JFK+50: Volume 7, No. 2430
US STEEL CHAIR PREDICTS LONG & BLOODY WARChicago, Illinois (JFK+50) One hundred years ago today, September 12, 1917, the chairman of the board of directors of United States Steel Corporation, Elbert H. Gary*, said he believed that the United States "is engaged in a war that will continue to be long and bloody."
The steel chairman said...
"I don't see how either side...can make terms which would be acceptable by or...to the other side."
Judge Gary, who arrived here in Chicago after a tour of Alaska, Glacier National Park and the Canadian Rockies, went on to predict that Russia would be "a big factor" in the world war.
*Elbert Henry Gary (1846-1927) was born in Wheaton, IL & educated at Wheaton University & Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law. EHG served as a county judge 1882-1890 & practiced law in Chicago for 25 years.
Gary, Indiana was named in honor of Judge Gary & he served as chairman of the committee on steel of the Council of National Defense in 1917.
SOURCE
"E.H. Gary Thinks Long and Bloody War Is Likely", Chicago Daily Tribune, September 13, 1917.
Judge Elbert Henry Gary
Bain News Service (1915)
Library of Congress Photo
