The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-15
GREAT INDUSTRIAL. l. LEADERS DO MUCH ID SHOW LOYALTY Press of Country Is "Tak- ing Notice" of Unjust Attacks EDITORIAL TRIBUTE
 PAID JUDGE GARY Arthur Brisbane Points to Action oi United States Steel Corporation to Show There Should Be No Class Antagonism
 
py HUGH W. ROBERTS

Washington, November 14.-(Special) The limited States Steel corporation has profted enormously from war orders, Many other corporations have likewise fared handsomely. This fact caused Cliff ford Pinchot. the bull moose socialist, to circulate an extensive article denouncing the members of the council of national defense This extensive article was franked throughout the country by SO cialist members of Congress, who were evidently imbued with a determination to array Americans in time of war against Americans-the masses against the classes, and vice versa.
 However so periodically have many of the corporations conducted themselves that newspapers of the country are taking notice' Already hope is edi- torially expressed that Congress will not begin a period of corporation batting.
 TRIBUTE TO GARY
 Tn this connection, Arthur Brisbane writes in the Washington Times the fol- lowing regarding Judge Ebert H. Gary, well known in Birmingham:
 If you see in Washington man look ing like this picture you see the head of the biggest industrial concern Tn the world, the United States Steel corpora ton that manufactures more iron ana steel than all the combined plants or the German empire. And it does all the work, not part of it. from the ore in the ground to the highly finished products plates for battleships, fabricated painted 1u.. lx-l-x
 ..The interesting thing about Judge Gary just now to the public is the fact that the big corporation over which he presides as chairman of the board is the largest individual subscriber to the hb- erty bonds in the United States.
 .sIn the first issue. the United States Steel company, through Judge Gary, bid for $5o.ooo,o00 of liberty bonds, and on the second issue for sisooo,00o, total of s9s cOo. eco.
 This might be called substantial across the water.
 'It is known that before the United States entered the war, the United States Steel corporation, in spite of constant urging, declined to organize on an ann munition making basis. The company could have made gigantic profits. had it chosen to neglect the countrys regular of iron and steel, and make it. self specialist in ammunition for for eigA countries. But this was not done.
 Tt was said on behalf of the United States Steel corporation that if the Unit ed States got into the war, all the re- sources of the steel company would be concentrated on United States business. Meanwhile. the company went along in the usual way.
 AFTEI. WAR PROBLEM
 ''Consress will observe that when this War enGs ar important part of it's work will be tc study the after the war prob lem of American industries.
 Many American soldiers necessarily will be dead and crippled when the war ends. All the more reason why Aineri-s can industries should not be killed. or crippled by unwise tariff legislation after the wal. but ready and able to provide well-iaid employment for all men re- leased from the army
 ..Mllst we have hitherto called great industrial combinations will be as noth- ins after the war. For when the war
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