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elfridge of London
(Condensed from Fortune in Reader's Digest).
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On March 15, 1909, Harry &H-
edge, a small and energetic man of
51 from Chicago, had the incredible
gall to open a department store in
London. And to open it with de-
vices and publicity—be had spent
$100,000 on,„his first two week's ad-
vertising and had taken full-page
spaces in the daily press!—which the
Londoners would certainly resent.
IMe. Selfridge's mere existence was
an impertinent reflection upon the
methods of the great London estab-
lishments. To attempt to teach a
nation of shopkeepers to keep shop
was equivalent to an attempt to
teach your graedmothee" to milk
,theeks. London stores had never ad-
vertised. And here was Harry Self-
ridge exposing ornate heralds blow-
ing laeribboned trumpets into the fac-
es of every newspaper reader in Lon-
don.
Mr. Selfridge, moreover, proposed
to invite people into his: store to look
about as much as they phased and
to buy only if they wished to buy.
It was the London tradition to em-
ploy shopwalkers whose duty it was
to see that those who did not intend
to buy should not remain in the store.
To permit people to enter at pleas-
ure, to provide a lounge, an em.erg-
ency hospital, a library, a silence
roam, a bank and a tea garden on
the roof was to fill your store with
riffraff.
Then too there was the matter of
shop windows. It was the custom of
the London stores to show in their
windows, taeked against the back-
ground, piled on the floor, strung
from the ceiling, stuck against the
glass, samples of everything they
had in etock. But the windows at
Selfridge's had no such display. In-
stead a few articles, three or four
at most, reposed chastely against a
background of draperies. And the
rest of the goods were spread in
show cases along the aisles within.
In addition to -all of which there
was the question of the help. British
--stores had traditionally treated their
shop assistants as though they were
a .combination of domestic servant,
incompetent, and orphan. They had
been required to "live in," eating in-
adequate fobd supplied by the house,
sleeping at first under the counters
and later in barracks, and obeying
such rules as those -which required
"Each Young Lady in the shop to
be dressed in a Plain Black Stuff
Dress," those which fixed their social
„habits. and those which compelled
them to spy upon one another. For
all of which they had received froth
S.20 to £40 per year. Mr. H. G.
Wells, who served 'two years 'ea a
four-year etore apprenticeship says
that "the life offered me was a hid -
sous insult," But at Selfridge's all
this was changed. There .were 1200
employees, all of whom were paid
enough to live decently outside the
building. And' the result was, first,
that the store's employmerit office
was besieged from the beginning and,
-second, that other London sepses were
faced with the unappetizing choice of
changing their habits or losing their
best assistants.
No wonder people began to ask
who this American was. Irby had
he come? How long was he going
to stay? An editorial writer in the
Anglo -Continental called him a usur-
er, ,and described the whole venture
as a 'Jure case of dumping. Our
,
Armeric n friends have sterted a
crusade. to force on London super-
fluous luxtiries. The help of the
Press has been bought at the cost of
many thousands. . , ." etc.. etc.
Americans, on the other hand, knew
Selfridge as the Ripon, Wisconsin,
boy who had made good, the general
manager of Marshall Field in Chi-
cago who had quite at 45 with a mil-
lion. -the only naan," as he said, of
himself, "who had ever bought a
business from' five Jews and sold it
to seven Scotchmen at a profit." He
was alio credited with starting at
Fielll's the first bargain basement
known to history, What had taken
I him to London was his overweening
and fent:I:joie imagination and his dis-
al prentment when his plan' to huy
Marshall Field & Co. fell through.
To opcn a store in London was one
thing, and to stay open and expand
was another. To do so it was neces-
sary to keep on attracting the neo-
rle of London—to become a publicist
with a masterly understanding of
the British temperament. Such a
publicist Ma. Selfridge promptly be-
came. He continued, as a matter of
course, and to the disgust of his com-
petitors, his daily ad'vertise'ments in
the press. . And, casting aibout in
the summer of 1909 for further
means of attracting attention, he hit
quite accidentally upon the greatest
press stunt of his generation. While
motoring ope afternoon with his
family, word was picked up that
Bienot had flown the Channel, win-
-fling the Daily Mail prize. At once
Mr. • Selfridge telegraphed the Daily
Mail asking for permission to ex-
hibit the plane free of charge in
Selfrid.ge's, aid offering to give -£1000
to the Daily Mali's favorite charity.
