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IIDaadeling and mince 'pian there
0,tr' many delicious( desserts which
Made of gelatin and fruits, and
eeldele are frequently preferred to the
richpudding and pies.
ellescelnte Plum Pudding.
One level tablespoon gelatin, half
acini eold water, cane cup milk, one
aggnre unsweetened chocolate, quar-
ter teusgeon vanilla, half cup seeded
raisins, quarter ,cup currants, two
egg whites, half cup white sugar,
half cup dates, quarter cup chopped
walnut meats, a pinch of salt.
Soak the gelatin in cold water for
Ave minutes; put milk with fruit in
double boiler; when hot, add choco-
late, whioh has been melted, add the
soaked gelatin, sugar and salt; mix
well. 'Remove from the fire, and
when the mixture begins to thicken,
add vanilla and nutmeats and fold in
the stiffly beaten egg whites. Turn
into .wet individual moulds, decorated
with a whole nut or a halived mara-
schino cherry; chill, unmould and
garnish with holly leaves. Serve with
sweetened whipped cream.
Pineapple Date Cream.
Soak two tablespoonfuls gelatin in
lhalf cup cold water for five minutes,
then add half cup hot pineapple juice.
Cool. Whip two cupfuls of cream
and when gelatin begins to thicken,
fold in the cream, half cup shredded
cocoanut, three or four slices of pine-
apple, cut in pieces and one cupful
dates, cut up. Place in a mould until
set. Turn out and garnis with pine-
apple slices and dates and whipped
cream.
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Whipped Cream Salad.
Beat up one-half pint whipping
cream—not too stiff, add three bana-
nas, one orange (cut in small pieces),
about 12 'Vllalaga grapes—with seeds
removed, and cut in small pieces; 1
apple, cut in tiny cubes, a few drops
of lemon juice and sugar to taste; add
all the fruits to the cream, mix well
and set in a very cold place until
ready to serve. Serve in sherbet
glasses, garnished as desired.
Pineapple Ice Box Cake.
alty which was wont to resort thither
to repair the ravages of too gay a
London season, and Bognor has come
into the limelight because it was
there that King George spent his
?onvalescence. Biarritz was the crea-
tion of King Edward and one of his
most popular works, for the Basques
still bless his name. He made their
little town world famous and gave it
a start toward prosperity for which it
remains everlastingly grateful. The
Prince of Wales, according to IVfr.
Dent, is really a night bird, and what
he likes about the French resorts is
that they are gay all night and that
there he can indulge his passion for
dancing to the fullest extent and
without some of the restrictions which
would have to govern him if he were
dancing at casinos in his own coun-
try. He likes to gamble occasionally
but he bets little, much less than most
men with his income.
But it is the roulette and the bacca-
rat which attract most of the visitors.
There are the most celebrated of the
ladies of the theatre and other pro-
fessional beauties. There one may
see illustrious citizens relaxed, some
of them accompanied by their—we
had almost said "mistresses" but for-
tunately remembered that this word
is banned by the Toronto censors, and
the other handy word to describe the
relationship is banned by our own
sense of propriety. However, there
they are, whatever they may be call -
al, delighting in the obvious admira-
tion of other men and in the envy of
their sisters who may have less money
.0 waste at the tables. Mr. Dent men-
tions an English peeress, tired of her
senile husband, who is at one of the
ables with a young guardsman, whom
he lady has attracted to her court.
Standing near them are two English-
men, both young, and one notable for
his pink and white complexion. Not
to further mystify our readers we may
say that this is the Prince of Wales.
The Prince tosses out a couple c.f hun-
dred franc notes and they are swept
away.
There is suddenly a disturbance. A
woman declares that her money has
been put on a wrong number instead
of on the right number which has
won. "You are thieves," she cries, and
pointing across to the Prince she goes
on, "You m'sieur, you saw my stake
on 17. Tell these thieves at once." The
•oung guards officer glances up at
the slim young man and mutters, "Tell
' or to go to hell. She's holding up the
game." Then his eye catches the face:
•,f the man to whom he has spoken.
He leans to his feet, clicking his heels
together, and bows profoundly. "I
')eg your pardon, Your Royal High-
ness. I slid not recognize you at first,
says apologetically. The Prince
erns away and leaves the room, all
yes following him, for many were
like the embarrassed officer and had
not recognized him. A reporter from
he gossip column of a large London
•iaily- sitting nearby murmurs to his
companion, "This is one of the things
we are paid not to report."
