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The Washington times., 1914-10-05
FOSTERING INTERNAL
TIONAL TRADE.

The first fruits Of the American
harvest from the war of nations are
not trade gains, as they will be later
but losses-losses deplorably heavy
for our credit abroad. In Angus,
total exports fell more than Al pei
cent below exports in August, 1913
At the same time imports fell less
than per cent. OF course, the con-
tinuation of imports was due largely
to the fact that they had been ship
ped before the war. Lack Of ship
pirg, with foreign exchange dead
lock, kept even our wheat and other
grains from going oct as they arc
now going in great volume.
Although the loss in imports from
Europe was about s17,0c0,000 there
was an actual gain from other parts
of the world. South America, Asia,
and Australasia sent US s3,40O, 900
more than in August last year.
In other words, nom European
countries had continued 20 increase
their sales to US faster than we are
yet increasing our sales to them. To
take possession of the world markets
now unnamed and unsupplied we
should be about it quickly. South
American countries, British colonies,
Oriental manufacturing centers are
already stepping into the breach. We
cannot be too wide awake, too pains
taking, or too persistent in this
emergency.
Besides attending to the obvious
work of organization, investigating
foreign demand and advertising we
must in minor details take the hint
given by our rivals only temporarily
eclipsed. Germany's tremendous
progress during the past decades has
been largely due to her educational
system involving instruction in
trades for her artisans and instruc-
tion in langr ages for rer CONNER
cial agents.
The United States is now develop
ing her own method in vocational
training; she has yet to realize her
need of mastering foreign tongues.
Courses in Spanish first and in 9TH
er European languages afterward
should constitute a far larger part
of our curricula than they do today.
Young students particularly, for
whom memory work is easy, should
he well grounded in Uhe rudiments of
languages that will become increas-
ingly useful to them as American
trade EXPANDS.
The Washington times., 1914-10-05
MOTHER-TEACHERS.

The decision of the New York
curt of appeals thai teachers who
become mothers may be dismissed If
|tte board of education so wills doubt
less has legal justification, but
Sc arcely justification in common
sense. To satisfy common sense,
laws about schools can be changed
ard the policy of boards of educa-
ton can be reversed. Only one test
permanently holds good, and that is
ne welfare of the pupil. The pupils
Welfare is damaged by the present
7 olicy.
Discrimination against married
women as teachers, and particularly
against mothers, tends to lower the
{ ficiency of teaching staff. The
elimination of women who marry
Goes not necessarily result in the
survival of the fittess to teach. The
rresent system of selecting the un-
married because they are unmarried
will never improve pedagogic stock
until the board of education forms
8 young mems league of those
T edged to ask only the least inter-
{ ting, the least winning, and the
least spirited of New York teachers
10 become their wives.
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To the Editor of THE TINES:
While the famous Borlandj amend
ment is being discussed. I wish to call
attention to some features of 1t that, 10
me- seem extraordinarily inequitable.
Under the present system of street
improvements. the taxpayers d the
city pay one-half the cost Of street
building and repairing by general tax
alton Upon thicr properties. assessed
in proportion to their values-an equit-
able way of ever; property owner pay
ing his proportional part of the cost Of
improved streets
For example: \. who owns an inside
lot. 20 feet front and 50 feet deep. and
has ON it a $1,000 house, Is assessed
say $500 while the lot of u. who
owns tie Corne- next to \, runs 20
feet up TO AS lot and on the same
street and fronls ~ feet on the cross
street. 3 also hac improvements that
cost US much as AS. but. as his lot Is
corner. it is mere valuable-Isually
considered to be about % per cent more
valuable than an inside lot
So R's property is assessed y per
cent more than As. or s3h.0OG. thus
Is uayS and justly SC. - per cent more
toward the cost OF street Improvement.
because his property is . per cent
more Valuable.
Here is equity and fairness. hut how
is il under the new law. the Borland
amendment. where the assessment by
direct taxation requires I levy proper
toned to the lots frontage on the
street? Now. as Is has five times as
much frontage as 4. he has to pay five
times, or 50G per cent more toward keep
ing up the streets than \ does. although
his property is only d per cent more
valuable Is this cquitable-is it just
ard fair?
II it be just that b should pay only
% per cent more than \ by general tax
alton for the one-fourth of the cost
which this new law requires of tn" city
taxpaysrs. then h"w can IL he Just u
require 3 to pay SOC per cent more than
A for the onc-half additional the Bor-
land amendment requires?
This is not only inconsistent. il is
aasuruiy unreas enable and unjust
II it be right to call on the taxpayers
of the city ;C pay three -fuurthS Of tho
cost Of street construction. would II not
&c far more equitable and Just to levy
The Washington times., 1914-10-05

