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considered than our scientific. What has clerical work 

 done to win the fight? Yet our Government pays many 

 of its clerks better than its scientists. This is a scientific 

 war, and all future wars will be scientific whether they be 

 military or industrial. Are we preparing ourselves for the 

 industrial struggle that is looming in the near future? 

 From what is happening in England and Australia there 

 are indications that a certain scientific awakening has 

 begun to take place in the ideas of our legislators. 



The Institute of Science and Industry. 

 In Britain the Government has appointed an Advisory 

 Council of Scientific and Industrial Research consisting of 

 many prominent scientists and captains of industry, while 

 in Australia the Commonwealth Government is considering 

 the establishment of the Commonwealth Institute of Science 

 and Industry. It is proposed that the functions of this 

 Institute should be to promote the investigation of matters 

 pertaining to the primary and secondary industries, and 

 the co-ordination and direction of research and experi- 

 mental work in order to prevent overlapping. The scheme 

 includes the teaching of science in primary and secondary 

 schools, the technical training of apprentices, enabling the 

 staffs of our universities to devote more time to research, 

 establishing a laboratory for standardising instruments 

 and measures, and giving science a status in the public life. 

 The scheme is far-reaching, and naturally will have to be 

 well considered before a movement is made towards its 

 establishment. Let us hope that like many political matters 

 it will not be postponed until the public forgets the necessity 

 for its foundation. 



A scientific habit of thought. 

 It is understood that the scientific enlightenment of the 

 nation should begin in the schools, for it is only by bring- 

 ing the boy up in a scientific atmosphere that we can hope 



