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written for and published in that monthly on such ques- 

 tions as the need of tropical agricultural colleges, the 

 need of increasing the labour supplies of the Tropics, and 

 also of financing and encouraging those who are striving 

 so earnestly to extend our trade from this side and to 

 develop the resources of the Empire and of the countries 

 of her Allies abroad. I have reprinted these articles some- 

 times in the first, sometimes in the third person as they 

 were in the original. This is as it should be, for the 

 development and increased prosperity of the Empire is not 

 a one-man job, " we " alone can do it by joining together 

 and working m unison. So long as everything goes well 

 what does it matter who gets the credit, if the Empire 

 and Mother England get the prosperity. If, however, 

 faults have been committed, or injustices done, uninten- 

 tionally, to anyone, then, and only then, will " I " take 

 the place of the editorial " we," and be quite ready to 

 receive a "wigging" (if I deserve it), and told how to 

 avoid doing so another time. 



Apologies are due to the publishers of the Mysore 

 Economic jfomnal, of Bangalore, for the article I contributed 

 to their columns and have (practically) reproduced in this 

 book, without waiting for the Editor's permission to do so. 

 I have also to thank my friends in America for my paper 

 ex tlie report of the Eleventh Annual International Dry- 

 farming Congress. The Daily Graphic, of London, kindly 

 allowed me to include the cartoon on p. 112. 



In conclusion, may I call attention to the Appeal on the 

 back cover of the book, and urge everyone, where engaged 

 in developing the latent resources of the Empire, to remit 

 at regular intervals a percentage of the salary and profits 

 they receive. We must all remember that if these^blinded 

 men were not at St. Dunstan's many of us might be reduced 

 to their state — worst of all, we might, like Belgium, be in 

 the grip of Prussia. 



