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— let US train our own younj^ men and women to (|ualifv for and 

 secure the ai)iMiintnients wliieli are their natural heritage. 



These somewhat disjointed references to a suhject of gra\- 

 est importance are intended merely t(^ he sugg^estixe and to arouse 

 interest and discussion. 



I admit that in this short pajx'r 1 have not ijropouuded any 

 original ideas. The views expressed have heen mainly gathered 

 from other sources and from current literature. The world un- 

 douhtedly is underg(Mng a mar\ellous change. The poor cannot 

 always remain poor. Millions of peo])le are horn in pcn-erty 

 and remain in [X)verty the whole of their natiu'al lives. Would 

 it not he hetter to hreed a nation of virile men and women fit to 

 work and entitled to enjoy and he secured in the possession 

 of the full results of their labour? A little imagination would 

 soon bring us to a reasonable estimate of what the probabilities 

 w^ould be under such conditions, and, rightly or wrongly, I 

 believe that conditions of life can only be improved by work 

 and an adequate return for the labour expended. Internal de- 

 veloi)ment. therefore — the entrenchment of our industries estab- 

 lished and to be established — is the only hope of salvation of our 

 Motherland and the Colonies. 



JAPAN'S Potash Output. — The annual consumption 

 of potassium chloride in Japan is about 4,000 tons. The bulk 

 of this, before the war, was supplied by Germany. At that time 

 there was only t)ne com]:)any in Japan, which produced about 

 300 tons per aimum. Since the outbreak of war many new 

 potassium-making companies have been established in Japan, and 

 according to official statistics, the present yearly rate of output 

 exceeds 3,500 tons. During the last eight months enough has 

 been produced for Japan's own consumption, and in two months 

 half a million pounds' weight has been exported, mainly to 

 China, Souraljava, and \ ladivostock. 



South African PALyEONTOLOGY.— Attention is 



dra\yn in a recent issue of Nature to the pn\gress that is being 

 made in the knowledge of dinosaurs in South Africa. In 1915 a 

 rejjort l)y Mr. S. Fl. Haughton was made on Iwnes found in the 

 Forest Sandstone twenty-five miles from Bulawayo. They re- 

 sembled Thecodontosaurus and G_\'posaurus from the Cave Sand- 

 stone of the Cape Province and the Orange Free State. A 

 month later Dr. A. W. Rogers contributed to the Royal Society 

 of South Africa a paper on " The Occurrence of Dinosaurs in 

 Bushmanland.'" The remains were found in the ancient infilling 

 of a valley cut in gneiss, and Dr. Rogers concluded that the ])re- 

 seni valley was initiated in Mesozoic times. Mr. Haughton 

 referred the bones and a tooth to a new genus, Kangnasaurns, 

 intermediate between the Up])er Jurassic Camptosaurus and the 

 Up];er Cretaceous Alochlodon. It is thus probable that the 

 allu\ial de])osit is of Cretaceous age. 



