The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-17

Dy the more progressive anu SIllS HI- ened states of the union.
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 Statistics of Interest
 Regarding the War
 e ECRETARY NEWTON D. BAKER g has published in book of 154 pages report entitled ''The War With Germany; a Statistical Summary, 7" compiled by Col. Leonard P. Ayres, chief of the statistics branch of the general staff.
 The compilation is intended to meet a general desire for "stock taking" of the efforts made and the results achieved by the United States in the war. There is nothing like boasting, but the great things done by the gov ernment are set forth in brief and simple style.
 Under the caption of Figures of American Participation" are these facts: Total armed forces, including army, navy and marine corps, 4,60O,- 900; total men in the army, 4,000, ,000; men who went overseas, 2,086, 6,000; men who fought in France, 1890, 0,000; greatest number sent in one month, BOG, 6,000; greatest number returning in one month, 333, ,o00; tons of sup plies shipped from America to France, r 7,500,0 ,00O; total men registered in draft, 24,234, ,021; total draft indac- tions, 2,810,296; graduates of line of lficers' training schools, 80,468; cost of war to April 30, 1919, S21 1850 ,O00,. 1000; cost of army to April 30, 1919 ISIS, ,930, ,000, ,0OO; battles fought by American troops, IS; months of Amer. Iican participation in the war 19; days of battle, 200; days of duration o1 Meuse-Argonne battle, AT; Americans lin that battle, 1,200, 900; American casualties in Meuse-Argonne, 120, ,000 American battle deaths, 5O,000; Amer Jeans wounded in war, 5000; Ameri can deaths from disease, 56,991; tota deaths in the army, 112,422.
 The total battle deaths of all na tions in this war were greater thai Iall the deaths in all the wars in tn, lprevious hundred years.
 In the American army the casualt, rate in the infantry was higher thai in any other service, and that for of Ificers was higher than that for men For every man killed ip battle seve, were wounded. Five out of every si , Imen sent to hospitals on account Q wounds were cured and returned t duty.
 In this war the death rate from dis ease was lower and the death rat from battle was higher than in m other previous American war. Inoc ulation, clean camps, safe drinkin water, practically eliminated typhoi fever among our tnoops.
 i, Among each 100 American citizen , five took up arms in defense of tn country. During the Civil war 2,400 IO0O men served in the northern armia or in the navy. In that struggle, say Colonel Ayres, 10 in each 100 inhab tants of the northern states serve as soldiers or sailors. The America effort in the war with Germany ma be compared with that of the nortf ern states in the Civil war by notin that in the present war we raise twice as many men in actual nun bers, but that in proportion to the pol ulation we raised only half as man.
 It would be next to impossible t make comparisons between the nun bers in the American armies durin the recent war and those of Franc,
 Great Britain, Italy and German.
 The reason of the difficulty lies i
 the military policies of the nations.
 ItRRs the policy of France, for e,
 ampfs, to mobilize and put into un form most of the able-bodied men
 the population who were not beyor
 middle age. Some of these men SCI
 into the combatant forces and servic'
 of supply of the active armies. Tho lsands of others were put at work munition factories and on railroad