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SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH. 
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he must discover more and ever more new ways of multiplying his 
powers. The function of science is the multiplication of the powers 
of man. ‘Therefore we must be pre-eminently a scientifically trained 
and organized community. ~ 
Canada stands in a position of comparative safety, yet they have 
made far greater strides jn this direction than we. The Dominion 
Council of Research and Industry is a living, intensely vital organiza- 
tion, re-organizing and re-creating the chemical and biological industries 
of Canada, and it is able to perform this complex task to the satis- 
faction of the whole community because it is endowed with large funds 
and still larger powers, and because its officials are men of the highest 
experience and training in scientific and industrial research. The pro- 
posed Commonwealth Institute of Research has, I understand, not 
yet been erected or endowed with suitable funds. I am totally un- 
aware of the reasons for this backwardness of Australia because of 
my absence until recently from this country. But whatever the reasons 
may be, they should weigh as nothing against the reasons for immedi- 
ately pushing forward the development of all branches and phases 
of research in Australia. We need research in’ our universities, and 
in every department of our universities, to train young men who will 
create our science and our industries of the future. We need research 
Institutes in which to enable them to put their training and their 
knowledge into practice, and we need: research laboratories in direct 
affiliation with our leading industries. Our stock-breeding must no 
longer be conducted haphazard, but under the direction of men trained 
in the principles of genetics. The by-products of our meat industry 
must no longer be disposed of as scanty experience dictates, but 
worked up into products of great value through the services of trained 
biochemists. Our farmers, like the new generation of farmers in 
California, must be University-trained men with a small and handy 
soil laboratory on their own premises, and in constant touch with 
University and Government Departments of Agricultural Research. 
Industrial firms should appoint fellowships to work out their problems 
for them in well-equipped laboratories in the universities, or in labora- 
tories established for this purpose by the Commonwealth or State 
Governments. If we are to surpass Japan, we must keep level with 
Canada and the United States in the matter of modern industrial 
development, and none of these things can be started too soon. 
It is useless to plead our poverty. Everybody is poor, Canada not 
the least; yet Canada can afford to spend a few millions on research 
besides maintaining several universities equipped to the highest 
standard. We spend money upon those things which we consider 
to be essential, while Japan is spending ten million yen (one million 
pounds) on a research institute for physics and chemistry alone. The 
plain fact of the matter is that we are, by our neglect and delay, 
deliberately placing ourselves in a position of the utmost danger, from 
which we can only be rescued by immediate and energetic action. 
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