was built for little over half the cost of a battleship, and is maintained for three-fourths the cost of keeping her afloat.
Fifty manual training-schools could be built and equipped with necessary tools and appliances for the cost of a battleship, teaching the rudiments of a trade to 75,000 young people each year.
The cost of a few battleships wisely spent in the fight against tuberculosis in New York City, coupled with proper legislation and co-*operation of the people, would probably render this disease as rare in a generation or two as is smallpox to-day.—By courtesy of the Peace Society.
(2024)
See Armies of the World, Naval Powers
and Armaments; Navies of the World;
War and Racial Fertility.
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United States S. S. North Dakota
Forty Y. M. C. A. buildings could be built and equipped throughout for the cost of a
battleship, each building accommodating the young men in a city of 200,000 people.
One 26,000-ton battleship ($12,000,000) + 20 years' upkeep at $800,000 a year,—$28,000,000: Then the junk heap.
$28,000,000: 1,400 churches at $20,000 each, 7,000 farms at $4,000 each, a college education for 14,000 men or women at $500 a year for four years.
For past wars and
preparation for
war, $423,000,000,
or 70 per
cent.
Left for other purposes $181,000,000, or 30 per cent.
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The Way of Militarism
Which benefits a few trusts and contractors and gives temporary and uneconomical employment, but which is rapidly impoverishing the nations.
Ordinary income of the United States for 1908-09, $604,000,000.
