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goods which we have "allowed" to pass predominantly or completely into foreign and sometimes German hands. Four articles are especially prominent in illustration of this economic peril — dyes, monazite, tungsten, and beet sugar. Now, an exceedingly pertinent commentary on these articles was made in a letter to The Times of March 30 by Dr. F. A. Mason, who remarks: "The four subjects noted — tungsten for steel-making, monazite for the production of gas mantles, synthetic indigo, and beet sugar — do not appear at first sight to bear much relation to one another, but their mention with regard to German industrial success and British failure is no fortuitous one. The link connecting them all may be summed up in one word — chemistry. There is no branch of science, pure or applied, which has been so shamefully neglected in the past as chemistry. Practically all the important industries in which we have been left behind by Germany have been those in which the chemist is predominant." Admittedly all