Photograph by C. E. Fennell 



WHAT ONE: MILLION DOLLARS IN GOLD LOOK LIKE 



The fifty thousand twenty-dollar gold pieces in this display fill a tray il feet 3 inches 

 long, 2 feet 10 inches wide, and 2 inches deep. One hundred times this amount of money is 

 needed by the American Red Cross — a quantity of gold which would weigh 375,000 pounds 

 and would make a column of yellow discs nearly eight miles high. And yet this vast sum, 

 which is required for the alleviation of suffering and distress, is less than the amount the 

 world is spending every forty-eight hours in the prosecution of this all-destroying war. 



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