IMPERIAL MYOPIA.

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IMPERIAL MYOPIA.

As it stands to-day the Emipre Marketing Board exists to promote the sale of Empire produce by the best of all possible means, by proclaiming the merits of the Dominion products and by effecting steady improvements in the products themselves through such systematic research and experiments as has just been described—a collective activity whose results are at the disposal of all. If Imperial co-opera-tion means anything, the case for the

continuance and extension of such work as this is unanswerable, and it is incredible that the Dominion Ministers with whom the final decision lies should not see that. They are directly concerned, for if the Board is preserved, as it should be, the relatively small expense involved must be shared equitably between the different parts of the

Empire. The special reasons why this country for a time bore the whole burden no longer exist. At such a moment as this a special responsibility rests on them. It has been the pride, and to a large extent the just pride, of the British Commonwealth, that it has laid before the world a model of what co-opera-tion between self-governing States should be. It would be a strange irony if at the moment when all humanity is gathered in London to evolve methods of closer economic co-operation the Commonwealth should be assiduously employed in destroying an organisation that in almost all its activities might be chosen as a pattern for the world.— London Spectator.