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Voc of the 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. The Ottawa Bureau of Sta- tistics announces the consumption of meats in Canada in 1931 was asti- mated at 1,540 million pounds, an in- crease of 64 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 148.46 pounds for 1931, compared with 145.64 in the previous year.--Brandon Sun. ' Canada's Second Big Crop While all eyes are fixed on the wheat crop, it is pertinent to note that Canada is this year also producing a crop of oats that is estimated to run 422,000,000 bushels. Over the great part of Canada oats take the place that corn holds in the centrall states, as the standard feed crop. Only a small portion 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 operations during the com- ing year. That is the only way in which the oats can be turned to oc- count.--Edmonton Bulletin. Dining Car Simplicity We are hearing much these days about reductions in the two great rail- way systems in their efforts to cut down their ordinary running expenses. This office and that is being done away with, and this economy and that is be- ing affected, to help the system to its fect. 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 {1 few and it is decreasing, We suggest that some consideration should be shown to the rank and file and that simplicity in the diner and in the hotel would not onl: be in line with public sentiment, but would also bring in a better return to the rail- 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 himsélf 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 if 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 be 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 1932 are perfect.--Hamilton Spectator, Woolen 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 3,500,000 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 the longest economic life of 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 mills have been in existence a century in the same location. Hence the es- tablishment of an up-to-date woolen mill in Calgary infers the establish- ment of a basic industry whose life, under proper conditions, should con- i for generations. -- Calgary Her- al THE EMPIRE Australia's Recovery 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. -- London Times. Scientific "Progress" Gone is the old unquestioning rap- ture of ths scientist of the Victorian age, who assumed as a matter of course that every triumph of mind over matter, every new harnessing 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 in the long run perhaps, there must be benefit. But 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 by no means unmixed blessings. Industrialism's glaring sins of ommission and commission; the perverson 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 progress.--London Daily Telegraph. Another Little Drink. The beverage of the Army to-day is tea. It is estimated that in the region holds you tight till the reels arrive. Paris Claims Credit for® Skyscrapers in United States 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. But customs change in every- thing, and old soldiers (who never die) would find some reason to disaprove of the new soldier whatever he did.-- London Evening News. 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 Greber, well known French architect and profescor at the Uni- versite de Paris, who designed the Rodin Museum in Philadelphio, told a Paris audience that it was French, ard particularly Parisian, influence on American architects which gave rise to the skyscraper style of building. It was not until Americans began to come to Paris in considerable num- 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 which 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 mariner is the very ancestor of the troops who went into action singing "The Bells of Hell 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 of 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 J is reason to believe this country will accept its share of the necessary sacri- fices 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 such as "Prosperity Follows Service," on various boulders in the vicinity of hs summer home on the Annisquam shores. Another summer resident of the Gloucester region, Mrs, Leila Webster Adams, has expressed disapproal of this defacement of com- mon rocks, which, in her judgment, look much better without the carved mottoes. It would be idle to pretend that all rocks are beautiful, but most persons who love the countryside would probably agree that "sermons in stones" are preferable when not of the literal kind.--Springfield Republican. ----p The actor was in trouble about his rent. The landlord called, exerting pressure. "Look here, said the ten- ant, "you ought to be glad to have & fellow like me in your flat. In & year or two's time people will be pointing to this house and saying 'Jones the actor used to live there!" "Mister," sald the landlord, "if people will begin pointing you don't pay up, | " 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. Greber Lolds, the American students of archi- tecture were influenced by the vertical style of building which is the glory of so many late Gothic cathedrals in France. Ereemseniib iviai 24,074 New Titles Seen In German Book Output German 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. Production for the years 1927 to 1930, inclusive, follows: 1927, 31026; 1928, 27,794; 1929, 27. 