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righteous people. And God 3
Kingdom will be here on earth
and God 8 will here will be done
as il is done by angels in heaven
Those wars will cease to be as
you can read,
And he shall, judge among
many people, ami rebnke
strong nations alar off and they
shall heat their swords into
plcughshares, and their spears
into pruningboohs; nations shall
not !iftup a sword agains. nation
neither shall they learn war any
more.
But they shaIlxsit every man
under bis vine ala under bis fig
tree; and none shall make them
afraid; for The mouth Of the LDrd
of hosts hath spoken H." mich,
4-3 AZ
This must come to pass for
God has said his word has gone
out of his mouth aud that ii
shall not return unto him void
Therefore God even our God
shall heep Goals of fire upon the
heads of the wicked.
For the G, eat and Notable day
of the Lord mdst come. There
lure God said wait upon me,
please read.
therefore wait ye upon me-
saith the,Lord until the day sha
l rise up to the prey for my de
termination is to gather the ma
tions that I may raassemble th'
kingdoms, to pour upon then
mine indignation even all m!
fierce anger: for all the eartt
shall be devoured with the fir
Of my jealousy. (Zeph 4-S.)
This shall they have for thei
reproach and pride. Because
they have magnified ttemselve
against God, and bis people.
/ For the time is not far whe
God will distroy all the gods c
the earth. AS we quoted aoove
Nav we clearly understand tina
this great oay, is now near t.
come, and the readers of tb
CREsSET prepare 10 meet thi
great and Notable day of tn
Lord Is our Prayer.
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The Day Of the
Lord.
WHAT MUST WE UNDER.
STAND BY THE DAY OF THE
LORD?
TEXT

Behold, the day OF LORD
cometh, cruel both with wrath
and fierce anger, to lay the land
desolate: and he shall destroy
the sinners thereof out of lt.(lsa
13-0.)
We have before US in our Ts xt
q special day, when God will
come in his fierce anger, and
will cruely pour out his fierce
wrath upon the people. And the
sinners shall die. For G cd says
Behold the eyes of the LORD
God are upon the sinful kingdom
and I will destroy it from Gff the
fsce of the earth. saving tina: l
will not utterly destroy the
house Of Jacob saith the Lord.
For, lo,I will command, and I
| will .ift the house of Israel
among all nations, like as corn
is shifted in sieve. yet shall not
The least grain fall into the earth.
| All the sinners of nv people
shall die by the sword, which
say, The evil shall lot overtake
nor prevent US" Amos 9-o--
10)
Yes it is true that God is 60
ing to destroy the sinful king
dom from off the face ofthe earth
He is going to destroy all the
sinners from among his people
| This is to be done by The
sword all who say that the evi
day will not oyertake nor pre-
vent them. Right here we mus
say that we believe we are now
in that day For we read again
For behold the day cometh
that shah burn as an oven; ane
all the proud yea and all tina
do wickedly, shall be stubble
and the day that cometh shal
leave them neither root mol
branch" (Mal 4 -1.l
We have a terrible day speci
T. fed here. And such day as thi:
spoken of has never come. up tt
the time Of the commencement
OF this great wor]d's war.
But from the passing event.
we must believe il is at hand, Of
very near to come.
. For the Guod Book says Il
shall wax worse and worse" un
til 1t does come. Aud this i.
positively confirmed by thu
language OF Peter. Please read,
But the day Of the Lord will
come as a thief in the night; il
2 the which the heavens shall pas
: away with a great noise, and sh
elements shall mtlL With ferven
heat The earth also and th
works that are therein shall b
] burned up. )" (2Peter 10Y
G Now when this day has full
T come, then the sinful ktrgdot
will be destroyed and rightecu.
;. ness will be set forth BY
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GERMAN LOSS OF TRAW.
LERS IN CATTEG AT SHOWS
FALLACY OF BOAST S.
FLEET KEPT IN HIDING
TEUTONIC WARSHIPS MADE
NO EFFORT TO AID SMALL
CRAFT SUNK.

