TALKERS AND DOERS

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 154, 29 December 1930, Page 8

TALKERS AND DOERS

In his lallcr years Lord Mclchelt was semi-disguised beiicalh a coronet, but it was as Alfred Mond that he laid the foundation of his greatness. He built up scientific-industrial organisations which so improved the utilisation of natural products that these utilisations became synonymous with a cheaper and better article and with a greater pay-sheet. -A man who can stop the. wastes in a substance like coal, and who can "crack" coal and make it produce various useful things formerly unused, creates wealth, work, and wages. From a given amount of a natural product, the amount of 'useful result is increased by such a man, the " users multiply, and the workers multiply. Mr. H. G. Wells took up the idea of substituting the scientific-industrial man for the politician and the titled aristocrat as leader in world-affairs; and his novel "The World and William Clissold" is full of the possibilities of this New Man avlio will lead the way in winning more results from Nature and in allocating those results more sensibly than now obtains. Incidentally, Alfred Mond is named in Mr. Wells's novel as one of the new type. The Mond (Melchelt) effort to effect i a liaison between scientific industrialism and party politics may not have succeeded. But over Lhe bridge of economics the twain must one day meet. -