The evening world. Newspaper, March 21, 1918, Page 18

THURSDAY, 1918 hd RES. i $89,7 21,800,000 War Cost Three Times Total Expense. Of All Past Century’s Wars MARCH 21, 12,067 ,278,679, Our First Year's Share, Nearly Four Times Cost of Civil War, and Almost Half as Much as Wars of Whole World Cost in One Hundred } and Twenty Years. By Albert Payson Terhune | ight, 1918, by The Proes Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World) AR was never on the Free List. But it has steadily grown more and more expensive, until its increase of price has made the Cost of Living seem stationary. Pacifists and Conscientious | jectors and similar pests may take comfort to their gentle souls in the! ledge that at the present rate war will soon cost so much that nog mn can afford to wage it. Either there must be perpetual peace, or) one must find a way to fight Hooveristically and chop down the| ining weight of overhead charge. For instance: | During the 120 years before the present world war there were dozens) big conflicts here and in Europe—the Napoleonic Wars and our own) War among them. And their total estimated cost in dollars and during those 120 years was only $26,123,546,240. Split this period) two, and you will find that more than 8-13 of the twenty-six billions | ere spent during the second period. The cost of war, you see, was} dily booming. Yes, twenty-six billions and some few odd millions is a tidy sum. | it looks like the Irish subscription list to a German picnic, compared} fh the cost of the war we are in now. The Public Information Com- ttee has estimated that our coun- Katee were ; ° | included the thousands who died in hospital, in a day when hospitals at the front were little better than (This does not include! plague spots. ‘the money we have lent to the Al-| In the Civil War, when armaments Mee.) Tn other words, the United] were little Ue old fashioned eet . 8 more or less primitive, the to States alone has spent nearly half as| HN! more oF leas Pi eked oe Hy bad 944, so far as Governmental esti- mates could determine. Of these! casualties 199,720 were from illness At that, we are still in the smatt| alone; not from wounds, but. from cy.|'lnews, With uch splendid medical| lobange class by comperisog with Bus) a toa! skilas is in use at the rope. The first three years of this) trons to-day that gruesome hospital | war have cost the Allies and the) ist would have dwindled almost to| Germans together $89,721,800,000—| nothing, for the diseases which were more than three times as much as all| then considered hopeless are now entire world | ©Sil¥ and quickly cured, So are the wounds that used to be deemed in. curable. ‘6 bill for our own first year in war is going to total up to $12,- 007,278,679. much on one year of war all the world put togethér spent on it between 1793 and 1913. the previous wars of the for If you don't ke to hurt your brain by thinking in such ‘large figures, the daily cost of the 120 years. The total loss of life in the Span- wh “War was about 20,000. Here again illness and incomplete hospital conditions caused by far the largest portion of the deaths, During the 120 years before 1914 the deaths all over the world during military service were 5,498,097. Ac- cording to a statement publicly made in the Reichstag last October, the Germans admit that thelr own losses for the first three years of this war include 1,600,000 dead and from 3,- war to Allies and Germans is about $£16,700,000. In contrast to this, the price of our former wars Was as economical as is| the spending of a week end with your husband's parents, Our war of 1812, Wy way of example, lasted the best) When the bill had to pay only part of three years. came in Uncle Sam ifie—abi 9,624,000. For pernere trisie--a bout 6120.8 000,000 to 4,000,000 wounded. Of these three years Just a fraction more than 4 sean a day! War| Sounded 2,500,000 are either erippled surope spends in a day! Babine ndtleiag for life or permanently invalided.