LONDON, April is. The
British naval success against
German mine sweepers in the
Cattagat recently, says tn e
Daily, Telegraph. is sufficient
answer to the Germans, who
say that the British grand fleet
is in hiding.
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German SuGs are no
Terror to the Boys
From U.S.A.

HUNS SHOWER DEADLY
SHELLS UPON UNDAUNTED
sFIGHTERS; THEN ALLIED
CHIEFS SHOWER PLAUDiTS
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PUBLISHERS
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
FREMONT MO.

Entered az second class
matter April 2. 1918, at the Pos.
Office at Fremont, Missouri,
under the Act of March 3. 1879"
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OBITUARY. i e
M ortlach Sask. Canida.
April Is 1918.

Mortiach Sask Canda
April Is 1918
have posed little piece of poetry which please print IN
be WORLDS CREsSEr coudent he during the SICK
1ess OF my dear brother.
In loving memory dear and brother Henry Odas
Campbell died March. %. 1918.
In the casEet he is s'eepng
In holowe grave wa know,
But his name is written Ia letters OF gold
In the hearts ue left at home.
Time may hea. the br oxen hearted
4 Tx may MAKE the wound less sore,
Boz time stop the longing,
For loved gone before.
Had | but MIN once more in ie
Or soothed his droopirg head
Or caught the last sigh OF his heart,
Or watched his dying bed.
NV heart I think would not have felt,
Such bitterness and grief
But God lad or dered other wise,
And now he rests in peace
Some day hope to meet him
Some cay know not where.
Il sAal Gasp bis hand in u oetler land
Never 20 part again,
Inserted by sster.-Mable.
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SUBSCRIPTION,
ROLL OF HONOR.

Ellis Bros Fremont. Mo. 81 co
The Washington times., 1918-08-18

This powerful picture painted by Mr. Howard Chandler Chiy
the distinguished American artist and illustrator has been given
to the United States War Department by this newspaper be
used poster help the work of recruiting any other
way the War Department may think desirable.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-28

ways were destroyed, but no off,
cial estimate has been made of these
losses.
The losses sustained in Russian.
Poland and the occupied Russian
provinces of Courland, Kovno, Wilma
and Grodno, covering an area of
approximately $4,000 square miles,
consist of private DWELLINGS, agri-
cultural buildings and machinery,
industrial buildings and machinery,
industrial raw material and stock,
railroad, government and public
property, and are estimated at
$685. 100000.
The area of destruction in the
Balkan states runs through Serbia,
Montenegro and Albania. 1t is
mostly an agricultural section, and
the losses sustained there are esti-
mated at about $20O,00O,0OO.
One Of the most important sources
Of loss in the present war is ship
ping, of which more or less accurate
figures are obtainable. The total
losses in shipping to the Allies and
neutrals up to August /, 1918, are
New-York tribune., 1918-07-28
mendous proportions as to stagger
the human mind and shake the very
foundations of civilization.
Money Expenditures
OF Principal Fighters

