Chemical Plant
JIr. AlIiott, in his lcttcr which wc publislicd Jnst wcck, cliallcngcd us bccnusc of thc modcration of our statcnicnts. Wc had thc nudncity t o suggest thnt British buycrs of chcmical plant would usually find British plnnt cmincntly suitnblc for its purpose nnd tlist tlic British plant iiinnufact~rcrs might do ~iiorc to combat tlic ancient nod 1 1 0 ~ innccurtc bclicf that British plnnt was not SO good other plant. No doubt thc mniiufacturcr of plniit is niorc iml)rcsscd by its csccllcncc tlinn a mcrc cditor, but the most coiivciiicnt way of convincing tlic cditor that liis iiioderntioii is csccssirc ~o u l d bc ,Z r c n s o ~i ~d nntl clctnilccl stntcincnt and not tlic sudden passagc of n lctlinl wcnpon through thc vital portions of his ~inntoiny. The rcnsoncd stntc~ucnt might also nppcnl to tlic rcntlcrs, ~1 1 0 arc of grcatcr iniportancc tlian incrc editors. 111 tlic old tlnys if you licltl licrctical view you w r c trcatcd to n ccursc of dcstructivc tlistillntion ; wc linvc iiow tulvancctl to thc view that if a nin~i's bclicfs iwc h t l , thcy i d 1 not l x iinprovcd by burning. Alr. Alliott tclls us that British chemical plant is now so good that only misguided crcnturcs, wl~osc intcllccts arc dim, could mtikc enquiries clsewlicrc. Tlicsc arc not his csnct wortls, wc admit, but t h y con-cy tlic sninc iniprcssioii. If this is so, thc lkitisli inanufncturcr of chcniicnl plant is in n iiiueli linppier position tlinn most of US. ' . L' hc innnufncturars of other goods arc found Iirrc and thcrc to fccl tlic cffccts of forcign compctition. If tlic British nialrcrs of chcmicnl plant think it unncccssnry to do niorc to clcinoiistratc tlic cficicncy of thcir iunnufnc;turcs, surcly tlicy arc tlic bcst juclgcs. Tlic ignorniit niny pick u~ scraps of informntion occnsionnlly from lcss rcticcnt govcrnincnt tlcpnrtincnts. Thus tlic Ninistry of Agriculturc nnd Fishcries docs iiot blush to rlisclosc tlic purchnsc of vncuiini condcnsntion plnnt from Gcorgc Scott nntl Son, J,td., nlid Blair, Canipbcll nntl ,\lcLcan, Lttl., of sl)cciial cliurns froin \ 5 p i ant1 Hcntlly, of ])ulsometer ccntrifugnl pnlps, aiitl of stcaln jiickctetl vncuuni owns of thc 3Innloi-c Alliott typc. A pcrusnl of onc of thc Ninistry's latest rcports lcntls O I ~C to bclicvc thnt nll this ~i i i ~~l l i ~i ~r y was found to * Proin tho Prosidontiid Address to tho Jrtmclrostor Litcrnry nntl Pliilofiophictd SociuLy 011 Jtul. 20, 1 D W Feb. 6 , 1020 'liocoption by t h Clini&nii, Prof. A. R. Ling, C:o\~or Stycot, 1\7.C, I, nt 6.0 11.1". " 'YlIO l'llooly of t i t 7. p.m. Tioltots 10s. (ld. oncli. Fino Grinding," by DI-. G . Ilartin.