A more impressive incident occur-
red in the baccarat room. Sitting next
to the Prince of Wales, who was tak-
ng no part in the game, was the
young wife of an ex -officer blinded in
The war, while on the other side was
her husband, and on the other side oi'
him was a German gambler of par-
ticularly obnoxious manners. As the
gams/ progressed only two players
were left in, the blind man's wife and
the German. The bidding got higher
and the officer conferred with his wife
as to the advisability of going on.
Suddenly the German burst out, "[
protest," he said firmly, "this gentle-
man at my side is looking over my
•ards and telling them to the lady
on his left." The spectators were
thunderstruck. From the Englishmen
present arose angry muttering. The
Prince of Wales preserved his com-
posure and rnse slowly to his feet
"Sir," he said gently, "I think you
are laboring under a misapprehension.
The gentleman on your left is blind."
From the other side came a voice,
"Yes, blinded in the war." The Ger-
man was n•vercome with confusion ir.
'Ise midst of which he made a
reolish play which cost him a couple
if hundred pounds. But, as we have
:aid, it is not the gaming that at-
!.r•acte His Royal Highness, but the
dancing. Some of the most beautiful
girls in Europe are to he seen there,
•i"d the custom is that one does not
need to be introduced before raking
ror a dance. So the Prince cam dance
to his heart's content, but he is al -
ave careful not to unduly favor one
partner and give ground for envious
gossip and scandal.
One-quarter cupful of sugar, two
tablespoonfuls of water, two beaten
egg yolks, one-quarter cupful cf but-
ter, one cupful confectioners' sugar,
half cupful drained crushed pineapple,
two stiffly beaten egg whites, one-
quarter teaspoonful vanilla.
Dissolve the sugar in the water in
a double boiler, add gradually the
beaten egg yolks, stirring until thick
and smooth. Cool. Cream the but-
ter and gradually work in the con-
fectioners' sugar; add cool egg mix-
ture. Add pineapple; then the beat-
en egg white and vanilla. Line e
round tin with split lady fingers, or
line a square tin with thin slices of
sponge cake, .and pour the mixture
into the tin. Place in the refrigera-
tor for at least 12 hours. When ready
to serve, garnish with hits of maras-
chino cherry and blanched split ova':
nuts. When slices of sponge cake
have been used for lining the mould,
spread the cake with a thin layer of
slightly sweetened and flavored whip-
ped cream.
Mock Peached Egg.
Cut squares from slices of sponge
or other light cake. Place each on a
dessert plate and lay on each square
a half of a large canned peach. Pour
a spoonful of peach syrup over th-
cake first. Surround each half peach
with a border of whipped cream.
Pineapple Surprise.
Put a layer of hest pineapple pre-
serves into a sherbet glass, then a
tablespoonful of French' vanilla ice
cream, then another of preserves. Top
with sweetened 'whipped cream, col-
ored green and flavored with pepper-
mint.
Fruit Squash.
Slice the stem end of six very large
oranges and scoop out the insides.
Free .the orange pulp from the seeds
and membrane, and mix with one
banana, cut in cubes, °two slices of
pineapple, similarly diced, and the
juice of one lemon. A dash of sugar
may be needed. but should be added
sparingly. Half fill the orange bask-
ets with ice cream, or with gelatine
jelly pressed through a ricer, and ov-
er this pile the mixed fruits, garnish-
ing the ton with either a small spoon-
ful of minced angelica or a cube of
green jelly.
PRINE OF WALES MAKES
FRENCH RESORTS POPULAR
"The Prince of Pleasure" is the
somewhat snappy title which Richard
Dent gives to his article about the
Prince of Wales in Collier's. Mr. Dent
was formerly a member of the press
department of Buckingham palace,
and what he has to say concerns the
fondness of His Royal Highness for
those two French watering places, Le
Touquet and Deauville. He visits them
-very frequently but little is said about
it in the English press since the av-
erage Englishman and his wife are
supposed to regard them as dens of
infamy. So though nobody can stop
than Prince from amusing himself
there, the press can prevent news of
his doings reaching his future sub -
jet. •Le Touquet is only about a
couple of hours° flying from London
and this makes it easy for the Prince
to pay frequent, visits. He is respon-
sible, according to Mr. Dent, for mak-
ing these resorts the most popular
watering places in the world at the
]resent time. Incidentally he is blam-
ed irta some gaierters for not doing as
munch for English watering places as
be has done for English mutton. The
leentat* may be that he likes English
flatten and does not like English wa-
a Si n 'which seam to be dreary
triAnsJ , and eartaiiiigr lack the e+szc1te-
t. d; that ° on the continent.