stitution was altered to admit vol
unteer workers in charity and
philanthropy. and. in 1910. a fur
ther amendment was added by
which the object of the club was
declared to be the coordination
of efforts to obtain for the city Of
Washington the best possible pro-
gram of social service"
By May. 1913. the membership Of
the club had increased to 900, and
the club became a clearing house
for social service movements,
common place of meeting for all
workers toward betterment Of So
cial conditions.
For the last two years the club
has carried on an extensive pro-
gram Of study Of the correctional,
philanthropic. and welfare facili-
ties Of Washington. Two valuable
pamphlets on hygiene of school
children were published and $4,000
copies distributed in Washington
homes. The history of the loan
shark agitation is still fresh in the
memory of District residents
William II. Baldwin. as president
Of the clug. led the fight for a
bill restricting the rates of inter-
est which might be charged.
The program of the work In 1910
In that year the monthly meetings
were devoted to discussions on
Physical Welfare of School Chill
dren." The Loan Shark and Rem
edial Legislation" Vocational
Training and Vocational Guild
ance." THE Church and Social
Service" Adult Probation for the
District" After Prison. whatC"
and "A Suggested Social Program
for Washington"
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NEW MOVIE" USES.

The New York Central railroad
has had a moving picture play
constructed around the story of a
trainman's carelessness which re-
suited in an accident in which he was
injured, and his family left needy. 1t
has been carted around the great
system and shown to employees IN
whom it made a great impression.
Other roads are going to borrow rhe
films and carry the show over their
lines, as a means Of inculcating the
solid principles and lessons of the
safety FIRST campaign.
II is announced that a series of
moving picture shows will be pro-
vided at the Panana-P Pacific exposi-
tion in San Francisco, to illustrate
work of the Government depart
mcntS. The Department of Agricul-
ture has for some time been doing
pcrimental work, looking to the
extensive use of moving pictures to
educate farmers. chicken raisers,
Gairymen, and others. in proper
methods. The Public Health Service
work is especially susceptible TO this
kind of presentation IN the effort to
educate the public.
Commercial concerns have been
studying the publicity possibilities of
the films fol- 4 long time, and they
are using them in some ways; but
their use for pure commercial adver-
tising has not thus far been made
very effective. 1t is in the realm Of
educational effort that they carry
their lesson most effectively.
If somebody has been able, or
shall have been able before the var
ends, to get some properly impress
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present ineffective law dealing with
life-savirg appliances and men to
handle them. The testimony is unani-
nous that the difference in the cost
of operation is, under existing law,
SO much in favor of foreign vessels
, that we cannot compete. 1t is equal
ly conceded that the passage of the
seamen's bill would place US in a po-
sition to compete; and yet when the
different bills that ere to be passed
prior to adjournment of this session
are enumerated, we do not find the
seaman's bill among them.
All the information that can DOS
sibly be obtained on this subject has
been obtained. 1t is purely a ques-
tion of getting the bill into confer
ence and getting it passed. Both po-
litical parties are equally pledged to
this legislation. The pledge was rot
made to the seamen, it was made t.
the people of the country. 1t was
not made in haste or without con-
sideration, it was c,ade after careful
investigation that followed the loss
of the Titanic. There can be no lepit-
innate reason for not passing this
bill before Congress adjourns. Let
the bill be passed and the promises
kept.
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the northern states has little reason
to consider himself in a foreign
country, because he finds so many
people who use his language and un-
Gerstand his wants.
Precisely the cause for the split
between Villa and Carranza is not
yet very clear. Bat the gathering
of military chiefs from The southern
section of the country has resulted
in a substantially unanimous rejec-
tion of Carranza's rendered resigna-
ton IS first chief. There is mani
festly a rallving Of interests and
groups to both the leaders in the new
struggle for control Of the country,
and it may be a considerable time
hefore it will be quite plain which
has the real national sentiment at
his hack. More probable yet, the eff
fort to crystalline n national senti-
nent will demonstrate that Mexico
has no such thing. 1t is too i'll in
formed, as whole, about its owr af-
fairs; it is too ill supplied with ideals
and understanding.
General Villa has the prestige Of a
wonderfully successful military cam
paign, and the pceponderance of
present military power. But his pro-
gram of establishing effective civil
administration at the point of the
bayonet is not one to commend it.
self. The outlook in Mexico, judging
by superficial evidence, is not at all
encouraging.
The Washington times., 1914-10-05
OUR MOTOR CARS
ABROAD.

