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The Washington times., 1916-01-26
WORLD EXPORTS INCREASE

The swift rise of our imports in
recent months, has been pointed out.
There is little doubt that we are
now going an import clip of some
$2,000,0O0,000 a year. Even when
there was no war we never looked
forward to an import record by this
country of two billions a year.
-. A table of international trade sta
tistics compiled by the National City
Bank shows how the foreign bust
ness of trading nations not under
blockade was we'll on it's way to re-
adjustment virtually within one
year from the outbreak of the war.
To judge what is ahead of us in
the way of further increases of our
imports even before the war shall
end, and then to picture what can
happen to us when all the produc-
tive forces of the Old World are
again at work, it is worth while to
examine these statistics.
In the seven months preceding the
war the exports of the United King
dom ranged between a minimum OF
$194, 200, 900 in June and 1922, 600, OOC
in January. In August they fell ia
SLY, 100000, and in no month DUR
ing the rest of that year did they
touch $140,OOO,OOO. In January Of
1915 they were nearly 100000, OOC
below January of 1914; in February
some $7O,000,000 below February OF
1914, and in March some $4,000, OOC
below the previous March. In April
however, the exports of the United
Kingdom had risen to $156, 700 900
running thereafter: May $163,60O,.
900; June, $161 100000; July, $168,
SOC, 900; August, 1851, 100000; Sep.
TENDER, $157, 100000.
From an average of some $110,
000, 900 a month in the first half o.
1914, the exports of France sank t,
SAT, 700, 900 in August, and then RAJ
$32 100000 in September, $34,10O.
900 in October, and SOS, 100000 il
November. From March, 1915, II
the end Of September, however, the!
The Washington times., 1916-01-26
BELASCO.

Two well-known Washington favor
ties. Rockcliffe Fellowes and Miss Emily
Ann wellman. will be seen at the Be-
lasco Theater next week in a new play.
entitled 1.-THE Correspondent" This
play Is described as Of vital human in
terest. and has been written by two
young women we'll known in metro
politan literary circles. Alice Leal Pol
lock and Rita Weiman.
The play depicts In q new way the
character of a young woman OF the
Middle West who. after being almost
involved in an affair with "A wealthy
young New York man. runs away
reaches the metropolis. and then begins
to fight her way alone under the handi-
cap of a series Of overwhelming cpl
sodes. which involve her. innocenly. in
a fashionable divorce case
The characters are typical OF persons
Of today. The title role will be played
by Emily Ann Wellman. and others in
the cast include Morgan Conan, Marie
Chambers. Winlfred Harris. Suzanne
Villa, Hallett Thompson. Joseph Gillow.
Elmer Redmund. and others.
The Washington times., 1916-01-26
STRAND.

Harold Lockwood in a vivid Western
drama, THE Man In the Sombrero," in
which he will be supported by May
Allison and other popular Mutual stars.
will head the feature program on Sum
day, Monday, Tuesday, and Wednes-
day at Moore's Strand. The other at
traction on these days will be THE
Submarine Pirate" featuring Sid Chap
lin. On Thursday, Friday. and Satur-
day, Mary Boland, late star OF MY
Lady's Dress" and leading woman for
several seasons with John Drew. makes
her screen debut in Thomas ince's sen.
sational photoplay. THE Edge of the
Abyss" In the cast are Willard Mack.
Frank Mills, Robert McKim, and 9TH
ers. The added attraction on these
DAYS will be The Knotted Cord" featur-
ing Mignon Anderson. There will be
special musical accompanlments by the
Strand Symphony Orchestra.
The Washington times., 1916-01-26
CASINO.

Easing his decision upon the applause
vote Of the audiences for the week.
Manager Faulkner has selected Hall
Gaines great play. THE Christian as
the attraction for next week at the Ca
sinO Theater. 1t will be given an elab-
crate production and Louis AncKer will
be seen in the role of John Storm.
while Jane Ware, the versatile leading
woman, will be cast as Gloria Quayle.
The story of the play IS familiar to
theatergoers and to patrons ~ The
ME it's various qualifications until john
gathers Gloria I'm his arms as hiS PROM
ised wife, safe from the snares and pit
falls of the great city, it has alwp vs.
had a great hold upon the heart in
terest OF the theatrical public. The
other roles of the play. Will ne filled
by the capable members of IN" Hall
Players.
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GARDEN.

