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> ♦-»♦ • • • « >•♦ » ♦â- â€¢ < •'♦ Voice of the Press Canada, The Empire and The World at l^arge - / i^» â-  â-  < < â-º •••♦••â- â€¢â€¢â€¢â- â€¢â€¢â- â€¢â€¢â€¢^••â- - The Latest in Inventions CANADA Eating More Meat Canadians are becoming larger meat •aters, to the benefit of tlie livestoelt industry. The Ottawa Bureau of Sta- Uiitics announces ttio consumption of meats in Canada in 1931 v.'as asti- mated at 1,540 million pounds, an in- crease of 34 million pounds over tbe estimnta for tiie previous year. Beef figures showed a decrease, and pork »&d mutton figures an Increase. The per capita consumption of meats was estimated at 1-18.1G pounds for 1931, compared with 143. G4 in the previous year. â€" Br.indon Sua. Canada's Second Big Crop While all eyes are rtxed on the vheat crop, it is pertinent to note 'hat Canada is this year also producing a crop of oats that is estimated to run 422.000,000 bushels. Over the groat 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 figure.s in the kitchen at breakfast timo. 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 oo- count. â€" 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 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 tew who are able to order what they will regardless of cost, but their num- ber U few and it is decreasing. We suggest that some consideration should bo shown to the rank and file and that simplicity in the diner and In the hotel would uot onl, be in line with public sentiment, but would also bring In a better return to the rail- ways and hotels, benefiting all parties. â€"Halifax Chronicle. Beyond the Pale Drinking and driving jannot 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. â€" 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 oft too lightly; they should bo 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. It a boyâ€" stiU more a group of boys â€" 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 U3 hope, juever to return; but it Is a moot point whether the methods of 19.32 are perfect.â€" Hamilton Saectator. Woolen Mills For Albert? A recent announcement lndica<«d that prospects are bright tor the es- tablishment ot a woolen mill in Cal- gary. As Alberta annually produces about 3,500,000 pounds of wool, and as a fair-sised woolen mill operates at a capacity o( some 500,000 pounds of wool In the grease, and a largo mill from 1,000,000 upwards, It Is obvious that the annual wool clip in this pro- Tlnce Is keeping several large mills outsde the province busy. Tbe woolen Industry, as distinct form others, en- Joys perhaps the longest ecouomlo lite «t all Industries tor the reason that It Is not extractive in the sense that other industries exhaust the sources ot their raw material. Many woolen mills have been in existence a century In the same location. Hence tbe es- tablishment of an up-to-date woolen mill in Calgary inters the establish- ment ot a basic industry whose life, under proper conditions, should con- tinue tor generation.^. â€" Calgary Her- ald. I THE EMPIPS Ak^tralla'a Recovery Australia h\9 still a hard road to traTel and privations etUl to endure^ She will not fully regain her former prosperity until, by oo-operatlve Inter- nal lonal effort, the trade and proa- perity o( the whole world hava oeen restored. But it is already possible to 'â-  say with confidence that the worst uf her troubles are over and that the re- ward of her labours and of her sacri- fices is now within sight. â€" London Times. Scientific "Progress" Cone is the old unquestioning rap- ture of the scientist ot the Victorian age, who assumed as a matter of course that every triumph ot 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 mu..t bo 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 ho cannot shut his eye.i to the fact that while the mechanical sciences have added enormously to the pagean- try and variety ot modem lite, they have produced by no means unmixed blessings. Industrialism's glaring .sins of ommission and commission; the perverson of science to the perfecung of instruments ot destruction; the ter- rible ruthlessness of revolving wheels; the smashing effect which a single new invention may have upon the lives and homes ot thousands â€" these have to be remembered when wo worship mechanical progres'j. â€" London Daily Telegraph. Mercantile Wonder There isn't going to be much lun turning in fire alarmsâ€" especl. ally "false alarms" â€" since they've introduced tliis contraption which holds you li.^lit till llie reels arrive. Another Little Drinl< The beverage of the Army to-day is tea. It is estimated that in the region ot Salisbury Plain, where manoeuvres were in progress, between twnty- flve and thirty cups of tea are sold to every one pint of beer. .A.nd, accord- ing to an officer, the tea-drinking sol- dier compares "damned well" with the old "beer-swiper." Old-fashioned sol- tliers 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 disaprovo ot the new soldier whatever he did. â€" 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 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 «hall, 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 modem times with the chorus "Ain't it grand to be blooming well dead." England is all right.