The money expended by the seven
leading belligerents for purely war
purposes during the four years has
been estimated at about $134,O00,-
100000. The enormous magnitude of
this sum is beyond all comprehen-
sion and can be grasped only in
terms of comparison with other wars.
1t has been said that this sum IS
greater than all combined money ex-
penditures for all other wars since
the beginning of recorded history.
The total cost of all the wars fought
since the American Revolution, the
aggregate fighting period covering
sixty years, was only $23,000,000,-
600, making the expenditures of The
present war for only four years six
times greater. 1t is about third
of the total national wealth of the
chief belligerents. The combined
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which some have been totally ami
hllated and some heavily affected.
The estimate by the National For
elgn Trade Council of the war losses,
which, unfortunately, does not go be-
yond 1916, is as follows:
Destruction of buildings and in
dustrial machinery in Belgium, ST.
000,OOO,00O, and in France, $780,
100000. The destruction of agri-
cultural buildings and implements,
OF raw materials, of crops and live
stock, has been estimated at a sum
of $7S0,000,O0O in Belgium and
$3.50, 100000 in France. Roads were
destroyed frequently by the retiring
troops and have been seriously dam
aged by heavy gunfre and excessive
use. The losses from destruction of
railway bridges, etc. have been es-
tlmated in Belgium at $275, 900 900,
in France at 300,000,OOO.
III Vic cdSlcI1 UllodCre OF Cno war
Germany has been invaded only in
eastern Prussia, where the agricult-
ural population has been seriously
impaired. Heavy damage was inf1ict
ed upon bridges, roads and govern
mental property, including railroads.
The direct costs to Germany through
the loss of agricultural products. of
manufacturing products, as well as
in interest ON investments abroad.
OF earnings from shipping and bank
ing houses, and profits of insurance
and mercantile houses engaged in
business abroad have been consid-
cradle. Her loss of property abroad
alone has been estimated by Prof
Ballod at s2,500,Oo0, 900.
In the movements of Russian.
German, Austrian and Italian ar
mics havoc has been worked over a
widely extended area. In the large
parts Of AustriaH Hungary that have
been occupied by Russia are mines
of coal, iron, lead and zinc, which
suffered heavily. Villages were
levelled, agricultural property and
machinery, oil fields, mines, rail-
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But the greatest and most ir-
reparable loss entailed by the war is,
of course, the loss of human life. 1t
is the greatest because life is price
less thing, and no value can be set
upon it. Still in economics, as in all
other sciences, in treating of man
emotional considerations are set
aside and purely economic value
in terms of money has been placed
upon the individual, based upon his
potential productive power. Thus
M. Barriol, the celebrated actuary,
gives the following figures as the
capital value of man: In the United
States, $4,1OO; in Great Britain,
$4,140; in Germany, $3.50; in
France, $4,000; in Russia, $1,000; in
Austria-Hungary, $1,000, or an
average capital value for the five
foreign nations Of S2,892.
The number of men already lost,
as is seen from the accompanying
table, is 8,509,0OO killed and 7,175,-
600 permanently wounded, or a to-
tai of 15,684,000. Thus society has
been impoverished through the death
and permanent disability of a part
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struction of valuable property and
territory, in the curtailment of
economic production, in the inter-
ruptlon of commerce and trade, and,
finally, in moral effects upon the
European race that cannot be esti-
mated at all in terms of dollars and
cents?
10 treat fully and adequately Of
the problems suggested here is, of
course, impossible in the brief space
at our disposal and at the present
state of affairs, when most of the
important information and figures,
particularly those pertaining to the
Central Powers, are withheld under
the restriction of censorship. As to
the smaller nations, information is
almost entirely lacking. In conse-
quence, scarcely more can be here
attempted than to give bird 's-eye
view of the effects, both negative
and positive, brought about by the
"ar and Of the conditions the world
Will nave to face after it's conclusion,
basing such 4 view on figures and
information from the best available
sources.
Briefest mention of the resources
as we'll as the membranes of the
chief belligerents prior to the out
break of the war will aid materially
toward better appreciation of the
new situation.
A glance at the accompanying
table will reveal the remarkable fact
that out of the total area over which
the flag Of war is flying and which
covers the greater part of the habita-
BILE globe about 96 per cent is under
the dominance of the Allies, and
only per cent belongs to the Cen
trail Powers. The number of ma
tions actively engaged in the war is
twenty-five, with total of 31,357,-
383 square miles and a population
Of 1,349,561 900. Of these, 3O,163,-
753 square miles, with a population
of 1907, 100000, belong to the Allies,
and only 1903, 300 square miles, with
population of 143,721 900, belong
to the Central Powers.
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estimated at 100000 tons. This is
almost one-third Of the worlds
48,5O0,0oO tons Of pre-war shipping
the cost of the lost tonnage at pre-
war value is estimated at $780,
100000.
Another element in the wars in
direct costs is found in the fact that
owing TO increased prices Of ma
tcrials and labor, together with the
pressure for immediate production,
some business organizations have
postponed Norman expenditures for
maintenance of equipment and
stocks of materials. Under main
tenance is the using up of productive
agents without adequate replace
ment. 1t can go to great lengths in
some cases before immediate pro-
duction falls off in consequence. The
extent of under-maintenancc due to
the war has not been determined.
1t is checked to some degree by the
operation of excess profits taxes in
this and other countries.
lncendiarism and explosions in
American munition facJcries, so fire.
quent in the earlier stages of the
war, caused by the perniciuus ac-
tivity in this country Of German and
Austrian agents, have also adle an
item looming large among the war
losses. Of the $250,0OO,O0 fire
losses in 1917, about $43,558,O
is estimated as probably due to en-.
emy incendiarism.
Building operations, because of
the high prices of material and la
Dor, are about 20 per cent less in val
ue than before the war. Perhaps
here should also be entered the item
of loss to the United States resulting
from shortag, If labor, du, to the
greatly reduced immigration and to
the large number of immigrants
that have been called upon by their
respective governments to fight for
their native countries.
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Character of Wealth
And Its Quantity

