PART I
I. Economic Results of the War 1 II. Wartime Food and Price Problems 34 III. Industry and Labor in Wartime 65 IV. Government Control 87 V. The Money Cost of the War, Edwin R. A. Seligman 105 VI. American Business in the War, Grosvenor B. Clarkson 115 VII. The Liberty Loan Army, Guy Emerson 126 VIII. Food and the War, Vernon Kellogg 135 IX. The High Cost of Living, Director of the Council of 142 National Defense
PART II
I. The Peace Conference at Work, Thomas W. Lamont 149 II. Wilson's Fourteen Points 163 III. How the Peace Treaty Was Signed 165 IV. The Peace Treaty--Its Meaning to America, George W. 170 Wickersham
THE TREATY OF VERSAILLES AND THE COVENANT OF THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS
Preamble 179 Part I. The Covenant of the League of Nations 182 Part II. Boundaries of Germany 186 Part III. Political Clauses for Europe 188 Part IV. German Rights and Interests Outside Germany 206 Part V. Military, Naval, and Aerial Clauses 209 Part VI. Prisoners of War and Graves 216 Part VII. Penalties 217 Part VIII. Reparation 217 Part IX. Financial Clauses 226 Part X. Economic Clauses 229 Part XI. Aerial Navigation 246 Part XII. Ports, Waterways, and Railways 247 Part XIII. Labor 255 Part XIV. Guarantees 261 Part XV. Miscellaneous Provisions 262
Rejection of the Peace Treaty 264 The Reservations Which Failed 269 Peace by Congressional Enactment Fails 271 The Map of Europe Remade 279 Our Part in Winning the War 280
Index Text 291 Illustrations I. Portraits 363 II. General 368 Maps 383
ILLUSTRATION IN COLOR A Soldier of the Soil Frontispiece
Illustrations in this volume
Price Movements of the United States and England from the Earliest Index Numbers Through the First Years of the World War
Trend of Prices Before and After the Great Wars of History
William McAdoo
Money and the Price Level
John Pierpont Morgan
President Wilson and Rear Admiral Grayson Passing the Palace of the King in Brussels
Women Munition Workers in the International Fuse and Arms Works
Poster for Boy Scouts Who Worked for the Victory Loan
Dropping the First Bomb
A Poster Used During the Fourth Liberty Loan Campaign
Detroit--City of Automobiles
A Woman Doing Road Construction Work
A Woman Operating a Multiple Spindle Drill in an English Shell Factory
Launching the Quistconck at Hog Island
Ship-building at Camden, N. J.
Diagram Showing the Effect of the War on the Prices of Stocks
Centres of Live Stock Production Throughout the World
Members of "The Women's Land Army" in England
A Map Issued by the Food Administration to Show Food Conditions in Europe After the Signing of the Armistice
A Food Riot in Sweden
Harry A. Garfield
Drying Fruit and Vegetables to Save Tin and Glass
"Back on the Farm"
The Nations and Their Wheat Supply
A Municipal Canning Station
In the Heart of the Bethlehem Steel Plant
Forging Armor Plate
Building Howitzers
Guns and Armaments for United States and Her Allies
Plowing by Night
A War Time Warning
Women Workers in America
Samuel P. Gompers
Walker D. Hines
Building a Steel Ship in Seattle, Washington
Hog Island Ship-building Yards
Launching the City of Portland on the Columbia River, near Portland, Oregon
Examining Cargoes for Contraband
An Antidote for the Submarine Pest
The Awkward Squad
The Economic Conference in Paris
Lord Reading
While the Men Fought, Those Left Behind Bought Bonds
French School Children Waiting to Welcome General Pétain
United States Council of National Defense and Its Advisory Commission
Bernard M. Baruch
Daniel Willard
John D. Ryan
A Poster Used During the Fourth Liberty Loan Campaign
A Poster for the Third Liberty Loan Campaign
Victory Way at Night
The Battle Scene at Home
A Community Conference on Food-Saving
Will There Be Enough to Go Around?
Women Doing Night Farming
The Ore Market--Cleveland
David Lloyd George
President Poincaré With the Swiss President, M. Gustave Ador, Driving to the Peace Conference in Paris
Where the Peace Treaty Was Signed
Awaiting the Decision of the German Peace Delegates.
The George Washington
Paris Crowds Greeting President Wilson
Henry White
Count von Brockdorff-Rantzau
Victoria Hall at Geneva
William Howard Taft
Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States
President and Mrs. Wilson Waving Good Bye
President Wilson's Welcome in Paris
Sir Eric Drummond
Lord Robert Cecil
Berlin Demonstrations Against The Peace Treaty
German Press Representatives in Versailles
Dreadnoughts Welcoming President Wilson Home
M. Stephen Pichon
Henry Cabot Lodge
America's Peace Capitol in Paris
The White Flags That Meant Defeat for the German Cause and Marked the Beginning of the End of the War
Paris in War Time
Senator Philander C. Knox of Pennsylvania
Male Population Registered and Not Registered
Comparative Losses of Merchant Shipping During the War
Production of Training Planes and Engines to the End of Each Month
Number of Battle Aeroplanes in Each Army at the Date of the Armistice
Secretary of War Baker Drawing Registration Numbers
Our Flag in Alsace