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There are nearly a million shops
Britain.
a year they fell
goods value two thousand million pounds. The largest multiple
concern employs 40,000 people to run its 5,500 shops. No other
country in the world has so large a percentage of shopkeepers as Britain.
literal sense. Recent statisties The one with fewest shops in in Great Britain. It is a com- ranging from dealing in horses [show that every fifteenth man Kirkcaldy, where the proportion plete vertical trust, owning to hawking and street selling. or woman in Great Britain is a is only one in ninety. London ranches in South America and In cach group there may be up-
Dominions, where shopkeeper or engaged in some is slightly below the average the
the wards of twenty separate cate- animals are bred, slaughter- capacity in the distribution, na with one in fifty.
One would think that shop houses, refrigerating steamers gerles 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 troples, cold storage ware- For instance, the retailera · 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 butchera, 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 beof "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 catament, cooked meat, tripe, has so
large a percentage of population is therefore high, chemiste, and United Dairies, and horseflesh.
Half a million licences to sell each of which includes nearly a shopkeepers as Great Britain,
thousand shops.
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In the whole of the United
*
*
although America runs us close. tobacco are issued every year.
* One firm's chocolates are on States there are four and a half sale at 250,000 different points, million people employed in shops
nows and a million and a half who and there are 44.000
agents who handle daily papers. run their own shopa.
Britain has about a million shops--but America's population is more than double that of Britain.
Exactly how many shops there are in this country has never calculated, but an investi-
Hongkong Telegraph.gation has been made in forty
FRIDAY, FEB. 28. 1936.
BRITISH AERIAL EXPANSION
The question of Britain's
Dealing in drapery and mil-
I have been asked what type linery provides some very queer of shop is commonest in this trades. Among the tailors and country. One answer would be furriers and outfitters I find a tobacconists, because so
many person who is described simply different kinds of store. have a as "Scotsman," and another who is a "Johnny come fort- nightly."
One Briton in
Fifteen Works for
a
for
SHOP
There are men who sell only yeast or sawdust or teasels or moss litter or sausage skins. There are haggièrs and higglers and paper-bag sellers and tri- cycle dealers. But the oddest trades are to be found among the hawkers and street sellera.
How, I wonder, does a man make his living as a dy-paper vendor or groundsel seller? I. know the hot potato man and the bumboat woman, but I have
fern seller. Yet
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 oñc'shop and on the same footing as à tiny back-street tobacconist.
The town with most shops is future in the air has latterly Brighton, which has one for sold in. British shops in a year eral grocery accounts for more vendor or a
every twenty-five inhabitants. is approximately two thousand million pounds, or an average of two thousand pounds in each shop. Actually the large com-
and the small "parlour shops" much less. There are 27,500 shops belonging to com-
The total value of the goods tobacco licence. Actually, gen- never met a street pea and pic.
loomed large in public and. ex-| pert discussion at Home. There
shops than any other trade, and there they all are in the census drapery, in all Its multifarious alongside of Mr. Selfridge and forms, comes next, But the Sir Woodman Burbidge as mem number of different kinds of bers of the great fraternity of
shopkeepers.
is a consensus of opinion that NOTES OF THE DAY bines sell much more than this shopkeeping is immense.
considerable leeway remains to be made up, One of the issues
FASCISM IN JAPAN?
some
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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 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 State assistance for Empire and drew a political and psychological and a two hundred million pound world routes is to be given only analysis between Italy and Japan. turnover.
The Manchurian Invasion was Ninety-six per cent. of the
EVERYDAY SELFISHNESS
porter. "You'll be idilling_somebody," / "What rot!" growled the passenger: but he closed the compartment door. At the time the train was running
under it. When the call for luncheon came he made his exit.
The Football Crush
to one operating company. It prompted by Japan's undeniable has been urged, in this connee-need for space and raw products, shops are independent busi "CHUT that door," roared the A man came in and claimed the scat tion, that one consideration, for the people had outgrown their nesses, and in over half of them
Shortly afterwards the portmanteau islands and felt the pinch of poverty, the proprietor works single- ought to over-rule all others, too much to remain inactive, when, handed..
was jerked off the rack. If the man spite of the danger of such The great chain-stores now
had been sitting there his neck would namely, that money out of the in
op-cover almost every type of com- into a crowded platform. Perhaps probably have been broken. By R public purse must be so expend- action, they perceived an
this traveller saw, as I did some days miracle the baggage stood upright an portunity to escape their economic modity,. but they are of com- ed as to secure British progress dilemma. And so
later, that a prematuredly-opened the edge of the seat and did not fail Italy. too, paratively recent growth. The doar had knocked down between upon the owner's ankles, as deservedly against foreign competition. ninrched to war, conquest, glory, largest shop-owning firm in twenty and thirty people, injuring should have been the case,
ex Great Britain is Unilever, Ltd., four severely, Hitherto, the comparatively fund, incidentally, territorial
pansion behind Mussolini's Fascist'
a combine formed by the fusion. Selfish thoughtlessness is rife in small amount of subsidy given standards. For Italy badly needed of Lever Brothers with the Mar- these days. Here are some of the At a football match about a dozen by-the-British-and-Dominion room-for-her-surplus population.
twelve months.
site, refused to budge when a stranger Governments has not done this, work for her idle men and women, garine Union. It controls, incidents I have noted within the last man, having claimed an advantageous A man dashed to get a starting appealed to them because he was, and within the past two years and the cash which comes with the among other chains of shops,
the Home and Colonial Stores, ten
tramcar. exploitation of raw resources.
