Bisbee daily review., 1915-07-20
HIGH COST OF WAR IS SHOWN BY CONTRAST
 WITH DAYS OF '76
Total Expense of Our Revolution Was Less Than the Present Monthly Bill for the European War.

War.
 PORTLAND. ore. July 19. - The high cost of warning, when the cam Ipaigns of Washington are compared to | the European conflict, was empha-
 sized in the report of the registrar general of the Sons of the American Revolution at the first days session of
 the society's twenty-sixth annual con vention here.
 Thomas Jefferson he said, review | ing the finances of the revolution. es- timated the cost of the war at an av- craze of $17500,000 a year That sum
 now is scarcely more than Great Brit aims war cost for a single day The
 total cost of the -approxi-
 mately $140,O0OOOO, covering a period of eight years-is less than the total
 cost of the European war for a month. The committee on information of | Aliens reported great activity during
 the last year in promoting the educa- tion of the alien population Co the ad- vantages of American citizenship
 With various societies and muuicipali- ties, the Society has co-operated in establishing courses in civil govern
 ment and other suDJects tending to the enlightenment of those of foreign birth The committee pointed out
 that of the three million souls which peopled the thirteen colonies, one
 fifth could not speak English. one-half
 was of other than Anglo-SaXon des- cent and even now in some of the
 states the proportion of foreign born
 is as great as thirty percent
 Detiled efforts to educate aliens to the allegiance and obligations of Am erican citizenship were described Per sonal letters have been sent to more
 than fifteen hundred judges of federal and state courts having jurisdiction over naturalization. urging that the | ceremony Of administering the oath of allegiance be made a solemn and im- pressiye one. It is suggested that on such occasions the presiding judge or some citizen of high standing in the community, address the prospective citizens upon the importance of the act of transferring allegiance from one nation to another and the obliga- | tions which accompany it The com mittee expressly recommended the promotion of such meetings as that
 held in Philadelphia on May 10, last when President Wilson addressed sev- eral thousand recently uaturalized Americans and welcomed them to the privileges of American institutions
 Much ignorance, the committee re- ported had been found among school children, and even adults, regarding
 the Constitution of the United States Tn many parts of the country it was found that fundamental document was not for sale in ready form The So-
 ciety recently has distributed one hun
 dred thousand copies to night schools and settlements of aliens.
 While much of a statistical nature has been preserved and handed down relating to the Continental armies the little navy which carried the new est flag to the seven seas has not far
 ed so we'll A careful study has been i conducted, however. for the committee
 on military and naval records, by
 Rear Admiral Chester, and his re-
 searches. reported by the committee
 today. show there were in the regular Continental navy 64 vessels mounting 1 1,242 guns, while the volunteer private armed fleet outnumbered it with 1,250
 vessels and 1S,000 guns British yes. sells to the number of 797 were cap tured and with their cargoes. were valued at S24.000.0OO The American
 navy mustered about 10000 men. and
 majority of the names of those he
 roes were not left to posterity The navy won 70 percent of its engage ments the army won forty Research
 es now being made m state archives and collections of historical societies
 as well as private collections of manu- scripts to make as complete as practi-
 cable a publication by the government
 of the Continental army and navy roll. | More than thirty thousand records
 have been found SO far chiefly in Mas
 sachusetts, Virginia and North Caro-
 lima