They're Not As Silly

As We Are

Melbourne phychiatrist Dr.

Uex Sinclair, who recently n,ade a study of the mental wealth of New Guinea natives, old a conference in January: “In the natives’ own culture, his hief stresses are fear of at ack, subsistence fears, and the zar of supernatural forces. Dis utes between individuals are xainly in relation to property— ither of land, chattels, or )omen. . .

“We do not know whether hese people are happy or not, 0 more than we know whether ’s are, ourselves.

“One thing we do know is that ■ is almost impossible to find, 1 relatively untouched native ulture, any evidence of the eurotic pattern oj betiamour ana 'linking which is the predom xant ill of our own so-called n lightened social structure.”