The Dickson County herald. (Dickson, Tenn.) 1907-1979, 1917-07-13
SEVEN BILLION DOLLARS,

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giyen below, Ii,you want to know
something about that seven billion
dollars to be turned loose In this
country. then read this:
twenty times the cost OF Panama
Canal Three hundred and Fifty
tunes the cost Of tue biggest battle
ship ai!oai! Eight times the assess.
Ell valuation u thr city Of 81, Louis
There are more dollars In seven
billions than there are seconds in
~ years. Since the signing VI the
Declaration III Independence, July
(, l116, to date, there are only four
and hall billion seconds.
Seven billions In gold coin il a.
4iI tons and would load down near.
ly 200 cars. each with $1,000 lbs,
and make a solid train IL miles
long =
Let VA look at it in time. or in
distance.
Seven billion minutes il 1878
years, 3 hours and 81 minutes.
Imagine seven billions OF miles
IA rite bullet has a speed Of about
mile second, yet ut this great
velocity it would require almost *
aetly 444 years to cover the distance,
Seven billions Of silver dollars
stacked in pile would 10 up to-
wards the stars 10 a distance OF
1877 miles And il would take the
United States mint. working day
and night, 22i years to coin the dol
lars
At 81 .OO an acre this vast sum
would pay Tor every acre OF land in
the Continental United States.
Imagine, il you can, seven billion
dollars in dollar 'greenhacka," end
to end they would 90 around the
earth Al the equator nearly "a times
And il would take an express train.
running 40 miles an hour, day and
night. continuously. .for ~ years.
to cover the distance.
Seven billions Of dollars will buy
two pairs Of good shoes Tor every
man, woman and child on earth to-
day. Christian and pagan,
Had an express train started at
the dawn Of the Christian era. going
at the rate Ut mile q minute, il
would today nineteen centuries af-
ter Christ was born. figMstiyely
hardly have gotten out
Of tie train sheds, for il would have
only gone one seventh Of the dis
lance; ana would, now. 1917, yet
haye II, 400 years to complete the
journey Of seven billion miles.
Count ridiculous J Imagine
ar expert counter d money count.
ing seven billions Of dollars in dol. |
lars bills, An expert enough to count
one second belonging to the
union, working ) hours a day. |
Sundays and holidays excluded and
then imagine MIN working at the |
Job for ~ years, then turning the
work over 10 another--ihe first man
who tackled the job would have |
been dead 700 years when the iii. |
teenth man quitting the !ob--each
OF the fifteen working fifty years
would stlll leave enough bills IN. |
counted to give each man. woman |
and child in the great city Of ST. |
Louis $500 apiece, and still leave
$40 600 600 uncounsed.
The loan bears interest at3 Der
cen. and tie interest il S245 0o0 cool
a year. nearly $500 nlnute-last /
the interest.
Once more: Suppose train made
lp III seven nEH0n passenger coach.
u. the coupling or connections na,I
being rigid. there is an interval Of
about half second between the en-.
zine and each attached car. Such
|. train would he Ito years. : hours. f
81 minutes and ~ seconds in start.
ng. That is, the last coach OF the
rain would not move until the en-
.ines would have been moving. day
md night. for over 10 years Aud
we allow ak inches for the slack
between each coach, the engine will
AVE to 60 Co. SIS miles. or over
. times around the earth. before
he last car would move.
And, il the war lasts. this I'm.
hinksbls sam will all be pms into
irculatiou in this coGntry within a
hort time-and the wheels oil trade
aus. hum. ~ Fri Coanty .Nsxs,
friendship, Tfxa.