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would have to see to it that we were not only adequately' 

 fed, but also enabled (and, if necessary, forced or, to use 

 a more gentle phrase, shall we say, educated up to the 

 need of realizing that everyone of us will have) to carry 

 on our various trades, industries, and professions, at the 

 quickest rate possible, at the lowest cost compatible with 

 quality and finish, and with the least amount of fatigue 

 and consequent wear and tear to our minds and bodies 

 that human ingenuity and care can enable us to enjoy. 



The trouble with a book of this description is not what 

 to put in it, but what you can leave out, as leave out I 

 have had to do with the public's purse-strings growing 

 tighter and tighter, and so requiring cheaper and not more 

 costly books, as the present price of paper, printing, &c., 

 urges one to issue. As, however, it is the public who 

 have to be pleased and not my own inclinations, I have 

 had to exclude all details — the most interesting portion of 

 my scheme of How to Pay for the War — and only discuss 

 in this volume the broad outlines mentioned in the index, 

 viz., Finance, Education, Raw Labour, Imperial Expan- 

 sion, Dry-zone Farming, and an Anglo-Slav v. a Teutonic 

 trade domination of the Russian markets. 



If, however, the public show sufficient interest in this 

 book to warrant my issuing a supplementary volume, I 

 will then discuss such subjects as the following, each and 

 all of which I was foolish enough to imagine could be in- 

 cluded in this volume without causing a rise in the price 

 to be paid. Having been taught otherwise, the under- 

 mentioned items have had to be cut out : — 



(i) Facilitating the settlement of ex-soldiers, officers 

 and men, in agricultural and commercial centres abroad 

 to carry on and extend the trade, influence and wealth- 

 earning powers of the Empire. 



(2) The possibility of building up a china clay and 

 china manufacturing industry in British Malaya, as was 



