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H6HT rAQU - - V''" ' -jr svl.At4V- S :;7V'V 'THE 'INDEPENDENCE PAGE WiN.O. PROFESSIONAL COLUMN. VfTTTTTTTTTTTTl "V" I'TTTTTf DR. ELLSWORTH THE VTEERINARIAN 10th and II. Streets. . ... Phone M 3122. -..H..t4. SWOPE & SWOPE Lawyers I. 0.0. F. Building Independence, .. Ore. WHY WORRY ABOUT your : noon lunch ozm these- f busy days when you can get a quick meal at the PALACE Main street. Lunches from 11 a. ml until 2 p.m. and from 5 p. m. tin- til 12 p. m. FLETCHER & BARRICK, ATTORNEY'S Cooper Building INDEPENDENCE, .. OREGON. FEDERAL FARM LOANS ' 5'-A Intrest 346 years time Prompt and efficient service.. Oregon National Farm Loan Association Largest in the Northwest " A. C. Bohrnstead, Secy-Treas 401 Masonic Temple, Salem,Or TIME CARD ON VALLEY & SELITZ RAILWAY. Elective Sunday June 29th The Valley & Sileta Railroad will run a train leaving Independence at 7.45 a. m. going through to Camp One arriving there 10 a. m. 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I First-Class "Worknianshipi , , - SIGN " AND - PICTORIAL PAINTING Tinting and House Painting. Leave Your Order with PHONE M 5211 ENTERPRISE, IHDHMIPMO OBMO FIGURES OF AMERICA'S PART IN WAR PASS ALL FORMER RECORDS Col. Leonard P. Ayers Prepares a Remarkable Statistical Summary Showing Comparative Costs In Men, Money and Material for All the Countries Engaged Cost to the United States Is $22,000,000,000. , Washington. The wnr cost the United States directly about $22,000, 000,000, or nearly enough to pay. the entire cost of running the American government from 1T91 up to the out break of the European war. For every hundred American soldiers and sail ors who served in the war with Ger many two were killed or died of dis ease during the period of hostilities. The number of men serviug In the armed forces of the nation during the war was 4,800,000, of whom 4,000,000 served In, the army. These facts are set forth In a sta tistical summary of "The "War With Germany," compiled under the direc tion of Col. Leonard P. Ayers, elder of the statistics branch of the general staff of the army. This summary, just published by Colonel Ayers by direction of the sec retary of war, is a complete review of America's participation in the war against Germany condensed into less than 150 pages. It is a detailed sum mary of American military operations, and yet the long statistical tables usually found 1U official reports are entirely lacking. Col. Leonard P. Ayers is the only of ficer from civilian life who has risen to the position of chief of a division of the general staff. Before the war he was a director of the Russell Sage Foundation. He was chief statistical officer of the peace -committee. After his return here he received the dis tinguished service medal.- Some of the Figures. Some of the statistical summaries In the report show : The war cost the United States con siderably more than 51,000,000 an hour for over two years. America's expenditures in the war were sufficient to have carried on the Revolutionary war continuously for more than a thousand years at the rate of expenditure which that war actually Involved. During the first three months ex penditures were at the rate of ?2,000, 000 a day. During the next year they averaged more than $22,000,000 n day. For the final ten months the daily average was over $44,000,000. The total war costs of all nations were about $180,000,000,000, of which the allies and the United States spent two-thirds and the enemy one-third. The three nations spending the greatest amounts were Germany, Great Britain and France, in that or der. After them come the United States and Austria-Hungary, with sub stantially equal expenditures. The United States spent about one- eighth of the. entire cost of the war Orphaned Fawn Adopts Man as Its Guardian Williamsport, ' Pa. George Hummel, a resident of Liberty, while fishing at the head of Gray's run, heard a fawn bleat ing in the woods up the moun tain side, and upon investiga tion came upon a strange sight. On the ground lay a dead doe with a dead fawn by her side, while a live fawn stood guard nearby. The live" animal had worn a path where It had trot ted around the body of the moth er. There were no bullet holes in the carcass. Mr. Hummel had some cookies in his pocket which he fed to the little fawn, and the animal followed him home, apparently content ,that it. had found a friend. Mr. IIum-: mel reported the case to a game protector and Is caring for the fawn. j. and something less than one-fifth of the expenditures of the allied side. Tho total battle deaths of nil na tions In this war were greater llmu nil deaths In all the wars lu the previous hundred years. Russlau buttle deuths were 34 times as heavy as those of the United States, those of Germany 32 times as great, France 28 times and tlio Brit ish IS times as large. Infantry Suffered Most. In the American army the casualty rate in the Infantry was higher than in any other service, and that for oili cers was higher than for men. For every man killed In battle seven were wounded. Five out of every six men sent to hospitals ou account of wounds wore cured and returned to duty. Pneumonia killed more soldier than were killed in battle. Meningitis win the next most serious disease. Tho British sent more men to France In their first year of wnr than we did In our first year, but it took England three yenrs to reach a strength of 2,000,000 men In France, and the United States accomplished it in one-half of that time. In the physical examinations the states of the middle West made the best showing. Country boys did better than city boys, white better than col ored and native better than foreign born. Most of the troops who sailed for France left New York. Half of thorn landed In England and the other half In France. Of every 100 Americans who went over, 49 went In British ships, 43 in American ships, three in Italian, two in French nnd one. In Russian ship ping under English control. American cargo ships averaged one complete trip every 70 