HUMAN ADJUSTMENT ADVOCATED

Southland Times, Issue 23716, 14 January 1939, Page 5

HUMAN ADJUSTMENT ADVOCATED

ALTERNATIVE FEARED BY MR H. G. WELLS

CANBERRA, January 13. Mr H. G. Wells, addressing the Congress of the Association for the Advancement of Science, declared that unless humanity made a mightly effort of adjustment it could not escape either self-destruction as a species or modification into a more wary, combative, malignant type, tough and hard-heart-ed enough to maintain itself for a longer or shorter age on a war-de-vastated planet. “Either of which we adopt, we must set ourselves to learn and organize our adaptation ”'he said, “or the genus homo will culminate in an exterminating conqueror living in caverns and fortifications with no arts but the arts of war and a collection of murderous official secrets in place of science.” LOSSES BY PLANT AND 7 CROP DISEASES CANBERRA, January 12. At the Scientists’ Congress today papers were read on a variety of subjects, one of which dealt with heavy losses by plant and crop diseases. It was read by Dr W Waterhouse, of Sydney University, who declared that the Australian losses were £12,000,000 a year and the New Zealand losses £2,000,000