The answer was favorable, and the
next Monday morning the plane was
on view in Selfridge's basement, spe-
cial police were posted in the streets
and the queue ran three times round
the block. Later on Hawker's . plane
followed Blerlot's and racing motors
followed racing boats until Self -
ridge's became the acknowledged
trophy room of the mechanical age.
Whereupon the .great showman turn-
ed to politics.
His first triumph in that field had
been the seating of the' children of
the Duke of Teck, nephews and niec-
es of the King and Queen, on the
front balcony of the store during the
coronation parade of George V so
that Their Royal iaighnes.seS were
Obliged to salute the American corn-
n:ercial facade as their carriage pass-
ed. And- his last was the series of
famous election parties which, be-
ginning in 1924. have brought duch-
esses ,chorus girls. writers and old
politicos crowding into the store reS-
tauranc to read election returns,
dance a bit, watch a snatch of en-
tertainment,. and finish.off a pleasant
night with scrambled eggs and Bass
ale at 5 a.m.
During its first year the store lost
money. but thereafter its profits rose
till in 1919 it was the second' depart -
!tent store in point of sales in Lon-
don. And if 3 -Ir. Selfridge had had
any genius for investment he would
to -day be an extremely rich, man. As
-tr'was, however, he had a very con-
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insisted on living in vast and pre-
tentious hours no Englishman not
compelled thereto by hereditary duty -
would have spent a night in. He kept
a great corps of servants and, at one
time, a small stable of impoverished
baronets and needy earls. He mar-
ried his three daughters to a prinee
(Rassian), a count (F'rench-A-meta-
san), and a viscount (ditto) and sup-
ported all three menages in fitting
style. 'He bought cars before cars
were common, flew in planes when
planes were still military luxuries,
arst-nighted, entertained, travelled,
1,ought, and gave. And eventually
in 1926 he found hiniself compelled
to raise a very considerable sum. He
foill lives expansively, but is reput-
edly in debt to his company to the
tune of a million dollars.
With another man such a situation
might be distreesing. Few merchants
of to enjoy the sensation of debt.
But not so with Mr. Selfridge. He
has always seen money ineterms of
spending rather than in terms of
making. When in the early days of
the war Selfridge. & Co. began to
make considerable profits and Mr.
Selfridge began casting about for a
Fen t for his family it was no mere
decal mansion be determined to buy.
Instead he searched the smith coast
of England for a suitable promon-
tory, found Hengistbury, bought it
and proceeded to sketch out plans
for an enormous pseu•do-medieval
monstrosity with several acres of
covered garden, a theater of its own,
a village complete with artisans in
gold and silver a la Cellitni, the whole
to cost some M000,000. An.d if his
family had not been scattered he
might very erell have built the house.
His son Gordon is now in his early
30's, a graduate of Trinity College,
Cambridge, an expert amateur pilot,
and a young mean of great personal
charm who already enjoys a solid re-
putation as a merchant. When he
graduated he took his place in his
father's business without hesitation.
It is quite conceivable that under
Gordon Selfridge, Selfridges, Ltd.,
will rectify its lines, consolidate its
position, and allow the resonant
plans of the feunder to remain what
they. are—plans: and a memorial 'to
one of the most taking personalities
of our time.
* * *
The persuasive power of the Self-
ridge personality is revealed by his
rise to social success inEngland, de-
spite early handicaps of ridicuule.
Many of his revolutionary ideas seem-
ed to Londoners wholly ludicrous, at
first, as 'Beverly Smith points out in
The American Magazine. If a cus-
tomer wanted to try on 14 pairs of
gloves and then not buy any, that
was fine, said Selfridge. But Punch
ridiculued him in a full-page cartoon
depicting the Selfridge store, with
salesmen' and saleswomen" flocking
about the customers, bestowing lav-
ish gifts upon them. The legend was
—We- Do This Because We L-o;v-e
You.
