The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-04-30
DOES WAR MPOVERISH?

NN oNEY IS yard stick It is measure of commodities MI It is inconvenient to find out how many potatoes should exchanged for bushel of wheat and how much wheat for how many pumpkins l
 How many carpet tacks should be given Tor pound o rice?
 Civilization made great advance when men learned how to simple article make it into money and then measure all values by that
 The thing that goes on is barter the exchange of modify another The thing that counts the commodity not the money. Just could clohe himself Ii he had the cloth yard stick he could manage war he had the commodities, but money.
 For neglect these simple definitions many gentlemen even those high financial standing fall into error, in con- sderng the cost of considering the effect ot war and in many other respects.
 Germany may fail anytime for lack of commodities She will not fail because debt The German debt book keeping transaction between German and another the mills guns and the farms ood and there is copper rubber ron steel cotton and the fighting could go on forever long the lasted and had the W though the debt figure chooses to think about
 Germany will be impoverished by war; but not because one another because the government them all.
 In some ways Germany will be made wealther by the especially if the Allies do not invade her territories
 Her impovershment will from the loss of valuable lives by the destruction of her productive and the killing of skilled workers and men of talent and genius.
 If her land is becoming exhausted by lack Of fertilization there mpovershmen and also mpoverishment by the exhaustion materials which cannot be replaced.
 But there will be elements contrbuory to wealth. The plant the tools and machinery of production will be increased invention will bring certain results valuable long time after the is
 No war of the hundred years has impoverished any modern country Every such country has made great strides in wealth and population, following a
 The United States is example. There commo- des and usuabe values here fifty years after the civil than there before approximately and absolutely
 What true of Germany is true of other countries France and Belgium impoverished by the loss of and women Also by the destruction of permanent plant in swept ter rory and by positive destruction of fruit trees and paired fertility of occupied soil
 But permanent plant of France has nevertheless n- people in France who productive than the before the and the speed of production has been increased.
 The United States is raising billions for the but is not impoverished thereby The things these billions will did not exist when the began They will be creat ed during the They represent only portion of the fruct of national effort during the period of the
 Not all of this expenditure is waseful Billions going into permanent investment into land fertilization toos equip ment factories and ships that will be profitable for long time large portion of the people learning how to do things
 is likely shall be richer in every way but The lives that sacrificed represent fearful mpoverhment terrible toll taken from the stock of human happiness
 Man does his business in the view of his happiness comfort But providence appears to keep strictly mind happiness of generations unborn.
 Leaving out of account the pains and the sorrows sigh investment Through ages to will meet stated casions tell of the liberty for them by those who perishng To the Fourth of July and Memorial Day will be added international holiday devoted to those who mocracy safe