But money cannot restore the noble trees of France and Belgium, eighty years old or more, that shaded the roads, that made beautiful the parks and forests.

For military purposes they have been cut down or by artillery fire shattered into splinters.

They will again grow, but eighty years is a long time to wait.
Nor can money replace the greatest waste of all--the waste in "killed, wounded, and missing." The waste of human life in this war is so enormous, so far beyond our daily experience, that disasters less appalling are much easier to understand.

The loss of three people in an automobile accident comes nearer home than the fact that at the battle of Sezanne thirty thousand men were killed.

Few of us are trained to think of men in such numbers--certainly not of dead men in such numbers.