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Show BOARD HOLDS NO MEETINGS President Decides All Questions for. Members, but Never CallsThem in for a Conference. There is no more familiar title, among government departments th,aa;J the board of trade. It seems to be reV sponsible for all kinds of things ani all sorts of undertakings and happen-! lngs. It will find you a chairwoman or! negotiate a commercial treaty. It con. slsts of a president and a large num. ber of members among whom are reckoned the Archbishop of Canterbury Canter-bury and the speaker of the house of commons, a writer in London Tit-Bits jstates. By law these members have a right to be called to discuss questions of trade and to help the president to snaps his policy, yet the fact remains no meetings meet-ings are ever held ! The president never dreams of calling his committee together. He does much as he likes, comes to his own decisions, and then announces that "the board thinks so B.nd so." One wonders what would happen If the archbishop or some other member were to Insist upon being consulted, this this surprising method of doing business should cease. The board of trade does not stand alone. Every school-teacher In the land knows that "my lords" say this and "my lords" rule that. Their full title is "the lords of the committee of the privy council of education ;" but they never meet, and the vice president presi-dent would probably be puzzled to name a half-dozen of them. &Ir. Fisher Fish-er and his predecessors rule without "my lords," but In their name. Thus do they get credit for the good they do and are a refuge In the day of 6torm. |