f- ti;j ri '. ? -V'-vHyjWrr y'.:. T nw 7rv,y" .kt' j f x .- ' " .;w ifii' i- i-y .r. j v , . I M U. S. DfEMAKING GREAT SUCCESS t Hoax That Germany Ex celled in Craft Exploded i by Three Concerns BIG MERGER UNDER WAY Kaiser Subsidized Teuton Plants, Thus Eliminating Ameri can Competition iH -T. vwrTT W";,?:-?7ir; EVENING LEDGER-'PHILAI)ELPHJ:Aj WEDNESDAY, ' Mftf' 1g; 1017' '-- r"t v; -z ', ." ' r ,r M -j ,jt . - , - '-? 'mi U.S. NOT YET THRILLED BY PULSING 'WAR THROB' Mass of People Still Unaware "America Is in the War," Allied Envoys Say U. S. Has Conquered the Dye Problem AMERICA has conquered the dye problem. Marcus Hook is making aniline oil from which colors ns wonderful as those that used to be imported arc produced. The quantity is nearly as great. It is being Increased. Kaiser Wilhelm's tricky business deals made Arrferica depend on Ger many for coloring matter, until war came. Then Yankee genius won. The Marcus Hook factory is the proof. America clung to the hoax that German dyes could not be equaled. The canard is exploded. LACK SACRIFICE SPIRIT Distance From Fighting Front One Reason for Lack of Comprehen sive Popular Participation EXPRESS COMPANIES TO ASK HIGHER RATES TRANSIT LEASE ATTACK ASSAILS TAYLOR STAND Another hoax perpetrated by the Euro pean war was blown to bits today. It was the tale believed everywhere that Ameri ca could not make dyes like thoa that used to come from Oermany Hut America can mako the name dyei. Fhe It inakliiK them. She Is making vir tually an great a iiuar.tlty ns the Germani ever tent oer hero. A few miles out of Philadelphia, at Mar cut Hook, the Ucnzol Products Company Is turnlnp out huge quantities of anallne nil This aniline oil, the essential basis of aniline dyes. It made into tlntu as fair lind perfect ns any the bearded vvizunU of German science ever conjured out of their test tubes. ONLY A TARN Never until today wat there a quaver In the monstrous national fairy tale that of all the products cut off by the war, none win lfs capable of beltiK Imitated than the famous dyes. H was like the fantastic yam that spread through Kngland, that the an cient fighters of Aglncourt came to life and turned the tide at the retreat from Mons The fable went a-glimmerlng when con firmation was given at the offices of the General Chemical Company. In the Morrlt Building, that a $20,000,000 National Ani line and Chemical Company would make djes like the German product as long as the war lasts and then some more. The Marcus Hook plant, which sprang tip two years ago, created by the war-made necessity for dyes. Is one of three concerns to be joined in the merger. The others are tftc Schoellkopf Aniline and Chemical Works of Uuffalo. and the Becker Aniline and Chemical WJorks, Brooklyn. Why weren't the d.es made here before the war? Because of the Kaiser directly officials of the chemical company said. Wilhclm same to America and beat Amer Icant by using the famous "whip-saw" methods of predatory trusts. He subsi dized German dye works to such an extent that they could pay freight across the water, pay the custom house duties and yet under sell American manufacturers. The Idea was to wear out United States concerns by a campaign of this kind and then have a monopoly. The plan worked. Just how well It worked Is shown by Its. fruits. It set 100.000.000 Americans to thinking that they could not get dyes any where In the world except Germany. Early In the war the Benzol Products and General Chemical plants, then In Frank ford, started to turn the trick. The Idea was, It Is admitted today, that oven If their Industry should be wiped out after the ar, their profits, would be great enough to Wake the schemo pay. Then It grew. EMPLOY BOO WORKERS Five hundred men are working at the Marcus Hook plant, D. W Marshall, as sitant general manager of the Benzol Prod ucts Company, said today. Twenty-three buildings are In operation and six more are being built. When the merger Is com pleted the plant will be still further en larged, it was said by one of the General Chemical Company officials In the Morris Building. As It Is. the present output Is "B per cent as great as the Imports used to be, he de clared. The Marcus Hook plant will be linked In the corporation with the Schoellkopf and Becker concerns. At the Becker works. In nrooKiyn. Denzoi is ueriveci rrom coal tar. At Marcut Hook the benzol is converted into aniline oil. Tills is shipped to Buffalo, where the colors are added. Flvo million dollars Is the capital of the Becker concern. The