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Zurich Herald, 1932-10-06, Page 6•4*. 1-1-* 440-4 40-M11-111-31-3`,6-0-0-9.41/.-4 31-4 1 1 +0-� V is of t `. Press Canada, The Empire and The World at Large CANADA Eating 'More Meat Canadians are becoming larger'meat eaters, to the benefit of the livestock industry. Tlie Ottawa Bureau ot Sta- tistics aunouuees the consumption of meats iu Canada iu 1931 was esti- mated at 1,5/0 million pounds, an in- crease of 54 million pounds over the estimate for the previous year. Beef figures showed a decrease, and pork and mutton figures an increase. The per capita consumption of meats was estimated at 118,10 pounds for 1951, compared with 1455.61 in the previoue year. ---Brannon Sun. Canada's Second Big Crop While ail eyes are fb:ed au the wheat crop, it is pertinent to note that Canada is this year also producing a crop of oats that ie estimated to run 422,000,000 bushels. Over the great part 0f Canada oats take the place that corn holds in the central? states, as the standard feed .crop. Only a small portiou of the oat crop is export- ed as grain. A .moderate percentage goes into the carton that figures in the kitchen at breakfast time, The bulk of the crop is fed to horses or turned into beef and pork and mutton and milk and eggs. A big oat crop is the signal that "mixed farming" is to hold its place, and a large place, in Cana- dian farm operatious during the com- ing year. That is the only way in which the oats can, be turned tn oc• count.—Ednrnnton P,utieti_z. Dining Car Simplicity We are hearing- much these days about reductions in the two great rail- way systems in their efforts to eat down their ordinary running expenses.' This office and that is being done away with. and this economy and that is be - lug affected, to help the system to its .feet. But there is one side of things which does not appear to have re- ceived attention. We refer to the elaborate menus served on the trains from which travellers are compelled to select their meals, and from which it is next to impossible to get a decent meal with the cost running far beyond what any but the extremely wealthy are able to afford. There may be some few who are able to order what they will regardless of cost, but their num- ber i3 few and it is decreasing. We suggest that some consideration should be shown to the rank and file and that simplicity in the dicer and in the hotel would not ons, be in line with public sentiment, but would also bring in a better return to the raiI- ways and hotels, benefiting all parties. --Halifax Chronicle Beyond the Pale Drinking and driving ,:annot be al- lowed to go together, and the man who insists that he is going to combine the two operations puts himself outside the pale of sympathy and deserves nothing better than to lose the right to operate a motor car.—Peterborough Examiner. Juvenile Delinquency The only question is, in breaking away from the inhumanity of the past, are we swinging too far in the other direction? There is much juvenile de- linquency, and it it is habitually treat- ed with sentimental forbearance, one despairs of any improvement. It is not fair to the young offenders them- selves to be let off too lightly; they should he made to realize that laws are made to be obeyed by young and old alike and that no orderly commun- ity can tolerate acts of brigandage. If a boy—still more a group of boys— have wrong notions about• the gravity of crime, it is kindness to them to pull them up short before their propensi- ties land them into lasting truoble. The harsh methods of 1872 have gone, let us hope, never to return; but it is a moot point whether the methods of 1922 are perfect,—Hamilton Spectator. Wooten Mills For Alberta A recent announcement indicated that prospects are bright. for the es- tablishment of a woolen mill in Cal- gary. As Alberta annually produces about 3,5500,000 pounds of wool, and as a fair-sized woolen mill operates at a capacity of some 500,000 pounds of wool in the grease, and a large mill from 1,000,000 upwards, it is obvious that the annual wool clip in this pro- vince is keeping several large mills outsde the province busy. The woolen industry, as distinct form others, en- joys perhaps thelongest economic life ot all industries for the reason that it is not extractive in the sense that other industries exhaust the sources of their raw material. Many woolen nmiils have beet in existence a century in the same location. Hence the es- tablishment of an up-to-date woolen .trill in Calgary infers the establish - went et a basic Industry whose life, 'ander proper conditions, should con- tinue for generations. — Calgary Her- ald. THE EMPIRE Australia's Recovery .Avetralia has still a hard road to travel and privations still to endure. Slee wall not fully regain her former lirosperity until, by co-operative Inter-. naclonal effort, the trade and pre - n•rit.y of the whole world have been restored, But it is already possible to say with confidence that the worst of her troubles are over and that the re- ward of her labours and of her sacri- fices is now within sight; --- Landon Times, Scientific "Progress" Coue is the old unquestioning rap- ture of .the scientist of the Victorian age, wto assumed as a matter 0f course that every triumph of mind over matter, every new Itarnes'sing of the forces of nature to the will of man- kind must be an unqualified boon, and that all movement must be progress to a better and a happier state. The reflective scientist of to -day is not so sure, Ultimately, and la the long run perhaps, there must be benefit. Bat he cannot shut his eyes to the fact that while the mechanical sciences have added enormously to the pagean- try and variety of modern life, they have produced be- no means unmixed blessings. Industrialism's glaring sins of ommission -and commission; the perversoa of science to the perfecting of instruments of destruction; the ter- rible ruthlessness of revolving wheels; the smashing effect which a single new invention may have upon the lives and homes of thousands—these have to be remembered when we worship mechanical proarese,- -London 1)ailc Telegraph. Another Little Drink The beverage of the :Army to-dey is tea. It is estimated that in the region of Salisbury Plain, where manoeuvres were in progress. between tw nty- five and thirty cups of tea are sold to every one pint of beer. And, accord- ing to an officer, the tea -drinking sol- dier compares "damned well" with the old "beer-swiper." Old-fashioned sol- diers will hear this, no doubt, with. disgust, and suspect that the officer is biased in ..favour of the present-day soldier. Bat customs change in every- thing, and old soldiers (who never die) would find some reason to disaprove of the .sew soldier whatever he did.— London Evening News. Eiglish Irony There are few things more mystify- ing to the foreigner or more satisfying to the student of national psychology than the vein of popular irony wbich crops out again and again in history in the English common man, Shakespeare,' of course, knew and loved it, witness (one example among many) Hamlet, Act iv, Sc. 6: "First Sailor: God bless you, sir. Horatio: Let him bless thee, too. First Sailor: He shall, sir, an't please him." That nonchalant zuariner is the very ancestor of the troops who went into action singing "The Bells of Rell go ting -a -ling -a -ling": and today their younger brothers are facing the sever- est economic crisis of modern times with the chorus "Ain't it grand to be blooming well dead." England is all right: Letter to The Spectator, The Ottawa Agreements If a revival of trade within the :Em- pire is stimulated, as we may hope it will be, by the Ottawa agreements, then foreign countries stand to gain more from the rehabilitation of a great market than they may lose as a result of particular arrangements for Imperial purposes, It will be wise for critics both at home and abroad not to fasten on particular details of the. agreements, but to judge them as a whole in the light ot the object aimed at, which is to give an impetus to world recovery through tariff adjust- ments designed to promote the flow of trade between the largest group of na- tions in the world.—Glasgow Herald, OTHER OPINIONS Inevitable A new war debts deal between the Allies and America has now become imminent as well as inevitable, There is reason to believe this country will accept its share of the necessary scald - flees when the time comes and with good grace—providing its sacrifices release constructive, not destructive forces: --New York World -Telegram. Sermons in Stones :Roger :Babson's gift of exhortation has impelled him to carve oratory in- scriptions suck as "Prosperity Follows Service," on various boulders in the vicinity of ha summer home ou the Annisquam shores. Another summer resident of the Gloucester region, Mrs, Leila Webster Adams, has expressed dtsapproal of this defacement of com- mon rocks, which, in her judgment, look mach better without the carved mottoes, It would be idle to pretend that all reeks are beautiful, but inset persons w'bo 'love the rountryside would probably agree that. "serenof,s itt stones" are preferable when not of the literal kind.