SERVICE OF SCIENCE

New Zealand Herald, Volume 78, Issue 24084, 1 October 1941, Page 8

SERVICE OF SCIENCE

NEEDS OF THE CONSUMER SOCIAL CONSCIENCE ROUSED (Becd. 8.30 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 29 Commenting on the London conference of international scientists under the auspices of the British Association, says the British official wireless, the press points out that it has revealed beyond a shadow of doubt the close relationship between science and everyday life. The T'mes says:— "Science, to fnlfil its human mission, •will have to concern itself in future as much with the consumer as the producer. This implies to some extent a reversal of past attitudes, but the whole conception of the needs and wants of the consumer as the starting point of the programme of reconstruction, owes much to those who, in recent years, have worked out. especially in the field of nutrition, standards recognised as the necessary minimum for human w T eH-heing, and who have shown how far existing standards, even in advanced countries, fall below them. "Recognition of such standards was rightly described by Mr. Herbert Morrison as 'a new social and political factor of the first importance.' It has aroused the social consciences of all classes and has established a principle accepted by all parties as an obligation over-riding selfish or sectional interests."