Arizona republican., 1918-11-11
FAC" 200, 900 MILES
 LONG FOR BRITISH

An allowance of more than one hun ored cigarettes for every man. woman and child in Great Britain today; near ly three hundred for every man or boy in the United Kingdom above 15 years old, or three for every person on the earth.
 Such is the meaning of the bald off cial statement that 4,400 million cigar cites are supplied to the army in one year.
 Such a colossal figure conveys little to the unaided mind. It is only when we Juggle with it and fashion from it a. few mental pictures that we realize something of it's stupenfous signifi- canoe.
 Let us, in fancy. take these thous- ands of millions of flags and place them end to end-thirteen to a yard. We shah then find that We have a cig- arette almost long enough to girdle the earth eight times at the equator So long is it that. travelling at sixty miles an hour night and day, it would take a tram more than nineteen weeks to travel from end to end of it. Enough For 33,790 Years
 To smoke all these cigarettes at the Frate of six an hour would leave no breathing space in S,79o years. Or, to I men. endowed with sufficient length of day, had begun the task at the begin ming of the Christian era. they would today be smoking industriously, with millions of cigarettes still to be smoked
 Let us now take our mountain of cig- arettes and fashion them into one gi- gantic flag '-''Tommy's" monument to '' My Lady Nicotine" So imposing will 1t be that if we raise it on end it will rise as high as the London Monument, a. shade more than two hundred feet.
 It will have diameter of twenty feet and circumference so large that ten of the tallest men in the army would 1 have difficulty in circling it with out stretched finger tips.
 If We climb to it's summit we shall find ourselves on circular platform so large that it would afford standing room for two companies of soldiers. So spacious in it's paper cylinder, that if It were laid on the ground as tunnel. there would be room for two trains to race through it's center side by side If we now place our leviathan flag in one pan of a colossal pair of scales and second class cruiser in the other we shall see the warship rise helplessly in the air. So heavy. indeed, is it that 1t would outweigh the entire population OA iidAudA dllt tsiA lue strength or three thousand powerful horses to draw it through the streets of London If now we split it up into it's com ponent millions for transport by rail we shall require train of five hun dred trucks, each carrying nearly ten tons. A score of powerful engines will be necessary to draw our train, the length of which will be two miles. For transport by road we shall re- iquire four thousand carts drawn by as many strong horses. Or We may em- ploy one hundred thousand soldiers. giving to each a burden of nearly a hundred weight
 To purchase these cigarettes at ci- Tilian prices we should have to write d check for about 30 million dollars. Or, if we could settle our bill in gold, we should require roughly forty-seven tons of sovereigns-a sufficient weight for a thousand sturdy soldiers to carry.
 And these, we must remember. are "T0mmy's" "officiaf' cigarettes alone. How many more thousands of millions he smokes yearly who shall say. The official number. stupendous as it is. would have to be multiplied by three or four