W.E.A.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19683, 28 December 1933, Page 14

W.E.A.

SUMMER SCHOOL. On Wednesday morning the Psychology Class at the W.E.A. Summer School under Mr R. Winterbourn M.A., commenced a discussion of race improvement. Various racial characteristics were studied and intellectual effects noted from the point of view of racial progress and decline. Professor Sinclaire gave a lecture on literature to another group of students. He outlined his course, and advised his listeners to take a definite course of c‘-:dy. and not read at haphazard. He recommended everyone to make a list of books to read, and to stick to that list. When discoursing on spoken English he said that he feared a deterioration of speech had set in. and asked what was to be done to check it. Gramophone records of noted speakers were put on. and students expressed their opinions of the tone and voice production of these men. Mr P. Campbell. M.A.. gave the first lecture on “Nationalism, ’’ taking as hLs subject "Economic Nationalism." Free - /ade was popular in the 19th century; but did not produce the results expected. Slums, unemployment and disorganisation of such necessary things as agriculture gave food for serious thought. The financial dominance of the United States, the trouble in the East, the Russian problem loomed large. The departure from the gold standard, exchange policies, the flow of gold from Europe to America, the fall in prices in the last eight years aggravated matters and prevented a feeling of safety. The 1927 Conference attempted to remove tariff barriers, but protection barriers increased as time went on. By 1932 Britain had repudiated Free Trade and become Protectionist. International policy seems to be the way out. because of the failure of other schemes.