| making in that period was such a wheap pastime that one marvels why {t was not known as the Miser’s De- light. But rates were climbing even then Thus, in three short years one coun-| try alone has lost more than a third} as many men killad as did the whale military world for the preceding 120 years, pur Mexican War came} *" And when our M ey © tot two} N® War is not on the free list. 11 5 its course along in 1845 its ¢ ) cost us| i #8 costly as any other major sur- i F . mnths) © 8 years and a *few month ry operation, And in the case of about $173,298,000, They could run the Allies der it is a& necessary in or to establish a perfect and per ent cure from the cancer known {he present war for nearly two days on that budget, mi By the time the Civil War dawned MORE TIME FOR woRKkING ‘What Setting the Clock Ahead Will Mean to You ONE LESS DAYLIGHT HOUR WASTED IN THE MORNING—ONE MORE HOUR OF SUNLIGHT ADDED TO YOUR RECREATION WHEN YOUR DAY’S WORK IS DONE. HOUR OF DAY OR, 4 WASTED DAYLIGHT THE CLOCK WILL FooL "N YOUR WAR .-GARDEW LD TIM te | Se | 2 3 y ILLUSTRATED Tree menreay You FIRST apaic | THERE witt BE A CHANCE To & NJOY NEEDED RECREATION ji TO WORK AIR, ~\ & REFRESHING WALK iN THE EARLY MORNING =| MARCH 21 Daylight Saving Plan Gives You an Extra Hour To Enjoy the Sunshine | THURSDAY, |When You Set Your Clock Ahead an Hour on April 1 Your | Work Hours Will Remain the Same but Your Play Hours Will Increase and the Day Will Mean More to You. By James C. Young Copyright, 1918, by ‘The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World). NCLE SAM will push his official clock forward by sixty minutes U on April 1, Thereafter it is going to be unpatriotic for anybody to lie abed in the morning and mutter things about the alarm clock, This daylight saving plan has a good deal more behind it than appears at first glance, Of course we all know about the millions of hours that are to be conserved and made useful by such a little action as moving the clock ahead. But perhaps very few of us have any idea of what may be accomplished in these added hours. It is as though we had found the philosopher's stone and learned a method to lengthen our span of life. |may expect to get a larger measure lof tennis this year and to spend more Jof our time fishing, golfing or just j walking around in the big outdoor |than ever before. | In the United Kingdom during |four and a half months of 1916 no less than 260,000 tons of coal were |conserved through the reduced use of gas, according to Popular Science |Monthly. ‘That meant just 5,000 added to the pocketvooks con- | sumers. of The consumption of electric current for lighting purposes was 20 | |per cent. in the same period. Use of illuminating ofls fell off by two and a quarter per cent. For May and June, 1916, the mu- nicipal gas works of Berlin reported a decreased output of 508,500 cubic CAN GET Away EARLIER TO HIS GOLF THE TIRED BUSINESS MAN s and Southern Breezes But a Bagful of rough Hester Street A bagtul of southern zephyrs is worth more than a Sinful of coal, winter without yelping wolf, withou! Although our soutbern breezes arrive slightly shop ‘em has still got to Joy League H imself to bring ed the 1 e as German militarism | the reach of the poor. It cost a snug . | ; fortune for a nation to sit in at auch) American Muskrats | @’ game. There have been several Doing Their Bit Listen to the Sneezes! This Is Going to Be a Nasal Spring! areful estimates made of the cash 7 és f ; “ ; goat of the Civil War to Uncle Sam. MALL but patriotic American | Southern Breezes Is Worth More Thana Binful of Coal—Only Trouble the The most conservative is $3,478,220, A mammal ls going: the. Central | Breeze Loses Its Southern Accent by the Time It bimps Into New York— : i eae ers a lot of dam The ; ; ; Aa di ahis Sea een gt | creature ix none other than the| Same Day Last Year, Fair and Democratic. roken into the muskrat. And that cértainly seems , “RV a9 7 last, And our four years of national oy tecause it an animal mative en BY ARTHUR (“BUGS”) BAER, Warfare had cost us almost a third) clusively to America. However, the Copyright, 1918, Ly the Press Publishing Co, (The New York ening World.) | as much as has our first year in to-|matter ix easily — explained. A IGURING on the sheezes which are becoming tangled up with We have managed to craw! through day's war. w emlan nobleman, visit the acoustics, we ure going to have a very nasal spring this | which 8 a tougher job than walking The Spanish War was a mere by-| ins It a dozen years ago year, Spring has officia!ly parked her bunions in New York and | yuying anything struggle whose actua! fighting lasted| became ested in muskrats and] porous plasters are way patriotically from lumbago-spangled | worn, anybody who ain't glad to see a only a very few months, followed by| "! ade Us nind that it would be houlder