INDIAN FAMINES - Institute for Social and Economic Change

180 EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT.
head will be the primary object of solicitude to
a Government, and that the others are subordinate
thereto, it will be sufficient to detail the
points connected with No.2, as all questions
relating to Nos. 1 and 3 will naturally present
themselves for discussion in the examination of
the other point.
I have before drawn attention to the difficulty
which accompanies the determining when then
is actually a famine or scarcity impending awl
when there is not. This necessarily affects the
present subject; but beyond saying that economy
will be in direct proportion to the early
organisation of relief-works where it has been
proved that tbey will be required, it will b,
unnecessary to dwell.
The economy of relief-works will be indirectly
affected by their utility, and directly by the:
method adopted in carrying them out. Again I
their utility will be in proportion to the are2
over which it is intended that they should bl'
undertaken, and this furtber depends on the
amount of forethought and premeditation that
has been brought to bear on the subject. If thf'
area is large, and especially if it is of a varie"