002; 1930, 26,961. Over 90 per cent. of the books, or 22,066, were of German authorship, while the remainder were either translations, mostly from the Eng- lish, Russian and French languages, especially French, English and Latin. There isn't going to be much fun turning in fire alarms--especle ally "false alarms"--since they've introduced this contraption which Prairie Provinces Value Fishery Output at Milliom The fisheries production of the Priarie Provinces of Canada, Mani- toba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, says "Canada Week by Week," in 1931 was valued at $1,909,040, over $500,000 less than in the previous year. Nearly tha 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 1931 valued at $1,241,575. Saskat- chewan is second with $458,066 and Alberta third with $184,859, The fish- eries production of the Yukon Terri- is the principal item for the three pro- | less modest gals have been known to become his caraer. | year. Klein is to-day one of the won- ' 8. Klein II th well-established laws of retailing ex- Supt. Shose of mest value and honest dealing, and now his ramshackle store on Union Square, New York, does a gross of $25,000,000 a year. - His per sonal income s more than $1,000,000 a ders o fthe mercantile world, and the heads of great department stor x to his converted loft | 1g to st his methods. Just this April, Gordon Selfridge, famous London merchant, sailed over to survey Klein's store, merce had once more undergone re- volution, The Klein store deals only in wo- world, despite the fact that its average sale price of a dress is less than $5. ward bargains. All's fair and the only book. been riots. has forced him to close his doors, peo- ple have been injured, trafi: has been 14th Street. can't be believed: a sports dress for $1, a silk suit for $5, an evening dress for $7.75. Excellent styles and neat getups can be located by the occa- per of taste. tem to ready-to-wear. store. There dare no clerks, np show- cases, no folderol. Every customer thumbs through the racks, grabs what of and commented that the ways of com- Indians and Bsk 000,000 annually, the tol 'embrace the worth of pelts and car- of the trade 'n casses sold, the valu fo tiy also pointed out that may Murphy pointed out that maLy of the people of Canada, especially the os, depend upon wild life as their chief means of liveil- 'hood, and called attention to the .:- ' etic value, the Joy and delight which ' millions of citizens.--Detro': News. i tion to go and sin no more, For years a nuisance Finally Klein made a jin custody of the principal. Instruct- ors are told to keep a lookout for often draft the store into service. ' The answer to Klein's success is| Fifth Avenue stores must often pay color blindness. e low prices. Some of the prices just' one-tenth of their gross income for sons holding operator's licenses who rent; Klein's occupancy charge is . three-fourths of one per cent. They may turn over their stock complete four times a year; Klein turns over his | no window space; he has no deep car- 1 i Klein has adapted the cafeteria ove pets on his floors, and shopping in his factor Monstrous ' store is as brutal as running a gaunt- road. racks run angular miles through the let. But his overhead is less than six sonally had but a short time ago of a | | per cent. and that is why he can make money on a ten per cent. profit. Since he has no 'taste for cultural There are many autom who are physically unfit i safefy to themselves or others upon. the public highway. I know this to 80, because I have seen them in I ! 5 y ice surgeon. These men's and children's wear and it is the the songs and the plumage of birds work as a poll 1 eso largest women's-wear shop in the and the study of their habits afforded 'operators hold operator's licenses ob- "§ tained from year to year by mail or otherwise, the original examination PT i It is one of the bonafide "sights" of tive of some welfare agency. It the having besir dujeey many you previ New York. On a Saturday thousands girl has responsible parents, he talks ously. At the time of pass ng of ruthless and voracious women fill to them. Often the matter ends with quired examination, suck as i was, . the aisles and elevators, pushing, jab: hig presenting an outfit of clothing to they passed and obtain eir oper- bing, clawing, slugging their way to- the guily girl together with an admoni- ator's licenses. | - Question 13 of the New York State 1 : - al blanks for operator's. license rule s a rule of self-preservation: keep the fluttering school girls of Wash- renewal bl f a stiff knee in your neighbor's mid-| ington Irving High School around the reads as follows: "Have Jou sultsred riff and a firm hand on your pocket- corner were considerably more than any physical or mental disability been confined to a State hospital since , i st 'this application?" Klein doesn't dare use advertising. rapprochement with the school prin- the year previous to t lo Every time he has anounced special! cipal. Schoolgirls now are rarely ar-| There are thousands who reply "No" bargains in the newspapers there have rested wen they sneak a dress. More- to this question in all honesty and The size of the crowds over, Klein has created a special fund sincerity who do not know that they have insidiously acquired a physical disabilty such as defects of the eye, paralyzed in the Square, and police youngsters whose poverty shames ear, muscular or nervous system, af reserves have been called out. There-! them before the other girls, There i8- fections of the heart, lungs, kidneys fore, he advertises only to announce always a free outfit at Klein's for any- or blood vessels, which make them a that the store is closing for a holiday, one who comes with proper creden- danger to their families and all others thus saving customers a futile trip to' tials, and judges and social agencies upon the public highway. Operators are never tested, as to There are many per- cannot distinguish red from green. Disability Often Unrealized. Hundreds of persons become neu- K ho, i a year. He has almost rasthenic, yet themselves do not real sional patient and well-armored s D- 35 to 45 times a y yisthenie, Jot le vive do nok. veal: in causing accidents on the I can site a case which I per- man who Obtained his operator's [license in 1018. He is a shell-shocked veteran who is a menace on the high she wants before the woman. behind matters--he never goes to the theatre, i way, yét he had obtained his renewals her does, and carries her prize off to never reads a book--or for personal yearly by mail for the past fourteen tory was valued at $29,550. Whitefisia the dressing-rooms. On busy days the swank, Klein's stove and not Klein has years, answering "No" to Question 13 And thuz, quite in good faith, because he personally vinces and the territory as a whole, hoist their skirts and get on with the | unself-consciously and quite automati- thought himself normal. the value of the output of the variety | business of fitting right in the middle cally, he has become a social foree in in the year under review totaling $779,698. ! . Pickerel is next in importance, fol- lowed by. trout :nd tullibee, Taking each province separately, whitefish is shown to be first in Sas- katchewan and Alberta, while pickerel is first in Manitoba, Trout is found chiefly in 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. meee pe Telephone Net Grows London.