blades, All the orchestra seats in City Hall Park are sed} out his first citizenship pay in the guerilla squabbles in the Philippines. | * 004 » Introduce so valuable With oxempt gitize tnd exempter aliens grabbing up their share of || Same day last ygar, fair and Democrat Yet one of the lightest of the several f 4 bearing bo into his own the sunshine d other sprin lunder before there is a war tax slapped = | a Gatimates of its cost to us in $1,901,-] ONNTY So he took four pairs home| ot aster being folded up like an accordeon all winter, thegiokies like SN INS 926,000. oO ’ dies) auanks Ubpnnsnd: to unwind in the suniight when the mercury climbs up to the mezzanine POOR RICHARD JR. 3 ‘Murope's last really big war, b sna. + progeny, finding fow nat floor of the thermo It looks as if old Gus Winter has been de- | CeCe eee eee * 1914, was between France and ara n their new environ feated and the wart exes are flapping in from the south, The only The fool believeth all he sees, * many in 1870 and 1871. It cost iteat 2 mune Rtn | trouble with a southern breeze is that it loses its southern accent by the a : nae many $954,100,000, and France's bill | uy ountry the female | time it finally limps into New York 9 ies MAD Heuer ME Was $1,500,000,000 | muskra on one litter a A southern | may flutter of the tropics with the best Aik-aianbon haliavath wha Ke The true cost of a war ix not to be; Year, bu ashe brings thre | intentions in the world, But after blows over Palm) Beach and that he sees it ne feasured by dollars, but by human fou ters In the world an mingles with a moving picture » filming the eleventh episode of %, Tives. And in this the price has con- |?“ the Miseries of Mir ets slightly shopworn, By the time that It ea, bo. tinued to rise with grim persistency, | , wuskrats in Bo-) oy apes from Florida and flatwheels into Washington it is an easy prey eae ; Which is natural, since the chief item te ro ayo * hg MY) for the red-tape w that burg, Flappering over Wilmington, of increased expense is in the pro-| 4 i erone: Fateh and ta) Shel Toca wail Chester ihe wuitern wrasse doves lia ¢auibtull patriatlenn nie ducing of increasedly murderous en |i. gre an ; und jying the protitcers, nto Philadelphia it gets inoculated - gines of ‘warfare. These take their) spay) id "i up with iegal ¢ wttish waffles, peppebpot and Turn Vereins Ra oh : , rom think ng toll, When men could buy a sword) iy short, they } By the time it wer ‘Trenton it has flat arches of the ambition for $2 and an outfit of bow and ar-!They are begir and is slightly tin with linoleum, leather tanneries, sox factories, | x row for the same price, the cost of |ravia « ya awamps, cheese nd pinochie tournaments, Goopering through Did Better war upkeep was small. And so were) tien | Newark and Jor the former southern breeze soaks up some ener the casualties. The more up to date) ny Will be affl Hoboken water-front 4 Austrian thumb prints and blows into Man who has seen eight the equipment the higher the death | #tns swarms a hattan slightly assisted by an explosion of T. N. T. not vary ips 4 ; Het, The foriner southern breexe is now very former. It ix loaded to the ndnews ay P CHINA MAKES OWN STAMPS. | : After (wo or th qn our Mexican War fo nee HINA is now manufacturing ita| muszle with odors from'the Jersey shore which have escaped deletion miner isin @ war of black powder and of short Own fostage atamnpe. Before| by the censor : range muzzle loading guns—the tota; tha war Muraoean ‘onintcice Still, it’s brees 1 the south and it's here, which is more than | “Johnny,” she said next time one of life was a bare 10,000. 1 DIS) printed China's stamp supply. * we could say if we had to wait for the janitors to send it up, you Whe absent I want you to bring nal, from working, not he uny |metres, operating under the daylight \saving plan. This reduction was ac- complished in spite of 18,000 addi- jtlonal gas meters installed in the first six months of that year, and in the face of an increased gas consump: | tion January and April, }amounting to no less than 2,400,000 jeuble metres. between This idea of moving the clock ahead was computed to have saved {10 per cent. of the coal used In | France last year to generate lighting power, Approaching nearer home, find that the ctiy of Clevefand reduced its fuel bills by $200,000 in the first six months after switching from Central to Eastern time, which is an hour