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BRITISH QUALITY./

WHY NOT "BOOST" OUR GOODS?

The world is allowed to know everything about the dearness of British goods, but it is not made properly acquainted with the qual- ity of our products, writers . T.

Good in n Home paper.

In advertising, in propaganda, and in salesmanship we are not 100 per cent. efficient. News fre- quently leaks out about the in- feriority of foreign steel, for in- atance, but as little is made of this in the news and advertising col- umn of our home and colonial papers as of the proved superiority of British steel.

SATURDAY, JULY 2, 1927.

ARREST DUE TO A RAT.

REAL-LIFE DETECTIVE

STORIES.

-A button, a soft felt hat, a trick

of writing, a small piece of wire have all figured us clues which have brought criminals to justice. according to Mr. Francis Carlin, a former superintendent, at Scot- land Yard, whose recollections of his career as a detective are pub- 11shed to-day ("Reminiscences by an ex-Detective." Hutchinson.)

Descriptions elreulated in the Press have frequently resulted in the arrost of law-breakers. The movements of a rat led to putting into the dock a gang of four men who had committed a daring jewel robbery at the Borkeley Hotel, Pic- cadilly, W.

Even our own municipal author ities, railway managers, and others

It was typical of the trivial in- who buy steel, steel products and steel engines, do not have their atcidents which have thrown light tention properly directed to the on apparently baffling crimes. In high qualities of British material, pursuit of the rat a waiter lifted British furnace and rolling mill the top from a radiator and dis practice, and British engineering covered a number of stolen coins. finish. The recent foreign steel They were marked and replaced, rail and foreign locomotive fall and the spot was watched until the ures in South Africa are nothing thief came to retrieve his spoll. fresh, though striking enough.

It has been known for a long time, but not widely published, that rails of foreign manufacture were cracking and splitting with serious frequency. Still the South African railway authorities have continued to buy foreign steel, steel rails, and other products, and foreign locomotives and steel

wagons.

Out of a recent consignment of 12,640 steel rails from a Continen- tal country 3,356 have had to be rejected: Out of 23 locomotives purchased from America, only a few months ago, 13 are already out of action and five others are under suspicion,

Among the, notorious crimes in which Mr. Carlin was engaged were the Eltham Common murder, the Brixton taxicab murder, and the murder of Erie Tombe. The methods by which these and many other mysteries were solved arc described in detail. These nar- ratives are as thrilling as any de- tective story; the aleuth of real life is in many cases a great deal more Ingenious, and considerably more expedite, than the detective of fiction.

Value of Records,

The book throws a flood of light on the inner working at Scotland Yard and the extraordinary value of its Criminal Records Office:

At Scotland Yard, in addition to the finger-print, photographic, and anthropometrie sections of the re-

Serious Faults. Shortly after the war South Africa 'bought 80 American en ginn. Forty revealed defects im-gistry, there are kept volumes on

the classification of crimes. mediately they were put in com- mission, and thirty more proved faulty within a year.

Nevertheless, South Africa has suffered a second and even a third foreign locomotive scandal rather than buy British engines, and within the last nine or ten months 20 engines have been obtained from Germany. 23 more from the United States. 500 steel wagons' from the States, and hundreds of pounds' worth of rails from Ger- many and Belgium.

The management of the railways of Japan pronounced strongly in favour of British and against for- eign steel rails between two and three years ago; but what have British manufacturers done to ad- vertise the fact?

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Ou consulting one of those books I may find that John Smith is given to committing his burglaries be- tween the hours of 2 a.m. and 4 a.m.; that he specialises in jewel- lery, and leaves silver plate alone, and that he leaves the place as tidy as when he entered. Bili Jones, on the other hand, breaks in through a ground-floor window by filing bars and using a jemmy; he goes for solid silver, very heavy, and when he has finished the rooms look as if there had been an earthquake.

The detective-it once relates the crime he is investigating to re corded examples of technique, and often finds a clue to the perpetra-

tor.

Mr. Carlin has a low opinion of. criminal intelligence:

Murder is an entirely different A few years before the war

in a hundred Italy bought between 20 and 30 matter. Not onee and

times do Seatland Yard's filės pro- American locomotives equal number of British locomovide a clue) tives. The last of the American engines was on the scrap-heap be- fore any ond of the British engines required repairs. What did Bri- tish engineering firms do in the way of advertising that fact?

Here is an interesting item of news I have found tucked away in a small and unostentatious paragraph in a trade journals-

An inspecting engineer, Mr. C. W. Gennet, jun, in an address to the New England (United States) Railway Club, announced that one American railway company, noted for the excellence of its road-bed and track, had an average of more than seven rail failures per day. In twelve months they had 2700 broken or otherwise falled rails on only 4716 miles of track.

There were 586 "transverse, fis- sures," recognised as the "most dangerous kind of failures."

The number of derailments and loss of life on American railways and other railwaya laid with American steel rails is not less than appalling compared with the conditions on railways laid with British rails.

It is the same with steel axles, locomotive engines, &c. The ac- cidents on Continental railways are vastly more numerous than on our railways. The reasons are not far to seek.

To begin with, foreign steel is made of materials and by a process long since discarded by British steel rail makers as unsuitable. Naturally, our steel is the more costly, in the first instance; but in the, long run it is vastly more economical than the foreign stuff. It may almost be said that for eign steel rails, axles, engines, and machines are murderous, whilst the British goods are 99.099 per cent, safe.

The criminal may be clever. I am not, I hope, splitting hairs in terms if I point out that intel- ligence pre-supposes reasoning power and understanding. It is in those two qualities that most criminals are deficient.

The master criminal class forms a very small proportion of the un derworld. For the average wrong- deer crime as a business is one of the worst paying professions on Carlin'a earth. The percentage of men

women, in Mr. and opinion, who are making even a living income out of crime is in- finitely smaller than in. honest walks of life.

persistent deterioration in the quality of the pig-iron of which the steel is made over a long series' of years.

This is well known to experts in the industry, and it was openly ad mitted in the New York Journal of few months ago. Commerce a There has been no deterioration in British pig-iron or steel or steel vorke practice. Why not adver tise and propagate the facts-and got more trade for British indus- try?

Recently we had the statement by one of the greatest men in the. shipping world. Mr. Runciman, that only on the one occasion that his firm had taken a Continental steel casting for a ship, without strict stipulation and inspection, had they got a failure.

Take automobile steel. It stands. recorded that the record-breaking feat at Pendine recently "was only made possible" by using British al- loy steels for the "frames, gears, nxles, shafts, &c." That is on the After the steel come the rolling authority of Capt. Malcolm Camp mill methods. The very biggest hell himself. Still more recently, foreign steel works, including the great achievement of Major those of the United States Steel H. D. O. Segrave at Daytona Trust and we may be sure the Beach, was made, in a car all the no better-have vital parts of which were made in lesser ones are nothing more than a standard in Britain. got discard of 10 per cent. before the steel is rolled down.

If any foreign nation had half

engineering quality and durability In many cases this is nothing the records we have in steel and near enough to get the sand and and reliability, the facts would be the pipe" out of the ingot. Thus shouted from the house-tops all a considerable percentage of the the way from China to Peru."

Apparently many British manu- finished rails and other steel shapes for that matter-goes out facturers are too much occupied. of the mills with fissures, cavities, complaining about their troubles &c. Frequent rall failures and accidents, with loss of life, are the and playing golf to bother about advertising, trade propaganda, and business.getting. Even cata- inevitable results.

logues are sent, to foreign coun- Again, as regards American matries (when they are sent) in Eng- terial, there has been a steady and fish terms.

Too Modest.

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