Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 3, 1916, Page 25

-— THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: EUROPE NOT READY FOR GOMMERCE WAR Peace Will Bring Other Prob- lems, But United States Must Be Prepared. TRADE COMMISSION VIEWS ~In the most Washington, Dec. comprehensive review of foreign trade conditions ever prepared by any gov- ernmental agency, the Federal Trade commission today expressed opinion that the much discussed after-the-war commercial competition from Europe will not be likely to come for some time after the conclusion of peace . -High costs of raw materials, in- creased taxes, probably higher wages, to say nothing of the capital and stocks of material necessary to re- pair the wastages of war, the report says, are expected to delay the full power of European competition until it regains its normal state. Favors the Webb Bill. Laws to put the American exporter on a footing with his foreign rival by authorization of collective foreign trade sclling agencies are recom- mended. A bricf summary of the re- port made public last May, while it still was incomplete, recommended such legislation and was followed by introduction of the Webb bill, which still awaits action and has the en- dorsement of the administration. In studying the export situation, the trade commission, it is declared, has tried to take the problem in its broad historical aspect, considering the pres- entwar as a temporary interlude, the permanent influence of which it is difficult to estimate. “It is frequently serted,” says the report, “the manufacturers and pro- ducers of the belligerent countries will take effective measures to re- gain their former trade. It is likely, however, that some time will pass after the close of the war before they will be able to exert their normal competitive power. Much capital, in- cluding large stocks of material, will be needed to restore the wastage of war. For some time, also, after peace is declared their costs of manufacture are likely to be higher in many lines than before the war, due to increased costs of raw material, increased taxes and possibly higher wages. Sharp Competition Certain, “In their struggle to regain their former trade such foreign manufac- turers and producers may be expected to fully utilize their highly efficient organizations for the promotion and handling of trade beyond their bor- ders, even foregoing profits or I.Akmg a very low profit till their costs again become normal and they have re-es- tablished their trade. Hence, compe- tition from foreign industrial combi- nations, aided by foreign ship lines and foreign banks, and backed by for- eign governments, may he even sharp- er than before the war.” The commission does not consider co-operation as the most important factor in foreign trade, but it consid- ers jt.an important and necessary ele- ment in any éffective plan, ] hree important considerations,” it says, “are involved in this problem. These are, first, the presence of con- certed action among the foreign com- petitors of American exporters; sec- ond, the probable effect of similar ac- tion by American manufacturers in foreign trade, including its possible disadvantages to domestic consumers and smaller competitors; and, third, the effect of the present laws of this country upon such co-operation on the part 6f American manufacturers.” United States Must Prepare. It is apparent, the report sets forth, that the country’s organization for ex- port trade must be strengthened if its manufacturers and producers are to compete on more nearly equal terms in the world’s commerce. Of possible dangers to American consumers it say The commission believes that the advantages ‘to be gained by effective co-operation in foreign markets need ndt - enitail any sacrifice of the firmly established polir, of this country in regard to the maintenancee of fair competitive conditicns and the pro- hibition of monopolistic control with- in the United States. At the same time co-operation for export trade will enablé the exporting manufac- turer to realize an increased return for his products along with decreased costs through larger scale produc- tion, and the country will enjoy greater industrial stability resulting from a broader market.” The present laws, the report says, in many casees as they stand operate to prevent formation of co-operative organizations for export trade. Changes must be made, it says, to re- lieve the manufacturer of even doubt as to their application in foreign trade organizations, but leaving them as at present to protect the domestic con- sumer against combinations to con- prices. © report takes up competitive conditions in most bf the countries of the world, devotes a chapter to com- petition in South America, gives com- petitive conditions in particular indus- trics and carries a mass of tables and istical data concerning trade conditions everywherc. Lo usical Notes (Continued from Page Nine.) it is that they have not a splendid pipe organ worthy of the rest of it. Mus@al No(e; The second concert of the Tuesday Morn- ing Musical club will be held Tuesday