--Sln ludic+ld Republican. The actor was in trouble about his rent. The landlord called, exerting pressure. "Look here,' said the tea. - ant, "you ought to be glad to have fellow like me in your flat, In a year or two's time people will be pointing to this house and saying ':tones the actor used to live there's" "Mister," said the landlord, "if you don't pay up, people will begin pointing tentlerrolff" The Latest in Inventions There i:tt't gulag to be much fun turning in fire alarms--•esje:I.. ally -false alarms" --.since they've introduced this contrapf gu i wlti•ch holds you tiltt till the. reels arrive. Paris Claims Credit for Skyscrapers in United States Paris has no skyscrapers—except, or. course, the Eiffel Tower. Indeed, in all France there is no building that really could be called a skyscraper: Yet, writes the Paris correspondent of '•.he Christian Science Monitor, M. Jacques Grcber, well known French architect and protest or at the Uni- versite de Paris, who designed the Rodin Museum in Philadelphia, told a Paris audience that it was French, and particularly Parisian, influence on American architects which gave ris:; to the skyscraper style of building. It was not until Americans began to come to Paris in considerable num- bers to study at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, in the latter half of the nine- teenth century, that the English in- fluence on American architecture Was modified. Then the French ideals of proportion and perspective began to be felt, and particularly, M. Grebes holds, the American students of archi- 1 acture were influenced by the vertical style of building which is the glory of so many late Gothic eathedt nls Prance. • 24,074 New Titles Seen In German Book Output Getman book production for 1931 amounted to 24,074 new titles, the lowest production for the previous nine-year period, with the exception of the year 1924. Pr duction for the years 1927 to 1930, inclusive. follows: 1927, 31026; 192S, 27,794; 1929, 27,- 002; 1930, 26,961. Over 90 per cent. or the books, or 22,066, were of German authorship, -while the remainder were either trauslations, mostly from the Eng- lish, Russian and French languages, especially French, English and Latin. Prairie Provinces Value Fishery Output at Milliorn The fisheries production of the Priarie Pravinees of Canada, Mani- toba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, says "-Canada Week by Week," in 1981 was valued at $1,909,040, over $500,000 less than in the previous year. Nearly the whole of the commercial catch is sold for consumption fresh; the only pre- pared products are smoked goldeyes and tullibee in Manitoba. The fisheries of Manitoba are of first importance with an output in 1951 valued at $1,241,575. Saskat- chewan is second with $453,0$6 and Alberta third with $184,859. The fish- eries production of the Yukon Terri- tory was valued at $29.550. Whitefish is the principal item for the three pro- vinces and the territory as a whole, the value of the output of the variety in the year under review totaling y",779,698. Pickerel is next in importance, fol- lowed by trout end tullibee. -Taking each province separately, whitefish is shown to be first in Sas- )atchewan and Alberta, while pickerel afirst in Manitoba..Trout is. found. chiefly it. Saskatchewan and Alberta, the catch in Manitoba being compara- tively small. The total quantity of fish of all kinds caught in the three provinces and the territory in 1931 was 291,147,000 pounds, Telephone Net Grows Landon.—The Anglo uth African telephone service has been extended to include Johannesburg and Pretoria. The charge for a call from London to either of the places is £6 for the first three minutes, and £2 for each subse- quent minute. — A n loges Itis time who conies early t,, a bad bargain. 1.e(,ltinn Clown at the first Completed building of the vast nom., fillg•r <•i:tare px'ojeet itt the heart of old Manhattan. Thirty-one :starer:- of iron and steel. Mercantile Wonder Milton. Macliayu in The New Yorker S. Klein grew rich by breaking all th well-established laws of retailing ex sept those or honest value and hones dealing, and fm low his ramshackle stor on Union Square, New York, does gross of $25,000,000 a year. IIIc per sonal income s more than $1.,000,000 year. Klein is to -day one of the won dors o fthe mercantile world, and th heads of great department stores com to hie Converted loft building to stud Itis methods, Just this April, COordon Selfridge, famous London merchant sailed over to survey Klein's store and commented that the ways of com tierce had ()nee more undergone re volution. The Kiehl store deals only in wo men's and children's wear and it is th largest women's -wear shop in th world, despite the fact that its averag sale price of a dress is less than $5 It is ons of the bouafide "sights" o New York. On a Saturday thousand of ruthless