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Well du ll ] infaip tijr are always . qua
eerier en .e eels ion 4,w otlatare not eo
well drilled, brews -Active of the S-
ity of the men. In explaining tine dein.
fairence between the readers and the
Militia. at the tint battle of i~,tat Run
an aDilicer wisely . beeaivnd "The train-
ed soldier feels himself safe in the
r u s card unsafe out of them"
But modern conditions of fighting'
have made it doubtful of this, the
old` kind of training is the best for
the soldier. The trained man, accord-
ing to Mir. Conway, is notoriously
helpless in the absence of leaders or
orders. Something must be devised
to supplement the old system, for
while the soldier must still be dis-
ciplined he must also have initiative.
When leaders have been killed or are
too far away to direct him the sol-
dier must have some training that
will prompt him to act in a reason-
able manner. But so far nobody has
discovered just what this training
should be. The junior officers do not
know and the superior officers take
refuge in the belief—or hope—that
the regiment that is good at close
order drill and smart in turn -out will
be good and smart at other duties.
Mr. Conway is inclined to believe that
it will prove impossible to train reg-
ular soldiers to have initiative and
think for themselves.
He says: "The majority of private
soldiers, whether conscripts or such
volunteers as appear in peace time
in the American and British armies,
come from the classes that are un-
accustomed to lead or even plan their
own acts. How many of these men
in civil life need to make independent
decisions. The mechanic, laborer or
factory hand does as his foreman
tells him; the farmer folio',s a rou-
tine sanctified by the practice of his
forbears. Hardly any of the lower
orders of mankind do their work
without an overseer, and in civil life
as that overseer is not likely to be
suddenly removed by wounds or death
it is unnecessary to train them to
carry on without him." But suppos-
ing the intelligence of the enlisted
men could be greatly increased, would
this not make the ideal army, both
disciplined and able to take care of
itself in any emergency? Mr. Conway
thinks not because the intelligent man
condemned to fight as the infantry
to -day has to fight would soon be
driven to mutiny or despair.
Mr. Conway then proceeds to ex-
aminee the motives which give soldiers
the morale that ensures victory. Pat-
riotism, he says, may cause a man to
enlist and may induce him to endure
and resist defeatist propaganda, but
it will not cause him to rush at his
enemy forgetting that by so doing he
is risking his life. Esprit de corps
will have some effect upon him when
he is under fire, but only if he know,
that he is observed by his comrades,
and that if he distinguishes himself
his conduct will be noted. But in
modern conditions the soldier is fre-
quently under fire when he does not
know where the rest •of his unit is.
So it is that ambition and the hone
tf glory are not the spurs they once
'vere, since the soldier is aware that
'he chance that anyone will note
'pis heroism is no greater than the
'hence that he will be unobserved.
"rohably twice as many men won the
V.C. in the late war as have witnesses
'o their heroism who could make a
-eport to headquarters. However, Mr.
^onway says that after a man has
)een decorated he is generally a bet-
ter soldier, for he acts on the prin-
ciple that he must set an example.
Probably the strongest motive the
soldier can have is hatred, which
•perates best when he can see his
snemy trying to kill him, but this
rage is prone to evaporate under long
range small -arms fire or shelling. As
a matter of fact it was extremely diffi-
• ult to get soldiers in the last war
'uned to the pitch of ferocity head-
quarters thought desirable. The sol-
diers laughed at propaganda to this
nd. It might he possible by catch-
ing them young and segregating
'hem, dieting them suitably and mak-
ing them engage in dangerous sports
0 develop armies which might in the
sight of the enemy generate the fury
that a bull terrier generates at the
sight of a trespassing dog, but such
•'armies would he a grave menace to
government itself. In fact, Mr. Con-
way comes to the conclusion that
ender modern conditions it is impos-
tihle to have the old kind of infantry,
which was properly described as the
"Queen of the Battle." The day of
the infantry is over, and the day of
the tank and the machine gun has
'+rt ived. He says that in the late war
it was found easier to get a better
^lass of recruit for the tanks than
for the infantry. Fighting in a tank
does not make the almost impossible
demands on the courage of the soldier
that fighting in the infantry does.
