania, Serbia Ser-bia and several other countries, up to $4720 for the United States, where the ecouotnic worth of the individual to tho nation is placed at tho highest. In addition to tho $33,541,000,000 given giv-en as tho economic worth of those who lost their lives or were injured in actual act-ual warfare, an equal amount is allowed for civilian losses. Although many of the latter were of children and old persons, instead of men in the prime of life, the estimate given for the civilian loss is believed to be conservative. "Granting the propriety of placing. a capital value on human life," says the report, "the total amount of losses, both civil and military, on the basis of Id Barriol's computation, which includes in-cludes women and children as well as men, may then be shown as $67,000,000,-000." $67,000,000,-000." The number of known dead is placed at 9,99.8,771: and the presumed dead at 2,991,800. To the losses from death and wounds there is added "those resulting re-sulting from disease of pestilence, privation, pri-vation, hardship, physical exhaustion nnd similar causes. |