SCIENCE CONGRESS.

Waikato Times, Volume 112, Issue 18723, 25 August 1932, Page 3

SCIENCE CONGRESS.

BOLSHEVISM, ILLS AND ORCHIDS. MANY IDEAS VENTILATED. SYDNEY, Aug. 18. About 1000 members of the Solence Congress, grouped into 16 seotions, today, at the University, lectured or read papers on their particular subjects and in this manner contributed greatly to tho sum of human knowledge. The congress having been inaugurated lost night by Sir Hubert Murray, with a most informative address on the relation of scienoe to government, delegates to-day tackled such widely diversified subjects as Communism and orchids, tropic medicine and now States. Mr E. C. Dyason contrasted the ■systems of Communism in Russia and and Fascism in Italy, declaring that what now passes for tho former, is not Communism, but State capitalism, although tho ultimate aim is a communal State. Professor H. Adcook traced tho growth of the now despotism in democracy, showing how r governmental departments were coming more and moro to regulate life and the relations of individuals. Dr. R. W. Cllento, in an address on the part that medical research is playing in making tropio zones habitable fgr whites, dealt interestingly with the advent of coloured labour into the early development of North Queensland and the diseases that were brought In by the Indentured labourers. How farming might be made moro efficient by the introduction of mechanised processes was explained by Professor J. W. Paterson, who said that to make a success of ills Industry a farmer needed also to be something of a businessman. What happens to the body’s muscular system after snake-bite was described by Dr. C. H. Kcllaway; and Dr. F. Watson drew attention to the dangers inherent. In subdividing a Stale. Dr. A. I*. Elkin saw danger in the neglect by missionaries of the secret life and tribal customs of the Australian aboriginals, and said that "the usual mission policy of concentrating on 11 1 0 children and ignoring tho old men is doomed to ultimate failure." Sugar Prioe. Professor J. B. Brigdcn said that

in tho demand for cheaper sugar, the protected industries of the south had no stones to -throw at tiie sugar industry. Their advantage lay in the fact that the glass-houses 6f protection in which -they lived were less transparent 'to the public gaze. The delicate problem of dealing with New Guinea natives so recently won from cannibalism to 'Christianity, was touched on by Mr E. W. P. Uhlnnery, Government Anthropologist for the Mandated Territory, who said that new social and religious ideas often struok at the root of native culture.