As Mr. Conway says: "The tankist is
in a machine moving forward; if
danger threatens cover is very hard
to find, and the tendency will be to
keep going—as the average driver of
a motor car does when he perceives
himself to be in danger."
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iMPOSSIIBLE TO TRAIN THE
IDEAL SOLDIER
What is the idea of drilling sol-
diers? What effect does discipline
have? (Why are well drilled troops
the hest troops? How is the soldier
of the future to be trained? What was
the fatal defect of training as it re-
vealed itself in the world war? These
ere some of the extremely interesting
and important questions discussed by
Arlington B. Conway, Canadian army
officer. in The American Mercury. He
says that drill is primarily intended
to make it possible to move large bod-
ics of men rapidly and with precision
°rom one place to another and to get
them into formations suitable for the
u: e ,f their weapons. Brill also has
an important psychological sect up-
on the soldier. He becomes aecuntom-
ed to move as a unit in a masa and
knows that when certain commands
aro given every other unit in the mass
tellmove in a definite way. Ona the
parade ground soldiers become aeons -
Vented ped tro this happening and there -
"JACK THE RIPPER" TERRORIZES
DUSSELDORF
Germany has her "Jack the Ripper"
and we are not astonished to learn
that he is even a worse monster than
the unknown murderer who terrorized
Whitechaperl some thirty years or so
ago. It is in Dusseldorf that his
shocking crimes have been commit-
ted and so fearful has the population
become that children are not allowed
out at night unless accompanied by
some adult, and hundreds of women
are carrying with them little bags of
pepper with the idea of hurling it in
the face of the ripper should he ac-
cost them. But latest advices are to
the effect that the police have collect-
ed some useful clues and may be ex-
pected to make an arrest shortly.
They have narrowed the field consid-
erably in the course of their investi-
gations which have extended over nine
months. They have been aided by
the murderer 'himself who has time
and again written to ne dspaperrs an-
nouncing new crimes or telling where
victims are to be found. The peculiar
paper on whichhe insatiably vtrrites
may be one of the pieces of evidence
to place a rope around his neck should
F NA
Viscount and Viocountess Willingdon and Vice -tarot Party
Leaving 'Largest Automobile Manufacturing Plant of the t: cousin
]Empire, that of the 'Ford Motor Company of Canada Limnited,
at (East "" incisor. Ontario.
Duties of Modern Executives
Dwasrf Demands Made Upon
Kings of Yore.
e �'•aIME was when rulers, gath-
ering their intimates about
them, took to the fields and
• woods in search of wild boar
or slipped incognito into sequest-
ered inns when they wished sur-
cease from the duties of state or
opportunity to sit vis-a-vis with
their subjects.
Today, the executive obligations
of the head of a nation entail an in-
timate knowledge of the industries
that loom so prominently in the
general conditions of his country.
Recent trips of this nature by
the titular heads of the govern-
ments of Canada, Spain and the
United States of America give rise
to the conjecture as to how their
respective prototypes would
have reacted to the spectac-
les of modern mass production
that met the eyes and intellig-
ence of these modern leaders.
Any guess as to what Henry
VIII., Isabella or Washington
might have thought or said dust
result only in the conclusion that
the job of knowing how to conduct
a government these days is much
more of a task than in the periods
so often referred to as "the good
old days."
Improved transportation facili-
ties have enlarged the importance
of industry in all countries in its
relation to agriculture and com-
merce since the days when govern-
ing was more leisurely. Governing
today, if it is to safeguard the in-
terests both of laborer and manu-
facturer, and if it is to recognize
all the essential elements of pros-
perity and well-being for the na-
Topp—President hoover in Genial Wood with Thomas A. ttdiemca
and Henry 'Ford as his Companion, during Recent Visit at
Dearborn, Michigan—AND 'Energetic Rader of Spain, Bing
Alfonso, Asked Many Questions During Trip Through ems
Plant at Barcelona.
tion's peoples must include knowl-
edge of the industries upon which
a healthy state depends.