Francis Y. Bushman and Beverly
Bayne. the queen of the silent drama,
will hold the screen at Moore's Gar
den Theater Sunday, Monday. and
Tuesday. in their latest effort, power
full drama entitled Man and His Soul"
On Wednesday and Thursday the
principal attraction will be THE Lure
OF Hearts Desire" featuring Edmund
Breese. The auxiliary feature during
this engagement will be THE Snug
glers OF Santa Crane" with William
Russell. Charlotte Burton and others.
On Friday and Saturday Henry w.
Savage will present Madame X" with
the original New York company, head
ed by Dorothy Donnelly.
The added attraction on these days
will be Charles Van Loans funniest
story, The Extra Man" with Art Ac-
cord and others. Special music by the
Garden symphony orchestra will add to
the effectiveness of the film plays.
The Washington times., 1916-01-26
CONSIDERS APPEAL
ON 8-HOUR LAW
Chief Justice of Supreme Court
Has Under Amusement Case
of Mrs. Hotchkiss.

The Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court has under advisement the matter
OF permitting an appeal from the de-
cision of the Court of Appeals in the
case brought against Mrs. Susan H.
Hotchkiss, who was found guilty of
violating the eight-hour law in employ
ing women for mote than eight hours IN
her dressmalIing establishment at 1906
Nineteenth street northwest. The mat
ter was presented to the Chief Justice
yesterday by Attorneys Tracy L. JEFF
fords and Lemuel Fugitt.
Mrs. Hotchkiss was convicted in the
Police Court, and upon appealing to the
Court of Appeals, that tribunal con-
firmed the Judgment OF the lower court.
In turn the Appellate Court refused the
10 the United States Supreme Court.
Recourse was then had to the Chief
Justice, with the result that he now
has the application under consideration.
The Washington times., 1916-01-26
NEWSPAPERS IN THE SCHOOL

A few sensitive persons may be
shocked at the news from Brooklyn,
N. Y, that newspapers instead of
the usual text books, are to be used
in teaching foreign pupils the Eng
lish language.
The principal of one of the schools
doing this explains that he not only
believes the forceful and colloquial
diction of the newspapers a good
thing for those learning our tongue,
but he thinks foreigners will be in
terested in reading about current
events as they study the new Ian
guage.
He might have added that the
aliens should read the newspapers
for the same reason that many
school officials have ruled that ma
tive pupils should read them; be-
cause these records of the days
happenings in national and civic
affairs arouse that sort of interest
in community and national life the
school pupil needs to have stimu'
lated.
In schools of many large cities
including Washington, newspapers
are read and a certain time each
week is devoted to the discussion d
current topics. Here there are ever
courses in the high schools which
carefully examine daily newspapers
with a view of training those whC
may wish to work upon them.
In the case of the foreigners the
newspaper brings them the new
The Washington times., 1916-01-26
LOEW'S COLUMBIA.

Pauline Frederick will be seen on the
screen of Loew's Columbia Theater dur
ing the first three days of next week in
an elaborate perturbation OF THE
Spider" In this production. Miss Fred
erick is seen in two distinct roles, one of
Valerie St. Cyr, the notorious Partisan
beauty, and the other of Joan Marche
the daughter whom she had deserted
when a baby.
The last three days Of the week Fam
ME Ward will be seen as the star in
"Tennessee's Partner" The heroine OF
the famous authors undying story is
a little girl of sixteen whose father was
murdered while she was a child. and
while on the way to California with his
family in search of gold, and whose
mother eloped with the assassin.
The Washington times., 1916-01-26
LECTURES.

Punta Arenas. the southernmost city
in the world, some 900 miles farther
south than Cape Town. at the southern
tip of the African continent, will be IN
cluded in the itinerary of the easy-chair
travellers who accompany Il. NJ. New
man on the third stage of his South
American journeys at the Belasco The
ater next Sunday evening and Monday
afternoon.
At the New National Theater next
Tuesday afternoon Burton Holmes will
pay the third and final visit of the sea-
son to the Capital. He will have tor
his subject California and the San
Diego Exposition. Those who have
made the two previous journeys with
the lecturer have assurance of the
pleasure in store when the beauties OF
Americas Land OF Sunshine" and the
marvels OF the great exposition are
coIorfully and realistically reproduced.
Those who have never been to the
coast can see through the eyes OF his
cameras, while those who saw the ex-
position will again see 1t faithfully
reproduced on the screen.
The Washington times., 1916-01-26
MUSICAL EVENTS.