Socially, too. Selfridge ran into the
prejuclice against "persons in trade."
The English attitude was that sport
and leisure are the proper occupa-
tions of a gentleman. Selfridge. an
American and a merchant, with his
enthusiasm for business, was thor-
oughly an outsider. . Yet after a
while surprising . news began to be
whispered about. 'This American
tradesman. Selfridge, it was said,
had been "taken up by some of those
ery close to the King." Incredible!
The truth was that some of the men
in England who were too high up to
care a hoot whether a man was a re
-
taller or a snake charmer, had met
Selfridge, liked him immensely for
his honesty. intelligence, and enor-
mous zest for life, and had become
his friends. And once thelaree fish
had led the way ,the small fry quick-
ly followed, so that :Selfridge's, long
list of friends to -day is one of the
most varied on earth—princes and
prize fighters, duchesses and divas,
cabinet ministers and cabinet makers.
Back To The Bicycle?
(Condensed from The Nation in Read-
er's Digest)
It started in Hollywood, they say,
ard quickly spread East. In the na-
tional capital it is reported to be go-
ing strong, and has broken r,ut vir-
ulently in New York City. We are
talking, of course, about the bicycle
fed, which like that for roller skates,
represents one of those familiar
savings of the pendulum Which con-
tinually are bringing. back into the
present segments of the past.
Ifn Washington even the tandem
bicycle, that incomparable first aid
to courtship of the Gay Nineties'. has
reappeared. That Washington should
be quick to revive the bicycle is na-
tural, because in the heyday of the
"wheel"—as it was then called --the
broad, smoothly paved streets, com-
paratively free from commercial traf-
fic, Made it a cyclist's paradise.
!But in spite of congested traffic,
New Yorkers •are not to be denied
their chance at a fed. A firm dealing
in sport articles reports that sales of
bicycles are 50 per cent. higher than
a year ago, and in secluded parts of
Central Park intrepid young women
are practicing a (to thein) new art,
Of course the bicycle never went
out—quite. A good many boys hame
continued to use it for work or play,
and a few men even have ridden
bicycles to and from their jobs right
'through the Dark Ages of the
"Wheel." But women have hardly
been seen on bicycles, in this coun-
try at least, for 20 long years. The
Gay Nineties wet ik the years when
the bicycle was the ruling passion.
And rule it did as few means of
transportation or methods of sport
have ruled before or since.
What a brave cavalcade it was!
There were "Staturday-iarid-'Surridayi"
riders then just as there are "Satur-
day-an&Sunday" drivers nowadays.
The smooth streets of the cities and
the fairly pas -sable roads in the coun-
try hummed and whirred with wheels;
riders went forth alone, in couples,
or in groups' and companies; there
were thousands of 'bicycle clubs — a.
few still survive—with all the glair. -
or and prestige of golf or yacht clulbs
to -day. Bicycling was a. far more
sociable and gregarious sport than.
autemobiling ever has: been or can
Worgen fell captive to it almost
to the same extent as men, and the
erase for speed on the reads—aay 16
frightful miles an hour!—was as
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down his face almost to meet them,
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and then pedaled for dear life, re-
gardless of scenery, pleasure or the
rig-hts of pedestrians or other cycl-
ists, was a "scorcher." He was the
same kind of fool—though less of a
menace—as the driver who races his
car through the public streets to -day.
Means of transit change, but human
nature 'and the percentage of fools.'
remain fairly constant.
The tandem wheel was the ne plus
ultra of the bicycle age. ,There was
romance even in the Gay Nineties—
little as the younger generation of
to -day believes it—and many a se-
date matron of 1933 took her first
ride down Lover's Lane on a' tan -
dent. Naturally the- bicycle was in-
troduced .into many of the- popular
songs of the day, but it was the tan-
dem which inspired the single ditty
which any number of persons car -re-
call to -day:
Da-a-isy, Da-a-isy,
Give me your answer true!
I'm half cra-a-zy,
All for the love of you.
