Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-07-20

A SIGNIFICANT OPINION FROM JUDGE
GARY.

Judge Ebert H. Gary's opinion that the end
of the great war cannot be far off is no casual
expression. He is familiar with the tremendous
industrial factors involved in a war of the mag
nitude of that now raging, and when he speaks
of the approaching exhaustion of the belliger-
ents, he speaks with authority.
AT the beginning of the conflict, British
statesman said that the alliance with the last
hundred million dollars would win, meaning
that it could ontlast its opponents in the pur-
chase of war-supplies and in keeping moving
the juggernaut of war. So desperate and prof
ligate have been the struggles of the combat
ants that already there are signs of a consid-
cradle diminution in war supplies. The per
iods of quiescense on the various fronts appear
to be lengthening and the periods of heavy
fighting lessening. Both sides are admittedly
straining every effort to keep at highest speed
the machinery of production. The mechanical
and human elements in the output of war mu-
nitions and materials are pushed to their limit.
And the strain is beginning to tell on the hui
man machinery. Hints Of labor unrest are com
ing from the great Krupp works in Essen; the
troubles among the British workmen are no
secret The warning nations cannot indefinite
~ raise funds at home or abroad After year
of such spendthrift combat as the world has
never before seen, the fnanciers and econo-
mists, if not the admirals and generals, know
that there are limits to the mechanical re-
sources, though youths and old men may be
drafted from. their homes to exc out the failing
human supply in the field
Judge Gary s prediction of prosperity for the
United States, his shrewd comment that dema-
gogic attacks on business merely because it is
Business are no longer popular, are. sencour
aging. He does not speak with ranc6f of the
past but with hope for the future. He is one
of America $ business optimists.
The United States Steel Corporation, eoms
monty called the steel trust, Is the biggest
corporation in America. Its operations reflect
the personality of the big men who run it. A
year or two ago a financial writer imam article
on The New Democracy in Business pointed
to Judge Gary as one of the conspicuous ex-
amples Of success in modern business enter
prise won by energy, intelligence, and a
square deal" for his fellowsfian. 1t would
be strange indeed if Judge Gary should not be
democratic in business. His boyhood environ
me1,t was typically American He is some
what of small-town product, with its tradi-
ton of social equality In early life he was
president of the village for three terms and
later mayor of the city of Wheaton, Ill.,, for two.
terms In this place Of his birth he grew up
amid surroundings that made for democracy
IN his relations. A long practice in law and
association with large Chicago corporations
brought to the fore his executive qualities. He
is now chairman of the United States Steel
Corporation and prominent in many large bust
ness enterprises.
Judge Gary is in Hawaii on vacation.
Hawaii welcomes him as one of the mainstays
of American industry, a personality which dis
plays qualities of which America may well be
proud.