after- noon, December § at the Brandels theater, The program will begin promptly at 3:30 o'clock. Members are urged to be in their places on time, as the ushers will seut no one during the musical program. The pro- gram will be given Al g Mary N. Crofoot and Mrs. Lillian Helm: Polleys of Lincoln. Admission will be mem- bership ticket. A puplls' recital will be held at Brownell hall Saturday evening, December 9, at § o'clock. Those taking part will be Viola Nipp, Iva Thompson, Lucille Cohn, Margaret Carey, Frances Roberts, Marjorie Nichol- som Mubel Datel, Ruth Kadel, Helen Bur ritt, Marguerite Sharples y Wenworth, Gladys Osborne, Mildred Krum. Miss An: lerson and Miss Naimska will aselst Florence Basler-Palmer will talk on Music and the Art of Volce Building," be- fore the Symposla club, this afternoon at 4 o'clock. The Young Men's Christian Associa- t Concert club, under the direction of Lee G Kratz, will present the comle operetta, “Captain Van der Hum or the Rollicking Tars” at the Young Men's Christian assoclation auditorium, December DECEMBER 8, 1916. Ballet Russ: Holds Much for | The Future of Music in America4 Tour Now Undertaken is to De- velop Public Taste and to Foster Demand for Dancers. Nearly 200 dancers, mimes and mu- sicians comprise the ballet russe, an internationally famous combination which has just introduced to America an art-form popular abroad, but new to the United States and which, after its present New York appearance, will make a coast-to-coast trip by spe- cial permission of the Metropolitan Opera company of New York, which brought the ballet russe to this coun- try after its sensational appearance in Berlin and Vienna just before the opening of the war, and subsequently to Paris, London, Spain and South America. I'wo special trains are required to transport the company and the $500,- 000 creations of mechanical cffects and of scenery and costumes and dec- orations, the work of Leon Bakst, the most famous of artists of the new school of color and expression, I'he Diaghileff ballet’s daily outlay, when added to the local expense, to- tals a sum in excess of the capacity performances in the average theater throughout the United States, but the New York Metropolitan opera direc- tors feel that if an interest in this new art can be aroused, ultimately such productions may be self-support- ing. This attitude on their part has made grand opera possible in this country. From an extensive list of ballets which run the gamut of the emotions will be selected a diversi- fied program of numbers which best display the infinite variety of novel color schemes in costume designs and scenery, ballets which call for the long list of famous dancers and interpre- tative musical works of composers of many mumrus An orchestra of six- ty-five 'interprets the music. Many instruments have been specially fash- ioned to produce tonal effects not found in the usual instrumentation of svmplmn) orchestras even of this size. In the Muscovite terpsichorean fir- mament are many toe twinkling stars of the first magnitude, including Warslav Nijinsky, the greatest male aesthetic dancer of modern times; Adolph Bolm, inimitable mimic and pantomimist; Enrico Geochetti, the dear old master of masters of the Im- | FI0RE REVALLES perial Ballet school, teacher of Pav- lowa and Nijinsky and Mordkin; Lydie Lopokova, whose naivets and charm completely subjugated King Alphonso and his suite; Flore Reval- les, exotic beauty, reddlent of the scenes of “Arabian Nights”; Mmes. Pflanz, Sakolava, Wassilewska and Mlle. Specizewa, who has only ap-| peared in the imperial ballet when the czar was present, until allowed to leave Russia for this engagement at | the request of the American am- bassador. This wonderfull ballet russe will be seen in Omaha on Saturday night, De- cember 16, at the Omaha Auditoriu 7. The operetta is a “piratical tale in two ropes’ length” (two acts). The lines are by Miss Maude FElizabeth Inch, and the music from the pen of the popular composer, Rhys Herbert, The cast includes: Captain Van der Brown ..Mr. W. A, Kerns Dick Erne, coxswain .Mr. C. A. Pipler Obadiah, & Landsman Orator.......... Mr. Henry Frankfurt ..Mr. Earle Davy .Mr. Dean Davidson .Mr. John Reddan Mr. 8. J. Goode Hum (alias) Mrs. Jim Spray_ a saller. Tom Tuppér, a sailor. Bill Salt, a saflor. . Sam Slippery, a sailor First Pirate. ..Mr. C. Cutler Second Pirate. Mr. J. A, Carlson Sailors, landsmén and pirates. The work Is replete with catch melodies, duos, quartets and choruses. A musical program preceded the debate at the Dundee social center last week. Mr. George Johnston sang two numbers, ac- companied. by. Mrs, Johnston, and Master Joseph Harding, @ 13-year-old violinist, also furnished much pleasure. Mrs. Jones Is chairman of the program committee. A musical program will be given at the Dundee Preshyterian church, Fiftieth and Underwood avenue, Sunday evening, ' De- cember 3. Those taking part will be Beu- lah Dale Turner, soprano; Miss Gertrude Alken, contralto; Mr. Forrest C. Dennis, baritone, and Mr. Lawrence Dodds, tenof and director. Miss Adah E. Klopp, organ- ist. A