It won't 'be a sty-y-lish marriage;
I can't afford a carriage;
But you'll look sweet upon the seat
Of a bicycle built for two.
Yes,.it was a brave cavalcade, the
bicycle parade of the Gay Nineties—
and almost a decade after. Can it
come back—in any • other than a
spordic, partial, and temporary way?
Not unless the new devotion to the
old sport should be strong enough to
produke !special parchts for bicykles
along our roadways. The bicycle and
the autorno.bile can't live on the same
pathway. At East the bicycle can't,
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How To Make A Gangster
(Condensed frcim Collier's, The Na-
tional Weekly by Reader's Digest.)
How many times have you heard
someone say:
"Why stop gangsters from shoot-
ing each other? Why not let them
kill each other off and -have it over
with?"
Smart idea, but a little old-fasli,
ioned! Every wild shooting in Chi-
cago ---or in any other big gang -in-
fested city—crcates more new gun-
men than it destroys. This is be-
c.ause a toy who starts. out with a
g,ui. and shoots his wny to the top
ot' gangdoni becomes a hero among
all tae other :boys in his drat) neigh-
lathood. He knows it, and this hero
°worship is the very breath of his
boy -life. His companions, the kids
even down to the seven or eight year
olds, know what he's doing, and look
at him, pop -eyed, as he goes along
the street in his home district. They
run errands for him, steal for hint,
get girls for him.
,And all this in the world of the
children—the world of youth between
the ages of about 9 and 19. It's a
world 'separate from parents and
school -teachers; separate from the
law—until a fellow goes too far.
Two years ago, a Chicago busi-
ness man stepped out of his car to
argue with a youth whose car had
bent the fender of his machine. That
argument didn't last one minute. The
boy pulled out a gun and shot the
man dead. Later, caught for an-
other crime, the boy confessed to
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this killing and explained that the
business man had misunderstood him.
"I begged 'the man," he said, "not to
talk rough with me. I warned him
I was a killer, but he only said to
me, 'Well, why don't you shoot, then,
if you're so tough?' So I had to let
him have it."
iThat's a strange flash but a true
one. at "reveals the beliefs, the phil-
osophy and the state of mind of the
youth in the children's underworld
where our gangsters are grown.
"The heroes of this underworld,"
I was told by John H. Landeseo, who
has been making a careful Beady of
gang districts for the American In-
stitute of ?Criminal Law and Crim.-
inology, "are th,e bays of the neigh-
borhood who turn out to be ganster
killers. The children know the names
and deeds of these killers by heart.
They undoubtedly know of crimes
which the police do not solve."
One of Mr. 'Landesco's Most re-
markalble assistants, in this study is
Corrado De Sylvester, a student who
was raised in Little Italy, in Chica-
go. "As children," De Sylvester told
me, "gansters are just wild 'boys,
playing at crime. And they have
cars. Sometimes the -ears are stolen
ones, but the aim of every :boy is to
buy a 'clean car' of his own. Now
there you have the combination. A
playful spirit of cri.me, a gun and an
automobile. 'Whoopee! Anything
*can happen then. All the boy has to
do is to act the way he hears that
the bigger boys act in ro:bberies and
hold-ups, and he becomes as deadly
as a cobra.
"The younger they are, the dead-
lier they are. The older ones, who
have already made their' records.
proceed more carefully .wita their
crimes, but the kid with a gun- is out
to win his spurs. It's actually the
boys of 15 or 16 who give the police
the !biggest battles. They don't use
their brains; they'll shoot it out with
anyone. They don't know how to get
out of jams with the aici of lawyers
or police; all they know how to do is
tooifkill.you
you're a good enough 'hood'
(a new self-imposed teem. of pride,
contraction of "Hoodlum") to have a
police car chase you whenever you
turn out in your car with a group of.
your friends,then you're 'top.' One
game the boys play is to go out look-
ing for a chase or 'lam,' as they call
it. That makes them heroes in the
community. They are astonishingly
good drivers in their own districts.
