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BRITISH AERIAL
EXPANSION
The question of Britain's future in the air has latterly loomed large in public and ex-| pert discussion at Home. There
accepted the gibe with pride as our industries grew and We sold the products of our factories to the world. To- day the taunt is true in its
was
RIGHT
Ilteral sense. Recent statistics The one with fewest shops is in Great Britain. show that every fifteenth man Kirkcaldy, where the proportion plete
animals
There are nearly a million shops in Britain.
In a year they sell
goods value two thousand million pounds. The largest multiple
concern employs 40,000 people to rim its. 5,500 shops. No other
country in the world has so large a -percentage of shopkeepers as Britain.
It is a com, ranging from dealing in horseg vertical trust, owning to hawking and street selling. or woman in Great Britain ia a is only one in ninety. London ranches in South America and In each group there may be up- shopkeeper or engaged in some is slightly below the average the Dominions, 'where the
with one in fifty,
wards of twenty-separate, cate- capacity in the distribution, as
are bred, slaughter- One would think that shop houses, refrigerating steamers gories of trading and as many opposed to the manufacture, of density was lower in the country which carry the meat through different classes of employee. goods.
districts. Actually, investiga the tropics, cold storage ware- For instance, the retailers of Out of nearly forty-five tions undertaken by the Shop houses, and, finally, meat shops meat are classified as follows: million people Britain's shop- Assistants' Union show that the in almost every town in the Butchers, offal butchers, pork workers total 2,856,000.
opposite is the case. Shops are country. smaller, but there are usually The next largest chains are butchers, ham and beef shops, three or four in even small vil. probably those of Smith and dealers in calves' feet and heads, No other country in the world lages, and the proportion to the Son, the newsagents, Boot's, the catsment, cooked meat, tripc. has so large a percentage of population is therefore high chemists, and United Dairies, and horseflesh,
each of which includes nearly a Dealing in drapery and mil. thousand shops. although America runs us close.
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shopkeepers as Great Britain, tobacco are issued every year.
Half a million licences to sell
In
the whole of the United
*
and there are
*
I have been asked what type linery provides some very queer States there are four and a half One firm's chocolates are on of shop is commonest in this trades. Among the tailors and One answer would be furriers and outfitters I find a million people employed in shops sale at 250,000 different points, country. and a million and a half who agents who handle daily papers. different kinds of store have a
44,000 news- tobacconists, because so mny person who is described simply run their own shops.
"Scotsman," and another who is a "Johnny come fort- nightly."
Britain has about a million shops-but Amerien's population
સ more than double that of Britain.
Exactly how many shops there are in this country has never been calculated, but an investi- gation has been made in forty large towns, and It appears that there is one shop' for every forty-four people, In this cal-. culation it must be remembered that a great store like Harrod's or Selfridge's counts as one shop and on the same footing as a tiny back-street tobacconist.
One Briton in
Fifteen
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Works for
SHOP
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2
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There are men who sell only yeast or sawdust or teasels or moss litter or sausage skins: There are hagglers and higglers and paper-bag sellers and tri- cycle dealers. But the oddest trades are to be found among the hawkers and street sellers.
How, I wonder, does a man make his living, as a dy-paper vendor or groundsel seller? 1 know the hot potato man and the bumboat woman, but I have
The town with most shops is. Brighton, which has one for sold in British shops in a year eral grocery, accounts for more vendor or a fer seller. Yet every twenty-five inhabitants. is approximately two thousand shops than any other trade, and there they all are in the census million pounds, or an average of drapery, in all its multifarious alongside of Mr. Selfridge and two thousand pounds in each forms, comes next. But the
Sir Woodman Burbidge as mem- shop. Actually the large com- number of different kinds of
bers of the great fraternity of and the small "parlour shops"
shopkeepers, much less. There are 27,500 ahops belonging to com-
The total value of the goods tobacco licence. Actually, gen- nover met a street pea and ple
is a consensus of opinion that NOTES OF THE DAY bines sell much more than this shopkeeping is immense.
considerable leeway remains to
some
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be made up. One of the issues FASCISM IN JAPAN? .