company owns, In addition to the Brooklyn plant, factories at Newburg and Wapplnger Falls, N. Y. The Schoellkopf Company is capitalized at $3,000,000. . It owns the present National Aniline and Chemical Company, capitalized at $1,000,000. The Marcus Hook Company's stock Is held by the General Chemlca Company, the Barrett Company and the Semet-Solvey Company, of Syracuse, N. Y. Although it Is to be Incorporated for $20,000,000, the Flock of the new consolidation will be held Closely and not put on the market, Gen eral Chemical officials said, Working cap. ltal will, however, be provided. America never lacked chemists to formu late German-like dyes, according to the General Chemical Company officer who shattered the long-lived hoax. It had not had a chance to make the product be cause of lack of capital. When peace comes the new concern will try to get a tariff law to protect It from foreign competition. If that falls. It Is de clared, business will go right on, "regardless." WASHINGTON, May 16 Ametlca s not really In the war. Officials of both England and France, who are In the national rapital, n.t well us other Allied diplomatic representatives, frankly say that the mass of the population nf tho I'nlted States does not actually know the "war throb." While officials hae only the highest praise for the iullvlty of the Administration In lis preparations to throw the entire re sources of the nation Into the European conflict, and while they laud the patriotism of the I'nlted Staler still they state that America can never arouse Itself to Its tiun war pitch until It has felt the actual pangs of war. , They point to their own countries as ex amples of what happened during the early das of the war, when every one was pa triots and gave much "lip service,'' as one envoy ban put If, but It took months before the mass population became aroused to tho point nf highest sacrifice SACRIFICE THE KEYNOTE Sacrifice the foreign representatives say Is the keynote nf tho war. When the peoples of a country are nroused to such a state that they will gle up their Ideals, their convictions, as well as their phvslcal comforts, then they are truly In the war. "Wo have found In this war." one Allied representative said today, "that It It not hard for men to toss their lives away on the field of battle for a great cause tint when men tost their convictions nnd their Ideals aside, at home, for u great cause, with no accompanying excitement of bat tin and none of tho glory of military sacri fice, then they are truly In tho war, and taking an active part. "It Is these sacrifices which make u peo ple a war people " "Sentiment perhaps it's bosh," another envoy said, "hut It Is an Indication of the war'spiilt. When the little children of France wander through the fields gather ing (lowers nnd making wieatht to place on the graves of unknown soldiers of another nation, that Is sentiment, pretty sentiment too, and It Is an Indication of tho great war spirit which has grasped the people of France fiom the oldest man down to me smallest child." It It these Indications that the Allied rep resentatives find bcarce In America, and they do not wonder at It, for they realize that America tannot arouse Itself to a full war pitch thousands of miles away from the battle front. Hut they do not lack In the slightest Instance for faith In America, for she is and will continue to lally to the cause of tho war But they hope that she may never be "really In the war" In the sense that the other European nations are, for they hope that she will be saved the devastation nnd misery which bus amused France, England, Belgium and Italy to tne Upward Price Trend Hits Public ' Utilities ns Well ns Con sumer, They Say t WASHINGTON. May IS The nine principal exprest companies operating In the I'nlted Stnte.t are to file with the Intersfnfo Commerce Commission a petition for n genernl Increase In their rates It was learned hem today. It also Is likely that other public utilities doing nn luteistato business, such at telephone nml telegraph companies and pipe lines, will aslc tho Federal rntc-regulntlng body for addi tional revenues. Tho ple.i on which the petition will be bated Is that tho high cost of living has hit the public utility corporations us hard as the Individual During January. 1917. the last month for which figures have been compiled, the e prest civnipnulet showed n deficit of $112. 