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Show HOMES IN PLACE OF WAR Several pages of the Congressional Record show just what the World war cost us in money and men without a single dollar or acre of land from the millions and millions of loot divided at the treaty of Versailes. According to the best statistics obtainable, the World war cost 30,000,000 lives and $400,000,000,000 in property. With that amount we could have built a $2,500 house and furnished this house with $1,000 worth of furniture, and placed it on five acres of land worth $100 an acre and given all this to each and every family in the United States, Canada, Can-ada, Austrailia, England, Wales, Ireland, Scotland, France, Belgium, Germany and Russia. After doing this, there would have been enough money left to give to each city of 20,000 inhabitants and over in all the countries named a $5,000 library and a $10,000,000 university. And then out of the balance we could still have sufficient money to set-aside set-aside a sum at 5 per cent interest which would pay for all time to come a $1,000 yearly salary each for an army of 125,000 teachers, and addition to this pay the same salary -to each of an army of 125,000 nurses. And after having done all this we could still have enough left out of our $400,000,000,000 to buy up all France and Belgium and everything of value that France and Belgium possess that is, every French and Belgium farm, home, factory, church, railroad, street car in fact, everything of value in those two countries in 1914. But what would the poor armament people do for a living? Star-Clipper, Traer, la. |