The census authorities divide A. G. Middleton. raised involves the question of “*****
Mr. Frank H. Simonds, writing bines, and they have a turnover them into seventy main groups "HANSEL UND GRETEL" the allocation of expenditure on
recently on the Italian adventure of five hundred million pounds. subsidies to air lines-whether in Ethiopia, its causes and effects. The co-ops have 12,000 shops No. DA-1439 Elisabeth Schumann, Soprano.
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under it. When the call for luncheon came he made his exit.
Shortly afterwards the portmanteau Was jerked off the rack. If the min had been sitting there his neck would probably have been broken. By a miracle the baggage stood upright on upon the owner's ankles, as deservedly should have been the case.
the edge of the sent and did not fall
The Football Crush
to one operating company. It prompted by Japan's undeniable Ninety-six per cent. of the has been urged. in this connec- need for space and raw products, shops are independent busi. "CHUT that door," roared the A man came in and claimed the seat. tion, that one consideration for the people had outgrown their nesses, and in over half of them
"You'll be killing somebody." "What ret!" growled the passenger; ought to over-rule all others, islands and felt the pinch of poverty the proprietor works single-
too much to remain inactive, when, handed.
but he closed the compartment door. namely, that money out of the in spite of the danger of such The great chain-stores now At the time the train was running public purse must be so expend-netion, they perceived an op-cover almost every type of com- into a crowded platform. Perhaps ed as to secure British progress portunity to escape their economic modity, but they are of com- this traveller saw, as I did some days dilemma. And so Italy, too, paratively recent growth. The door had knocked down between Lafer, that a prematuredly-opened against foreign competition. marched to war, conquest, glory, largest shop-owning firm in Hitherto, -the comparatively and, incidentally, territorial ex-Great Britain is Unilever, Ltd., twenty and thirty people, injuring
four suverely, small amount of subsidy given standards. For Haly badly needed of Lever Brothers with the Mar- these days. Here
pansion behind Mussolini's Fascist)
a combine formed by the fusion Selfiah- thoughtlessness is rife in. are some of the. by the British and Dominion room
At a football match about a dozen for her surplus population,
garine Union. It controls, incidents I have noted within the last men, having claimed an advantageous Governments has not done this, work for her idle men and women,
twelve months.
site, refused to budge when a stranger A man dashed to get a starting and within the past two years and the cash which comes with the among other chains of shops,
the Home and Colonial Stores, tramear. He plunged in front of a
them because apported to
he was exploitation of raw resources.
being pressed sorely against a barrier. foreign air line activities have Japan und Italy came to the Lipton's, Wall's Ice creams, motor car, causing the driver to Jam Suddenly this unfortunate fellow won a way in fields in which same obstacle and surmounted it MacFisheries, and Maypole on his brukes. The machine skidded fainted. A first-ald attendant ding- British interests ought to have in the same fashion. They both Dairies. In all it has 5,500 on to the pavement Mercifully, no-nosed bent (possibly fractured) ribs. Walking along a crowded thorough- been secured. An aviation cor-neighbour,
conquer weaker shops and employs 40,000 people body was hit, but a crowded pave "Their political com-to run them.
ment-might easily have soon_o. fatality or two.
"fare, a man was swinging his stick respondent of one of the lead-position, and conceptions made this
circularly in Lord Vestoy is a shopkeeper Although it seemed far too big, a
vigorous fashion. After ing London journals points out, easy. Moreover, there was a fear on a gigantic scale. His firm, woman insisted upon having a port-oral passers-by had narrowly of domestic upheaval caused by the Union Cold Storage Com- manteau in the combles, she said
escaped being hit, a pedestrian follow- compartment. for example, that no attempt pressure of population and poverty has been made to establish Bri-jin essential materials, to hurrypany, has, through its subsidi. haughtily when the porter demurred. tish air transport in some of the them along. It might have been aries such as Eastman's and She had it placed insecurely on the
fatal to delay.
