Show BOARD BOAR D HOLDS NO MEETINGS president decides all questions for members but never calls them in for a conference i there Is no m more 0 re famil familiar ar title among government departments department t than the board of trade it seems to be rca re for all kinds of things and all aill sorts sort of undertakings and happen 1 tugs it if will find you a chairwoman or negotiate a commercial treaty it consists of it a president and A large number of members among whom are reckoned the ai archbishop of canter bury and the speaker of the house of a writer in london tit bit bits estates ates by law these members have a right to bo be calletto called to discuss questions of trade and to help the president to shape pie his policy yet the fact remains no meetings are ever held I 1 the president bever dreams of calling his committee ko together gether he does much as he likes comes to his own decisions and then announces that the board thinks so and so one wonders what would happen if I 1 the archbishop or some other member I 1 were ere to insist upon being consulted this athis this surprising BUI method of doing business should cease the board of trade does not stand alone every schoolteacher school teacher in the land knows knotts that my lords say this and ray 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 would probably be puzzled to name a half dozen of them mr fisher and his predecessors 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 storm |