The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-06-28
Graphic Presentation of the
War Figures Made for
the War Department
800, 900 AMERICANS
SAW BATTLE SERVICE
Army Expenditures Equal ALI the Gold
ELned in the World from Discovery
of America Until Outbreak of the
War-Other Figures.

WASHINGTON, June 2S.-The part
that the United States took in the wiA-
ming of the European war is graphically
set forth III Statistical Summary of the
War with Germany, the publication OF
which was authorized by the war depart
of $50 pages, profusely illustrated with
maps and diagrams 1t was compiled by
Colonel Leonard p. Ayers, L. S. A, the
chief of the statistics branch of the gen
eral staff in Washington.
The war cost America S2l, $4,000 900,
or approximately 100000 an hour, and
of the total Sl3, $50 ,O00, 900 went for army
expenses. The total armed force of the
country when the armstice was signed
Nov. IL last was 100000 men, of whom
100000 were in the navy, and the rest
IN the navy, marine corps, and other
| branches
| The number of men sent overseas was
| 2,0s6, 600, and of these $4,000 saw battle
service In the Meuse-Argonne battle,
the greatest operation in which Perish
| ing's men participated, the number OF
men engaged was 100000 The casual
lies il. the engagement were 10000 Off
| GERS and men eThe battle deaths in the
war were about $4,000, the wounded to
tailed approximately 100000, and the
deaths from disease 56,99l up to April 80
The supplies shipped from the United
States to France amounted to 7,500.00l
tons in the 10 months that the American
forces were in action The number o
men registered for the draft was "a, 234,
I oil, and of these 2,Sl0,296 were inducteC
into service, the largest number mducteC
in a single month being 100000
So far as the United States was con
cerned, the cost is summarized as fol
lows:
Il The war cost the United State
considerably more than 81 100000 an hou
for over two years.
- The direct cost was about 81, 900,
100000 or nearly enough to pay the en-
tire cost of running the ITRited State
government from 1871 up TO the outhrea
OF the European war.
% Our expenditures in this war wer
7 sufficient to have carried on the Revolt
: tionary war continuously for more tina
> 600 years at the rate of cxpenditur
t which that war actually involved.
=, II In addition to the huge expend
] ture nearly SI00O0,0O0,00O have bee
e loaned by the United States to the a
( lies
5. The army expenditures have bee
u over Sl4,000,000G0o or nearly twothird
Il of our total war costs.
: &c. During the first three months on
s war expenditures were at the rate
II S2,000,Q eco per day During the next yea
II they averaged more than SD 900 600
;, day For the final 10 months OF Il
n period. from April 1917, to April l9l
/ the daily average was over Sf4, 100000
E =. Although tho army cxpenditur,
Y are less than two-tlfrds Of our total v;
u costs, they are nearly equal to the val,
le Of all the gold produced in the who
u world from the discovery of America l
to the outbreak OF the European war.
IS. The pay OF the army during Il
war cost more than the combined 81
aries Of all the public school principa
e and teachers in the United States f
r the five years from 1912 to 1916"