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Show ,OME STARTLING FACTS. An illustration of the soundness of he statement that the real agent of oeace is the citizen who believes in adequate defense is found in a recent stirring address delivered before a notable audience under the auspices f the Cameron club at Alexandria, Virginia, by Senator Arthur R. Robinson Rob-inson of Indiana, one of the statesmen states-men of our upper national legislative body who can always be found on the side of sound, constructive nation-"l:sm. nation-"l:sm. Senator Robinson presented his au-lience au-lience with some striking statistics m thei terrible losses which came to America because of the world war. In addition to the loss of life in battle md the expenditure of billions of dollars, dol-lars, the Senator stated that at this time, thirteen years afer the signing -if the armistice, we have not yet cached the peak of disability; so ter-if'c ter-if'c is .war in the modern sense. Sixty thousand Americans, he declared, declar-ed, lie buried and awaiting the Judgment Judg-ment Day on foreign soil, and there are sixty-three veterans' hospitals, in nearly every state in the Union, with 150,000 beds all occupied, and with Huge waiting lists in addition. This, e added, does not begin to tell the story of human sacrifice and suffer-ng, suffer-ng, while on the material side there is depression and a money loss which "vill finally mount to a hundred billion bil-lion dollars. |