8 THE ROYAL CANADIAN INSTITUTE. 



Canada's sons who have so honourably responded to the call of the 

 Empire. The rest of the people of Canada are doing their duty nobly 

 for the Red Cross and the comforts of the soldiers at the front, in 

 the hospitals, and on their return as ineffectives. There is, however, 

 the business and social life of the country, what can we say of that? 

 Is it not true that the people as a whole are conducting their business, 

 their manufactures and their lives much as if nothing had happened 

 not looking for any radical changes as a result of the war, but waiting 

 till it ceases with the expectation that things will go on as they did 

 before. The immense expenditure on munitions of war now in progress 

 in Canada must bring a degree of prosperity which it is difficult to 

 measure undoubtedly various prevailing conditions will bring into 

 the country a large amount of money. The same will happen in the 

 country to the south of us. Such conditions alone will not suffice to 

 make the people of this country or of the United States permanently 

 prosperous. 



It is common knowledge to all that will learn that the United States 

 has long since developed within itself a means of doing its manufacturing 

 and trade in a great degree by large trade combinations such as in 

 Canada we have not yet been able to rival. These combinations long 

 since learned the necessity for applying the discoveries of science and 

 scientific research to the betterment of their processes, the saving and 

 utilization of by-product and waste, and the investigation of materials 

 and processes for new products and new means of more economically 

 producing products already known. 



The war experience has shown them and the whole world how 

 dependent they were upon Germany for many things which were the 

 result of application of science and scientific research by the German 

 people. 



In the United States the result is already apparent in a vast advance 

 in the opening of plants to manufacture many of the things required, 

 and a multiplication and livening up of the means of scientific investi- 

 gation to discover and to demonstrate the means and the result called 

 for. 



The people of Canada have made no move as yet in the direction 

 above indicated. Nothing has been done to give value to the term 

 "made in Canada" when our goods are so labelled. 



The term "made in Germany" we all know has not among us the 

 reputation of pointing to any superiority in the articles upon which it 

 appears. The fact nevertheless is that hundreds of products "made 

 in Germany" have been upon the markets of the world possessing a 

 value actually due to the fact that they could be procured exclusively 





