The Cordova daily times., 1917-02-06
POINTS REME DY HIGH COST OF
 LIVING
(By Associated Press.)

A''S VI pNc''t 'h" piiNat ploptItN III the European theatres of war repre- sents value of $5,985, 100000 is the estimate contained in report of an inquiry made by the National Foreign Trade Council, and submitted to the fourth National Foreign Trade con vention. The estimate is frankly de- scribed as merely approximation, the sources of information being official European government reports, trade and industrial journals, etc. The re- port says, in part, of Belgium and northern France:
 "The destruction of private dwell ings is large where fighting has taken place, but much is left that can be used in rebuilding. Road repair will form heavy item in budgets of small CT villages.
 "The destruction of bridges can be regarded as complete in every fight ing zone. Railroad tracks have been partly destroyed, but much has been l repaired for the use of the army and civil population.
 "The greatest enemy of industrial property has not been military oper- ation, but enforced idleness of machi- l nery and buildings. The destruction of stocks of raw materials was exten- sive. Germany has removed part of 1 the, machinery and equipment of cer- tain Belgium plants to Germany to obtain certain raw materials like COD.
 per or to furnish German plants with additional machinery.
 Industries canot return with peace at once to full operation. Neither Belgium nor France will i'm. mediately require all raw materials.
 machinery and industrial building to
 be replaced. Conditions will be some
 what different, however, in agricnl- tura districts, where production has been continued. Fields must be work ed immediately the owners return. Az ricultural machinery, seeds and build ing material will be in immediate de- mand.
 After the Balkan war it took ap- proximately one year to rebuild de stroyed villages. It will require long CT in Belgium and France, because If labor losses not replacable from the nelShboring states. Industrial re-
 building will occupy more time. Many new industrial buildings in Northern
 France and Belgium may consist of
 temporary structures, the total ex- pense of which most likely will not be more than one-third of the total
 value of the former buildings. The immediate needs of the two countries during the first year after the war may be as follows: Agricultural
 buildings. Belgium $50,O0O,OOO and France s50,O0O,OOO; agricultural ma chinery for Belgium $50OOO, ,OOO, and France $5O,O0O,OOO; industrial build ings for Belgium 65,OOO,OOO and for France $50,00O,0OO; mining machinery for Belgium s6O .O0o.OOO and France $4O,o00.O0O; iron industry machinery for. Belgium $70,0OO,OO0 and France $5o,0OO, 900; food making machines for Belgium s3,OOO.OO0 and France s1O,- o00,O0O; chemical machinery for Bel gium $6,O00,QO and France s6,OOo 900; textile machinery for Belgium $65,- o0o,WO, and France $50,ODO, 900; cleo trical machinery and equipment for Belgium $13o.OO0.OOO and France s5O.- 100000; wood working machinery for Belgium $20.OOO,0OO. and France s1S,- W0,OO0; paper making machinery for Belgium $5,O00.OOO, and France .s3,, 100000. -
 fBoth Belgium and France will scarcely be able to manufacture all they need for rebuilding, neither can tney, import everything. Slate, bricks and mineral building supplies can be Supplied locally. France may see her self compelled to buy from abroad ap- proximately three-quarters of the tim bssa required for rebuilding. while practically all wanted by Belgium will have to be imported"
 That Germany cannot resume her export trade until the raw materials nave been imported for domestic needs, is another probability to which the report gives attention, with a com ment that Germany will restrict i'm portations at first to essential ar ticles. The destruction of property In Poland is estimated at $S75.OOO, 900,