program of sacred quartets, (rios, duets, solos and Organ numbers will be given. Miss Grace Conklin, well known in local musical circles, has been placed in chargé of the victrola department at Hospe's. Aged Man Hit by Street Car is Seriously Hurt George Simons, aged 60 years, was struck gy a northbound Sherman ave- nue car at Seventeenth and Webster streets and suffered Serious injuries. He was. taken to Lister hospital. Simons lives at 601 North Seven- teenth street and was wheeling a bar- row across the street when the street car struck him. The crew of the car was Tom Armer, motorman, and E. L. Logsdon, conductor. WILL BRAZIL JOIN ENTENTE ALLIES? Senator Barbosa, Eminent Jur- ist and Statesman, Urges War On Germany. MULLER FOR NEUTRALITY (Correspondance of The A ited Press.) Rio de Janciro, Nov. 10, Dr. Lauro Muller, the foreign minister of Brazil, who has been absent in the United States for the last four months, has | returned to this city, and wi n came the vexed question of neutrality and that of the attitude Brazil should assume in the present Furopean struggle For some time past th Brazilian public has been agitated over the utterances of Scnator Ruy Barbosa, the eminent Brazihan jurist and statesman, whg has repeatedly counseled the Brazilian people to espouse the cause of the allies in a warm and open manner Dr. Muller, in his reply to the offi- cial speeech of welcome made at the | great reception tendered hum by the people of Rio, advised an adherence to the strictest neutrality and told his larke audience that the salvation of Brazil rested in the energy, courage |and initiative which Brazilians might have in the fight to restore the dam- | ages caused by the shock of the great War. No country in South America has suffered more from the effects of the war than Brazil. Economically, | war dealt all of South Amerwa a heavy blow, but particularly it hit Brazil. 1t cut off some of this coun- try's hest customers, it dammed up the source of considerable of its sup plies, tightened the purse strings of its bankers, and for a time threatened to paralyzc all big public enterprises under construction The story is told by the foreign trade reports of the last three years. Mostly Pro-Ally. The great mass of the people of Brazil have always been enthusiastic- ally, and somctimes aggressively, pro-ally, so that when the eminent Ruy Barbosa counseled open al- legiance to the cause of the entente, he was warmly applauded. But there is a large forcign clement in Brazil which has done its best to stem this tide. In the southern states of Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catharina, Parana and others, some 300,000 Ger- mans have for a long time lived and prospered. These people have given to Brazil some of its most modern municipal and port works, and, through intermarriage, have supplied the governmental ranks with some of its most able leaders. German influ- ence has for years been strong in the larger cities, where its merchants have led in trade, often, as in Rio, constructing and owning rows ot business blocks on the main avenues that their wares might be more ef- ficiently retailed. As a result, the bitterness shown between the nationals of the various warring countries living here has been unparalleled in any other nonbel- ligerent port. Each Sunday flags wave from hundreds of residences, the banners of the central powers being in the decided minority, but always flying. 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Its limousines go easily wherever a touring car may, go—opening new fields of service to the enclosed car. Prices, open cars, $2,865 and $8,265—at Detroit. means that the | ‘NEW CREDIT MANAGER AT BURGESS-NASH STORES. F. . Thomas. | Thomas, well known to the Omaha public, has been appointed by the Burgess-Nash company as man- ager of its credit department. Mr.! Thomas is a graduate of the Uni- versity of Nebraska, 1902, He prac- ticed law with his brother, Judge J. J.| I'homas of Seward, for three years. Left law to go with the Bradstrect company at Omaha. 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These contend that the United States as the leading nonbelligerent power, might have es- | tablished a precedent in this matter, which would have done much to have saved future embarrassments for all feutral nations. | tries of South In a magazine article recently pub-} e SRS e lished in one of the Brazjlian re views, however, the writer attributes the cause of the general pro-ally sen- | timent among the people of the south- ern republic to the mtellectual and fianancial donnnation which France has exercised for the last five decades over Brazil and the rest of the coun America. In Brazil, as in other countries of the southern continent, French is taught to the children of the classes as a matter of course, The dream of every voung Latin-Ameri can writer and thinker is to finish off ! his course by a sojourn of a year or better | 11—B two in Paris, French philosophy, French psychology and French liter- ature are the models for this entire people. 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