Visits made recently by Viscount
Willingdon, vice -regal head of the
Canadian government; King Alfon-
so, ruler of Spain and President
Hoover, head of the American
state, to plants where Ford cars
and trucks are manufactured, are
indicative of the importance that
leaders of nations attach to first-
hand information about the index
industries of their respective coun-
tries: Viscount Willingdon was ac-
companied by Viscountess Willing -
don en his inspection trip tthrou is
the largest automobile manufac-
turing plant in the British Empires
that of the Ford Motor Company of?
Canada Limited, at East Windsor,
Ontario. King Alfonso evinced
keen interest in the man opera-
tions in the plant of tile Ford l
Motor Company, S.A.E., at Barce-
lona, and President Hoover spent
much of his limited time while he
Dearborn, Mich., to honor Thomas
A. Edison, discussing the related]
subjects of production and genera
business prospects with Henry
Ford, his host.
he be caught, although one can hard-
ly suppose that this German Jack is
any saner than his English prototype.
Already the German assassin has
murdered ten persons, nine girls and
one man. Unlike the Whitechapel
killer he does not confine himself to
one weapon, a knife, thought it is his
favorite, but he has also used a 'ham-
mer or similar instrument. 'Also un-
like the original ripper he has per-
mitted several of his victims to es -
caps and they have given the police
valuable information. From their
testimony it is supposed that this
monster is crazed by lust, though this
would not explain the brutal murder
of Rudolph Scheer, a middle-aged
workman, whose body was found one
.r last April with 20 wounds in it.
These wounds had evidently been
caused with the same knife that had
been used on a little girl of eight,
found four days earlier behind a fence
on the outskirts of the town. This
was the first crime which has been
laid at the door of the murderer. The
last came to light on November 15th
when the body of Maria Hahn was
found. Gertrude Schulte is one of
the score or more women attacked
who escaped, and the story she tells
throws light on the methods of the
murderer.
One evening in August she was in
an open-air place of entertainment
when she was addressed respectfully
by a man who appeared to belong to
the upper classes and. whose age was
about 35. He invited her to have
some refreshment and she consented.
Then he bought a pound of peaches
and they sat down and ate them. He
asked the girl if she would have an
ice but she declined and he bought
one for himself. While he ate it she
noticed that two of the front teeth
in his lower jaw were missing. When
her escort suggested that he would
walk home with her she made no ob-
jection, and they proceeded on their
way. But he led her rather out of
her way and when they reached a
bank on the Rhine, made proposals
which she indignantly repelled. He
seized her in his arms but she strug-
gled and suddenly he produced a
knife. She screamed, hut with the
second blow, fell unconscious. Fear-
ing that her outcries might have at-
tracted attention, the would-be mur-
derer made off and the girl was found
later by some workingmen. She had
14 wounds in her neck and body.
The description given of the man
coincides with that of some stranger
who was seen at an inn on the out-
skirts of the city dancing with a pret-
ty 21 -year-old servant girl, named
Maria Hahn, a few days earlier. Maria
did not go home that night ror on
any other night. She was reported to
the police as missing, and it was fear-
ed that the ripper had done away with
her. Also missing about the same
time was five -year -'old Gertrude Al-
hermann. The police searched in vain
hut the first clue they found was
presented to them by the ripper him-
self who wrote a note to the editor of
one of the city papers, which contain-
ed the following message: "Wlood,
weed, wood, field, field, field, meadow,
meadow. (Murder near Papendelle.
Corpse buried near the star shown.
The body of Gertrude Albermann near
H,aniel's wall." The message was
printed with a blue pencil on a square
piece of paper, and against one of
the words "wood" was a crude star.
The police compared this with other
messages purporting to come from
the murderer, and satisfied themselves
that all were from the same source.
They proceeded to the spot indi-
cated with a gang of workmen, and
with the aid ,of acetylene lamps, the
execration wan begun.. Near the wall
mentioned thew came upon the body
of the little eirl. 'lira the same field
they found as woman's hat and a
leather handbag. Before these could
be identified, the newspaper received
another messbge. "Go on digging."