Thursday afternoon at 4:SO at the New
National Theater the French flotilla
benefit will be, given. With its impos-
ing list OF artists. and sponsored by
leading society women OF the CAPITAL
and New York. the concert will be
one of the, biggest social and musical
events of the season.
Headed by the great Calve. the list
charming exponent of old French and
English tolk songs. who appears in COS
tune: Calves famous husband. Calico
SSesparri. tenor. and the well-known
haTplst. Carlos Salzedo. The orchestra
Will number thirty-five pieces. The OBJ
1ect OF the benefit Is to help the com
mittee raise funds for the wounded at
the French front. to supply ambulances
and other hospital equipment for the
men on the firing line.
Friday afternoon at the New National
Iheater the seventh of the T. Arthur
smith ten concert series will he given
when the matchless lieder singer, Julia
S S;' VIII be heard as the soloist. her
nrst appearance of the season in the
Capital Here, as elsewhere, the Dutch
Inezzo-soprano takes first place among
the interpreters of lieder music. Her
repertoire includes English. Welsh,
scotch and German songs. AS in the
past Coenraad V. Bos will be her ac-
companist. The program is as follows:
SCI mir gegrusst." 'Das Fischerma-
dchen," "Wehmut." "Liebesbotschaft, .
"Auf dem wasser zu singen." Schubert;
"Auf Flugeln des gesanges." Der
Mond," Mendelssohn: Benedict die
selge Mutter." "Schon strekt' ich aus, -
"Mausfallen-spruchle Hugo Wolr;
Japanese Death Song, ;" Earl Cranston
Sharp; Passing By" Ed. Purcell
G6Ss-174O): The Cottage Maid" ar
ranged by Beethoven: ''Geluckig vader-
land "Het kwezelke," old Dutch folk
songs; and Dutch Serenade." S. de-
Lange.
YNette Guilbert, the French singer,
who has won Distinction for her midi
Tidual presentations of native songs,
will be heerd in concerts at the Belas co
Theater on the afternoons OF February
l and 4 al 4S0.
In the first scctioh Of her program
she sings the troubadOur songs % eight
centuries ago, CARRIED in Byzantine
robes. 1t Is Dresden china curt
lady that she sings her second group.
comprising songs of the thirteenth and
fourteenth centuries. These are fol-
lowed by songs popular during the Six
teenth century, with the singer i'm peas,
ant costume. Modern songs of realism
conclude the program. with Mime. Gull
bert appearing US all allegory Of the
eternal feminine"
The Washington times., 1916-01-26
THE STORY OF STEEL IS THE
STORY OF THE NATION


pinnacle Of prosperity on which this
country is now poised than the al
most magic transformation which
has come over the business of the
United States Steel Corporation in
less than a year.
1t was only last March that the
quarterly report of this, the greatest
single manufacturing industry in the
country, perhaps in the whole wide
world, showed such low net earnings,
at $12,457, 300, that no dividend at
all was paid on the common stock,
though it previously had been cut
from an annual rate Of 5 per cent to
an annual rate of 2 per cent, when
the December quarter had given less
than $11, 100000.
Yesterday the dividends were re-
stored at the annual rate of 5 per
cent on the common shares. But it
was not this dividend which electri-
fled the nation; it was the statement
Of profits for the three months end
ing with December 81 last. This
showed net earnings for that single
quarter of SOL 1892, 1888!
In the autumn of 1914 and the
spring of 1915 a pauper, with every
body wondering whether even the
future of the preferred were secure.
and at the coming of the new year
a prince, with earnings more than
eight times the amount required to
pay a quarterly dividend on the COM
mon at the annual rate of 5 per
cent! Earnings all but five times as
big as in the year before, two and a
half times as big as in the quarter
before and not far from three times
as big as the first quarter of 1914!
And undoubtedly even this is not
the whole story of Steel. What is to
be borne in mind in considering this
exhibit of vast earning power so soon
after the impoverished returns
which followed the outbreak of the
war is that some of the business of
the quarter which has earned more
than SOL 100000 net was done under
olds contracts made at lower prices
than obtain now for all the business
that can be handled by plants work
ing at full capacity. Every old order
filled means greater profits on the
new order succeeding it. And SO it
may we'll be that the earnings for
the December quarter will be thing
of wonder only until there shall
come the statement of the earnings
of this current quarter to stagger
the imagination.
But the wonder of all the treasure
gathered in this country while the
Old World was at war will never
fade within the memory of long gen
erations; for it is not only Steel,
putting profits divided into the
pockets and profits undivided to the
credit of rich men holding many
shares each and poor men holding a
few. The story of Steel is the story
of the nation, with the farm of the
West and of the South, the mill and
factory of the North and Of the East,
the lumber camp, the mine, the live
stock range, and the dairy-all
minting money for the American
people at work, while 100000 of
her fellow men strain and struggle
on the battlefehs of Europe.
The Washington times., 1916-01-26
TARIFF BOARD PLAN
JAR TO PRESIDENT
Democrats Decision Is One Of
Most Surprising ReversaIs Of
U. S. History.