--The Anglo-S: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, Rg A m \ loses his time who comes early to a bad bargain. ("Detectives Are Always Watching 1 Klein says that he loses $100,000 a v Insurance that his store should be couraged, In the dressing-rooms no overweening fastidiousness is toler- ated. You can undress 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. If 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 $3.45. 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, an unheard of thing in business. The son of a tailor, Klein 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. hen he learn- ed the cutter's trade. By scrimping and saving, he amassed $0 and started the manufacture of skirts in 1908, 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- ful of cash and the nose of a terrier for manufacturers in trouble, He knew goods and he knew workmanship and he could locate infallibly the fiums which were about to close their doors. At the last minute before the sheriff came, Klein, his stocky shoulders hunched in an old brown coat, would appear with $500 in cash to buy the $2000 stock. He was hardboiled; and the bargain he drove he passed on to his customers. It was i nthose days, too, 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 Family!" and "The Punishment for Dishonesty is Jail," and each placard is adorned by a rude chromo of a distraught maiden peering from behind big, black bars, Girls on high platforms maintain a constant surveillance of the custom- ers, and patrons in the dressing-rooms receive the comforting assurance that You." year through shoplifting, When he ap- .piehends a professional shoplifter, he prosecutes to the limit; it is a sort of "known as tough hunting grounds. The was | Pribilof Islands "tion of cheap dresses has made it pos: sible for 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 nannex, he is planning to drum up trade in the higher-income | brackets. Klein has made the poor ' tolk happy; perhaps he will do some- thing for the rich Somebody ought to. A tn, | Soviet Merges 7 Words For Linguistic Economy 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- port Bureau." Some of the combinations now hold- ing a definite place in the Soviet lexicon are: Narkominydel Commissariat for Foreign Affairs; Narkomtrud, Com- missariat for Labor; Narkomsnah, Commissariat for Supply; Sovnarkom, Council of People's Commissars; Nar- komzem, Commissariat for Agricul- ture; Narkomput, Commissariat for Transport; Gosizdat, State Publishing Society. Sa 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 for Aeronauticssfollow- ing a series of experiments in the world's highest speed tunnel at Lang. ley Field, Va. These tests, run at air speeds as high cs 800 miles per hour, demonstrated that racing-airplane wing designs now employed develop rrohibitive "drag" above 600 miles per hour, says "Popular Mechanics Maga- zine." Present-day propellers which turn a' 1,800 revolutions per minute also| nay, waste . power, the experiment showed. At that speed the tip of the blade is travelling so fast that it hinders rather "".c * aids performance. © em fe iin Foy 281,250 Seal Pelts Expe St Louis for Fars hs Your twenty-five seals in the United States government herd of 1,225,000 animals that this summer started their long swim from the trop! cal Pacifis to the of the Bering Sea Approximately one out of every It is very hard for many to acknow= of the store, but that practice is dis- New York. His overwhelming produc- ledge, especially over their signatures, that they are not as well as they used to be. True, it is a misdemeanor to give a false staiement in the verified application for a license, but they da not realize that they are making a false statement. Impaired Sight or Hearing An oculist of note, residing in New York City, says: "The eye tests made for operator's licenses are so super. ficial and carried on under such poor lighting conditions that they should not be depended upon and are of little value. Two out of vhree persons do not have stereoscopic vision" (perfect two-eye vision). A very . well-known ear specialist tells me that "16 per cent. of the popu- lation of this country is hard of hear- ing". A person who is both deaf and dumb can obtain a license to drive an automobile in New York State! It would seem to me that the time has arrived to use greater care in as- certaining the physical and mental condition of operators of automobiles. This can be accomplished in a very simple manner. Have a small space on the original application and on each renewal blank for operator's license, for the attestation of a physician that he has personally examined the appli- cant for an operator's license, and finds him or her free from physical or mental defects, including those of eye sight (color blindness) and hearing, except as herein noted, ral Italy Raises More Wheat Rome.--This year's wheat crop is. tha greatest in tha history of Italy, amounting to 265,000,000 bushels, or an average yield of about twenty-two bushels to the acre. The yield per unit area shows an increase of about 40°" per cent. over the average for the fiva =" years preceding Wheat." the "Battle of | ~Had it not been for unfavorable conditions in the latter part of the season, the crop would have been con- i siderably greater, but it is calculated that at least 85,000,000 bushels wero | lost through an attack of rust, As it is, the abundant crop has reacted very favorably on the Italian balance of international trade, considerably re- ducing. importatio .s. \ Not the least among the factors which leads the Italians to hope that _ the end of the crisis is at last in sight, is the flourishing state of agriculture this year. All crops have done and Italy, therefore, k for- ward to a considerably ' than the last. our x i