The Guardian And Evening Star, with Which is incorporated the West Coast Times. MONDAY AUGUST 30, 1926. SCIENCE THE SERVANT.

Hokitika Guardian, 30 August 1926, Page 2

The Guardian And Evening Star, with Which is incorporated the West Coast Times. MONDAY AUGUST 30, 1926. SCIENCE THE SERVANT.

Very picturesquely the Prince of Wales put it in his presidential address to the British Association at Oxford, that 2.000,(100 workers in Britain were living on the brains of Faraday. A'ot more strikingly in a single sentence could there well be expressed the enormous services of science and industry. But there was a more important side of the Prince’s speech when he referred to science as not so much the servant of industry' as the servant of humanity. Medical science, of course, has long been recognised as such a- minister of good, hut the Prince, after

touching on that, went on to suggest the functions of industrial science for the good of humanity generally, apart from it usefulness in increasing production. “Industrial Britain, ’ lie asid. “inherits a legacy of discomfort in the housing of her workers, in which she slill needs guidance.” There lie plainly pointed to the path <>l duty, not only on the part of tlie scientists, hut on the part of the employers. The wise and good employer carefully studies and strives to improve the conditions of the people on his pay-roll. He does it for two reasons; first, because lie is a good employer, and is swayed hv humane motives, ami secondly, because be is a wise employer, and he knows that it. is economically advantageous to have a healthy and contented staff of workers. Housing is. of course, only one of the directions in which industrial science can 'ameliorate the lot ol mankind, and the Prince in his speech merely took it as an example. It was one of those touches so frequent in his addresses, as in those of his father and his brothers, which mark the deep human interest that the Royal House of England constanty takes in the homely aifairs of the nation in the