BETTER UNDERSTANDING.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19136, 2 April 1924, Page 5

BETTER UNDERSTANDING.

WHAT THE WOULD NEEDS. AMERICAN VISITOR’S VIEWS. (Fbom Oub Own Coeißespondent.) V ELLINETON, April 1. “What is needed is a better understanding between the various nations of the world. Wo are still suspicious of one another. One nation suspects another and so the world goes on.” Tins was the keynote of an address delivered at the Rotary (Tub luncheon bo-day by Dr J. T. Miller, of Los Angeles, who is editor of the paper the Character Builder. Dr Miller stated that ho was engaged in a lour of New Zealand and Australia, but it was not his object: to study the scenery, beautiful as it undoubtedly was. He wanted to fnuko a close study of human nature and the relationships that existed between the various classes. Ho thought that sueh institutions as the Rotary Club and the Y.M.C.A., which made no racial distinctions, could play an important part in the development of the world. From 1914 to 1918 the nations of the world engaged in a terrible struggle, which they were told would end war, but what did they find to-day? Ho had been reading the, discussions about the Singapore base, and had boon struck by the fact that one nation was closely watching every other nation. During the. Great War they had thought that they had only two enemies—Germany and Austria, hut to-day (hey apparently found it necessary to keep an eye on others as well. Japan and China wore regarded as their closest allies a few years ago. but to-day the position wa,s different, and they wore finding it _ necessary to talk of protecting the Pacific. There was 100 much jealousy, and while that was so the world would not have the peace that it desired. Dr Miller said that experiments had l>een tried in business, as a result of which a man who was not suited to one. particular branch of work was transferred to another branch, instead of being (old that he was a total failure. A man who was a failure in one respect might bo a top-nolcher in another respect. These principles, he thought, could be applied to the business world. There was great need for a hotter understanding of human nature. Dr Miller was accorded a vote of thanks for his address.