and voracious women fig the aisles and elevators, pushing, jab biug, clawing, slugging their way to ward bargains. All's fair and the ons rule s a rule of. self-preservation: keep a stilt knee in your neighbor's mid riff and a firm hand on your pocket book, Klein doesn't dare- use advertising Every time he has anounced sped bargains in the newspapers there ltav been riots. The size of the crowd has forced hint to close his doors, pee pie have been injured, traf°.: has bee Paralyzed in the Square, and police reserves have been called out. There fore, he advertises only to announce that the store is closing for a holiday thus saving customers a futile trip to 14th Street. The answer to IZlehl's success is low prices. Some of the prices just can't be believed: a sports dress for $1, a sill. suit for $5, an evening dress for $7.75. Excellent styles and Ilea getups can be located by the occa sional patient and well -armored shop per of taste. Klein has adapted the cafeteria sys- tem to ready-to-wear. Monstrous racks run angular miles through the store. There are no clerks, no show- cases. no folderol. Every customer thumbs through the racks, grabs what she wants before the woman behind her does, and carries her prize off to the dressing -rooms. On busy clays the less modest gals have been kuown to hoist their skirts and get on with tate busiuess of fitting right in the middle of the store, but that practice is dis- couraged. In the dressing -rooms no n overweening fastidiousness is toler- ated. You caundress with 500 other women or you can go somewhere else to trade. Klein has a stock of between 200,000 and 300,000. garments and the stock changes constantly. Tf 'a dress does not sell in two weeks, it is automati- cally reduced in price. A. garment priced at $4.45 is reduced in a fort- night to $2,45. If it fails to sell in two weeks fore it is cut to $2.45, and the process continues until the customer may have it for $1. Klein, to whom every inch of floor space is so much gold dust, cannot afford to have it in the shop. A system of stock control, which he devised, allows him to take inventory twice each day, au unheard o! thiug iu business. Wild Life of Canada Valued iAt $53,000,000 Annually value of the wild life resources e of Canada has been estimated at $53,- - 000,000 annually, the Honorable Thos. t G. Murphy, Minister of the Interior, told those in attendance at the Frovin- a sial -Dominion Game Conference held - in Ottawa. This figure, he says, would a embrace tate worth et pelts and car- • sasses sold, the value of the trade 'n e firearms and ammunition, in supplies e for hunters and sports'tnen and their 3' transportation, guides and aceommoda-• tions. ,� Murphy also pointed out that mazy . of the people of Canada, especially the • Indians and Eskimos, depend upon • wild tire as their chief means of liven.. and called attention to tate - • thetic value, the joy and delight witleh e the songs and the plumage of birds e and the study of their habits afforded e millions of citizens.-•-Detre:: News. f tive of some welfare agency. 1f the 3 girl has responsible parents, he talks 1 to thein. Often the matter ends with - his presenting an outfit of clothing to • the gaily girl together with an admoni- Y tion to go and sin no more. For years the Buttering school girls of Wash- - ington Irving High School around the - corner were considerably more than a nuisauce. Finally Klein made a `". rapprochement with the school Nie- e. rin al cipal. Schoolgirls now are rarely ar- e rested wen they sneak a dress. More- s over, Klein bas created a special fund • in custody of the principal. Instruct - t1 ors are told to keep a lookout for youngsters whose poverty shames • them before the other girls. There is always a free outfit at Mein'e for any- , one who comes with. proper creden- tials, redentials, and judges and social agencies often draft the store into service. Fifth Avenue stores must often pay one -teeth of their gross income for rent; Klein's occupancy charge is three-fourths of one per cent.. They t niay turn over their stock complete • four times a year; Klein turns over his • 35 to 45 times a year. He has almost no window space; he has no deep car- pets on his floors, and shopping in his store is as brutal as running a gaunt- let, .But his overhead is less than six per cent, and that i$ why he can make money on a ten per cent, profit. Since he has no taste for cultural matters—he never goes to the theatre, never reads a book—or for personal swank, Klein's store and not Klein has become his career. And thus, quite unself-consciously and quite automati- cally, he has become a social force in New York. His overwhelming produc- tion