Our automobile exports have gone
head for ten years in leaps and
Dounds. Statistics issued by the
bureau of Foreign and Domestic
commerce show that machines
alued at s1,S95,605 were sent
broad in 1904. The figures for the
ast fiscal year gave our exports as
,4O,136,565.
Last year we sent 1922 cars, at a
'otal value of s5,353,127, to the
Cnited Kingdom; LABS, valued at
4 ,069 ,249, to Germany; .l29, valued
1t s924,130, to France. Our exports
r. other Continental countries came
0 3,271 machines, valued at 81, ,5s0.-
.2s. Canada took 4,o24, valued at
,5,919,776. Other British colonies
'ook 4,244, valued at s3,695,595.
Our exports to South America
ere 1885 machines, valued at ST.
1922, and to Mexico 167 at
$256,675.
A marked decrease in motor car
inportations accompanied these rec
"rds. In 1909 this country bought
l,624 cars of foreign make, whose
,otal value came to s2,905,391. In
the last fiscal year these figures had
cropped TO 300 cars, valued at
Sh20,493. OF the cars sold to this
country last year, Franco sent 134.
o1ty came from Great Britain, Ger
many sent twenty-one, and Italy
shipped fifty-five to us.
The Continental conflict so far.has
dome our export trade injury, but
our supplies may De called upon in
his field as in Others,
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PASS THE SEAMEN'S BILL

More than two years ago it passed
the House. The short session of the
Fifty-third Congress- passed an
emasculated bill that was pocket
vetoed by Taft. On the 23d of Oc-
tobe:, last year, the Senate passed a
good bill. The International Con
ference on Safety of Life at Sea was
used as an excuse for delaying action
in the House. When the conference
had completed its labors. the Senate
Committee on Foreign Relations re-
fused to indorse the action taken at
London, except in 4 modified form.
I he last month for ratification of the
London conference on safety Of life
at sea is December coming. 1t has
not been ratified and plainly it will
rot now he.
About a month ago the House
passed a substitute which is now in
the Committee on Commerce of the
Senate. The excuse for delaying ac-
ton now is possibly international
complications, in which no one really
believes. The real purpose seems to
be the opposition of the ship owners
who are utterly opposed to any real
change.
The Titanic, the Volturno, the
Monroe, and the Empress of Ireland,
aside from several other vessels, the
latest being the Leggett, on the
coast of California, have been lost
with large numbers of people, and
yet no legislation TO remedy the
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an additional rlill or Two oy general
taxation. ana thus require all taXpay-
ers to pay their proportional part Of
the cost Of the street improvements and
thus avoid the numerous Inequalities
and unjust Determinations that seem to
be arising all over the city,
This would also do away with the
necessity of explaining the application
of this Borland amendment to District
roads outside the main city. as 1 see
the District Attorney has authorized 20
do. which explanation, to my mind
does not explain. For surely the intent
of the law was that all taxpayers In
the District should pay their proper
annual cost OF street construction. re-
gardless OF the material used; othet-
wise II would be class legislation and
discriminating and unlawful.
MacadamiZing roads or streets en-
hances the value of abutting property
proportionately as much as asphalt sur
facing does, when the cost Of each is
considered.
1t is to be hoped the Borland amend
ment will be so amended as at least to
equitably and unjustly lay this additional
burden upon all taxpayers alike. Other
iniqultous features II has which j Will
leave for another paper. CITIZEN.
The Washington times., 1914-10-05
The Silver
Lining
Edited By ARTHUR BAER.

Returning officers say that the noise
Of high velocity shells completely
browns the human voice Now COM
prehend why Emmeline and Sylvia
didn't rush to the front.
Cold weather doesn't give the hay
fever sufferer anything to talk about.
Can't blame the old man for not
buying a bale of cotton. A hatrack,
velocipede. Iardiniere. and baby carriage
are enough obstructions in the vesti-
bu,e at a. m.
Scenstochowa is pronounced Tzhen-
stohk-oh-ya. Incidentally. Daniel Web
ster practiced his first speeches on some
cows In a barn. Just a Ill hint.
When the frost is on the pumpkin is
the gladstone time OF the year, but
Boies Penrose Is afraid that 1t won't
confine itself TO pumpkins.
Easily understood how a scrap Of
paper" started a big war. Try passing
Tuesday Mt. Pleasant transfer on a
Wednesday Georgetown conductor.
The Washington times., 1914-10-05
Realty Transfers