y
In national wealth the five main
Allies possessed before the war
406,OO0,000,000, sum nearly four
times as great as the national wealth
OF the two Central Powers, the latter
being $lO5,000,000,000. In consider
ing this preponderance of nationa!
wealth in favor Of the Allies it must
be borne in mind that viewed from
the standpoint of effectiveness for
war purposes the character of the
wealth is perhaps more important
than its quantity. The developed
wealth of Russia was mainly agri-
cultural, and, due to her isolated po-
sition, it was difficult to get adequate
munition supplies to her armies in
order to equip them fully; as "The
National Economist" has pointed
out, diversity of wealth and indus
try approaching self sufficiency
gives the real material basis upon
which the staying powers of a ma
ton are determined when engaged
in life struggle.
The Allies within themselves have
that diversity of wealth, but it is
scattered, and the difficulties of
transportation hindered it's complete
mobilization when needed for war
purposes. When full allowances are
made it is probably true, as far as
effectiveness for war purposes is
concerned, that the Central Powers
probably outweighsd the Allies ur
to the present period of the war. In
order to correct this fully it will be
necessary for the shipbuilding pro
gramme of this country to be carried
to fruition.
AS to man power, the Allies could
command on the battlefield $4,000
900 electives, as against 26,OOO.OOO
Of the Central Powers, a proportion
of about 8 to l.
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$500, ,ooO 7,l7s,ooO

otals ......... $500 ,00O 7,l75, 600
The loss of men, measured in
terms Of the capital value of the
workers withdrawn from industry, is
offset in some degree by the enhance
ment of the capital value of the re-
naming producers. A reduction in
labor supply relative to a fixed CT
increased demand udds to the value
of the supply per unit-an applica
tion of the familiar principle Of
scarcity val1e This has referencc cc
solely to the values which may be
expressed in dollars. 1t should not
obscure the inevitable reduction in
the productive labor force Of the bel
ligere1t nations. Conceivably four
men may have a combined capital
value after the war greater than
the pre-war value Of five similar
men, but this wi! not enable tnsm tn
do the work of five men. The real
man power cost of the war is net the
loss of the capital value represented
by those who die prematurely, but
rather the loss of their contribution
New-York tribune., 1918-07-28

