POPULAR LECTURES

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2241, 29 August 1914, Page 2

POPULAR LECTURES

IN AID OF THE MAYOR'.SFUND; There was a satisfactory attendance at the Concert Chamber of the Town Hail last night, when, several popular lectures were given in aid of the. Mayor of .Wellingtons Patriotic Fund. His Excellency the Governor (Lord Liverpool) presided... Mr. F. P. Wilson,'.M-A., of Victoria College, epoke on 'the economic aspects of war,-, and, dealt- in an interesting manner with, the relation,-of trade and' commerce to war; ■In 1913, be said, Germany spent, £100,000,000 on armaments.. -Taking^'the ' ■whole , of Europe, sometbingJike. five hundred /-millions was 'spent oft warlike 'preparations'. The; demand for capital in the,world , 'was greater than the supply i and if armaments were done away with that money would be available for reproductive works.' The' .5,000,000 men representing the peace.'strength of.the armies., of Europe would be thrown pri the labour market,.and the immediate.result might be a decrease in the rate of wages,"'bu< the "Ultimate" result";would bo'•;an""in~: croase. It was., a ■ fallacy, ; hq eaid, t think thatcapitalists desired war.! Mr. Wilson' dealt with the necessary "inflation of prices for oversea products, which Royal Commissions would be '.tin-; able to control. ,'Unwarranted increase's in the- prices of goods would reflect 'on the heads of-'the.:;expjoiter6.. ■.:' Mr. H. H.' Coraisli)''-' M.A., ,gave p luoid lecture on Pau-Gernianism, which he described'ae the biggest-plot : ,that was ..ever hatched, and the biggest move-. ment in history. •It meant-the Jomina-, tion of 'the world by the Germanic race. Pan-Germanism to ; date' had been nothing but a record of failures, he said, and the world vras now seeing the last great failure. ' . . Surg-eon-Captain Shand, M.8., M.R.C.S., spoke on the work of the medical corps on the battlefield. ' Hxzventive medicine was a largo feature of the work of the surgeon ui the modern battlefield, and he believed that when the present war was finished preventive' medicine would have scored one of the , greatest victories./ Six medical'" men' per thousand soldiers was' the required basis, four being at the front, ana-two doing administrative' wdrk at the base Every officer and man ehould understand the principles of first aid, for it was sometimes impossible for the ambulance corps to get to the injured men. Dr. Shand paid a tribute in conclusion to the noble; position taken., up by the nurses op campaign, - During the evening . many patriotic" items, wore contributed. .The - , "Now York Comedy Four", (by favour of Messrs. Bronnan-Fuller) sang "The Soldiers' Chorus" ("Faust") , and the National Anthems of; France, Russia, and England. Mrs. H. S. .Claughteu sang "There's a Land"; Mr. S. AII- - "The Veteran's Song"; and Mr. GV Waldenar Eiby, "In Trafalgar Bay." .'.-." The proceeds amounted to about £10.