Association as°a ponderously unio teresting, high brow body, it seldom occurs that out of the president address something does not arise which makes an appeal to the igination, of the people. This is certainly the case in the present instance, when Sir William Bragg has been pointing out, that prest y is attendant on the British dustries which are founded on recent scientific research, whereas others not so- situated, coal, iron, wool, ete, are in a pretty bad plight. The British Assogiation this year has as its president a man whose researches have to a very large extent taken a practical line, and unlike some others in che realm of science he has contributed work which has a utilitarian value to-day. His record shows this, for in the course of his career he' has been on the Council of the South Australian Mines & Industries, and he has received the Nobel price for work on x-rays and crystals.
Ses sok a gen dome Oak contrast between two groups of the nation's industries, there may. be a hope that it will stir people to activity. There is a very strony feeling that the coal owners, for instance, have been idly waiting for the Government to shoulder one of their schemes rather than tackle problems themselves, and if we look at the industries referred to by Sir William—chemieal, motor, electric, ete—we see that success has come principally through the efforts of the private individual. Coming at such a juncture in Britain's industrial history as the present, it mpossible to conceive a more timely address than this for the opening
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