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TRERSDAY, JUNE 20, 1935,
WOMEN STILL MUST FIGHT
By WINIFRED HOLTBY Novelist, League of Nations Lecturer and Company Director
Now that the fringe has sit in the House of Lords. Lower
The Very Idea!
A PARKING INCIDENT
The European car-driver's eye lit up with, anticipation.
He almost rubbed his eyes. A car park was actually vacant in Pedder Street at 2.15 p.m.
He stopped his car and com menced to back in.
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Almost two years have elapsed since the World Monetary and Economic Conference went up in smoke. Almost nothing was ac- silver complished. There WAN a agreement, but as a means of en- couraging, a rise in the price of silver by the revalation of govern
glorious climax admit women, Peeresses cannot ment sales of silver, it has been the American
apusserl, the magnificent occasion pay in the poorest ranks of un- silver polley. There Whя also
ZL vantage point from skilled labour, such as those super- But this, ton, becomea wheat agreement.
which we look not only back, but vised by trade boards, in unemploy- Moms to have been not very success.
Us Women ment insurance, and in sickness ful. Nothing reniains of that forward. Those of aomentous parley in the Geological whose memories have been stirred beneth forces many of the least insighed thankfully. Museum in Kensington but the by retrospective films, pause and dependent and most needy women
from wonder. We recall, and we have below the line of destitution. mentory of the bombshell President Roosevelt which killed it, seen plctured for us, women chain- This bombshell nanuanced Ameri- ing themselves to the railings of can unwillingness to stabilise the 10, Downing-street, women shout- dollar. Since the world would not in through the grille before the agree with the President on such Ladles Gallery in the House of publie Commons, that tragic Derby when prich-ralsing projecta ал works achomes, Mr. Roosevelt de- Emily Davison hurled herself at cided to keep the dollar free from the King's horse and died of her entanglements. But that was wo Injuries to advertise the women's
Unentangled, the Pre-cause.
years ago,
sident has put up the American In the film "Royal - Cavalende" the sequence ends with the fine photograph of Lady Astor's pre- sentation to the Speaker as Arst woman member of Parliament.
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price level,
the through and,
Mr. of the Treasury. Secretary Henry Morgenthan, recently nounced his willingness to consider another joint effort to uk all the
Op
It looked like victory. I was
But it is no use resting on our
world currencies. But the move back to a common currency work victory. Fis prevented by several mighty
obstacles.
War Debts. Congress has tied the Executive's į laurels and thinking that nothing!
remains In be achieved. hands from aerotiating new settles now ments that wonhi recognise changed Equal parliamentary franchise' is world conditions. If the situation one thing and a very great thing remates as it is, not only will the other countries and at other times men have fought and killed return of a world economic order be impeded, but the payment of any for the right to vote, knowing that money at all will be jeopardised. This meant far more than closing candidate or another in a mr- To postpone is to forget.
liamentary election.
WAR DEBT PROBLEM
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Poverty leads to inefficiency. Dismissal on marriage feada to re- luctance to embark upon long train- ing. The right to earn is not yet fully recognised. But fortunately
the women are not taking this meekly.
This year there have been muss meetings of teachers in London, Leeds, Liverpol, Manchester, and other cities dinding equal pay for, equal work. The same prin- once of industrial and professional ciple was upheld at a big confer women organised last March by the Open Door Council at Ashton- under-Lyne.
The Civil Service women 150 asking for it, and a deputation of women from all parties recently called upon Lord Sankey asking him to expulite reform of the legal anomalies which still exist between husband and wife.
A deputation of British feminists proposes to visit Geneva next Sept- ember to ask for a convention per- mitting all women to retain their own nationality after marriage if they so desire.
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The Chinese boner of the Austin
He had not anticipated-finding a vacant car park in Pedder Stroot after 2 p.m.
Hastily he swept out towards the Gloucester Building and then toned his steering wheel to bring
the ear neatly into the park.
As the two cars meet in the centre of the parking place, their owners exchanged baleful glances. One car tried to push the other out and the driver of the second viciously jammed on his brakes.
For three minutes they stared at each other.
.
Then, without a word, they dea cended, sinmmed their respective doors and went to their offices,
Five minutes Inter a policeman arrived.
After some searching he found the European owner.
The European retired defeated with his car. In search of another parking place in a more remote area.
