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Show if 1936 THE BEAVER PRESS, FRIDAY, JAXTARY 31, United States and Japan As in the United States, Japan has the problem of rapidly rising national expenses without a corin governincrease responding Phone 24 'She is in danger Nipponese Underestimated revenues. ment Have We Babson Says herself in her of the KARL S. CARLTON .Publisher Jehol Manchukuo, Ability Nation Is Fast Capturing in cperations World Permanent of and North China. Markets Published Every Friday counprosperity in this Oriental does here as it educational just and depends, try SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year $2 Six Months f 1 Babson Park, Florida, January excellent welfare reducwork. Custom and the simple in the United State?, upon (PAYABLE IN ADVANCE) 31, 1936. and for of expenses very call tion government of living High in the list of great manner world trade - bar A First Class Publication Entered in the Postofflee in of it removal the In fairness, achievements of history stands little expense. Bearer, Utah, as Second Class Mail Matter, under the Act of low wages m riers. the rise of Japan as a world snould be noted that to Congress of March 3, 1879. exploitaBusiness, as registered by the due not years Japan are Only eighty-tw- o power. Advertising rates quoted up on request. ' over-suppis now 10 per cent a to Babsonchart, due huge are tion they ago Admiral Robert Peary sailed willingtheir below normal, and 10 per cent of worker?, into Yokohoma harbor, giving the with above a year ago. satisfied be to THE MONTH OF FEBRUARY Japan her first real contact with ness 1936 Publishers low living CoDvriirht and necessities, barest world. February, our second and shortest month, didn't drift theFormodern Bureau. Financial some three centuries this costs. out of the haze of antiquity with the majority of the months In this connection, we must not ha3 been complete Island Empire of the year. It and January were placed in the calendar by the steak and potato ly isolated. Her civilization was forget that LIVESTOCKNOTES King Numa in the early days of Rome. But while it is much at least 500 years behind that of diet of the American worker younger than the original 10 months, even February has the western world. Yet in the would have more appeal to the been in existence for more than 26 centuries, so by this time relatively short space of eighty! Jap than the latter's fish .and rice Los Angeles, California, Janhave to the American. we should be fairly used to having it around. years, Japan has transformed her- diet would Anglo-Saxo17, 1936 Importance of the that uary unfortunate February holds the distinction of being the only month self into one of the most advanc- It is justinsist Los Angers ir.iarkfet Ss growing ujion Meat. Pos on the calendar whose name was not derived from the Latin ed, progressive, and highly indus everv will the be year, due primarily of diet sibly a vegetarian word for a number or from the name of some Roman deity trialized nations in the world. in this course to the continued substan- resort rnriT last Capturing World Markets or emperor. There is some doubt concerning May and June; All things con-- i tial development of industries in have watched Japan industrial war. Those old and but the Maia, are undoubtedly responsi steal one who deities, Juno in Japan are southern California. It is inter- low waeres siilered. market after a to note that where souble for the names of these two months. February's distinC' nother in foreign the last few years re a definite factor in her ability to esting California thern packers were tive name comes from the Latin word for expiation and was alize there must be a fascinating Occident. undersell the around 116,000 only Answer old Roman Real was because this month the slaughteirng festi that it in given story behind her progress. Perval of expiation or purification was held. We probably would haps the world depression has But the combination of the a- - cattle back in 1915 and 298,000 in now have many months named for Roman emperors had not brought the picture of Japan's bove factor does not fully explain 1925, this market now requires meteoric rise. The answer more than 450,000 head an in- Tiberius, who followed Augustus as the third emperor of rise into sharper relief. But the Japan's The factors crease of 50 per cent in the past much lies Rome, stopped the practice of thus honoring the rulers soon facts are that exports from Nip which make deeper. are ten years. This market advanced a nation all-tialter it started. When the Senate expressed its desire to re pon are today at an tells the peak. not alone its natural great resources, from requirements of 220,000 hogs story: name November for him, Tiberius declined the offer and The following table fertile in 1915 to 472,000 in 1925 and of tracts broad not its Lancashire Hard Hit said, "What will you do, Conscript Fathers, if you have 13 The spectacular rise of the fields, not its towering sky- then to nearly one million head in Ceasars?" textile industry has scrapers, nor its gigantic factor- 1933. The total in 1935 undoubtFor the past 2,000 years February has been rather Japanese created widespread attention. Al- ies; but