AUSTRALIA SELF-CONTAINED. 
If we can maintain an ethical, as opposed to a materialistic, attitude 
of mind; if we can appreciate that this is not something to be sneered » 
at, but to be treasured as an insurance against development of the worst 
side of our nature, then we shall keep ever fresh before our minds 
the realization of our duty to our country, and to those who have made 
or have been ‘prepared to make, the supreme sacrifice for us; thus 
shall we do all we can to assist in building up the great State wherein 
there is clear recognition of the right of all citizens to happiness and 
contentment. 
We can only “acquire merit,’ achieve efficiency, and “ deserve” 
success, and at the same time avoid that attitude of mind which sank 
the Lusitania and sacked Louvain, by maintaining our ideals. 
And what better ideal can there be than to at once determine to erect 
as a living and ever-present memorial to the Australian soldiers—to 
the 59,000 men who have died for us, and to those 200,000 who have 
been wounded and gassed, and wounded and gassed again and yet again 
—to erect, instead of a stone and marble monument, a token of our 
gratitude and appreciation in the form of an industrial system, based 
upon and guided by the laws of humanity and mutual esteem and 
understanding ? 
If determined and persevering, we can build upon such a safe 
foundation a creditable and durable superstructure of new industries, 
properly and logically equipped, so that we can produce efficiently, can 
secure work for the partly disabled men, and provide for all the condi- 
tions required to yield our ideal of a community of happy people, strong 
in their mutual goodwill and confident in their strength. 
There are many reasons why agricultural research should 
form a prominent feature of the activities of the Commonwealth 
of Australia, Its ultimate aim is to increase the productivity 
of the country, and it would be impossible to exaggerate the 
importance of that at the present juncture; for, when the war 
clouds have passed away, when men have beaten their tanks 
into tractors and their bayonets into binder-blades (to modern- 
ize a scriptural quotation), and peace once more comes to this 
troubled world, there will be a huge bill to pay, and that bill 
can only be paid as the result of increased—and greatly 
increased—production. 
—Professor R. D. WATT. 
SEA SNe. 
ZS ANS 
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