tend to decrease the relative burden
of the apparent increase of the
budgets.
When we come to the considera-
ton Of the physical and moral eff
fects of the war upon the race, then
all calculations in terms of figures
become impossible. and here ceases
the field of the statistician. For who
can estimate, or even describe, the
untold suffering, the unspeakable
tragedy Of millions upon millions OF
men, women and children the world
over?
The moral strain to which the ma.
tlons have been subjected, the ''shel-
shock which has reacted upon the
population at home as we'll as upon
the soldiers on the battlefield, the
undernourishment and starvation Of
children as well as adults, have re-
suited IN q lowered vitality, the i'll
effects of which, especially in the
countries of the Central Powers, are
already seen in an increase of the
death rate, and in a spread of cpl
denies and diseases that have ~s-ed
the medical resources of all cous.-
tries.
The lowered vitality of the race,
which is still further aggravated by
the millions Of incapacitated sol
dlers and the premature and ex-
cessive employment of children and
women in the industries, will event
ually make for lower standard of
efficiency in all human activities, or
retardation of human progress.
Authoritative statements are to the
effect that in Belgium, in the earlier
period Of the war, the deaths of
women and children far outnum-
bered those of men. Annual deaths
among the German civilian popula-
tion have increased by million
over the normal
Besides the loss in actual popula-
tion there is loss of potential pop
ulation. Carefully compiled figures
show that by 1919 the population of
Germany will be 100000 less than
it would have been under ordinary
circumstances. The people in Aus
tria in 1919 viii be per cent fewer
IN numbers than in the year before
the war. Hungary will be still worse
oif; 1T viii have a population 8 per
cent lower than in pre-war days.
The problem of population is one
that causes grave concern in all
ether countries as well. From the
very start of the war efforts were
made by the various belligerents--
Great Britain, Turkey. as we'll as
Austria and Germany-to guard
against a falling birth rate by offer
ing special inducements to marriage
before leaving for the front, which
means leaving widows to bear chill
dren under great nervous stress and
with prohao'e heritage of weakness
and misery. Such children viii hard
iy be happy children, as many OF
them will never see their fathers.
nor will they enjoy a normal home
life.
Grave dangers to society lurk IN
the lack of parental control and edu-
cation which is incidental to war
Thousands of children, released
from parental supervision and de-
MED the benefit of fatherly advice
and admonition, have been tempted
into the paths of crime from which
! they may never come back. Millions
of children have been deprived OF
the possibility of acquiring even
rudimentary education HUNDREDS
Cf thousands of students of the high
schools, colleges and universities
have been compelled to desert the
. (Contipued on Opposite Page
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Totals. .S134 ,0oo, ,oo0, 600 Slo7, 800 600


After deducting pre-wsr budget
and advances to the Allies. This could
not be done for the Central Powers.
These terrific expenditures have
already entailed debt FOR these ma
tions six times greater than was
their total debt prior to the war,
representing the enormous sum of
$129 900, 100000. 1t has taken the
befligerent nations one hundred years
to accumulate the debt of $23,56O,-
100000, which only four years of
war have multiplied by six. Allot-
ted among the several nations the
national debt in round numbers
stands as follows:
Pre-war debt. War debt.
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S t ru g g lie?
What has it
meant to the
nations en-
gagged in this
awful car
mage in ex-
penditures Of
1AOiiNJc . NAt&S
would other
w i S G n O t
h a v 9 been
expended, in
the loss of
precious life,
II
New-York tribune., 1918-07-28

A S the fourth year of the greas-
~ est war in history is draw
ing to a close, the question
arises once more: What has the
war cost the world thus far? What
have been the economic changes
wrought by this unprecedented
New-York tribune., 1918-07-28
Expert Statistician Gives
Astounding Figures on
Money Actually Spent
By Richard F.. Whittlesey

Chief Stofstlc7on Bond DEPARTMENT. of the Guaranty Trust
Company of NeU YORK;
New-York tribune., 1918-07-28

I Taking an average Of 5 per cent
interest, this debt involves an in
terest charge obligation for the chief
belligerents Of about $500, 1000, 900
annually. Assuming that this war
will last another year, the total war
! debt, at the present rate of borrow
ing, will amount to about $190, ,00O,-
100000 and interest charges at the
above rate to about $4,000, 100000.
Destruction and
Other Losses
Besides these staggering costs
there have been appalling military
distinctions in the invaded areas
from which it will require enormous
efforts of human energy to recuper-
ate, and some of which are irrepara-
Bile. The total area of the war zone
is $4,000 square miles, of which the
western theatre of the war, in
France and Belgium, stretches over
an area Of 19,500 square miles
and contains over 5000 cities, viii
lagos and hamlets, great manufact-
uring and agricultural districts, Of
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'tal ....3l,3573s3 l,34s,5sl 600

Nations that have severed their
diplomatic relations with Germany:
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1918 The
New-York tribune., 1918-07-28

average daily war cost, computed on
four-year basis, is about $1O7,-
100000, or $4,479,O00 each hour of
the day.
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Powers 10000, 600 1857 900 1886, 600

Total .. SO 900 900 zoos, 900 SIPS, ,ooc
Estimate for l9l7-lSl8 l,500,C0 2,Oo0, 900
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Continued on Opposite Page
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