Duchesne Record | 1914-10-23 | Page 2 | Loss of War Exaggerated

LOSS is OF WAR EXAGGERATED Real Facts Fach as to Mortality and Property Property Property Prop Prop- erty Destruction In a Six Months' Months Conflict The destruction of or war Is not nearly as great as it seems Engineering Magazine Magazine Magazine Maga Maga- zine states If It people do not produce neither do they consume and the man who may have been making and spendIng spending spending spend spend- ing 10 a a. day comes down to the 1 or even to the ten-cent ten level without particular detriment to himself or to his similarly-placed similarly neighbors The total wealth of or Germany is and even If Ir the actual war wastes were a day this in a whole I year would amount to less than 1 percent per percent percent I cent of or the accumulated wealth of or the 1 fatherland The average death rate In Germany is probably twenty per thousand thousand thou thou- thousand sand or a year Kill 1000 soldiers and you have only doubled for one year the normal outflow In tour four years If Ir the normal rate were lessened from 20 to 15 per cent the loss would be numerically made up The loss of or life lire the loss of or time the loss of or property in a six-months' six warIs war warIs warIs Is after all Insignificant compared to the great enduring life lICe of or the nation Recuperation will be rapid