But victory hasn't gone to China. The number of an Austin "baby" is in the policeman's book.
MEDDLE
But in this country' there are It is left to Southerner in battles which women still have to Senator Tydings to recugimend a fight before they can enjoy any- These are matters for deliberate other attack on the War Debis thing like equal economic opporsi and organised action, but they are Asked for a sentence to illus- problem. He has introduced inte|tunities, equal legal rights, and and by any means the hardest bat-trate the meaning of the word the Senate a resolution which is equal moral standard.
The real dimeulty lios in "medidle," a little city boy gave the. THE ANGLO-GERMANd of pendant to Mr. Morgen-
but following:-- Persuading not only men. women themselves, that they are "The soldier's bravery won for rational and responsible people. him a meddle."
AGREEMENT
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was
A man was visiting a very sick The past fifty years have revolu- } friend and asked whether he should tionised our moral values. The send him flowers or fruit. "No.. Divorce Laws are still shockingly thank you," said the invalid feebly."
"It is too late for Truit and too inadequate, but they are at least now based on equal grounds for early for flowers," men and women; the qualities of comradeships, spirited
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thur's recent pro-stabilisation À curious incident becarred last speech: for the Senator suggests March at Liverpool. The Housing another world conference which will | Committee interviewed a woman The naval agreement reached examine not only the possibility estate manager for the position of For hundreds of years society between Britain and Germany currency stabilisation but also all superintendent of lettings. She has been unconsciously influenced TOO LATE AND TOO EARLY,
was then employed by the county by the points of view epitomised in represents a definite concession the impliments in the path of such
stabilisation. War Deh unsettleborough of Rotherham; her quali- an old Russian proverb: "A hen
When speaking at the annual to the
German demand for ment is only one impediment.fications were so good that she is not a bird; a woman is not a luncheon of the Chelsea. Flower Cenator Tydings also mentions the was offered the post, subject, of human being," The notion was Show, Lord Aberconway told the modification of the terms of the s problem and the disabilities course, to the decision of the coun- that "the ladies" must be sheltered following story;--- Versailles Treaty. In view of that are throttling world trade ex feil; but three weeks later the re- from all knowledge of reality.
fact, as the commendation was rescinded, be! the fact that Germany had-on pansion.
Senator implies, that all these dif- cause she
woman, and many occasions expressed an in-fienities are part of one problem. might, during the course of her tention of securing a measure of That prolden is The "urselves Liverpool duties, have to supervise defence security equal to that of an attitude which has caught men.
almost every nation in its tail. other Powers, it is gratifying to
To-day the world is no longer A Mr. Henry Waline says, the feel that she has now consented Uited States is inextricably hound shorked, as it was when Floreneveandid to a fixed ratio of thirty-five per up in the world fabric. The effort Sightingale battered on the doors courage and self-reliance fostered at entanglement is not merely of the War Office, asking leave far to-day in women's eluention have cent, with the British Navy returlative of recovery
women to nurse sick and wounded always existed, but only during but in a
the past few years have they been This. it is. unnecessary
to positively disruptive firee. Time soldiers, if women seek work and emphasise, is materially below was when isolationists sai severs even work as colleagues with men: recognised as more desirable than her pre-war ratin, but it is also ence of currency and commercial but the idea that a woman might ignorance, elegant idleness, and
fies would uld peace. For nearly have to give a man an order offends steamish sensibility. much higher than the limits set three years we have witnessed the deeply rooted prejudices,
of this kind by the Versailles Treaty. More-growth of lover, under that Treaty Germany shfeteney, as it made
| peseoful worki? It may not be was prohibited from owning exactly propitions to call the World submarines, whereas under the Reongmie - Conference agreement now reached she bring. This can be done, inciden- DCPNSOdaims parity with Britain, al tally, as the conference was mix for a hospital matron to supervise ance or prejudice or fear. Our though undertaking not to ex-never too late to begin informal dressmaker to send her tallers and make the best of both worlds, to |ceed forty-five per cent. of feelers back in a world united in British unler-sea tonnage, unless quest for a higher living stand-van-boys scurrying at her com- accept protection and claim privi- of your cont lingers." exceptional eircumstances arise,
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SPEEDOMETER READINGS
In controlled areas, an accurate speedometer reading is essenti. The instrument may be perfectly correct in its recording, but the reading cannot always be relied upon.
