PLANNING ONLY WAY

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 297, 12 September 1934, Page 9

PLANNING ONLY WAY

Agricultural Problems PROFESSOR’S VIEWPOINT London, September 10. Professor James Scott Watson, addressing the British Association for the Advancement of Science, said that the present agricultural crisis could have been mitigated had the nations realised that the cheap producer in new countries must displace the dear producer in the old ones. “Russian agricultural planning is right, though the execution is clumsy,” he said. ’The danger of planning is that it may be twisted to increase production in one country at the expense of others. Yet planning is the only solution of agricultural distress. Ido not think there could be a large increase in the numbers employed in British agriculture without a considerable cost to the consumers, but fanning in Britain could at least compete with overseas if small holdings were replaced by factory farms.”’ 1 SILENCER PERFECTED For Use on Motor-cycles (British Official Wireless.) (Received September 11, 5.5 p.m.) Rugby, September 10. At the British Association meeting on Saturday, a demonstration was given of a new type of motor-cycle silencer which, it is claimed, will eliminate the noise of the machine's exhaust, and which has been perfected as a result of investigations made following the inquiry at last year's meeting into the question of decreasing street noises. Sir Henry Fowler, chairman of the association’s committee which has been investigating the subject, and who is now chairman of the Ministry of Transport committee dealing with the some question, attended a trial which was carried out by Wing-Commander Cave-Brown-Cave, who states that not only was a great reduction in noise effected, but. when compared with many oilier types of silencers. Hie new one resulted In a small increase in horsepower. (Noto on Pago 7)