The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1920-01-29
RECENT WAR COST
HEAPS OF MONEY
UNITED STATES SPENT $4,000.
100000 OR MORE.
Some Figures Given.
Government Has to Buy Great Guam
titles of Stuff to Care for Sol
diers and Sailors.

Washington, January 25.-If the
$22,OCO,O 100000 that the war cost the
| United States were counted in silver
| dollars, it would take man counting
| 72 a minute, working eight hours
day, 1744 years to count them. This
| is one of the odd items referred to by
Representative Clarence McGregor Of
New York in a statement of Interest
| ing Facts Concerning the War; pre-
sented in the house of representa-
tives.
These dollars, if laid side by side,
he said, would stretch 520,833 miles;
their weight would be 6S7,500 short
tons, and loaded on box cars of 40
tons capacity, they would make
train of 17,1S7 cars of 130 miles in
length.
There were delivered to the war
department up to May 81, 1918, 131,-
100000 pairs of wool socks, S5,000,-
900 undershirts, S3,O0O,O00 under
drawers, 3O,700,000 pairs of shoes,
21, 900 blankets, 21,7O0,O00 wool
trousers, 100000 coats, 100000
overcoats.
Army supplies and property that
the United States had in France cost
1,426, 100000 and were sold to
France for s400, 100000. Some of
the items, with cost price to the Unit
ed States, were: Flour, SIS, 5,500,000;
bacon, SAL, ,300,000; beef, s58,900,-
900; coffee, s6,500,000; sugar, $3,-
100000; flannel shirts, SIT, 100000;
underwear, s25,551 900; shoes, $685.
SS0,O00; socks, s9,000,000; blank
cts, $12,400,000. Included in the
sale to France were S9,199 motor We
hicles costing the United States $780,
799,694.
Seventy-five per cent. of the entire
leather production of the country was
used during the war. With $4,000
horses in the army, orders were CIV
en- to the procurement division to
contract for $4,000 saddles and l.
100000 sets of harness. If all the
orders had been filled it would have
taken 100000 more hides than the
entire takeoff of the United States for
a year.
The total cost of the war to all
nations was about S1S6,000,000,000.
The expenditures of the United States
were about $4,000, 100000. The ex-
penditures of the United States were
about equal to those Of Austria-Hun-
gary. During the first three months
we spent at the rate of S2,O00,00O
per day; during the next year the
average was more than $22,00O,00O
per day. For the final ten months
the average was over $44,000,000
per day. The total expenditures OF
the army itself was s14,214,061 900.
This about equals the value of all
the gold produced in the world from
the discovery of America up to the
outbreak of the war. The item of pay
for the army is larger than the COM
bined salaries of all the public school
principals and teachers in the United
States for the five years from 1912
to 1915. ,
The number of men serving in the
armed forces of the United States du-
ing the war was 100000, of whom
100000 served in the army. In the
United States there were 100000
males, and of these 26,000.000 We're
registered in the draft or were al
ready in the service. Two out of every.
three American soldiers who reached
France took part in battle. The bat
tie losses were $4,000 killed and 1885,
900 wounded. Five out of every six
men sent to hospitals on account OF
wounds were returned to duty. The
death loss from all causes among
American forces was 122,500 Of
which about 10000 came from the
navy. Pneumonia killed more SOL
diers than were killed in battle.