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Show :: Armistice Day With Armistice Day being celebrated todav wp q ded that ''War is still Hell." Japan haf forced a ' 0n China, Spam is torn assunder by civil war and Itay is always threatening war with the result that the ple of America are on the anxious seat lest we be jjaw-n into another world conflagration. , At this time it might be a good time to stop and con dder the World War cost of lives and money Fieuw that 7,449,087 men lost their lives and $186,000,000 000 ,ere spent not counting the depression that followed The American government is estimated to have spent over ( 510,000,000,000 and the cost will continue on for years to come. In the loss of lives Russia was the greatest loser with 2762,064; Germany was next with 2,050,466; France, 1,427 000 Austria Hungary, 1,200,000; Britian, 1,098,919; Italy, 507,160- l jhe United States, 107,284. There is no decrease in the1 number num-ber of British dead still being found on the battlefields of France; last year 1246 more skeletons were found, an in- crease of 116 over 1933. i The number of wounded is estimated at 20,000,000-,ar 20,000,000-,ar widows at 9,000,000; war orphans, 5,000,000. France alone had 740,000 war cripples. A Swedish investigator credits the war with 40,000,000 victims altogether. Yet the world is now spending on armament 5,000,000,000 annually, an increase of about 70 per cent over that before 1914. Today there are nearly 5,500,000 men : actively under arms and 20,000,000 more in reserves. ' But it is too late to worry about the past. We are now faced with as serious a situation as brought about the world war and unless nations can be brought to their senses the world will be submerged in a worse war than the world war. Some students of war say that we will never celebrate cele-brate another armistice like that of 1918 unless it is followed "; by a real renunciation of war. They declare that civilization ; cannot stand another such war and continue to exist. j |