The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-19
Seminary Baccalaureate
 Sermon Sunday
THE HUDSON EXERCISE
Baccalaureate Address Delivered Sun- day Night by the Rev. Richard Hall Before the Marion
 Institute Graduates
By CHARLES n. cARTER

Jefferson and Fdanklin Literary societies of the Marion institute, that were attend ed by large number of pupils of the seminary, Judson and early visitors to the different institutions.
 Sunday morning the commencement sermon for the Marion Female seminary was delivered at the Presbyterian church by the Rev. I. F. Swallow of Bessemer. The seminary Is one of the institutions of the Alabama synod. and has enjoyed unusual patronage since its re-establish- ment few years ago.
 The music at the morning service was rendered by the music department of the seminary under the direction of Miss Chamberlin. The student body entering the church singing Onward, Christian Soldiers following the Scripture read
 Ing and prayer. Miss Morgan sang, Thou That Killest the Prophets;' and after the announcements Miss Perkins and Miss Marlborough sang duet, The Lord Is My Shepherd" The Rev. Swallows ser mon was well adapted to the occasion, and was given with much zeal, and em- brsced strong plea for the continued work of Christian education among the young women of the denomination as well
 
 Miss Chamberlin, the director of mu- sic. concluded the service with solo, After the Cross the Crown.
 Last night the baccalaureate address for the Marion intsitute was delivered at the Baptist church by the Rev. Rich ard Hall, a member of the Judson faculty. MT. Hall selected an admirable subject for the occasion, and his sermon was full of eloquence, and admirable plea for the continued education of the young men of the state and the south. The mu- scal programme was under the auspices of members of the Judson music faculty Miss Shields and Miss Edwards sang 70 Divine Redeemer" (Gounod). and Mrs A M. Holly of Mississippi sang I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say" Parker).
 The annual meeting of the board of trustees of the institute was held at g clock Monday morning. and at II o'clock the junior-senior debate was held at the college chapel.
 At the seminary the annual class play will be given at night.
 Preparation for the exercises at Judson are being pushed forward to completion and all will be in readiness for Thursday night when 1t Is proposed to give on the
 lawn. under circumstances similar 10 that of the pagent of last year, the an- nual expression class play. To this Will be attracted one of the largest audiences of the week. should the weather prove suitable.
 n,ado that the increase 'n the expor;a- ton of manufactures which was first mo- ticcd about the year 1902 was an artificial increase and could be explained by the fo cf sailing their products in other lands for less than the charges established in the do mestic markets.
 Some of the experts said that a falling off in our exportation of wheat products would inevitably prevent any Increase In our exportation of manufactures. Yet the record which will undoubtedly be made public in July of this year will show that the increase of our exportation of manufactures has on the whole been maintained and that it is reasonable to presume that when business conditions are again normal, as they should be Tn the course of a year or two the Wash ingtor statisticians will be able to re- port that we are exporting manufactured commodities of the money value of $1 ,600.- OOo.OO0 That record of this kind will be made is understood to be the opinion of the Secretary of Commerce at Wash ington, Mir. Redfield.
 Testimony which has recently been given tends to confound the assertion of those who say that we have obtained our gre at foreign markets for manufactured commodities by price cutting methods. Ttere arc some American manufactures which can be bought at a lower cost else where than is charged in the United States for like commodities. But think of the bulk of our exportatiOn of manufac- tured commodities. especially of iron and steel products Is now marketed because of other tempta tons than price cutting. The very high quality of American manu- factured articles. and in the case of ma- chjnery the speed with which orders can be filled and the relatively small cost of operating machinery of this kind, since 1t does most of it's work automatically, really explain the great increase in our ca rture of foreign markets.
 There seems, then, to have been some unconsidered factors in the demonstra- tions of those who only seven or eight years ago were asserting that the United States could not produce wheat har- vest any year much greater than 700000.- GOO bushels and that 1t was unreason- able to expect that there would be any large increase in our exportation of manu- factured commodities. Certainly a re- gently as the days of 1907 mono who deemed of export authority regarded 1t as possible that our exportation of manufac- tured products would within four or five vAarr he of a money value greatAr than