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Show Cost of Killing in War Has Soared Since 1914-18 TARENTUM, PA. The cost of killing a soldier has increased from $50 in the time of Julius Caesar to between $50,000 and $75,000 in the present war, according to H. V. Churchill, an industrial chemist. Churchill told a meeting here the expense ol wartime killing has risen steadily through the centuries, with a tremendously great advance occurring oc-curring between the World war and today. By the time of Napoleon, the cost had become $1,500 for each man killed, the chemist said, and during the World war the figure was about $2,500. He added that Napoleon's advisers and allies thought the cost far too high in their time. Churchill cited as the reason for the huge increase in the cost the fact that war is now fought with machinerywhich ma-chinerywhich adds greatly to the cost although manpower still is the backbone of war. "The development of mechanical devices and improvement of machinery ma-chinery has lifted a great deal of hard physical labor from men's shoulders, but military men are turning turn-ing this machinery to war purposes Instead of using it for peaceful pursuits," pur-suits," he declared. |