rather the character of edly was cut down a great deal because of drouth and the A. A. badly used by being held in the humiliating position of the though our own mills have suffer- its people. A. program. to basic answer The shortest month in the year. It originally had 30 days but ed a severe shake-up- , Japan's Lancashire Ceasar cut it down to 29 when he reformed the calendar, has been hit the most telling blow. progress and greatness lies in the Los Angeles also has developed as a sheep and lamb slaughtering Augustus then carved off another day so he would have one For instance, back in 1913 the dynamic force,thethe frugality and the center, as southern California has endurance, imlife, simple of to British with which to stretch August, named for him, and make it ratio Japanese - for detail, the spirit of co- always been noted for high per geniuinto India of cotton goods to named for Julius Ceasar. And Febru ports equal in length July, was 350 to 1. Recently the ratio operation and mutual aid and capita consumption of lamb, resi- ary still suffers from this ancient bit of vanity. has actually turned in favor of all of those other vital intangible dents of this section consuming But this year finds February with 29 days. The year qualities which are characteristic several times as many pounds of 1936 is. divisible by four and is, therefore, leap year. Under Japan! lamb per capita as the country as Statistics are usually very dull, of her people. the Gregorian calendar, which is our calendar, one day is but the following figures are ilAll, however, is not well in the a whole. In 1915, statistics show added to February each four years to compensate for the luminating: Between 1929 and Island Empire. Japan has her that Los Angeles packers slaughfact that the calendar runs six hours ahead of the sun each 1934 exports of iron goods jumped problems: Despite her remark- tered around 386,000 sheep and year when the year is measured as 365 days long. It takes 960 per cent; metal manufactures, able recovery in industrial acti- lambs; the total jumped to 620,000 the earth approximately 365 days and six hours to make one 130 per cent; clocks and scientific vity and foreign trade, her econ by 1925 and, while definite figures future is uncertain, lhere on 1935 slaughter are not availcomplete revolution around the sun and the extra day each instruments, 200 per cent; woolen omic is her of princi 120 able, the trade assumes that last 600 per per cent; toys, lour years is therefore necessary to prevent, alter a sum fibres, Her year's slaughter totaled in excess rice. pal 120 and crop agricultural cent; cent; soap, per cient number of centuries, July from falling in the middle of rayon fibres, 200 per cent. Little people must be taught to eat and of 1,225,000 head. the winter and January from becoming a summer month. wonder While it is argued in some that industrial leaders in to use a greater variety of food This habit of the earth of not making its annual trip around the United States shudder at the and other goods. Her rural un- quarters that there is only limited the sun in a time that can be measured by whole days caused thought of Japan turning her at- employment problem is still severe outlet for lamb and that the man much trouble for the ancients and their months moved tention to new fields! because of the inroads rayon has who eats pork or beef will not eat lamb even if there is a very defi- slowly out of place. In fact, this problem of making the What has made this miraculous made in her silk industry. 3If How Japan Undersells the World Seaurr Press over-extendi- the ly ns j . , calendar stay even with the sun was not solved finally until 1582 when Pope Gregory introduced his calendar. By that time the Julian calendar had crept 10 days ahead of the sun, But the Gregorian calendar was not adopted immediately. It did not come into use in England until 1752. Russia adopted it in 1918, Rumania in 1924, and Turkey in 1927. Even to day in some of the more isolated regions of these last three countries the old Julian calendar is still in use. Discussion of leap year brings us inevitably to the tradi tionaJ though usually unexercised right of women to take over man's job of wooing one year out of each four. While some trace this tradition back to St. Patrick, there is no very satisfactory explanation anywhere of its origin. Never theless, a look into ancient statute books proves that there was a time When it was taken quite seriously. A law was enacted in Scotland in 1288 which gave women the legal right to propose marriage during leap year. Not only did it give them such a right, but also made it difficult for men o ADVERTISING BENEFITS THE PUBLIC Prior to the abvent of the chain grocery store, there was little general advertising by grocery or drug stores. The people bought potatoes or they bought physic. Volume business with resulting lower prices was not encouraged by publicizing the merits of different products in order to increase their sale and use. But when the chain store idea was evolved it was found that advertising was essential and indispensable in order to move goods and create interest in new products. It was not long before the advertising policy of chain stores