THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 26, 1940.
VICHY SAYS:
French Women Have Become Too Flippant
A LETTER has just reached me here in London from a French family I knew well, writes a corres- pondent. It says: "The family is still completely scattered all over France. We don't know even now. which of us are killed, which are missing.
"Those of our menfolk who have come back can't get jobs. The small income I that's the grandmother of the family had now. amounts to nothing at all because of the rise in prices. No money, no work; that's our trouble. Heaven knows when things will change for the better."
Before the war this family was quite well off.
They had bought a house for their eldest son to settle down in¦ with his young wife. The house | was at Mentone and was destroy- ed by Italian bombs.
war,
to every French woman after
the wedding ceremony was space for the registration of 12 children with detailed instruc- tions about how to bring up a
family.
NEW "TIN"
HATS OF
RAGS
We will all be wearing hats alike soon-the most remarkable ever made in Britain, writes a corres- pondent. It all started because Mr. Ernest Bevin, the Minister of Labour and National Service, wants special protection against splinters and fall- ing debris for all workers engaged on war work.
The difficulty was that steel is
issue steel
try.
But defeat has crushed this wanted for other purposes. It was The husband, before the
campaign. Couples who had big had a big job in the French cloth families, relying on getting geheroun :mpossible to industry.
pus national allowances, now find helmets to everyone in the coun- Now the industry is nder German control. He is pen-frane has made it, difficult for them'perts to produce for him a special the value of the So Mr. Bevin instructed his ex-
hat. It had to be strong but light, it had to withstand the re-
niless.
It is in this sort of atmosphere that the Petain Government
are
that the fall in
sking the women of France to 80They have shown up well in this gulation rifle tests, but it was to
be of some material other than steel.
to pay their way.
French women are shrewd and many of them good organisers. back to the home, to forget about vage-earning, and to think more They are still in fighting moud. war, despite their nation's defeat. about having children.
They claim that they now havel, to
stil greater right to the vote and
In a pronouncement Issued the French Press the Government
say:
life.
"French women have, become too flippant in
their attitude to- wards marriage and home They must be made to realise that a woman's business is to have children-not to poke her nose into public affairs.
"The girls in our schools must be encouraged not to learn such things as Latin or mathematics: they must concentrate solely mothercraft, housework, learning how to cook good meals cheaply."
Women's Rights
On
to freedom than before,
And they ask.. perținently, how they will be able to keep these children that Vichy wants, where the money is coming from, and what sort of country they will find when they grow up.
280,000 TO 1 CHANCE
They produced two or three de- signs at a factory. They brought them down for Mr. Bevin to see, and the first thing Mr. Bevin did was to throw the hat on the floor and jump on it. And Mr. Bevin is our heaviest Minister.
Free To All
But the hat stood the test. "What's it made of?" asked Mr. Bevin. And they told him. "Rags."
It is true. The scientists have discovered a completely new com- position whose base is rags. The THE CURRENT ISSUE OFmaterial is half the weight of "THE LANCET" SAYS: "THE steel, and it will withstand rifle ANXIOUS MAN WHO IS IN-bullets only a fraction less suc- CLINED TO IMAGINE THAT cessfully than, steel. EVERY ΒΟΜΒ 15 MEANT Now the Government FOR HIM CAN REFLECT ONsidering a plan to issue these hats THE FOLLOWING SIMPLE free to all men and women en-
gaged on war work.
CALCULATION:
is con-
The pronouncement adds: "The organisation of athletics in which girls compete against each other must be stopped." : For years before this war start- ed French women were struggling "If the whole of Greater Lon- The final design has not been to get the same sort of rights that don is indiscriminately bombed approved yet, but most favoured English women have. They staged within a radius of 15 miles from is a round crown-like the pre- demonstrations all over France, on its centre, it is a chance of 280,- sent "tin-hats" with a pro- race courses, in the Rue de la 000 to one against any single bomb truding "poke" over the eyes, like Paix, in front of the private falling within 50 yards of him." a deerstalker's cap, houses of Deputies and. Senators,. protesting against the rules laid down in Napoleon's Code and still in force which say that a woman in France shall not be allowed her own banking account, shall not vote, shall be compelled to ask for her husband's written consent even for such things as obtaining a passport.
Falling Birth Rate
ac-
The Petain Government, cording to the latest speeches of their Ministers and the interviews they have given in the Press, want to bind women down under a new set of rules, if anything worse than the ones framed in Napoleon's time. Petain's men say. quite bluntly:
"Women must not presume to be capable of. taking on executive jobs or professional work, They must not be allowed to train os engineers and for work of that kind:
"They must get out of their heads, the idea that they are potentini wage carners.
The
-xv No, French weman: doubto-the
need for bigger familien. French birth-rate, which was very low before the war began, lo how plunging to even tower levels.
Since the last war there have been 20,000 divorces a year. in France, and the divorce rate is still increasing. Financial and housing conditions have mude France nation; of 'small families.-
1
Many a village in the French provinces where there were, say, 3,000 inhabitarits 40 years ago, now has fewer than 1,000 inhabitants. Two wars in a quarter of a cen- tury have taken toll of nearly *2,000,000 Frenchmen...
Family Bonuses
Just before war broke out i campaign was begun to Increase: the number of babies in France by making specful allowances for big familles, Mothers were given "bonuses" if they stayed at home and did not take any other job except looking after the home.”“
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