They practice by the hour what they
call 'whipping corners'—turning short
corners at high speed. They can
shoot into a narrow alley at 40 or
50 miles an hour, like a train going
into a tunnel. They know alleys in
which they can smash police cars up
against dead-end walls. It's almost
impossible for a police car, 'driven
by calm, careful men, to catch these
crazy kids.
"If police start a chase because
one or more of the boys is really
wanted for a knosvn crime, then the
•hig thrill comes—the aam., with rods'
which means a gun -chase. Then they
•go 'whipping' about their district,
:bullets flying everywhere."
I asked Mr. De Sylvester to de-
scribe the youngest and wickedest
"hood" he had ever known.
"Well, the boy they called 'Babe
Luck" was one," he said. "He was
most undoubtedly a killer at fourteen.
He drank, had women and engaged
in all the vices at that age. He took
part in big robberies. Hie hired boys
to steal cars for him to be used in
robberies. But he had his own 'clean'
ear, that the police could not take,
paid for to the last cent, before he
was 16. He was through at_17: his
gang took him for a ride for holding
back part of the proceeds of a rob-
bery. ,
"The most vicious boys are almost
always those -in the 14 to 17 grotia.
I've known five or six of them to get
into a car to head for a bank rob-
bery. On the way to the bank they
were •given a chase by the police,
with guns blazing on both sides, but
got away. They doubled in their
tracks behind the police cars, went
to the bank and took between $3000
and $4000."
"What can the younger boys get
away with ?" I asked.
"The first thing to remember," Mr.
De Sylvester said, "is that there is
always someone ready to buy what
the boys steal. In fact, many of the
things they steal are ordered in ad-
vance. Let's say some of the bigger
boys have stolen a car, 1This may
he because someone has offered them
$50 for four wire wheels wfherewith
to disguise some other stolen car. The
boys bring the car to their home dis-
trict and 'put it down on its trans-
mission,' as they say. Hoeing filled
the order for wheels, the bigger boys
take their $50 and eonsider the job
ended. And now come the boys be-
tween 14 and 17. They take the
lamps, the carburetor and the dis-
tributor; maybe the starter. They
know where they can sell all these
parts. Boys between 9 and 14, not
yet expert with tools, take, perhaps
the gasoline, the horn, the tools and
the spark plugs. They can sell these
objects of loot for small sums. And
the police have found little boys un-
der 9, cutting away upholstery and
curtains. A stolen car, standing on
its transmission in Chicago these
days, is picked by boys as a camel's
vcauritcuarse,,.
carcass in the desert is picked by
•
"Where can these young boys get
guns ?" I asked 'De 'Sylvester.
1"Gune are the easiest of all crime
tools to buy," he said. "Fbr $2J50
or $5 a boy can buy a good revolver.
It's probably a 'hot gun,' ,ane that
has figured in a robbery or killing
and that might get the seller into
trouble. .Why, even little -used ma-
chine guns sell as cheaply as $50,
though a new orale costs $170. This
low price will be because the gun,
which has many hidden identifying
numbers stamped deep into the metal
on many of its parts, has been used
in some desperate crime and is red-
hot."
'Why don't the police arrest the
boys.? The stories of all these boys
run parallel in answering this ques-
tion. The boys come across to the
police at reasonable intervals. A
"lam" usually winds up with men in
the police car collecting money from
the boys:. Here's what one noted
"hood" told De 'Sylvester:
'Our big moneyf," he said, "we
keep in our watch pockets." (Big
money, even with the 14 -year-olds,
may be from a $100 bill up.) •
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''How much you got on you?' a
cop would ask.
" 'We got so much. Talk business
or take us to the station.' Any time
we were picked up it was n5 to $100
for the two of us. If you didn't have
it 'you'd go down."
Well, there you are. All the way
up, from little to big, everything the
boys of gangland see is crooked—
crooked law, crooked policemen, prob-
ably crooked fathers and mothers. A
black, terrible world, right in our
midst! When wa come upon 'a •chil-
dren's- secret world so incredibly evil
that it 'produces nothing but crime,
murder and criminals, isn't it time
that someone, in power somewhere,
got out a mop and a pail of disin-
fectant and wiped out a clean path-
way for these children toward the
sunlight?
