The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-01-20
WHAT DO YOU KNOW
 ABOUT THE WAR?

The war cost the people of the United States consideraly more than FS1,0O0,000 an hour for more than two tyears.
 The direct cost was about s22,o0o,- o00,000 or nearly enough to pay the Eentire cost of rAunning the United Estates government from 1791 to the outbreak of the European war.
 Our expenditures in this war were sufficient to have carried on the revo- flut1onary war continuously for more than 1000 years at a rate of expendi- tture which that war actually involv- led.
 In addition to this huge expendi- tture, nearly SIG. 1000. 900, 900 were loan The army expenditures were more than $14.0oO, 100000, or nearly two- thirds of the total war costs.
 During the first three months our $2.o00,000 "a day. During the next year they averaged more than S22,- 100000 a day. For the final ten months of thep eriod. from April. 1917, to April, 1919. the daily aver age was more than s44,O00.000.
 Despite the fact that the army ex- penditures are less than two-thirds of our total war costs. they are nearly produced in theSworld, from the dis covery of America up to the out break of the world warA
 The pay of the army during the war cost more than the combined salaries of all the public school prin- cipals and teachers in the United States for the five years from 1912 / to 1916.
 The total war costs of all nations were about $1S6,0OO,O0O,O 1000, of which the allies and the United States spent two-thirds and the enemy one-third. The three nations spending the Great Britain and France in that order. After them came the United States and Austria-Hungary, with substantially equal expenditures.
 The United States spent about one eighth of the entire cost of the war and something less than one-fifth o1 the expenditures of the allied side.
 Of every 100 American soldiers and sailors who served in the war witt Germany, two were killed died of disease during the period of hos tilities.
 The total battle deaths of all ma tions were greater than all the death: in all the wars in the previous 10( years.
 Russian battle deaths were 34 time as heavy as those of the United States those of Germany 32 times as great the French 2S times. and the British IS times as large.
 was 122,5O0, of which about 1000 were in the navy, and the rest il the army and the marines attache, to it.
 In the American army the casualt rate in the infantry was higher thai in any other service, and that fo officers was higher than for men.
 For every man killed in battle seve, were wounded. B
 Five out of every six men sent t | hospitals on account of wounds wer f cured and returned to duty.
 In the expeditionary forces 'battl losses were twice as large as deatE from disease.
 In this war the death rate from dis ease was lower, and the death rat rate from battle was higher than i any other previous American war. Inoculation, clean camps and saf drinking water. virtually eliminate typhoid fever among the troops.
 Pneumonia killed more soldier than were killed in battle. Menir sitis was the next most serious dis ease.
 Of each 100 cases of social di. eases recorded in the United State e6 were contracted before enterin the army and only four afterwart
 During the entire war, availab hospital facilities in the A. E. were in excess of the needs.
 Two out of every three America soldiers who reached France took pa in battle: The number who reache France was 2,OS4,OOO, and of thes l.s9o.ooo saw active service at tf front
 Of the AZ divisions that reache France. g took part In active con bat service. Seven of them weI regular army divisions, il were O Eanized from the National Guard, ar II were made up of national arm troops.
 American divisions were fin bait for 200 days and engaged in 1 3 maj, operations.
 / From the middle of August un the end of the war, the America divisions held during the greater pa of the time a front longer than he by the British. N
 Tn October the American divisio held 101 miles of line, or 23 per ce I of the entire western front = On the first of April the Germa