PUBLIC OPINION

Hokitika Guardian, 13 August 1931, Page 2

PUBLIC OPINION

“DOCTORS” IN CONFERENCE. “Time and place conspired to ensure that the maximum 01 world-wide notice should be accorded to the biennial meeting of the International Chamber of Commerce which took place at Washington. For, apart from the obvious fact that the height of a raging epidemic is the psychological moment for the public deliberations of eminent doctors, it was also very much to the good that a such a moment the American public should be put into closer touch with the views of European industrialists and should hear plain speaking •on the causes of the great economic depression both from them and from their American counterparts.’’—“The Economists.” THE ANTHROPOLOGIST’S QUEST. “Mental anthropology,” says Sir James Frazer, “is in great measure a science of human origins. It investigates, or will hereafter investigate, the origins ol language, of the arts, of society, of science, of morality, of religion. To take for example, the arts of life, it asks, How did man discover the use of fire and the modes of kindling ft? HoW did he become acquainted with the metals and learn to fashion them ihto tools and weapons? How d:d he coirie to tame wild animals and td breed them for his comfOrt and convenience? How did he first hit upon the idea of sowing seed ana waiting for months till the seed should ripen and bear fruit? In other words,, how did he arrive at the conception of agriculture, a conception which has even yet not dawned on some of the rudest races of mankind ?”