There is now profit in industry and enterprise, and financial equities have increased value." And for nearly ten years the stock market booms followed in the wake of that war boom, while construction and upbuilding went steadily forward despite agitation and restricting laws.
It would astonish Mr.Wilson and Mr.Bryan to know how many patriotic Americans are helping France and what they are doing in Red Cross and other work.

I was surprised to meet a former member of the New York Stock Exchange in a khaki uniform.

I said, "Are you still an American citizen ?" He responded promptly, "Certainly I am, but would not the boys on the floor of the Exchange be astonished to see me in this uniform ?" I said, "Were there not men enough here to do this work ?" He responded, "Possibly, but quick organization was wanted, and I volunteered and have held the job." And he was off in his high-powered automobile for a run down behind the firing line to one of the Channel ports.
As the casualties of the French have been ten times those of the English, American and English sympathizers have turned to France to see if they might "do something." An English lady with small feet and delicate hands responded to the spirit of the hour, left her English home and her servants, and went to the hospital front in France.

She wrote home: "I am helping not only to dress the wounds, but to wash dishes.

My soft hands are parboiled but hardening; my feet are sore; and my legs are swollen.