Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1921-11-04
COST OF ONE BATTlEsHiP
WOULD BUILD FOUR
STATE UNIVERSITIES

What may be one of the epochal
events In history ia the coming con-
ference in Washington to discuss in.
ternational disarmament. For four
years the world was one vast inferno
in which the destinies of the world
were being forged anew, and II the
burden of armament can be cast aside
the 10,000.000 lives lost In the strug.
gle will not have been In vain. The
| United States was In the struggle
from April. 1917. and the armistice
signed November IL, 1918, and yet in
the period OF preparation from July,
1914, when the European struggle be.
gan, to 1919 the United States spent
more than from 1875 to 1914, our ma
tional debt increased twenty-five fold.
and now out OF every dollar of federal
taxation about 96 cents goes directly
or indirectly for wars, past, present
or future.
We went into the struggle to save
the world for democracy. and have
now developed militarism of our
own. under the guise of self-defense
against a yellow peril. II you don't
believe we have a militarism, make a
few observations as to the establish
ments here In Champaign county. and
exercise your own Judgment as to the
probable cost of maintaining them.
Democratic aspirations In Egypt. In.
dia, and Corea are repressed by ma
chine guns, while Japan has got away
with the loot from her own allies, in
Shantung, Vladivostok and other
points. and we resent Japanes Mon.
roe Doctrine while South America re.
sents our own.
In fact, until We get the view point,
that the black man and the yellow
man are as good as the white man,
we cannot expect TO make much pro-
gress. Race and religious prejudice
are rampant. Heaven is not an ex.
elusive reservation for a white mans
paradise. Until we can love all PEG,
pies, and divest ourselves from al.
legged superiority of color can we hope
10 progress Then may the day ap-
proach when our swords may be beat
into plough shares and pruning hooks
But to bring home few facts. Que
modern battleship costs $4,000. 900.
The total physical valuation of the
University of Illinois Is about S10.000..
900. and Is one of the larger univer.
stiles of the United tSates. and yet one
battle ship will build four universi.
ties, and this every ten years. which Is
about the average life of our fighting
craft. The cost of one ship will build
an lS.foot hard road from Chicago to
| New York or from Chicago to New Or.
leans. and one shot from one OF the
large guns will pay professors sal.
airy for one year.
The cost of one battle will build IS
stadiums like the one to be built at
the University of Illinois.
The cost OF one battleship will pay
a salary in excess OF $1,000 for one year
to every man. woman and chiidr in
Champaign and Urbana il will buy
100000 flivvers, or a million suits OF
clothes at $40 per suit.
The world is grooming under the
system of competitive armament
| Taxation in Great Britain Is greater
| than here. Marks in Germany, nor
mally worth 90 cents, are worth 7-i0
OF l cent in Poland 3-l00 OF / cent
this the result of the wastage of war
/ We must fight further armament OF
/ fms may soon be written to Anglo
Saxon supremacy. for Europe will not
| recover in a generation from the re.
cent conflict while Asia In just awak.
ening-and one country alone, China,
has one-fourth OF the human race.
Contributed.