Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-03-09 | Page 5 | Uniforms for Boys are in Big Demand

UNIFORMS FOR BOYS ARE K DMQ Patriotic Young America Is Creating Great New War Industry. Salt Lake is responding to the impulse of an industry that has sprung from swaddling clothes to size and strength since the United States entered the great war--the making and sale of boys' military mili-tary suits. Where a few years ago local lo-cal stores either carried no such stocks or ordered only a few suits at long intervals, in-tervals, they are now amply supplied with full assortments in miniature of almost al-most every kind of American military apparel and equipment. Salesmen from the east who formerly at uncertain periods displayed with indifference in-difference stray samples of military wear for lads, now bring to Salt Lake trunks galore suggesting an equipment storehouse store-house for a Lilliputian army. One of these pioneers of the newly grown industry in-dustry has been in the city during the last week. Other commodities, which formerly constituted the bulk of his sample sam-ple stock, had been thrown into the discard dis-card and he filled a large apartment at the Newhouse hotel . to overflowing with undersized military apparel and paraphernalia. para-phernalia. America's allien, particularly the French and English, were not forgotten forgot-ten in the display. The proper name3 of all the odd looking belts, straps, epaulets, epau-lets, plumes and shining, but nearly harmless weapons, are missing, for just as the Joyous exponent of the war-boomed war-boomed industry was getting under way with one of his best combined patriotic and selling talks, the woman buyer of one of Salt Lake's large department stores entered and the interested interviewer inter-viewer was frowned off and away. Before Be-fore the drive of the possible big purchaser, pur-chaser, however, the bovs' military equipment salesman had said: "You know, I represent a firm clown in little old New York. We used to sell many things, but now our business is confined to military things for youngsters. young-sters. Three years ago our business in that line was a trifle, but now it is our whole business and a big one at that. What's more, it's growing right along. "The big boom came when the United States got into the war. Every boy who sees daddy in khaki wants to wear a uniform too. Every lad who lias a brother, cousin, uncle or friend in the army wishes to Imitate his dress and feels as if he, too, were helping Uncle Sam. The schools are teaching patriotism patrio-tism and the boys take to love of country coun-try and love of arms like ducks to water. Johnnie Smith gets a military suit and then Tommy Jones must have one. Following Tommy Jones come the boys of the next-door neighbors on both sides. "The beauty of it is that the military suits being made for boys now are real suits, of good cloth and guarajiteed to wear as well as any others. So the additional ad-ditional purchase Involved (iocs not mean a loss to the thousands of parents I who find they have no other way out " j