001 This deficit has been increasing for several mouths nml foiecasls nf later figures Indicate that the into nt which the deficit Is Increasing Is ncieleiatlng. Thi public utilities have suffered from tho s.uno upward trend of prices which forced the railroads of the I'nlted States to ask the commission for u geiietal Inoreaso of IS per cent In freight rates Labor nnd supplies of nil klndt and taxes, both State and Federal, Ii.ivu shown n larger and laiger nggieg.ite on the books of these companies, while they havo been found to keep their rates stationary, being under Federal late supervision The public utility corporations, nt well ns the lnlliojds of tho countty, declare that tho war Is bringing added burdens to them, as thero It a heavy traffic made up of Government hu'lnes which command rates lower than the usual commercial rates While all of tho communication agencies have suffered by reason of higher operat ing costs, tho express companies declato they have bad the hardest tlmn because of the competition brought about by the I'nlted States parcel post service. This service, operating at loner rates than those which tho exprest companies give, cut Into their revenues materially. Shenandoah Herald liaises Price SHENANDOAH, Pa., May 16 The Shen andoah Herald, one of the largest circulated newspapers of this region, hat raised its price from one cent to two cents dally ami ten cents a week, due to the high cost of paper. Councilman Ulrich, Active in ' "Business Men's Association, Joins Controversy GOES BACK INTO HISTORY i Declares Former Director's Present Ad vocacy of Pact Shows Him to Bo Inconsistent The transit lease offered tho city by tho Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company Is the target for another volley of criticism In n statement made public today by George C I'lllch, Select Councilman from the Forty second Ward, n leader In the activities of tho Fulled Business Men's Association. Tho statement by Mr I'lrlch. after touch Ing upon the general objections to the lease which have been pointed out several times bv Tinnslt Uliector Twining and Sheldon Potter, calls upon former Transit Director A Meriltt Ton lor to sMU.ue his piesent ad vocacy of the transit eompunv's contention with ills foiiner statements on tianslt In his ciltlclsni of the advocacy or tne lease offer by Ml Tavlor he s.vjs "However. If Mr Tavlor was working In the Interest of the whole people when he was Director of Transit, he lertnltilv wat not doing so when he now advocates the accept ance of the piesent leae" In the closing portion of his statement he calls upon the former City Transit Director 'to square previous statements with his piesent postlon," continuing "Tho Double Is that no one hat ever taken the time to investigate Mr. Tailor's statements) or to question them. "So long ns they weie unchallenged he was ablo to get nway with It, but In the limelight of Infoimntlnn embodied lu tho nn.tl.vsl of the company's ptoposal bv Dl lector Twining. It it cle.uly shown that the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company If taking u veiy optimistic lw of their future earnings, nnd the fact that they are de manding that their present earnings be guaranteed to them show that they do not believe tht.tr own estimates "If they did, then why nslt for a guaran teed cumulative Dividend of Jll.GOO.OOO in the stock of the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Citnpany''" .Mr flrlch nsserts that the Transit Com pany Is making an effort to force the city to take care of nil the "watered stock" of the underlying companies. Ho nlso brings tip the question of Independent operation by quoting from a statement made several venrii ago on the Philadelphia tran sit situation by William It. Wilcox, chair man of the Public Service Commission of New York city, Mr Wilcox nt that time stated emphatically that It would be to tho city's advantage to have tho new line operated by nn Independent company Plnnt havo now been completed for tho first heating on the lease before Councils' Committees on Finance and Street Rail ways Friday afternoon. Officials of tho transit company have been Invited to appear nt the hearing nnd give views on the pro posed lease. Former Director Taylor has also been nskcl to appear. Although no opponents of tho lenso have been Invited to appear, It is known that tho stntcments of tho trnnslt company officials will bo sub Ject to a searching cross-examination by Flunnco Committee Chairman Gnffney nnd others. MiH! DOVER. Bel.AMar'Il.. send has sighed .the. $198,606 I tho addition to the Affiliated W lego at Newark as authorized bjr. 1V!nitnVA