Sixteenth Street Hcights-Lynchburg Invest
ment Corporation to George W. BarSnlan
ahL Robert Z. Heater. lot %. square 2"S.
$40
Villa Park-Fred H Franklin TO Lulu Z.
Franklin lot TO- square 4e27. 81 Same to
J. NJ Meredith, lot 4. square 4@s7. $500:
First Addition 10 American University Park
Charles H. Kipp to John II. Coon. lot
l.. block 80 $40.
Congress Heights Extenson-Edward W.
Womack ct ux. to Eli Belcher lot Is.
square 6l5e. $500
1914 Twelfth street northwest Thomas E
Jacobs 10 Elizabeth V. Manning, lot L..
square 305. SO
Seventeenth street southeast. between A and
stre,ts-Sue X Harrison to Edward c.
Thomas original lots l6 and Il. square
loss Sl0
Mt Pleasant-Lizzie McInroy to Arthur and
Mary l.. Snow lot 80. so.
Iep Eighth street northwest-George T Rob-
cr;son to catherine E. Ebmeyer. !ot F.
square 4@L SIC
Washir gton Observation-Disclosures C. Taytnr to
>doIph J. ard Josephine GUIDE LOT "A
square Sl66. and lot L.. square $751; $40
Same to charles \ and Albertine GUIDE
lots 81. u. 30. square ass. 80.
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MEXICO'S TROUBLES.

Carranza and Villa have both been
riven to Mexico by the northern
part of the country. Yet Carranza
appears to have chiefly the support
of the southern and Villa of the
aorthern part of the country. The
north has the smaller population and
wealth, but it is the more intelligent
ond progressive. Especially, it is in
intimate touch with the people, Ian
guage, business interests and govern
mental methods of this country. An
American in any considerable city of
The Washington times., 1914-10-05

Begin to understand why Lieutenant
Porte is freighting the America" to
Europe. When il comes to flying across
the Atlantic. Europe is an ideal place
to start from.
Senate is right in not taxing gasolene.
What they should tax are gasolene lies
told by automobile sales men to pros
pective purchasers.
The old man will now take down that
fly screen and use il as an ash sitter.
Senate is triflc late in taxing horse
power. Anv disa bled automobilist can
tell YOU that Cy and old Dobbin beat
'em to 1t long ago
Now that a Mexican battle has been
halted by rain. guess that Senior Huerta
Will not insist on using his rain check.
The Washington times., 1914-10-05
FOREIGN TRADE FACTS.

The action of the National For.
oien Trade Council in calling a sec,
oId national foreign trade conven-
ton to be held in st. Louis January
- and %, assures i business like
discussion of the problems of our
oversea commerce. Altogether too
rnany generalities cucumber the
country's disposition to extend its
numerical lines beyond our own
shores. The fact is that our foreign
trade during the next year, If the
var so long endures, will decrease
~ather than increase. The task that
les ahead is holding Our normal
t~ade in the face Of the worlds
arinking purchasing power.
The head of the Foreign Trade
Council is James A. Farrell, presi-
cent of the United States Steel Cor
poration, probably the leading au-
hority in this country on questions
"' foreign trade and shipping, and his
.atement that commercial and in
c-strial, transportation and financial
EXAMINATIONS will be invited to send
Z olegates to st. Louis for practical
.scussion of ways and means firmly
build for the future gives the key
ote for our progress toward great
. share of world commerce when the
'. ar ends. More effective team work
7ould characterize our national pol
y hereafter both as regards gov
rrnmental action and business CO.
peration.
The Washington times., 1914-10-05
What's on the Program in
Washington
Today.

Meetings evening
Masnnic-Potom omaC Lodge. No ). BENJAMIN
y French No. Is: AnaCostis. No. Il: Pent-
alpha. No. "a and Mi Pleasant. No 80;
Orient Commandery. 40 :, knights Temp
lar: Ruth Chapter. No. !. Order OF tn.
Eastern star.
Odd FeIlows-UnIon Lodge. No. II. Beacon.
No l6 IS,ngdon. No. cG: and Covenant No
IS Naomi. No. l. Ruth, No =. anf FideI-
ity. No = Rebekah Lodges.
Maccabces-Nati"nal Tent. No. |. Mt Yer
non No. 4. AnaC"stIa. No. Z
Knights Of Pythias-Equal Lodge No II:
Amara nth. No. .s. and Century. No 20
The Washington times., 1914-10-05

sive films of W. scenes, the
movies" will give The world it's most
striking demonstrations of the de-
STABILITY of peace and the mockery
CT wars horrors.
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Amusements.

