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ever, requires a large floor space and a multiplicity of cells, but larger 

 units are now being introduced, and there is room for investigation in 

 regard to new uses for oxygen. 



Assuming a station having 10,000 kw. availai)lf, some 5,000-5,500 

 tons of nitrogen could be fixed per year, either as ammonia or as 

 cj^anamide, but the former process would yield some 33,000 cubic feet 

 of oxygen per hour, whereas the cyanamide would require coal and lime 

 to be brought to the site. Against this is the greater simplicity of the 

 cyanamide process, and the necessity of fixing the ammonia by an acid, 

 unless partly converted into nitric acid or used as anhydrous ammonia 

 or aqueous solution. 



Mr. E. KiLBURN Scott considered that the arc process still had 

 many advantages, and that Scottish plants could produce power at 

 4:1. per kw.-year. The arc process was the only one capable of utilising 

 off-peak power. Calcium nitrate was the most efficient of all fertilisers. 



IMPERIAL CITIZENSHIP. 



By The Et. Hon. Lord Meston, K.C.S.I. 



There are two aspects from which it is possible to approach Imperial 

 Citizenship — distinct, but supplementary to each other, and in no sense 

 antagonistic. From one point of view Imperial Citizenship is an 

 emotion and an ideal, the foundation and essence of patriotism. In 

 Patriotism you have the white flame which blazes out in protection of 

 country or empire; in Citizenship you have the steady glow which 

 warms men's hearts to a pride in their heritage and to a determination 

 to do their share in making it still more worthy of living for or dying 

 for. The ideal is for every member of the community to qualify him- 

 self or herself for true citizenship — that function which Aristotle defined 

 as a partnership in the legislative and judicial power of the State. Thus 

 qualified, the body of citizens would form the perfect State. 



It is not my purpose to attempt to describe the strides which in 

 our own English-speaking lands are being made towards this ideal, or 

 to touch on the lines along which further advance may develop. It 

 is not on this aspect of the question that I propose to dwell further 

 than to express the fervent belief that Imperial Citizenship, wisely 

 taught to our young and prudently guided in our adults, is capable ol 

 becoming a power for the regeneration of the world. The ideal has 

 been temporarily dimmed by. the reactions of the War and the painful 

 readjustment of social conditions which is now in progress over a greater 

 part of the world ; but if we in this country and in our great self- 

 governing Dominions have any faith in our Imperial calling, we nuist 

 unite in every effort to establish it as a religion for the future. 



The other aspect of the question, and that to which I wish par- 

 ticularly to invite your attention, is Imperial Citizenship as a status. 

 From this point of view we ai'e faced by problems which can never be 

 absent from the thoughts of any man who has had to handle the issues 

 of practical administration. It will thus be no small satisfaction to 



