South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-09-15
Do NOT LOOK FOR
GERMANY To SHOW
At WORLD FAIR
KruppS Believed Behind Move
to Keep Manufacturers
AWay-BureauCratS Said to
Have Prompted England's
Refusal.
BY FREDERICK WERNER.

BERLIN, Sept. 14.-To exhibit or
not TO exhibit in San Francisco con-
tinues TO be the great question here
and if the newspapers are TO be be-
lieved the latter opinion is held by
none but the autocratic bureaucracy.
which took it upon itself to declare
that German manufacturers did not
feel the least inclined TO exhibit in
the city OF the Golden Gate.
There is not the slightest doubt here
that bureaucrats who are in the habit
of deciding everything for the German
people were prompted by England's
refusal TO participate in the San Fran
cisco fair. But the German people
are growing daily more indignant be-
cause the impression has been created
abroad that Germany is satisfied to
follow in the wake OF England
The governments Is very eager to
prove that the decision was only
reached after taking council with the
leading German manufacturers. but II
has only succeeded in proving that the
krupps were asked to give an opin-
ion. and although in certain circles
the creed prevails that "Krupp and
the state are the same thing" as one
of the accused testified during the
krupp trial, this opinion is not shared
by the Gemran people
krupp Attitude.
That the Krupp's are not interested
in the great American exhibition is
easily understood, for America has a
few similar concerns of her own and
there is no prospects of the sale of
guns and armOrplates in San Fran
cisco
Practically all other German manu-
facturers agree. that. in refusing to
participate in an exhibition which in
augurates a new epoch in the history
of the world, the government has
committed a most serious blunder.
Almost every independent paper Of
importance in the country has en-
phasized the fact that after England's
refusal Germany's acceptance of their
initiation TO exhibit would have been
doubly welcome to the United States
and the foundations might have been
laid of a friendly feeling towards
Germany whose results might be far
reaching especially at a time when
the United States are on the point Of
revising their tariff
IL is said that the kaiser is greatly
annoyed with the action of the Ger
man bureaucracy and that he fully
endorses the views of his friend
Herr Ballin Of the Hamburg American
! line, who is one of the most ardent
champions of the idea that. in spite
of the official action, German manu-
facturers should send as many repre-
sentative exhibits to San Francisco as
they possibly can. because the exhibit
ton is of far greater importance than
any worlds exhibition ever held be-
fore.
Accuse Balm.
1t is not to be wondered at that the
part of the German press which is
controlled or influenced by the bu-
reaucracy should have come forward
with the accusation against Herr Bal
| lin, that his action is dictated solely
| by personal motives, that he knows on
which side his bread is buttered. or
| in other words that the Hamburg
American line will gain enormously if
German manufacturers decide TO ex-
hibit
At first sight there seems to be
some strength in this argument but
| Herr Balm has promptly knocked
all the wind out of it,
The Hamburg American line he as
serts. stands to gain nothing direct
from German representation in San
| Francisco. On the contrary il will
undoubtedly be asked to transport
| thousands OF tons of exhibits free Of
| charge between Hamburg and New
York and will be prepared to grant
many of these applications. 1t is fur
thermOre quite likely that thousands
/ of Americans who under ordinary cir
| cumstances are in the habit of visit
| ing Europe every year will go to San
: Francisco instead in 1915 via the new
| Panama canal and that the number Of
passengers travelling first and second
class on the Hamburg American line $
boats will be quite perceptibly smaller.
He does not try to prove that Ger
! man shipping may not be ultimately
! benefited by the representative Ger
man exhibits in San Francisco, result
{ ing in the opening Of the new markets
! to German industrial products. but
| here the shipping companies will only
! get their fair share of a boon that Will
/ benefit the whole country. and this
| should certainly not in fairness be
used as an argument against partici-
| patton in the exposition.
! PERU-The Island Creek Lumber
/ Co. has been incorporated with So
| 600 capital and will begin mining for