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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,