Decision Of the President and Demo-
cratic leaders to press for legislation
for a tariff commission has excited no
end Of talk about the Capitol.
The expectation is that a tariff COM
mission bill will be passed by Congress.
As things look now, the President may
have named such a commission and It
will be organized by the time the pre-
election campaign is under way
Less than two years ago a prediction
that this administration would be found
supporting a tariff commission bill and
that such a bill would prevail in a Dem
ocratlc Congress. would have been look
ed on as foolish. In other words, this
sudden decision OF the Democrats to
support a tariff commission is consid-
cred one of the most surprising rever-
sails of policy in the annals of the ma
ton.
Ask For Commission.
For years progressive Republicans
have been urging legislation for a tariff
commission. Such legislation has been
checked by a combination OF high tariff
Republicans and Democrats. This was
the case even so late as in the last
Congress.
The change has been due to several
reasons. One is that Administration
political clieftains, casting about for
some way to meet the Republican tariff
attacks, have conceived tire notion If
they provide for a tariff commission
there will be little left OF the tariff as
an issue in this years campaign.
Must Change Bass.
Another reason is the Democrats
foresee it may he necessary to change
their base on tariff when the war Is
over and dumping begins. They feel
that If they are required to impose du-
ties on the strength OF a report from q
commission they will be less under ac-
cusation OF having abandoned free
trade and tariff for revenue only.
Still another reason is the strong
pressure from business men and a
growing class OF people who feel the
time has come to stop treating the
tarln as the playthinE Of the parties.
In creating tariT commission. the
Democrats are not going to admit they
have changed front They will lay it
to the war. In other WORDS, they will
hold out the idea that the commission
Is being created to gather data wi .cn
will enable this country t. meet the
unparalleled conditions expected to
arise when peace comes.
The Washington times., 1916-01-26

averaged more than s5OOOO,OOO a
month.
| Even Russia, dropping from some
$49,0OO,OOO in January, February
and March Of 1914, to s73OO,OOO in
September, $s,SOO,OOO in October,
80, 100000 in November, 100000
in December, had ~ exports rising
from 100000 ~ May, 1915, to
S14,1OO,OOO in JuIA 0IOyS0O,0OO in
July, $23, 400, 900 In August and s24,-
900, 900 in September.
In the latter part of 1915 Spain
was doing Is per cent better. than
she had been doing. in the half year
preceding the war Japan was
enormously ahead of her antebelluIn
record. Her monthly average for
the first half Of 1914 was in the
neighborhood of $4,000, 900. She
ran S27, SOC, 900 in June, 1915, $780,
100000 in July, $32,500 900 in Au-
gust and $S4, 100000 in September,
Canada's exports a year after the
opening of the war had become vir-
tually double what they had been in
the six months preceding the war.
Taking altogether the United
Kingdom, France, Russia, Italy,
Spain, Egypt, South Africa, India,
Japan, Australia, Argentina, Brazil,
Canada, and the United States, their
average exports for the six months
preceding the war were roughly cut
in half in August, 1914, falling from
monthly range between some
$500, 100000 and $Ss3, 100000 to
SAP, 100000. By January, 1915,
however, they had recovered to al
most $7O0, OOO,0 900, and in June, July,
August, apd September of 1915
averaged more than 100000. 900,
with a top figure in September Of
1926, 400, 0O0-more than $4,000, 900
above the high water mark Of the
six months preceding the war.
Taking all those countries tOgeth-
er, exports in September, 1915, were
$345, 0O0,O 900 more than in Septem-
Der, 1914. The total export gain of
all those countries for September,
1915, with the United States ex-
cluded, was 1901 100000.
The lesson Of those figures is I'M
mistakably that the nations at war,
as we'll as the nations at peace, have
been able to readjust their industrial
systems and, under the law of neces-
sity, have found ways and means to
get out products and to sell them
abroad as a partial offset to huge
foreign purchases for war purposes.
And belligerents who, with TO-
100000 of their male producers
transferred from the fields Of in
dustry to the fields of battle, can
gradually work toward restora-
ton Of their export trace will, when
those producers are transferred
back to the fields Ct industry,
swamp any market that has the
money to pay for what they will
sell.
1t is just as certain as anything
on this earth can be that when the
war is over an avalanche Of the
products of the world will come
sweeping down upon this country
where, for the time being, will be
the richest markets on the globe.
And it is no less certain that if we
don't protect ourselves against that
avalanche it will knock the bottom
out of our markets.
The Washington times., 1916-01-26
Tomorrow.