MORE HOWLERS
Double entry is charging up the same thing twice,
Bookkeeping is forgetting to return borrowed volumes.
A 'foreign draft is a glass of cognne,
Single entry in charging a man with gonds, but not crediting the cush he pays for them,"
Sone the less, we have a long That they are only prejudices way to go, though the remedy for can be realised when we see how our troubles now ties in our own 1. don't know what a negotiable little objectionable it appears for | hands. The battle is no haper † note is; never could make one. a well-to-do woman to control her between men and women, but be- gardeners, chauffeur, and butler, } tween women and their own igner-
made orderlies, or for a great enemies to-day are our desires to
maut. One might have thought ¦ lege; to be sheltered and paid for that housing management was aand flattered without returning a peculiarly suitable, occupation for citizen's equal service. women; but prejudice takes little
But the fight is worth while be- cause freedom is a positive good. Only when men and women work together will the human adventure
Certain profesalons, the Stock Exchange, the Anglican Church, the Diplomatic Service, do not yet | really face success.
| friendly discussions between the¦ TO-DAY'S MOTORING HINT account of reason,
two Powers before the right to parity is exercised. There is point in the criticism by France that the Versailles stipulations have been modified without her consent, even though all the war- time Allies recognise the justice of Germany's claim to be freed'} from some of these restrictions. If the tyres are fully inflated a A point emphasised in connection different reading is obtained than when they are under-inflated. An- other common
of faulty readings is that a different make of tyre has been bought to that originally fitted. Although they may be labelled as the same size there is sure to be an appreciable difference.
cause
If larger tyres are Atted this should be remembered when taking the rending. If the existing tyres are 27-in, and new 29-in. ones are
fitted the speedometer will show a lower reading than it should; the difference is the ratio of 27 to 20. The reason for this is that
with the agreement is that the German ratio in comparison with Britain will not be affected by the building programmes of other nations. None the less, there are already indications that France, being dissatisfied with the agreement, may expand her Navy, in which event Britain might be expected to increase her strength, with the con- sequence that the German Navy would automatically expand in the larger tyres rotate more slowly order to maintain the agreed for the same given road speed.
From this....: percentage basis. standpoint, the agreement, so far tion, the negotiations are in from contributing to disarma-striking contrast to the prolong. ment, might conceivably haveed and generally fruitless deli- the effect of causing further berations of past Disarmament naval expansion. In spite of Conferences. It is surely some- these possibilities, however, it is thing to the good that at least satisfactory to realise that the two European nations, between danger of Anglo-German naval whom the keenest nuval rivalry rivalry has been eliminated by existed for so many years, have the understanding now reached. now been able to adjust their Also, the speed with which the programmes in relation to cach terms were settled is a point other. The example set, if more which reflects on the sincerity of generally followed, could lead to both .nations to Teach an developments" of widesprend amicable accord. In this connec- value and benefit.
"Grover belleves a writer should not attempt anything before ho is forty."
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ACCOMMODATING
Custonier—“What is the price
Shopkeeper "This one is four-
peace.
Customer-"Have you nothing cheaper 7"
Shopkeeper-"Yes, a nail."*
NOT MEANT
Seen on n placard outside Manchester cinema:—
"LONG LIVE THE KING!" Also Joseph Schmidt.
A BIT MIXED
This story WAS told nt the Women's National Liberal Federa tion at Blackpool.
Mrs. Burnett Smith (Annie S. Swan), the novelist, apoke of an elderly man who suddenly realised how many things there were in life he did not know.
"It is simply marvellous," said the man. "Only yesterday I learn- ed that Dan and Beersheba were pluces, not Bun and wife, like Sodom and Gomorrah."
SELF-MADE
A parent who wished her son to. enter a certain school wrote to the headmaster, saying:-"I shall be very glad If you will inter my son." To which the headmaster replied: "I shall be very glad to under- take the young man."
A snobbish parent wrote saying she hoped the headmaster was very particular about the class of boy allowed into the school.
He replied:-"Dear Madam, 80 long as your son's fees are prompt- ly paid, there will be no question as to his antecedents."
A proud father was belittling education to a headmaster.
"Look at me." he said. "I'm a self-made man.”
"Yes," agreed the headmaster, "and you have rid the Almighty of a very serious responsibility.
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