So the digging was continued in the
presence of hundreds of spectators.
After several hours 'work a pair of
high -heeled shoes was disclosed, then
a human arm. Finally the body of
Maria Hahn was exhumed. She had
evidently been stabbed to death. It
has been proved that the paper on
which the murderer has sent his com-
munications to the newpapers is news-
print. The pencil also, chemically an-
alyzed, has been shown to be the
kind commonly used in press rooms
and not generally elsewhere. The
police have also learned that there
are only three factories in Germany
which produce this particular kind
of paper. The implication is that the
notes were written by somebody em-
ployed in the press room of a news-
paper. One theory is that the assas-
sin is a woman. Some of the intend-
ed victims have been approached by
either a woman or a man disguised as
a woman. There are other facts to
suggest that' the "Jack the Ripper"
is e school teacher. The matter rests
for the moment with the reward of
£800 offered by the minister of the
interior unclaimed and the fiend at
large.
NEWS AND INFORMATION FOR
THE BUSY I'ARMiN
How to Produce Layers.
Poultry farmers will find it profit -
al -le for the purpose of building up
the laying capacity of their flocks, to
select the best laying hens of the flock
and mate them with males from heavy
laying stock. In one experiment, fif-
teen of the hest layers were set apart
for the production of hatching eggs
and were mated with the sons of
heavy baying hens. The first year
of the test the fifteen best hens laid
an average of 123.6 eggs and five
years later the yield of the best fif-
teen had gone up to 256.2 eggs per
hen.
New Uses For Barley.
Until recently the use of barley on
the farm was restricted to the feed-
ing of live stock. In Germany, how-
ever, barley is used for a multitude of
purposes. 'Millions of bushels yearly
are used in the manufacture of malt
coffee. Besides this an enormous
quantity of the grain is used in the
manufacture of bread, breakfast foods,
biscuits, infant and invalid prepara-
tions, tonics, condiments and food
preserves. In view of this, it would
seem that barley is destined to occu-
py a position of increasing import-
ance in all farm rotations that may
be devised with a view to obtaining
some relief from the weed scourge.
Canadian Hogs Improve.
The gradual increase in the num-
ber of select bacon hogs indicates two
things, namely: better breeding stock
and more attention to rations. Com-
petitions conducted last summer show
that there is a very good profit over
the cost of feed if the pigs are bred
right and have the necessary feeds
in the right proportion. Although
Danish bacon still brings a higher
price than iianadian on the British
market, the quality of our bacon is
constantly improving and prospects
are that with the improvements that
have already been taking place, the
time is not far distant when Canadian
bacon will be on on equal plane with
that of any country in the World.
'nth the corning of winter, lire has-
ards on the farm are on the increase.
The tractor add the gasoline engine
have also introduced new fire menace
and care should be taken in their op-
eration and storage. The storing of
gasoline and kerosene is a kindred
subject and the proper facilities for
both should be provided.
DINNER STORIES
It was necessary for taxation pur-
poses to decide on which side of the
Canadian and United Stattee border
a farm, which an old lady had just
purchased, actually lay. Surveyors
finally announced that the farm was
lest on the American side of the bor-
der.
The old lady smiled with relief.
"I'm so glad to know that," she
said. "I've heard that winters in
Canada are terribly severe."
A well known actor was appearing
in a play in which a thunderstorm
played an important pert. One night
in the middle of a speech he was in-
terrupted by a terrific peal.
The annoyed doctor looked up into
the flies and said, "That came in the
wrong place."
And the angry stage hand replied,
"Oh, did it? Well, it came from
'eaven."
SWEDISH MATCH TRUST
DOMINATES I'1HIE WORLD
Announcement that Ivar Kreuger,
head of the Swedish match industry,
and also incidentally head of the vast
organization that produces three-
quarters of the matches made in the
world, has secured a monopoly in
Germany in exchange for a loan of
$125,000,000 is accompanied by the
announcement that the Soviet trade
representative in Berlin has said that
his government would consider the
arrangement an unfriendly act. We
can only say that the trade represent-
ative is rather late in the day in
making his protest and that it is
somewhat of an impertinence for Rus-
sia to protest to Germany about what
is Germany's own business. The
match trust has in the past ten years
made many other international loans
to secure a market for its goods. Two
years ago it loaned $75,000,000 to
France for permission to enter the
market which France had up to that
time preserved as a national monop-
oly. In recent years loans have been
made to Poland, Roumania, Hungary,
Greece, Jugoslavia, Latvia, Eathonia,
Perms and Ecuador. The match trust
dominates or shares the markets in
every civilized country in the world
except Russia, and whether *Russia
can be considered civilized is a ques-
tion upon which opinions differ.