faster, Following a care- ful investigation, figures were pres sented to the Rhode Island Commi:- |tee on Public Safety, indicating that ; an annual saving would be effected in | Providence amounting to $60,000, and that in the country at iarge the total we would reach $40,000,000. It is estl- mated by the Boston Chamber of Commerce that the United States will save not less than $100,000,000 Jannually on artificlal ight under the plan 4 These figures are all more jor less official, and apply to city or State governments for the most part, The saving to individuals {s past com- putation, An industrious man may now work an hour later every day if he feels so disposed without taxing As long ago as 1908 a daylight saving bill was introduced in the House of Commons, Immediately the scheme met derision, and numerous scientists were among those who called it an idle fad. jof equal weight stoutly defended the plan. Various nations took heed, and in the course of time began to experiment with their clocks. At this | present time most of the countries in Western Europe, and England as | well, are running their affairs with the clock just an hour fast. | The system appears to work best during the sumymer months. So we Other gentlemen himself half so much as he would have done in times past. ‘That sim- ple fact of getting up an hour earlier every day is going to put more vim in all of w it will mean a refresh- ing walk in the morning air for a myriad of workers. And ifstead of going home with the shades of eve ning beginning to fall, it now will be possible to get home in daylight and seek whatever relaxation pleases most Over in England they have found that the earlier rising and earlier homecoming interested) many persons in gardens who never would have taken up such a thing un th had found more leisure time. So it is hoped that also will have an awakened Interest in the subject, and indirectly increase our food supply. less we This daylight saving plan seems to have no end of benefits. It sends men to work sooner, brings them home sooner, gives them a chance to work a bit more if they wish, or to play @ great deal more in any case, Certainly an additional hour of -day- light 1s worth two of darkness to the person who must labor for a living — 18 almost all of us do, It would seem to have been a happy conception that is to ease the burden of mankind and make things better all around. Kevery one is acquainted with the fafhillar adage about the early bird and the well known worm. It has served as an admpnition for many, many years, and gains new force from the present tendency to get all out of the day that we possibly may. Benjamin Franklin, that genial and observant philosopher, was a believer in the wholesome doctrine of early to bed and early to rise. He left bes hind a rather famous essay, taking to task the people of Paris for lying between the sheets overloag, perhaps allowing opportunity to knock at their door and go unheeded, His fellow countrymen are now about to try the great experiment of speed- ing up their day in order, at the same time, that they may enjoy life ‘more. t ‘THE NEWS ew Jersey ing and this sammer y, SO how should shé years hava een used to carry preserve jars and rugs to Bayside home of take | - canebbeieimaeiammommiinats NEWARK MAN so nice about getting the $85 from safe for two hold-up men they neglected to search him, and he saved his wallet and TO PSCAPE TE GERMAN, structor has quit job and taken another paying $300 @ year less, . TIPS for checking hats and coats tn hotels and res« taurants barred under bill introduced in Massachusetts on Board ‘ House. > | = | > | CROPS are to be electrified tn Engl | ig | as &h experiment in speeding up production, | apes | | | Ani | \ J i NO MILE POSTS on Broadw mug} know she was speeding? asked girl autoist just before tuck paying $75 fine ike | —— nor | uve MCTURES on the wall f a3 g caused the arrest of a Brooklyn cafe owner, be | i cs = | CITY HEARSE at Bellevue has t 2 >. coal, but 1 ding | SEN) former morgue official, he admitted at inquiry, An exc ed the boy HE che teacher, her Pie good State J NAMING THE CHERRY. rry gets its name from an old Greek town on , the Black Sea, whence came the ur-|first garden cherries known to Eu [rope TT OLDEST GUIDE Book, arliest guide book printed te Unglish is “Instructions for Fore raine Travell,” published in 1643 by James Howell, a famous trayelles of that day, "