The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1917-09-21

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Going to War will
Return Unsc scratci,ed
Ninety-flve Per Cent Of the Wounded
Recover Under the Care Of skill
.Sss ed Surgeons
War is dangerous. =, The soldier
risks his life daily. But nothing is
more certain than that the stay at .
home population vastly exaggerates
the dangers and risks or war. NJ, ,s.:.i3... s5
There have been printed figures
which purported to show the percent
age Of deaths in the armies Of the Al
lies on the western front. According
to these tables the average life Of an
engineer or saper. on the battlefront
was 80 minutes; aviators could look
forward to only 80 days OF life after
reaching the front, and doctors were
killed within week of going into SER
vice. The impression was plainly con-
veyed that nobody. In any branch OF
the service could expect to, survive
more than a few months In the west
ern line. E@a.;..4.~:. ,-5ts. ..a1 !. ssssa@
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The figures were false. They were
wicked. They increased the fear and
suffering of millions Of people who had
sons or other relatives in the uniform
of the United States. II not direct
German propaganda, q these figures
served to discourage and alarm the
fathers and mothers OF America, A NJ. l5fs ]: *:
During the first year Of war re-f
cords showed casualties of between
S per cent and per cent. Last year
these losses were cut down TO 2s per
cent. For the last six months or 1916
the percentage Of the whole French
army killed, missing or captured was
only 12S per cent, about five men out
Of each 400. These are the official
French figures, made public by the.
high commissioner Of the, French re-
public to the United States They
can be depended on as accurate. Ut
Many more men, Of course. are
wounded. Perhaps one man out Of
four, or Is per cent of the total Of our
armies. will receive a wound Of great
or or less severity II the war lasts q
year longer. s@ >''.%&. ';%$: s$s - ~. ~
I But consider this: OF all the sold
iers wounded in battle, the British
surgeons and hospitals are turning
out 80 per cent in such condition that
they can go back to the battle front
About 95, per cent Of the wounded:
troops recover, and only S per cent Of
them are permanently disabled. gS
Most startling have been the adj
yances made in handling and cure of
wounds and in the prevention Of suf-
fering on /. the part Of the wounded
men. New forms and methods OF anes-s
thesia have been developed and still
other discoveries make more certain
and greatly hasten the healing OF gum
shot and other wounds. u b
The percentage Of death from dis
ease among the troops Of the allied
armies II actually less thar Il would
be among the same number and kind
Of in time Of peace. Despite the hard
ships Of trench life, constant living
in the open air, together with the en-
forced physical exercises and the
watchful care Of physicians, have re-SS
duced the percentage Of soldiers dying
from disease to little more than half
what It would be in normal life. I.
There ID no Wish 10 demonstrate
that war IL as safe as & Sunday school
picnic. It's dangers are real and
great its losses by death numerous
and terrible. a siderable number
ofs soldiers VIII never come home
from France. Anot her conside derable
fraction VIII come back crippled and
helpless. The truth is bad enough
But mothers and fathers whose sons.
have gone or3 are going to- War Snaa Il
flnd some comfort iii the statement
that s out tsof every 10 of the young
soldiers who are now putting on the |
milf wiIl go through the war with.
out getting il serious scratch and Will
come back sto civil Slife stronger nen
than they were before
yThat is u Spredic iction which fs jylstis
fed ~ The expert Hence ~ TIE Allied
armies9 in the present war. Y Ieilrys8 s5
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