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ment of life and work ; and that this Self-Help also promoted the welfare of his family
and that of the community, and the formation of an enlightened public opinion.
The neglect of this Self-Help and the attendant industrial unrest leading to
ca'canny strikes and insensate sabotage and increasing unemployment are sapping
the physical and moral stamina of the nation. For strikes in one trade generally lead
to unemployment in other trades in an increasing vicious circle, thus, notwithstanding
inadequate relief by demoralising doles and unemployment pay, leading to much suffering
and physical deterioration of not only the original strikers and their innocent
wives and children, but also of a rapidly increasing number of families.
Much improvement can be effected by extension of co-operation between employers
and employed, as by Whitley Councils, profit-sharing schemes, industrial medicine,
industrial " Welfare " and " Service " Schemes.
The results of industrial warfare, however, like those of international warfare,
are so disastrous to the general health and welfare of the community, that it behoves
all men of good will to make supreme efforts to secure willing and intelligent cooperation
and rational methods of settling disputes.
Good wages can only be deserved and permanently paid by honest work and
endeavour.
On account of the great importance of adequate steps being taken to reduce
the impurity of the air we breathe, I may remind you that your Council in 1912
circulated more than 10,000 copies of a pamphlet, " More Sunshine for London."
Although an average person consumes more than four times the weight of air
that he does of food and water combined, it has required a disastrous coal strike
to forcibly demonstrate the enormous reduction of the impurity of the air of our
large cities than can be effected by less wasteful methods of using fuel.
As Public Health and Welfare is simply applied Science, may I appeal for
increased scientific education and methods, at least, in our Public Schools and
Departments.
Unless we become a more scientific nation, we shall not even continue to
" muddle through."
Mankind is still suffering severely from the manifold conflicting and warring
superstitions and creeds (with their attendant untold hypocrisies and heresies,
inquisitions and inhumanities,) all apparently founded upon and fostered by man's
appalling ignorance of Nature.
"Relativity" reigns in all regions and at all times, and Nature can only be
more and more truly worshipped and obeyed, by Her more complete conquest, by
Her many marvellous mysteries being made more and more manifest by individual
and international research.