The Swedish match trust has
hundreds of subsidiary companies in
various parts of the world. It opex-
ates a chain of banks with offices in
most of Europe's capitals and these
hanks acre the trust's financial agents
and also do some banking on their
own account. This trust represents
capital and resources comparable
with those of any of the world's great
organizations of capital and in some
respects surpasses them. It has won
its world markets in the first place
because the, modern match was a
Swedish iinvention or rather the re-
sult of a series of Swedish inventions,
and in the second place because ill,(r.
Kreuger happens to be a, financial
genius of the first order .., Ste. la WO
49 years ofd, tuanliaread d, agla : In the
past ten years or so 'bac, »tat Ito, thatch
trust among the ezei'b fanatics atries of
the world. It is interesting to note
that this man had some experience as
a contractor in Canada and that there
are no doubt Canadians who still re-
member him in this capacity in the
years before he had struck the lane
which was to give him international
significance.
That would be about 25 years ags
For three generations the K=reugeire
have been interested in the manufac-
ture of matches, but Ivar had ne
notion of becoming either a match,
maker or the match king. His i,r,.•n
was to be an engineer and to this end
he was trained in Stockholm. At the:
age of 20 he went to theU
With
Unitet
States where he landed with little
money and took the first jab that he
could find, which was that of real
estatc9 solicitor. Eventually he got
a position with a railroad at work for
which he was better fitted but left
this to work an a contract in Mexico.
He then returned home for a visit
but went back to the United States
and secured a job with the Fullest'
Construction company. By this time
he was rising in his profession and
was becoming recognized as a spec-
ialist in structural steel. He was
sent to different parts of the world to
direct important building enterprises,
and it was in this period that he vis-
ited Canada for a while, contracting
on his own account.
In 1907 he went back to Stockholm
for he had concluded that at hoard
there was scope for his talents evens
greater than abroad. Taking as part-
ner Paul Toll, he organized the greair-
est construction company in Sweden,
a firm that has altered the face s2
Stockholm. A revolution in building
was accomplished. Kreuger intro-
duced American ideas and made t
Swedes like them. From building;
stores, offices and warehouses to buy-
ing real estate for speculative pur-
poses
ro—poses was a short and natural step
and as it proved a highly profitable
one, Kreuger is credited with nn en-
traordinary faculty of guessing
where there is to be a detveloprness
and anticipating it. As time went onn
he had the resources at his commandl
to create developments. In a short
time Kreuger and Toll were rich men
and the directors of one of the great
businesses of Sweden. In 1913 Tmr
definitely entered the match della]],
though retaining the original farm of
Kreuger and Toll, which really hats
become the keystone of the edifice up-
on which the international match trues
rests.
In 1913, although Swedish matches
were as widely known as Swiss match-
es, the industry was imperfectly or-
ganized, which we suppose is another
way of saying that too many people)
were making money out of it. Thera
had been some consolidations but net
enough. There was wasteful compe-
tition. This Kreuger proceeded to
eliminate. Smaller factories were
closed. Larger factories were equa3g
ped with more modern machin -
Huge sums were invested in raw mma-
teriake. Forests were bought. Mae
war made it necessary for the Swed-
ish match makers to find some otherr
source ofsupply than Germany .friars
their chemicals, and the companies its
the Kreuger organization found fife
His sueeess paved the way for laiatR
great stroke in 1917. when all the
match companies in Sweden carne 'lid
gether in one vast company, of whiele
he was the :read. Then began fano
great campaign for world marked.
Here the usual procedure wan to bur
into existing companies and install re
Swedish expert gas manager. The sit -
nation after the war made it possible
for Kreuger and his' associates ttr
strengthen their position throngln
foreign uoDanti. That is what they have
been doing tnel it would .wean thee
with the financial conquest of Ow.
many there remain no new World: Svc
them to conquer, corcept Ittessii