t .Allatfir4L ' . ".rri.77. .. ) ., A f ,, . - k V- Hitter, Shifted to The HagMft BERNE. May 16Dr. .rul RI1 Swiss Minister nt Washington, ha appointed Minister at The HafiM, announced nerc. "war pitch " H. G. WELLS LEADS FIGHT TO MODIFY MONARCHY LONDON, May 16. H G. Wells, famous English nov'ellst, has become leader of a little group that Is seeking "modification of the British monarchy." Mr. Wells has written letters to the Times and other papers suggesting that England be made a republic and he followed them up today with another expression, saying, In part' "If monarchy It to survive In the British empire it must speedily undergo the most profound modification." Mr. Wells takes It for granted that the Hohenzollern dynasty In Germany will col lapse aB a result of the war and he thinks that England will be greatly affected un less the British form of government Is changed In the meantime. ONE-PIECE MACHINISTS' OVERALLS $2-50 Union made, of heatr knau rati. romr. dult end oil proof, gpeelal &SN6ffiG TRADE Colburris Mustard and "A" Rso Label Brand Spices That rich flavor and freshness is retained in Colburn's spices till you have used the last atom. For the patented sifting and pouring top can isters keep in every bit of their original strength and flavor, besides making them handier to use. 10-cent sizes. Most good Philadelphia grocers have them. THE A. COLBURN CO. Philadelphia, U. S. A. V si i83? flt-Sl 9 h ODD FELLOWS MEET IN SECRET SESSIONS Business Matters Considered by Grand Lodge at York Rebekahs Con- fer Degrees YORK. Ta., May 16. Business sessions of the Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows oc cupied all of today, the meetings being be hind closed doors. Tast representatives delegates to the Present session who have been delegates In a former year will hold their annual banquet' this evening. At the same time the Itebekah degree will be confered at the separate meeting of women from the Itebekah lodges. Guests at the past representatives' ban quet tonight will .Include Henry V. Borst. Amsterdam, N. Y deputy grand sire of the Sovereign Grand Lodge : John B. Good win, Baltimore, secretary of the Sovereign Grand Lodge; GrandMaster Lyman J. Cheney, New York ; Grand Master F. Haw rd F. Lloyd, New Jersey j Grand Secretary Harry S.Plne, New Jersey; Grand Master E. J. Ci Parsons; Maryland; qrand Secre tary Wjlllam A. Jones, Maryland; Grand Representative J. Wlllard Crossan, Dela ware, and the officers of the Grand Lodge I Pennsylvania. 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Many men are surprised to find that our regular prices are 1 as low, or lower, than some of our compet- j itors' fabulous bargain figures. 1 And, no matter what price you pay us, 1 you will get full value in the quality and 1 style of our garments. Spring Suits and Overcoats . j $15 ancl Upwards 1 i Jacob Reed's Sons! 1424-1426 CHESTNUT STREET Strawbridge & Clothier id More Than Two Thousand Correct Suits for Men at $15. 00 ,$18. 00 and $20. 00 IN CONSIDERATION of the in creased prices of everything essential to the manufacture of men's clothing, it might be well for men to consider the foundation principles upon which this Clothing Store has built a business second to none in Philadelphia and one of the greatest in the world To sell only rrood Clothing: and .to sell that Clothing at the low est possible price consistent with quality of thorough reliability. To maintain high standards of quality in fabrics and work manship regardless of market conditions. To provide only the styles which arc authenti cally correct. Not to offend the tastes of our cus tomers with the bizarre or freakish models. To take advantage of every trade opportunity which might be converted to the economic benefit of ) our customers. Men particularly those who wish to pay $15.00, $18.00 or $20.00 for their Summer Suit should bear the above principles in mind. Our Seal of Confidence is an all-inclusive guarantee that no transaction here is considered closed until the customer expresses absolute satisfaction. We have provided an ample range of sizes to meet the requirements of men of all proportions regular, stout, short and slender. THE SAME variety which characterizes these Suits at popular prices you will find reflected in our higher-priced lines. These include clothing from the Stein-Bloch Company and Hart, Schaffner & Marx style creators to American men and producers of the. finest ready-to-wear clothing in the world. 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