Columbia "Hirls Of Prey" S:l5 d. m
NatIonal-'The Secret" S:15 p m
Be!asco- Mcintyre and Heath in ''Th. Ham
Tree" SO D. m.
Poi's-''The House Next Door" .:lS and
S:l5 . m.
f. F. Keith's-Vaudevile c:l5 and sIb u m
Cosmos-Vaudevillc. continuous
y-Burlesque 2:l5 and s:l5 D. m
Casino-Naudevillc. afternoon and evening
Crandalrs s-Photoplays continuous
The Washington times., 1914-10-05
Thirty Lines of Study.

A"Ily AAuSS Va Stooys
In the fall Of last year, the most
comprehensive program yet under
teien by the club was announced.
More than thirty lines Of study were
mapped out and assigned to various
members of the club.
Among these were THE Enforce
ment Of School Laws" Mrs. Edna
Bushee: The Regulation Of Child
Labor Charles D. Westcott; "A
National Training School for White
Girls" Deaconess Carroll; Provision
for Caring for the Feeble Minded"
TEN Of School Sanitation and .Hy-
giene," Dr. Willard s. Small; Play
grounds and Recreation Centers, A.
NJ. Chesley; Public Baths and Wash
Houses" Dr. Paul B. Johnson;
Compulsory Removal Of Careless
and Dangerous tuberculosis Pa
tients.';' w. H. Baldwin. and The
Agents Possessing Police Powers and
Authority" Rabbi Simon.
Two lines on which emphasis Will
be placed during the coming year are
the agitation for a training school
for white girls, and a home for the
feeble-minded. Because Of the sor-
mer preponderance Of colored girls
in the National Training School.
white girls are no longer received
there. Their care at other agencies
is a difficult problem for correctional
officfals. White. fesble-minded per-
cons now are sent to institutions
outside the city. and no provision Is
made for the colored feeblc-minded.
Oficers Of the club for the coming
wear are Mrs. Ernest Bickne1l. presi-
.Ient: Miss Margaret Wilson and
George F. Bowerr1an. vice presi-
dents. Lewis Merriam. recording sec
retary: Mrs. r. Thomas West. cor
responding secretary: Mrs E. K.
Fushee, treasurer. George s. Wilson
ia the chairman Of the executive
committee. On the executive COM
nittee at large are Mrs. Adolph
Kahn, Judge j. Wilmer Latfner. DR..
A. J. McKelway, and George S. Will
son. Because Of other work. Miss
Julia Lathrop recently resigned from
the committee. Her place has not
vet been filled.
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Tomorrow.
Meetings, evening:

Meetings. evening:
Masonic National Lodge. No u. Armini-
us No %: Mvro1 NJ. Parker No y. and
King David. No ~; LAFAYETTE Chapter. No
s. aud Washington Naval. No g. Rov,I
Arch; MiZpah Chapter. No. T. Order OF IN.
Eastern Star.
odd Fellows-Washington Iods. No q.
Maccabces-Rr Rrightwood Tent. No. ;: Metro.
politan Tent No. l..
knights OF Pythiss- Webster Lodge M
:. Hernione, No. II; Excelsior. NJ Il; Can
itsl. No. q: and Myrtle. No A
The Washington times., 1914-10-05
IN THE TIMES MAIL BAG

Communications the Mail Bag must be written SIDE OF the paper
signed with
Of
is
yarguem emootq
The Washington times., 1914-10-05
Scotland Leads British
In Number of Recruits

LONDON. Oct 5.-Scotland has fur
nished more men for the present conflict
in proportion to its male population than
any other section OF the British Isles
according to the published list of the
director of recruiting.
The approximate total number of men
raised from August to September 1s
was 5I1, $50. the percentage of recruits to
the total male population being given as
follows.
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W. P. Brown, "COttOn
King" of South, Dead

NEW ORLEANS, oct. 5.-W p.
Brown, cotton king of the South. died
her. early today. Brown. with others,
was indicted few years ago in con-
nection with an alleged cotton corner.
He left an estate valued at $50 10000.
The Washington times., 1914-10-05
TIE otDfs1 lNl1As sez

"In tn theater
O. war, all tn
tickets ar in tn
hands O. specula-
tors"
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MRS. E. K. BUSHEE,
Treasurer.
Forum for Philanthropic, Civic
Betterment and Correctional
Problems and Clearing
House of Ideas.

In May, 1913. the club presented
a memorial to President Wilson
commencing the proposed survey
Of social welfare. recreationa1. and
hygiene conditions in the District
But the most notable accomplish
ment of the club was its fight
against inhabited alleys. carried on
under the leadership of Mrs. Ern-
est Bicknell. and greatly aided by
the cooperation of Mrs. Woodrow
Wilson
The Washington times., 1914-10-05
PROGRAM of Social Service.

With delegate members from va
rious organizations in the city. the
club became even more representa-
tive. A. early a. lSsS, the con-