The Washington herald., 1917-05-10

A thing that counted upon
| When l first put this uniform on.
Saying which the Gilbert and Sullivan
hero used to pelt his erotic opposite with
S9.75 worth of roses, the fiddle played the
unfOrgettable Gilbertian melodies and the
audience went away with definite con-
viCtiOn that a uniform is something to
clothe a swashbuckling lover. A lover
| in working clothes must be spurious
Just now there are plenty of soldier
lovers in working clothes.
The quality Of the uniform has
! changed. Today Gilbert and Sullivan
must revise their imperishabIe lyrics.
washington-the seat of the war pulse
tells a remarkable story Of the change
in the status Of the uniform, the increas-
ing use of it and its popularity. It is as
II America has turned to a form of mill
tarism with a sense of relief from the
gray, drab colors of peace times.
Every second man on the street is a
soldier, a sailor or a marine.
Any hour of the dsylit span one may
look to the cardinal points and witness a
military spectacle.
Far out Pennsylvania avenue a troop
OF cavalry is jogging along TO some
where"
Over the brow Of the Fifteenth street
hill a battalion of infantry is swinging
along to Join the cavalry somewhere. &"
Yonder is a company of marines. the
best dressed and smartest men in the
service, bound for somewhere"
Beyond the city, camped up and down
the Conduit road, along the old Chesa-
peake Canal, far over into Virginia are
thousands Of young men, in the khaki
OF the service, awaiting the call TO
somewhere"
Each day is a spectacle and every hour
and minute a thrill.
And at night. the grim, gray War De-
partment Building blinks a thousand yell
low eyes, way into tho smaf hours Of
the morning. 1t keeps its secrets and
winks wisely.
Yet It imparts a solid confidence to
the thousands Of men IN khaki who arc
camped within sight Of the Capital, and
await the call to somewhere"
War and Business.
Boston Transc-ipt-)
The war should not hurt business. That
Is to be said deliberately and advisedly.
with this addition, that II IT does hurt
business, that will be the fault of busi-
ness men. To say that is not to mini
rnize the seriousness or the magnitude
Of the war, or its tremendous cost to this
nation. It Is merely to present an eco
nomic fact which should be quite obvi-
Business consists in the operation OF
the law Of supply and demand. That is
to say, some men produce things and
sell them to others who purchase and
consume them. That reduced to the last
analysis is all there is in business: with,
Of course. the services of those who act
as necessary Intermediates between the
two classes. When the demand is large
and the supply is adequate, business Is
good. When both demand and supply
are small. business is bad. When the
demand is large and the supply Is not
so large. prices are high, though busi-
ness is not necessarily bad. When the
demand is small and the supply is great
er, prices are low but neither is business
then necessarily bad
Now, what is the outlook for the war?
Certainly the demand for commodities
Of all kinds will not decrease. 1t will
not be small 1t will on the contrary be
larger than ever. Because of the in
creased demand abroad. It has been in
creasng steadily ever since the war be-
gan. and with our entry into the war It
will increase still more. AS for the sup
ply we see no reason for anticipa ting
any decrease On the contrary, a very
considerable increase OF It, to meet the
increased demand, is about as certain
as anything can be in human affairs.
Therefore we shall have the conditions
already described, in which the demand
is large and the supply also Is large,
whether quite adequate or not; and in
those conditions. business is good. ."
Behind the show window.
New York TimeS)