“When I call to mind the gold and the work thus dissipated in smoke and sound and compare that picture with this other villagers with drawn, sallow faces, men and women and dimly conscious children perishing slowly and painfully of hunger I begin to ask myself whether human culture and the white man who personifies it are not wending toward the abyss.” In “War and Waste” Dr. David Starr Jordan quotes the table of Richet to show the cost of a general European war. Per day the French statistician figures the war’s cost thus: Feed of men …………………………………. $12,600,000 Feed of horses ……………………………….. 1,000,000 Pay (European rates) ………………………….. 4,250,000 Pay of workmen in arsenals and ports ……………. 1,000.000 Transportation (sixty miles, ten days) ………….. 2,100,000 Transportation of provisions …………………… 4,200,000 Munitions Infantry, ten cartridges a day …………….. 4,200,000 Artillery, ten shots per day ………………. 1,200,000 Marine, two shots per day …………………. 400,000 Equipment ……………………………………. 4,200,000 Ambulances, 500,000 wounded or ill ($1 per day) ….. 500,000 Armature …………………………………….. 500,000 Reduction of imports ………………………….. 5,000,000 Help to the poor (20 cents per day to one in ten) … 6,800,000 Destruction of towns, etc ……………………… 2,000,000 TOTAL PER DAY …………….. $49,950,000 Chapter XX. CANADA’S PART IN THE WORLD WAR New Relations Toward the Empire—Military Preparations—The Great Camp at Valcartier—The Canadian Expeditionary Force—Political Effect of Canada’s Action on Future of the Dominion The sailing of the First Canadian Contingent on October 2, 1914, for England, en route to the theater of war, marked a noteworthy epoch in Canadian history. For the first time the Dominion took her place, not as a British colony, but as a component part of the British Empire. This position was established by the voluntary offer of expeditionary troops to be raised, equipped, and paid by Canada for the defense of the British empire. For many years a movement had been on foot to bring about this attitude on the part of the Dominion by His Majesty’s government. No such action was taken by the Dominion in the South African War, though a Canadian regiment was raised for the guarding of Halifax so that the regiment of British soldiers doing garrison duty there might be released for service at the front, and all other troops who left Canada went simply as volunteers to join the British army, though raised by the Dominion government.