Lecture. 1.-THE Sources OF the Teaching OF
the Sermon on the Mount" Prof T. J.
PERTH, JIall of the College OF History,
American University. $40 p. m.
Meeting, Credit Mems Section of the Retail
Merchants Association. in headquarters,
French Hotilla beneht. New National. 1870 p.
Mid-year commencement OF District hieh
schools. Mckinley Manual Training School,
SPIN.
Illustrated lecture on original boundary or
milestones of the District. Fred f. Wood
ward, lecture hall, Smithsonian Institute,
D. nj,
Testimonial dinner to Samuel GomDers, by
Central Labor Union. Elks' Hall. y. m.
Dinner, Washington Traffic Club. Raleigh
7:l5 p. m.
Dinner, to National Association Of Peal Is
tate Exchanges. by Real Estate Brokers
Association. New Willard. Z p. m.
Reception and dance. students or steward
Business College. Carroll Institute Han
Entertainment and card party. beneht OF the
Catholic Home Bureau for Dependent emil
dren. Carroll Hall. D. m. -.
Meeting art section. Twentieth Century
Club, 1863 Columbia road northwest, p, m
Masonic-New Jerusalem, No, 3; george g.
Whiting, No. %: Temple-Noyes, No. ~;
Naval. No. 4, Royal Arch La Fayette' NO
3; Kallipols Grotto.
Eastern Star-Wiliam +. Hunt, No. l6.
Odd FellOws-CoVenant No. u, ana salem,
No. %; Excelsior, No. H. and Columbia
Knights OF Pythias-Harmony, No. 81.
acknowledgements Review No. 10.
Knights OF Columbus-Beneht Performance
Dramatic Club. Keane Council, Dance OF
Inter-Council Dancing Association.
Socialist partly. p. ;. l. meeting.
The Washington times., 1916-01-26
Assault Charge Against
F. p. Grove Is Dismissed

The charge of assault with a danger
GUS weapon against Frank p.
Grove was dismissed today on
motion of the United States District At
torney for laclL/of evidence to convict.
Grove was accused of shooting Arthur
Ashton, colored. on March &C. 1914. Ills
trial before a jury in Criminal Court,
No. /, resulted in a disagreement.
The Washington times., 1916-01-26
McAdoO Rewards Marine
With Medal for Bravery

Secretary Of the Treasury McAdoo to-
day announced the award of a silver
medal OF honor TO Private Patrick j.
Nestor, United States Marine Corps,
who saved navy coal passer from
drowning in Puget Sound, Washington,
September s, 1915.
The Washington times., 1916-01-26
GAYETY.

The Smiling Beauties Company comes
to the Gayety next week. This is Jacob
& lemons latest offering. Harry X
Morton and Joe Emerson are at the
head of the new production. g.
The vaudeville portion of the program
is said to be of superior excellence, Of
fering June Mills. the cyclonic comedi-
enne; leila Russell, Ruth Wesley, BIZ
jou Comedy Four. and a dramatic
sketch entitled High Life in Jail"
The general construction Of the offer
ing Is on an elaborate scale
The Washington times., 1916-01-26

from their former homes and fur
nishes an interesting connecting
link between their native and adopt
ed land. The newcomers may have a
reader command of English for
their study Of the daily papers; they
surely will be better, more alert, and
more intelligent citizens.
The Washington times., 1916-01-26

Wonder if there's anything spe-
cial intended in that dispatch that
"Henry James, who recently took
the oath of allegiance to England,
is not improving!"
The Washington times., 1916-01-26
Arrange Church Dance.

The fourth of the series OF dances un-
der auspices OF the young people of All
Souls Church will be given at 17i2
Church street northwest, on Friday
evening.
The Washington times., 1916-01-26

Haven't heard any loud cheers in
response to that proposal to erect
a monument to the inventor of the
alarm clock.
The Washington times., 1916-01-26
To Hold Oyster Supper.

An oyster supper will be given at the
Northminster Presbyterian Church,
Eleventh street and Rhode Island ave-
nue. northwest at 5 o'clock this after
noon. The service will last until $3.50
o'clOOk.
The Washington times., 1916-01-26

Victor Murdoch has a hard time
getting out of London. It's a lot
nearer home than Paris, Victor.
The Washington times., 1916-01-26

This Villa person must be a
sponge for grief. Now it appears
he has wives in three ports.
The Washington times., 1916-01-26

Every time one Of those notes
goes or comes, lot Of persons feel
just as if they had found the dentist
was not in his office when they
called.