days and troop ships one complete trip every 35 days. The cargo fleet was almost entirely American. It reached the size of 2, 000,000 deadweight tons, and carried to Europe about 7,500,000 tons of cargo. Work of Engineers. American engineers built In France 83 new ship berths, 1,000 miles of standard gauge track and 538 miles of narrow gauge track. The 6ignnl corps strung In France 100,000 miles of telephone nnd tele graph wire. Trior to the armistice 40.000 trucks were shipped to the forces In Frnnce. Construction projects In the United States co"st twice as much as the Pana ma canal, nnd construction overseas was on nearly twice as large a scale. The entire number of American ma chine guns produced to the end of 1918 was 227,000. The Browning machine guns are be lieved to be more effective than the corresponding weapons used In any other army. American production of rifle ammu nition amounted to approximately 3, 500,000,000 rounds, of which 1,500,000, 000 rounds were shipped overseas. The number of rounds of complete artillery ammunition produced In American plants was In excess of 20, 000,000, compared with 9,000,000 rounds secured from the French and British. In the first 20 months after the dec laration of. war by each country the British did better , than the. United States in the production of light artil lery, and the United States excelled them In producing heavy artillery uud both light and heaty ammunition. ' At the end of the war American pro duction of smokeless powder was 45 per cent greater tbnathe French nnd British production , combined.. The American production of high explo sives"was 40 per- cent greater than Great Britain's and nearly double that of France. " Out ' of every hundred days that .- ; .., ! u in u .iwri aff9w,ri2J STUDIES U. S. EUUi.iu.ui. ..HSftTEl-!! I 11 rTOS3;3 - A i cv op,.,.!,,, ,,m mmm I I1(.t sullVr nUl.o r.lt of N&tS i tl. Kr..wiii!,' iinHrtaiH'iM.f W-l I the litilo kilclicn panhi. ,"' . Iff A The G-E Electric Range j '1 . v x Iff ij nllWs m.,1. privet heat ronlrot iUl any imal cm, I I r - jj OMlUl ,y ii,0 dork" without f"r id Ik-iiib i,nl . j I N s sT ' 2 Telephone Main 6011 and aik about our who! jrtar pay plan. VlV.;.1) Mountain States Power Co - - m ' . I 1 ine BRITISH-AIRSHIP PREPARING TO FLY TO INDIA pfiM fit Sx.C Tho R-33, sister ship to the R-34 which recently made the flight to the United States and back to England, Is reported to be making preparations for a flight to India. The photograph shows drums being hoisted aboard the R-33 prior to the airship's 31-hour trip over the British Isles. Insert is a portrait of Cupt. M. G. Thomas, her commander. Pr. Salas Marehan. prominent t'hll pan scholar, wln with his wife Is la this country stu.lvtni; the t-diK'nt Imnil system for the benellt of Ms govern-ment. American combat divisions were li; lino In France they were supported by their own artillery for 75 ilnys, by British artillery for live days mid by French for one and a half days. In round numbers, Amcrii'M had In j France S,o(K) pieces of artillery, of j I which nearly .100 were made In Ainer-j lea, and Americans used on the lltinn line 2,250 pieces, of wldcti over lmt were made In America. Airplane Production. When the United States entered the; war the allies made the designs of their planes available to Americans,' and before the end of hostilities fur-1 nlshed from their own manufacture. 3,800 service planes. , Aviation training schools In tin United States graduated 8,(!o2 men from elementary courses and 4.0JSI from advanced courses. Mnre than 5, 000 pilots and observers w ere sent , overseas. i There were produced In tin? United States to November .'SO, litis, more j than 8,000 training planes and more than 10,000 training engines. . The American air force at the front grew from three squadrons In April to 45 in November, 11)18. (in November 11 the 45 squadrons had an equipment of 740 planes. Of 2,098 planes sent to the zone of the advance for American aviators, 007, or nenrly one-fourth, were of American production. American air squadrons brought down In combat 755 enemy plunes, wliile their own losses of planes num bered only 357. American divisions were In battle for 200 days and engaged In 13 major operations. From the middle of August, until the end of the war the American divisions hold during the greater part of the time a front longer than that held by the British. In October the American divisions hold 101 miles of lino, or 23 per cent of tho entire western front. In the battle of St Mililel 550,000 Americans were engaged, compared with about 100,000 on the northern side in the buttle of Gettysburg. The artillery fired more than 1,000,000 shells, In four hours, which is the most Intense concentration of artillery flre recorded in history. The Mcuse-Argonne bntlle lasted for 47 days,' during which 1,200,000 Ameri can troops were engaged. Independence National Bank OFFICERS. 11. H1RSC11BERG, I'res. IRA D. MIX, Ca.hier. W. SEARS, Vic-Pre, INCORPORATED 1889. Transacts a General Hanking Bunlneiii Interest Paid on Tim Depo DIRECTORS H. Uirschbcrg, W. II. Walker, D. W. Scars, I. A. Allen Otis D. Butler. WRESTLING PARSON IN ARMY Soldiers Throwny by Chaplain Currie of Second Division Promise to Go to Church. With, the American Forces In Ger many. Chaplain K. S. Currie of the Second division bus become known among the American forces on the IUiiuo as "the wrestling parson" In his go-to-church campaign, which ), inaugurated recently among the sol diers. .Chaplain Currie has been putting on an exhibition In Loutesdorf every night the last few weeks, and ouch man bo throws promises to induce five other soldiers to accompany him to church the Sunday following the wrestling match. The contests have been heM th(, Letitesdorf playhouse. Chaplain Cur rie has been taking on different men from the Third battalion of tho sixth mnptnnll sinrY. hll.t ' ' vu mum. UCports t () chaplain's office of the Second vision say mat Chaplain Can Deen winning about 75 the matches. 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