â€" Letter to The Spectator. Paris Claims Credit for Skyscrapers in United States Paris has no skyscrapers â€" extrcpt, 01 course, the Eiffel Tower. Indeed, in all France there is no building that really could be called a skyscraper. Yet, writes the Pai-is correspondent nf '•he Christian Science Monitor, M. Jacques Greber, well known French architect and profcsLor at the Uni- versite de Paris, who designed the Rodin Museum in Philadelphio, told :i Paris audience that it was French, and particularly Parisian, influence on American architects which gave risy 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 dcs Beaux Arts, in the latter half of the nine- ttenth 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 holds, the American students of archi- ttcture were inflvenced by the vertical style of building which is the glory of so many late Gothic cathedrals in France. The Ottawa Agreements It 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 ot trade between the largest group of na- tions in the world. â€" 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 sacrl- fli<(s when the time comes and with gotjft f-^ce â€" providing its sacrifices release wpstructive, not destructive forces. â€" New York World-Telegram. Sermons in Stones Roger Babsou'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 ot tho Gloucester region, -Mrs. Leila Webster Adams, has expressed disapproal ot this defacement ot com- mon rocks, which, in her ]udgm>>nt, look much better without the caned mottoes. It would be idle to pretend that all rocks are beautiful, but most persons who love ilio countryside would probably agree that "sermons In stones" are preferable when not of the literal kind.â€" Sprin.^jfield Republican. The actor was in trouble about hlB rent. The landlord called, exerting pressure. "Look here,' said the tea- ant, "yoa ought to be glad to bar* a fellow Ilka me In your flat. In a year or two'a time people will be pointing to thla house and saying 'Jones the actor naed to live there'!" "Mister," said the landlord, "if you don't pay up, peoi^a win begin pointing to-naomw." 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. Priduction 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. 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 the whole of the commercial catch is sold for consumption fresh ; the only pre- pared products are smoked goldeyes and tuUibee in Manitoba. The fisheries of Manitoba are of first importance with an output in 1931 valued at ?1,241,575. Saskat- chewan is ::econd with .$453,056 and -Alberta third with $184,859. The fish- eries production of the Yukon Terri- tory was valued at ?29,550. Whitefisa is the principal item for tiie three pro- vinces and the territory as a whole, the value of the output of the variety in tho year under review totaling ?779,(i98. Pickerel is next in importance, fol- lowed by trout i.nd tullibee. Taking each province separately, whitetish is ."^hown 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. Telephone Net Grows London. â€" The Anglo-.-' iiih African telephone service has bt^cn cxtanded to include Johannesburg and Pretoria. The charge for a call from London to either of the places is XG for the first three minutes, and £2 for each subse- quent minute. A 11 loses his time who comes early i.) a bad bargain. Milton Mui;Kaye in The .Ntsw Yorker , S. Klein grew rich by breaking all the well-established laws ot retailing ex- cept those of honest value and honest dealing, and now his ramshackle store on Uuion Square, .New York, does a gross of $25,000,000 a year. His per- sonal Income s more than $1,000,000 a year. Klein is to-day one of the won- ders o ftho mercantile world, and tho heads of great department stores come to his converted loft building to study his methods. Just this April, Gordon^ Selfridge, famous London merchant, sailed over to survey Klein's store, and commented that the ways of coin- ^ merce hud once mora undergone re- volution. I Tho Klein .store deals only in wo- : men's and children's wear and it is the largest womon'.s-wear shop in the world, despite the fact that its average ' sale price of a dress is less than $5. | It is one of the bonaflde "sights" of New York. On a Saturday thousands of ruthless and voracious women fill the aisles and elevators, pushing, jab- ' bing, clawing, slugging their way to- ward bargains. All's fair and tho only ] rule s a rule of self-preservation: keep ' a stiff knee in your neighbor's mid- rift and a firm nand on your pocket- j book. Klein doesn't dare use advertising. Every time he has anounced special bargains in the newspapers there have ' been riots. The size of the crowds I has forced him to close his doors, peo- : pie have been injured, traff j has been j 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 Klein's success is low prices. Some ot the prices just 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- 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 foldorol. 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 days the less modest gals have been known to i hoist their skirts and get on with the j business of fitting right in the middle ' of the store, but that practice is dis- ! couraged. In the dressing-rooms no overweening fastidiousness is toler- , atod. You can undress with 500 other I women or you can go somewhere else to trade. j Klein has a stock of between ''00,000 and 300,000 garments and the stock i changes constantly. It a dress does , not sell in two weeks, it is automatl- i 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 . Wild Life of Canada Valued At $53,000,000 Annually Tho value of the wild life resources of Canada has been estimated at $53,- 000,000 annually, the Honorable Thos. G. Murphy, Minister of the Interior, told those in attendance at the Proving cial-Dominion Game Conference held in Ottawa. This figure, he says, would embrace the worth ot pelts and car- casscs sold, the value of the trade a firearms and ammunition. In suppliea tor hunters and sportsmen and their transportation, guides and accommoda- tions. Murphy also pointed out that mauy ot the people of Canada, especially the Indians and Eskimos, depend upon wild life as their chief means of liveli- hood, and called attention to the -;â-  thetic value, the joy and delight which the songs and the plumage of birds and the study of their habits afforded millions of citizens.