Wipe away thieving policemen and
crooked officials; wipe away criminals
who have power over public officials;
wipe away the firms that make ma-
chine guns to .sell to whoever will
buy them; wipe away all motion pic-
ture makers who set forth in return
for the pennies of youth the lustrous
adventures of crime; wipe away ev-
erything that lures a child toward
crime.
In this world almost every path-
way is blocked for a child except the
tread toward vita and criminality.
And our gangsters, who kidnap us,
come up to us by that reed.
Suffered 20 Years
With Rheumatism
BUT FOUR BOXES OF DODD'S
KIDNEY PILLS MADE HIM
A NEW MAN
Ingersoll Man Always Has A Word
Of Praise For Dodd's.
'Ingersoll, Ont.; Nov. 16.—(Special)
—"I suffered for more than twenty
years with what -I was told was
Rheumatism, trner back bothered rne so
much I had to lose quite a let of time
from my work," writes Mr. David
Armour, a well kpown and respected
resident of Cedar, Street, Ingersoll.
"I tried all kinds of liniments and
plasters but they did not help me
much. One day. in 1924 I was read-
ing Dodd's Almanac and saw about
Dodd's Kidney Pills, I decided at once
to try them. After I had taken four
boxes I felt like "a new man. I have
taken eight (boxes to date and will at
all times have a word of praise for
Dodd's Kidney Pills. I am seventy-
three years old."
For half a century Dodd's Kidney
Pills have been relieving others of
Rheulmatism. Why not profit by
their experience?
FARM NOTES
0. A. C. Team Second
The Ontario Agricultural College
dairy cattle judging team stood sec-
ond with 18 teams comlpeting in the
International Inter -Collegiate Judg-
ing Competition at the Dairy Cattle
Congress held at 'Waterloo, Iowa.
Iowa team was first. Individual mem.-
bers of the Ontario team were high
in judging Holsteins, ,Brown Swiss
a,nd Ayrshires and second in Guern-
seys. As a team they were first in
the judging of Holsteins and Guern-
seys.
The team was composed of J. W.
Archibald, H. J. Hunter, A. B. Md-
Caughey and D. A. Dalziel. The boys
were coached by Prof. J. E. Raith-
by. 1VIdGa.ughey was high man in
Holsteins; Archibald high in Brown
Swiss and second in Guernseys, and
Hunter first in Ayrshires.
!The team and their coach are to
be congratulated upon their excellent
standing in competition with the best
judges from 17 Agricultural Colleges
across the line,
Britleh Markets Overloaded With
Canadian Apples
(Writing from the Ontario Govern-
ment Office in 1,ondon, Andrew Ful-
ton reports that excessive shipments
of Canadian cooking' Apples to the
British imerketS are seriously de-
pressing prices for all kinds of ap-
ples, including English. In many
cases. prices slumlped from 10e to 15s
a barrel within two weeks.
Good Nova Scotia No, 1 Blenheims
are selling at lis a barrel-, Ontario
Ies to 1.5s a barrel, Eng-
lish Blenheims as 6d a bushel, and
yeasty and indifferent fruit as low as
as 3s ed a lbarrel, bulb mostly 7s Gd.
At the same time, good quality On-
tario red dessert apples are holding
their own, as bright .Scarlet Pippins
are fetching from 22s to 25s; Jona-
thans 24s to 26s, and firm. McIntosh,
free from bruises 22e to 24s.
:Mr. Fulton considers that it is a
mistake for Ontario shippers to ex-
port their apples immediately they
are packed, without considering the
large crops in Nova 'Scotia and Eng-
land. The heavy supplies of' Nova
Scotia Ortudensteins; Blenheims, Rirbe
stone and ether fall varieties that are
coming forward to all British ports
in unprecedented quantities at this
time of the year, are setting the
price for this class of fruit. This
situation is also having a depressing
effect upon the English grown apples
and English growers are beginning to
cry out for something further to be
done to protect their interest. This
time it is not the foreign fruit that is
causing the trouble, but apples front
Canada and a severe overlapping of
New Zealand boxes, Present indica-
tions are that Ontario apple shippers
who have put their apples into cold)
storage will find markets more sat-
isfactory after Christmas.