Fletcher's, 5,000 butchers' shops rack apposite where she was sitting, most important fields, such as
Having once tasted the heady the South Atlantic, and the wine of success; however, nations African-West Coast route to the which have embarked upon 'danger- Oape. Despite arrangements ous enterprises, sword in hand, between Britain and the United may be led into the way of thinking that the doctrine of might is a
foundation upon
which to States, there is considerable safe danger that the North Atlantic build the national edifice. It is
possible that the element respónal-l will first be regularly served byle for the upheaval in Japan on other than British aircraft and Wednesday noted on this conviction.. personnel.
the That the coup d'etat in a step to- Apart from
warda a military dictatorship we stops now being taken to will not suggest. That it is an indication of a trend towards the
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Empire air services, and the de- cision to send all first-class mail by air, Britain seems only to take action at the eleventh hour, under compulsion of foreign rivalry; and when it has become almost too late to make good. To come to the position in the Far East, Hongkong is still not linked up aerially with the out- side world, and meanwhile for eign interests are much alive to the possibilities offered, in the British interests being linked up Orient. Certain difficulties are with the China services, on belloved to have arisen in con- which subject there have been nection with the extension of no disclosures for some con- siderable time. It is to ba the Imperial Airways, service hoped that every effort will be from Malaya to this Colony, but made to see that Hongkong oc- at any rate so far as the techni-cupies its rightful place as an cal aspect of the question is con- aerial contre, and, what is more, cerned it has been amply demon- that the possibilities of a direct strated that regular flights, through the creation of a joint link with China proper, either strictly to time-table, present no Sino-British company or by serious obstacles. Thore 20-ome other method, is being kept mains, however, the question of well in view.
Fascist principle in Government, we cannot claim. These might not be natural moves in the evolution of
a nation to which democracy has not brought a Golden Age, and. where the tendency may be towards a dictatorship in some form or other. Japan has an Emperor loved and respected by the nation. What more natural than to turn to him and his military leaders at á time of crisis, and to abandon the democratic, but not particularly daring, democratic system.
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SIDE GLANCES By George Clark
This is the only entrance?"
ing behind went up to the other and protested somewhat timidly
"That's all right, old boy," grianed. the man, continuing with the swing- ing. Suddenly the end of the stick caught a girl's fact, Providence pre- within an ace of her right eye injury. As it is, I vented an eye
should not be surprised if the gir! is marked for life.
I saw a man jump out of a taxi cлb to accost,n friend. He sped along a crowded pavement, knocked two people of it, and eventually nushed small boy on to his knees. Did he stop? He did not. Without Apology
In another running instance a man. knocked a whole bundle of eatables, including eggs, out of a poor woman's hand. Ho halted, fumbled in bis pocket, and then hurriedly thrust coin upon his victim, before bounding - off without a word of apology. Ho had given the woman, a xhilling
to cover about four shillings worth of ruined food.
Perhaps it is not very gallant of me, but I do suggest that women-are more selfish than men when it comes to such undesirable gestures. One is used to female rushes to get on to buses, but recently I witnessed one to get off. One old woman was badly buffeted by other members of her BOX, It had not been for a hefty": man at her side she would `cortainly have been bowled over, He caught her na she was falling. He used some lurid language in the direction of the departing young women. Also ungallant, but badly needed.
Everywhero one turns the most amazing examples of selfishness ato seen. One of the most annoying fa to be found on station escalators, where men and women will hold up. the free passage of others by calmly standing on the wrong aide of the, stairs, despite the notice prominently, displayed forbidding such action.
Let us pull ourselves together and think of others a little more than we do.
DOUGLAS A, SCOTT.