186 EDITORIAL 
people, and scientific inquiry is fundamental to the intellectual 
development of every progressive people. 
We hold, therefore, that no state is doing its duty to its people, or 
its part as a factor in our governmental system, which does not main- 
tain a well-organized system of scientific investigation covering the 
essential physical conditions and the potential resources that relate 
to the health, prosperity, and happiness of its people. Among these 
we naturally place a geological survey. A state is shirking its duty 
and its responsibility, if it leaves all this investigative work to the 
national government. It is not right for the national government 
to do it all, as functions are now apportioned. Let every state, 
therefore, do its part zealously. Let the national government do its 
part, but only its part. A spirited endeavor by each to fulfil its 
functions, attended by a generous co-operation when the dividing 
line between functions is obscure or debatable, will develop and 
preserve, in the scientific field, that community of action in promoting 
the higher welfare of our people which is the soul of our civil polity. 
EYCLe 