Takes Optimistic Attitude Towards
Ontario Fall Fairs
"For very definite reasons," stated
J. A. Carroll, Superintendent of Hort-
icultural Societies, "I. am convinced
that the near future will, once again,
see the Fall Fair ste an institution of
real importance in the farming life
of Ontario."
Mr. Carroll, in his official capacity,
has [visited sotne 28 :fairs commenc-
ing with the Canadian National Ex-
hibition. He points out that gate re-
ceipts are increasing generally arid,
in some cases, this increase is as
much as thirty or forty per cent. ov-
er last year.
Crops in general being earlier this
year," he said, "has resulted in giv-
ing more farmers time to attend the
fairs.. Then again, economic condi-
tions have had much to do with in-
creased attendance. Where in the
past farmers would turn to the city
for relaxation, a less expensive en-
tertainment is now the order of the
day. Fall fairs answer this need."
More attractive prizes and the pro-
gram of Junipr Work were named as
two additional reasons for the in-
creased interest in the fall fair. Jun-
ior Work has been carried on for ser-
er twenty years now, and this pro-
gram is beginning to bear fruit, in-
asmuch as an entirely new genera-
tion is added to the attendance at
these annual functions.
"For these reasons," he concluded,
"I cannot take anything, bet an op-
timistic attitude towards the future
of the fall fair in Ontario."
Winners To Represent Ontario At
The "Reale!"
Teams representing Boys' Cattle,
Swine, Grain and Potato Clubs in On-
tario held their annual inter -club
competitions at 0. A. C. on Friday,
October 27th. Teams were each com-
posed of two club members between
the ages of 16 and 20 years inclu-
sive. In all, 2,111 club members are
enrolled in the 10e clubs organized
in the four projects in Ontario dur-
ing the past year. Fifty-five of these
clubs sent their representatives to
the College to compete in one of the
four inter -club competitions conduct-
ed under the direction of R. S. Dun-
can, director of the Agricultural Re-
presentatives for Ontario.
In the Cattle Club Competition, 21
teams competed. The Woodbridge
Dairy Calf Club of York County com-
posed of Norman Baggs and Wilbert
Jennings, were winners.
The Grain Club Competition
brought out teams representing 14
clubs. The winners were'. Kenneth
Smith and Garwood Sperling of the
Renfrew Grain Club.
The Swine Club Com:petition, was
keenly eontested by 10 teams repre-
senting as many different clubs. First
place was awarded to the Orono Boys'
Swine Club of Durham County, com-
posed of Wesley Yellowlees and New-
ton As.hton.
The Inter -Club Potato Competition
also' brought out contenders from ten
different chubs. The winners were
Gerdon Armstrong and Lloyd Rawn
of the Orangeville Potato Club, Duf-
ferin County.
Following the keenly contested
competitions, the competitors, the
Coaches and' officials were guests at a
dinner in the 0. A. C. cafeteria. Fol-
lowing the announcement of the re-
sults, Dr. George I. Christie, Presi-
dent of the O. A. C., delivered an in-
spiring address which climaxed an
interesting and enjoy -able day for the
club members who had gathered froen,
asLanithfatronasinntehr4divreewatinAthoeoeerasptieaatl.
ing fattens at thia function was the
presentation of "The Farmer" tro-
phies by Editor C. IL liodge, to the
teams from York and Durham Coun-
ties, winners in the Cattle and Swine
Competitions xespectively. °
The four winning teams from Duf-
ferin, Durham, Renfrew and York
will represent Ontario in the Inter -
Provincial Contests to be held at the
tRoyal Winter Fair in November.
NOTICE
"I will not be responsible
fsr suaybedY who 11114
tion, sour stomach, bloating,
constipation or sick heedaehes
if they do not take Barron
Soft Maas Pins and get rid
of those troubles, Everybody
ought to take them two or
three times a ntonth if they
want to feel good. All good
druggists have them."
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