Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-03
Billions to Circulate.

| "All the millions-yes, the pulons-
of dollars that have hitherto been hid
ing in savings banks accounts. yielding
to depositors, on the average an actual
| interest of less than " per cent, Will
now be in circulation, while the sub
scribers of the liberty loan Will also be
collecting their per cent interest, with
the best security in the world to guar
antee the safe return later of the full
principal.
"The reason this prosperity is not al
ready upon US is that hundreds of fac
ttories are now busy toolinS up and
| changing over their equipment prepara-
tory to starting in on big war orders.
and while this work is going on, of
course, factory hands had to be laid off.
Only the tool and pattern makers are
now working in plants that in few
weeks will be running full blast again
and employing thousands at high
wages.
| women as we'll as men will be earn
| ing fabulous wages, just they are in
| England, where the correspondents tell
us they dress more luxuriously than
ever before.
LAS for the farmers, bless your heart,
| we long since ceased to worry on their
account. If there's a privileged class in
| America, surely it is the farmer. His
| with envy. Not only does the soil and
climate of this wonderful country in
sure him big crops, as in former years.
| but now he is also guaranteed a big
price IOT oil HIS pTOuuCe.
II expect to see the demand for motor
! cars and trucks in rural sections. and
especially in the middle west, increase
by leaps and bounds. Sorry to feel we
cannot avail ourselves of that tremen-
dous demand, because of our inability
| to supply the cars.
"In this country there'u be a short
age of few commodities, and one of
| them will be motor vehicles of all
kinds. And that will be due to the
| fact that this young industry has
found itself best able to produce those
things Uncle Sam needs most at this
crisis-Army trucks, tractors for
| motoring the artillery. for tanks and
guns and munitionS-not to mention
operating mechanism for ships and
thousand other war necessities that
| call for the same speed and precision
| in manufacturing as automobiles and
motor trucks.
Predicts Great Advance.
81 expect to see at least SO per cent
further advance if the war lasts an
| other year. and if longer than that
| well. the skysis the limit.
what, with the increased cost of
labor and materials-the scarcity of
| both-and the greatly increased over
| head due to reduced manufacture,
! prices must be still further advanced.
At that we are now only up to the
prices OF four years ago. Ever stop to
| consider that? The low prices of
motor cars during the past few years
| were due to quantity production. Now
| the principle is reversed and we must
| go back to the former prices.
| There's one good thing about this
! though concluded Mr. Trew, 1.-The con-
| dition that confronts us is going to
| eliminate for all time the fool notion
that motor car is a luxury. 1t is
| going to prove that it is. in 95 per cent
| of cases an Indispensable necessity in
| this age of progress.
/ "And the need will be so keenIy felt
land the shortage of new cars so
igreat-that after a few months of
shortage price won't matter. Buyers
will no longer ask how much. but how
seen..