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With a successful termination to the war fairly well in sight, increasing 
attention is now being paid both in Canada and in Great Britain to this 
question and in both portions of the Empire steps have been taken to 
constitute advisory boards whose function will be to indicate to manu- 
facturers the various industries in which their war equipment can be 
put to profitable use. France is probably at the present time ahead of 
us in dealing with this question for in a report which has recently been 
published in that country some interesting, definite and very helpful 
suggestions are made. In this report, for example, it is pointed out that 
the equipment which is now being used for the manufacture of acids, 
tar products, powder, and explosives, can under peace conditions be 
used for the manufacture of artificial perfumes, photographic materials, 
pharmaceutical products and organic and inorganic dyes. It is also 
shown that engineers and workmen who have been trained in the 
manufacture of smokeless powder, melinite, and trinitrotoluol can after 
the war be used in the same works and with the same machinery to 
manufacture such articles as artificial silk, nitrobenzine, aniline, 
etc. 
The report also goes on to say that in order to give effect to these 
suggestions, there has been formed in France the Syndicat National de 
Matiéres Colorantes, which is a combination of coal and metallurgical 
companies, paper makers, dyers, textile manufacturers, etc. This 
illustration will serve to indicate to you the progress of the movement 
in France. Thanks to it, it is now clear that hundreds of thousands of 
workmen in that country will continue to earn their wages and the 
works which are to-day mobilised for destruction will to-morrow, when 
peace is declared, make France more powerful than ever. 
One hears frequent reference made these days to the transference of 
enormous reserves of accumulated wealth from the British Empire and 
the allied countries to neutral nations, especially the United States, and 
one is apt to be discouraged by the vastness of our debt to that nation 
incurred through our prosecution of the war. We must realise however 
that the future is not at all a hopeless one. Our greatest loss is that of 
the lives of thousands of our bravest and best whom we can ill spare, 
but who have made the supreme sacrifice gladly, and confident that by 
so doing they were not contributing to the loss but to the enhancement 
of the greatness and glory of our Empire. These precious lives can never 
be restored to us. But the accumulation of vast mechanical equipment, 
the establishment of enormous works of all kinds, the mobilisation of 
industry, practice in the successful production of all types of manufacture 
in enormous quantities, tremendous advances in the manipulative and 
mechanical skill of millions of our people, and a recognition of the vital 