influenced other merchants to reach their customers in the same manner, in an effort- to increase sales by offering the public household necessities or luxuries in attractive forms and at reasonable prices. The mass distribution idea reacted to the benefit of the buying public and today essentials of life are transferred from producer to consumer at a price which would have been impossible except for the volume consumption created by in- so-call- ed - tellegent advertising. These savings for the family pocketbook have increased purchasing power for other lines of business. The result has been a greater sale of additional comforts and luxuries which, in turn, involve advertising by many branches of business. The Ethiopians may have a climate like that of Cali fornia. But anyhow they are not afraid to admit it when it rains. In fact they sort of brag about it. o . V A telephone gets lifiln miir.klv 1 i v ft costs but a few cents a day -- 7 A&!k - f, . ,.'( i ::r It is certain inan h "IOL SnntL. i-- fornians, unable to supplies of pork fa, iS? very definitely lamb, with lamb J fit of many beef d. spent for dunngi the first ill nn-- "J. .0rdl8 i hJI..M w win De remembered ly much cheats il ?3- - Vf. ZJ markets than eithor AH of which that both the be? ?J the wiBe m pork. is a moraw nnm.i .W1MULI lnfl i On.- - l numbers 0f cattle, ho ?9 it is very likely thaUhe a somewhat diminished 0!tu lamb. This word of B not intended to b. l rather to indicate to bp ducers the need for . : ine too, a B ll. r:r l t -- tfc together u. tinaoIM,, . CaliforniaconerhU80" ed. a liking foHamb qj; shortage of pork m P manentlvti n" ,ic x.',.. uenent of and the detriment of pork. Figures compiled for the a whIe show under fAnrol '"ecnon, a - ea in 1935, against 9,945M& (government drouth relief S, excepted) and 8,655,000 in m In fact, 1935 cattle slaughter 2 with the greater exception 1W4, of any year since M and lamb slaughter ia flu Sheep United States, from the m source, totaled 17,645,000 aaiim 16,056,000 in " 1934 and the smce the recorf comparing with only in 1922. oiaugnicr year in 1931, 10,929,000 - Hog slaughter showed i tre endous decrea?e, the 1935 total beinj? 26,055,000 against 43,585 000 in 1934 and 44,255,000 in 1931 Imecti That Sing Singing Insects are "pan. One of these found la is a ilnginj called susnmusl, Hut Is, "Insect bell." The sound tk! ! makes resembles the tlnkl of i little silver hell. black-beetl- e Protect Penguins During a bronchitis epidemic li London, throats of penguins lo the London zoo were wrapped mufflers. 1 and American inventive genius. This interpretation is not the whole truth, for the Japanese very definitely have creative ability. The textile industry of the United States and Great Britian years old, but these are fast surrendering their leadership because the Japanese insist on the most modern and efficient machinery. With of the spindles and of the looms, Japan an nually consumes more cotton than England. Furthermore, there are no looms of the 1885 model in Japan such as can be found, in certain textile centers of this country. This modern improved is one reason why machinery Japan is forging ahead. Yen a Factor Is Japan's industrial revolution the result of devaluation of the yen? This undoubtedly has been tremendous factor. Even after our own devaluation, the yen, whose old parity with the dollar was 49 cents, is today quoted at is 200 nearly countries one-sixt- h one-ha- lf cents at New York. This means, of course, that Japan's world prices are automatically much lower than our own and those of Great Britian. Like most economists. I believe currency de valuation, as a policy, is sinful, particularly on the part of those nations who start the vicious cycle. We must remember, however, that Japan had a. heavy - unfavor -- VI. 11 aoie Daiance oi iraae ior years. As she progressed industrially and wanted to find markets, those nations from whom she had bought tremendous quantities of goods erected banners against her products. Then also she had to follow the declining value of the Chinese silver dollar, as silver dropped In price. So, in a sense, she was forced to take this dras- ANNOUNCES 25-A-MONTH TIME PAYMENTS AND A NEW UGC 61 FINANCE PLAN 29 prices costs. (4 .,. -- WUL DM, mans consumed my more iamo m lm the usual progress possible: answer is that the Japanese have a wonderful ability to initiate and that they capitalize' upon British A successful man Is one who makes more than his wife can spend, and a successful woman is one who lands such a tic measure. Futhermore, conman. trary to popular belief, Japan has not been "dumping" goods at A fire breaks out every minute in the United States, it is estimated rate the Liana estimated that- below actual production Wage Scales? Has her progress been due to "coolie" wages? Hot debates have been revolved around this point. One leading authority con nected with our department of commerce made a Rtudy of textile wages in Japan several years ago. He found that the daily wage for the few men employed averatred $1.55. Women's pay was ridiculously low around 25 to 30 cents per day. Women workers, however, t, are provided with very clean living quarters. 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