â€" Detro;'. News. five of some welfare agency. If the girl has responsible parents, he talks to them. Often the matter ends with his presenting an outfit of clothing to the gully girl together with an admoni- tion to go and sin no more. For years the fluttering school girls of Wash- ington Irving High School around the corner were considerably more than a nuisance. Finally Klein m:Ue a rapprochement with the school prin- cipal. Schoolgirls now are rarely ar- rested wen they sneak a dress. More- over, Klein has created a special fund in custody of the principal. Instruct- ors are told to keep a lookout for youngsters whose poverty shames them before the other girls. There is always a free outfit at Klein's for any- one who comes with proper creden- tials, and judges and social agencies often draft the store into service. Fifth Avenue stores must often pay one-tenth ot their gross income for 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 35 to 45 times a year. Ho has almost no window space; ho 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 is why he can make money on a ten per cent, profit. Since ho has no taste for cultural matters â€" he never goes to the theatre, never roads a book â€" or for personal swank, Klein's store and not Klein has become his career. And thus, quite unselt-consciously and quit • automati- cally, he has become a social force in New York. His overwhelming produc- tion ot cheap dresses has made it pos- sible for tho merest shopgirl to give, at least to the untutored eye. the ap- pearance of chic. Someone told Klein recently ths'^ 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-incunia brackets. Klein has made the poor folk happy; perhaps he will do .somO' thing for the rich Somebody ought to. Cooking down at the flr.it completed building ot the vast RocKp- feller centre project in the heart of old Manhattan, Thirty-one storey.i of iron and steeL 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 ot 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 live. He attended public school only a few years. He obtained his first employment running errands j for a clothing concern, hen ho learn- ed tho cutter's trade. By scrimping and saving, he amassed $0 and started the manufacture of skirts in 190ii, in; one room. .Aftor .â- 'ix years, with a capi- tal ot $000, he se up shop as a price-! cutting retailer. In those early days | Klein's greate.st assets were a pocket- ; ful of cash and the nose ot a terrier for manufacturers in trouble. He know goods and he knew workmanship ' and he could locate infallibly the Aims , which were about to close their doors. ' At the last minute before tho sheriff: came, Klein, his stocky shoulders , hunched In an old brown coat, would i appear with $500 In cash to buy the ' $2000 stock. He was hardboiled; and j tho bargain he drove he passed on to ' his customers. j It was i nthose days, too, that ho de- veloped his "Beware ot the Dog" | methods of dealing with the shoplifter ' problem. Self-service Is a great temp- tation to the light-fingered; bo Klein I has plastered all over the store great | signs, printed in English, Italian, and i 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 ot a distraught maiden ' peering from behind big, black bars. I Girls on high platforms maintain a â-  constant surveillance of tho custom- ers, and patrons in the dressing-rooms , receive the comforting assurance tl'..it i â- Detectives Are .Mways Watching Vou." i Klein says that lie losos $100,000 a â-  .vpar through shoplifting. When he ap- ' prebends a 'professional shoplifter, he prosecutes to tho limit; it is a sort ot insurance that his store should Ije ; known as tough hunting grounds. The i;loptomaniac wife of a prominent man l>idfered most ot the Fifth Avenue hops and got away with it berftuso of her husband's influence.h She was caught at Klein's and sent away to tbe l.<<land tor three days despite every- thing her husband could do. But where first offenders are con- cerned he shows a rich vein of under- standing, and calls In a representa- Soviet Merges 7 Words For Linguistic Economy Moscow. â€" The Soviet custom of c .mbining 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 ''Mosobijcldor- shosporttransport." It is a contraction of the Russian words meaning "Moscow Provinc« Railroad, Highway and River Trans- port Bui'eau." 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; Narkoinsnab, Commissariat for Supply; Sovnarkom, Council of People's Commissars; Nar- konizeni. Commissariat for Agricul- ture; Narkomput, Commissariat for Transport; Gosizdat, State Publishing Society. 600 Miles an Hour Foreseen For Planes of Present Type Ultimate top speea for airplanes with present wing characteristics is GOO miles per hour, according to con- clusions reached by the National Ad- visory Council for Aeronautics follow- ing a series of experiments in the world's highest speed tunnel at Langf- ley Field, Va. These tests, ru;i at air sj.ccds as high rs 800 miles per hour, demonstrated that racing-airplane wing designs now employed develop rrohibitive "drag" above tiOO miles per hour, says "Popular Mechanics Maga- zine." Present-day propellers which turn a- 1,800 revolutions per minute alsc n.ay waste power, the expcrimcnl showed. At that speed the tip of th« blade is travelling so fast that H hinders rather ' aids pcrfonnance. â€" .> 281,250 Seal Pelts Exnscted in St. Louis for Furs this Yeai Approximately one out of evcrj twenty-five .seals in tho United States government herd of 1,225.000 animals that this summer started their long swim from the tropical Pacifls to the Prlbilot Islands In the Ala.>;kan i-aten ot the Bering Sea finally will cjme to St Louis. That Ip, the pelt, the only part of a .â- !eal In which the civilised world, and especially the forolnina world. Is interested, will reach St. Louis for treating and dyeing.