The People's Interest

Greymouth Evening Star, 25 July 1947, Page 6

The People's Interest

It ought to be the happiness and glory ot a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most, unreserved communication with his constituents. Their wishes ought to have great weight w*th him; their opinion high respect; their business unremitted attention. It is his duty to sacrifice his repose, his pleasures, his satisfaction, to theirs; and above all, ever, and in cases, to prefer their interest to his own. —Eamund Burke (1729-1797).

World Use of Science , The problem of the modern world was not so much to make .advances in science, but how to secure a world in which those advances could be made with safety, said the Prime Minister (Mr Attlee) at a dinner , m London. The dinner was the concluding function of the eleventh International Congress of Pure and Applie'd Chemistry. Science, he said .could flourish only in an atmosphere of freedom, where men and women could say what they would. Chemists were needed today for the reconstruction and betterment of the world, and he hoped that never again would chemists be diverted from their beneficent work to destructive purposes which might wreck civilisation. In chemistry, the same invention that could destroy life could also save it.—London, July 23V