of cheap dresses has made it pos- sible tor the merest shopgirl to give„ at least to the untutored eye, the ap- pearance of chic. Someone told Klein recently the` he had made more girls York. He want. to believe it is true, happy than any other man In New and it probably is. Now, in a naunex, he is .planning to drum up trade in the higher -income brackets. Klein has made the poor folk happy; perhaps he will do some thing for the rich Somebody ought to, Soviet Merges 7 Words For Linguistic Economy The son of a tailor, Mehl was born in Russia, and came to New York when he was five. He attended public school only a few years. He obtained his first employment running errands for a clothing concern. herr he learn- ed the cutter's trade. By scrimping and saving, he amassed $0 and started the manufacture of skirts itt 1906, in one room. After six years, with a capi- tal of $600, he se up shop as a price - cutting retailer, in those early days Klein's greatest; assets were a pocket- tul of cash awl the nose of a terrier for manufacturers in trouble. He knew goods and he knew workmanship and he could locate infallibly the flims which were about to close their doors. At the last Minute before the sheriff. came, Klein, his stocky shoulders hunched in atf old brown coat, would appear with $500 in cash to buy the $2009 stock. He was hardbotled; and the bargain he drove he passed on to his Customers. it was i nthose days, tog, that he de- veloped his "Beware of the Dog" methods of dealing with the shoplifter problem. Self-service is a great temp- tation to the light-fingered; so Klein has plastered all over the store great signs, printed in English, Italian, and Yiddish, They bear such legends as "Don't Disgrace Your Fatally!" and "The Punishment for Dishonesty is Jail," and each placard is adorned by a rude chrome of a distraught maiden peering from bellied big, black bars. C.iitds on high platforms maintain a constant surveillance of the custom- ers, and patrons in the dressing -rooms receive the comforting assurance that -Detectives Are Always Watching ;'on. Klein says that lie loxes $100,000 a Year through shoplifting. When he ap-1 prebends a professional shoplifter, he prosecutes to the limit; it is a .sort of insurance that his store should be ! known as tough grunting grounds, The .cleptomaniac wife of a pratninent man ! !Offered most of the Fifth Avenue t Bops and got away with it because I s of her husband's fufluence,it She was caught at Klein's and sent away to the 'eland tor three days despite every- thing her husband could do. I Bat where first offeniclai s are eon - coned he shows a rich vein of uuder- etandiag, and calls itt a representa•• Moscow.—The Soviet custom of combining one syllable each from a group of Russian words to make a single word, usually in cases of names of government departments and organ- izations, has produced the twenty- nine -letter appellation "Mosobljeldor- shosporttransport." It is a contraction of the Russian words meaning "Moscow Province Railroad, Highway and River Trans- por t Bureau." Some of the combinations now hold- ing a definite placeitt the Soviet lexicon are; Narko.minydei Commissariat for Foreign Affairs; Narkointrud, Com- missariat for Labor; Narkomsnitb, Commissariat for Supply; Sovnalkotu, Council of People's Commissars; War Icornzem, Commissariat fax Agricul- ture; Narkoniput, Commissariat for • Transport; Gosizdat, State Publishing Society. 600 Miles an Hour Foreseen For Planes of Present Type Ultimate top speed for airplanes with present wing characteristics is 600 miles per hour, according to con- clusions reached by the National Ad- visory Council fnr Aeronautics follow- ing a series of experiments in the world's highest speed tunnel at Lang- ley Field, Va. These tests, roti at alt speeds as high :e 800 miles per hour, demonstrated that racing -airplane wing designs now employed develop I rohibitive "drag" above 600 stiles per hour, says "Popular Mechanics Maga- zine." Present -clay propellers which turf? a' 1,800 revolutions per minute also may waste power, the experiment showed. At that speed the tip of the blade is travelling so fast that ii hinders rather ''. aids pavfor'mance. 2$2,250 Seal felts l spneted in St. Louis for Furs this Yeas Approximately one out of every twenty-five scale in the United States government herd of 1,225,000 animals hat this sunnier started their long wim from the tropical i'acifls to the Pribilof islands in the Alaskan waters of the Bering Sea finally will collie tO St. Loma. That is, the Pelt, the onl3' tart of a seal in which the civilize. world, and especially the feminine). world, is interested, will reach St, Seals for treating and dyeing,