IV. The Tropics for a Living 



colour, looks to the United Kingdom and its people for help 

 and guidance in development and progress. It is our duty 

 to respond fully and immediately, without hesitation, to these 

 calls upon us, and we are deeply indebted to Mr. Hamel 

 Smith for his book which indicates so clearly the many 

 directions in which such help and assistance can best be 

 given. 



"(Signed) LEVERHULME." 



Referring to Lord Leverhulme's remarks the position as he 

 described it three years ago is, to-day, not only unchanged 

 but accentuated. Feeling this, in the paper I read before the 

 Anglo-Spanish Society on January 17 of this year (1922), 

 when discussing the need of fully utilising both the men and 

 the land at our disposal, I claimed that " It is noticeable that 

 those who cannot make the most of their labour seldom make 

 the most of their land. Too" many men live only for the 

 present, when running an estate or opening up fresh land. 

 You must give back to the soil and to the trees the full 

 equivalent of what you take away year by year, otherwise, 

 even in your own time, you will find crops fall off and your 

 own value to the community grow less." . . . improved 

 methods ..." increase crops considerably whilst reducing 

 costs, for it is cheaper for five men to produce five tons of 

 sugar than ten men to do so. With improved methods all 

 benefit, planter and Government, because the total output of 

 the community producing on the lowest possible basis of costs 

 is sure to increase in quantity and therefore in taxable value." 



The Author. 



