Arizona republican., 1921-11-28
(War's Destruction Made Visibiel
 By Dr. l. L. Garrison

By pr. l. L. Garrison
 Once upon a time the world went to war to check an idea. No one had really foreseen the awful con sequences. One after another the nations answered the call. until m ally all were more or less actlVely involved. The direct and indirect loss in blood and treasure will never be known. but reliable statistlcians have place l the monetary loss. and the numerical loss in lives sacrl- feed at such enormous figures, thai in order for us common mortals 10 get any conception of its immenslty we must clothe the monster in a dress. that every one may see and feel and hear and fear. The dlglts 260, 1000, 900 000.00 dollars, and 10,oOo,- 600 men mean nothing to the great majority of us. We hope to correct the defect in the following simple calculation:
 We will take the common Amerl- can silver dollar as our unit Of measure for our lengths, widths and l thickness. It is very important to get this unit we'll fixed in the mind, | and thoroughly test the following statements if we are to believe the re- sulting conclusions. that we are com l pelled to come to in this simple ram | ble in the mystic field of mathe- matics. money and wars wanton de- struction.
 Eight silver dollars laid down on line cover one foot in length, then eight rows of eight silver dollars each, side by side. cover approximately one square foot, or SxS being sixty four dollars to each square foot or surface to be covered.
 l ,,,.onoea fo naUa biph- way, twenty feet wide on parallel | of north latitude forty five; this line is to be considered twelve thousand miles long. or reaching entirely around the earth at this latitude; there is more or less subtle purpose of placing the highway here, as this is the center of the hemisphere in 1 which most of the wars of the past have been waged, and where most of world sentiment is born.
 In one mile. there are five theus- and two hundred and eighty feet;
 in twelve thousand miles there are
 52Sxf2, GOO or sixty three million three
 hundred sixty thousand linear feet;
 this by one foot wide gives an eaua number of square feet; now a roa6 twenty feet wide would be 20x63, ,36o.-
 900 square feet or one billion. tws , hundred and sixty-seven million, twt
 hundred thousand square feet. Al
 each one of these squares is to- b' !. paved with sixty-four silver dollars
 it will take 64x1 267 100000 or eighty one billion, one hundred million, eigh
 hundred thousand dollars.
 Now we will divide our imperia
 highway into spaces or stalls fiv
 feet wide by six and one-third fee
 long: five feet into twenty gives u | cfo rx-f5 scix
 into sixty-three billion. three hun ] dred and sixty thousand gives ap
 proximately ten million stalls il ] length. Four times ten million give us 4x10, 100000 or forty million stall:
 Now we propose to make a silve horse full calvary size and place
 in one of these spaces; as we ar
 not accustomed to making horse out of silver dollars it is pretty har
 to throw in just the necessary mum
 ber.. but as we may recast these an make them cover more space. we wi i throw in three thousand silver dol N lars to make each horse: this tran lsaction takes forty million times thre . thousand dollars if we are to have horse for each one of our stalls (
 40. 900. .000x3, ,000 equals only on hundred twenty billion dollars; br
 it is worth every dollar of thi :, amount as we must have this man horses.
 Calvary horses without saddle
 would be an anomaly in war equiT
 ment. so we needs must have sad
 dle. and bridle for each of ol
 horses: to be liberal. we will tal
 three hundred for each outfit; tn
 absorbs 300x4o. .000.0o0 or twelve bi
 lion dollars
 Now in order to satisfy our ides
 of military pomp and splendor, '
 must have riders for our beautif horses; a rider of a silver hor, VI without a silver coat of mail si \ yer helmet with visor and silv | gloss, and solid silver boots. wou
 spoil our real purpose in giving tn IS little calculation ;so we will cor F struct them all. For this, in ord ,- to get the most artistic effect, < - allow one thousand dollars for ea' .s outfit; this takes of our remainil 7g horse 4o,00d 000x1000 or forty b ,s lion dollars.
 We cannot have real riders on re ,ir cavalry horses without some symt
 of the struggles of the past: not m ing could be more symbolic or a at propriate than solid silver swor 'a1 so we will make for each rider $ ir yer sword; for this we allow 0 ,,- hundred and fifty silver dollars. u -i- takes 40.000.000 X 150 or six billi -. dollars.
 ell s IVY coihe to tne pilldole ps nd sust oi wars ,sf Wailson IIl, uestruceioh' S fix thi,s- ,,, IIiS baad ,s a,a .s priceless; so we are under