He plunged in front of a
belag pressed sorely against a barrier. foreign air line activities have
unfortunate fellow Japan and Italy came to the Lipton's, Wall's Ice creams, motor car, causing the driver to Jam Suddenly this
and Maypole on his brakes. The machine skidded fainted. A fest-aid attendant ding- won a way, in fields in which same obstacle and surmounted it MacFisheries, British interests ought to have in the same fashion. They both Dairies In all it has 5,600 on to the pavement. Mercifully, no-nosed bent (possibly fractured) ribs.
body was hit, but a crowded pave-
Walking along a crowded thorough- went out to conquer
a weaker shops and employs 40,000 people ment might easily have seen a fare, a man was swinging his stick been secured. An aviation cor-neighbour. Their political com-to run them..
fatality or two.
circularly in vigorous fashion. After Lord Vestey is a shopkeeper Although it seemed far too big, a
several respondent of one of the lead-position and conceptions made this
narrowly passers-by had ing London journals points out, easy. Moreover, there was a fear on a gigantic scale. His firm, woman insisted upon having a port escaped being hit, a pedestrian follow-
domestic upheaval caused by the Union Cold Storage Com- for example, that no attempt pressure of population and poverty has been made to establish Bri-in essential materials, to hurry pany, has, through its subsidi 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 the man, continuing with
Fletcher's, 5,000 butchers' shops
most important fields; such as
to
of
Catal to delay.
Having once tasted the heady!
the South Atlantic, and the wine of success, however, nationa African West Coast route to the which have embarked upon danger Cape.
Despite arrangements ou enterprises, sword in hand, may be led into the way of thinking the doctrine of might is a between Britain and the United that
foundation upon which to States, there is considerable, safe danger that the North Atlantic build the national edifice. Itin possible that the element responsi- will first be regularly served by ble for the upheaval in Japan on! other than British aircraft and Wednesday acted on this conviction. Apart from the That the coup d'etat is a step to- personnel.
wards a military dictatorship wel stops
now being taken
will not suggest. That it is an; "ROYAL CROWN" accelerate and multiply existing indication of a trend towards the Empire air services, and the de-Fascist principle in Government, cision to send all first-class mail we cannot claim. These might not be natural moves in the evolution of The
by air, Britain seems only to a nation to which democracy has Golden Age, and take action at the eleventh hour, not brought a under compulsion of foreign where the tendency may be towards dictatorship in some form or rivalry; and when it has become other. Japan has an Emperor almost too late to make good. loved and respected by the nation. To come to the position in the What more natural than to turn to jhim and his military leaders at a Far East, Hongkong is still not time of crisis, and to abandon the linked up serially with the out- democratic, but not particularly side world, and meanwhile for-daring, democratic system. eign interests are much alive to
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the possibilities offered in the British interests being linked up Orient. Certain difficulties are with the China services, en believed 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 be 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 ao far as the techni-cupies its rightful place as an cal aspect of the question is con- aerial centre, and, what is more, corned it has been amply demon-that the possibilities of a direct link with China proper, either strated that regular fights, through the creation of a joint strictly to time-table, present no Sino-British company or by
mains, however, the question of well in view.
LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD. serious obstacles. There re-sonie other method, is being kept
manteau in the compartment
"It contains valuables," she said haughtily when the porter demurred. rack upposite where she was sitting.
SIDE GLANCES By George Clark
106
"This is the only entrance?"
Ing behind went up to the other and protested somewhat timidly.
"That's all right, old boy." grinned the awing-
Ing. Suddenly the end of the stick' caught a girl's face, within an ace of hor right eye. Only Providence-pre- vented an eye
As it is, I should not be
cyc
is marked for Brain if the giri
life.
.
I saw a man jump out of a taxi cab
to accost n friend. He sped along a crowded pavement, knocked „twa_people offit, and eventually. pushed a small boy on to his knees. Did he stop? Ile 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. He halted, fumbled
in his pocket, and then hurriedly thrust a
·cofn проп his victim, before bounding off without a word of apology. Ho had given the woman a shilling 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 much undesirable gestures. One ja 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 If it had not been for a hefty man at her side she would certainly have been bowled over.. Ha caught her as she was falling. He used some lurid language in the direction of the departing young women. Also ungallant, but badly
needed.
sex,
-Everywhere one turns the most amazing examples of selfishness ary seen. One of the most annoying is to be found on station escalators, where men and women will hold up the free passage of others by calmly. standing on the wrong side of tha stairs, despite the notice prominently displayed forbidding such action.
Let us pull ourselves together and think of others a Uttle more than we
DOUGLAS A. SCOTT.
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