It may be that this Western Australian experimenting—or rather demonstration—will
soon be repeated in other parts of the Empire, beginning with Canada. Those who have followed the individual career of the boys and girls who have gone out to. the Fairbridge farm know that their after-success in life is great beyond all expectation. They arc twice blessed : for they get good and give it. The form of their infiltration into the life of the new country is approved even by those who hold the narrowest view and would wish a handful of people to seize the manger, to possess exclusively a country as big as France and Germany and half a dozen Englands. The new country, as some realist said, "gets its babies cheap, for the first seven to ten years have been paid for elsewhere " ; and the old country gives a fine chance to those who had little. A Fairbridge farm in Canada would have eager and general support.
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