A Rationaliiation Conference The International Institute of Scientific. Management at
-Geneva fails to get its share_ of the limelight which plitys on the work of the League. itself. Yet as a labor ratory for what we now all 'call " rationalization " it must assume an ever greater importance, and we welcome the first international Conference on Rationalization which was convened in Paris on Wednesday. The new system is designed, as Mrs. Ethel Wood put it the other day, " to abolish . useless and wasteful competition, to economize in management, and to make in every depart- ment the most effective use of capital, machinery, plant and labour." The weakness of 'the British delegation to the Conference, as compared with those Of other Great Powers, is a striking confirmation of the fact—on which the Spectator has always insisted—that this country is sadly behind the times in matters of industrial organiza- tion. The Melchett-Turner interim Reports have also borne witness to this, and are doubly welcome as promis- ing a definite turn of the tide. Our " heavy industries " should now have every inducement to follow the trail blazed by Imperial Chemical Industries.
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