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Almost two years have elapsed Hince, the World Monetary and Economic Conference went up in Amoke. Almost nothing was

silver WAS n complished. There agreement, but as a means of en- couraging a rise in the price of silver by the regulation of govern- ment Bales of silver, it has been the American subordinated by

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WOMEN STILL MUST FIGHT

By WINIFRED HOLTBY Novelist, League of Nations Lecturer and Company Director

Poverty lends to inefficiency. Dlumissal on marriage leads to re- luctance to embark upon long train- ink. The right to earn is not yet fully recognised. But fortunately the women are not taking this meekly.

TOW that the glorious climax admit women. Peeresses cannot Now that the sous casi sit in the House of Lords. Lower silver policy. There was also a passed, the magnificent occasion pay in the poorest ranks of un- a vantage point from skilled labour, such as those super- wheat agreement. But this, too, becomes seems to have been not very success which we look not only back, but vised by trade boards, in unemploy

of na women ment insurance, and in sickness that forward. Those ful. Nothing remains of

omentous parley in the Geological whose memories have been stirred benefit forces many of the least in Museum in Kensington but the by retrospective filias, pause and dependent and most needy women memory of the bombshell from wonder. We recall, and we have below the line of destituilon. President Roosevelt which killed it, aven pictured for us, women chain- This bombshell announced Ameri-ing themselves to the railings of I can unwillingness to stabilise the 10, Downing-street, women shout- dollar. Since the world would noting through the grille before the agree with the President on such Ladies Gallery in the House of price-raising projects 118 public Commons, that tragle Derby when Emily Davison hurled herself at works schemes. Mr. Roosevelt de- rithed to keep the dollar free from the King's hurse and died of her entanglements. But that was two injuries to advertise the women's years ago. Unentangled, the Pre- sident has put up the American price level." and, through Secretary of the Treasury, Henry Morgenthau, recently nouared his willingness to consider Prices HK$50 to $180.urrencies.

another joint effort to link all the But the move back to a common currency world is prevented by several mighty

But it is no use resting on our obstacles. One, in War Debts. Congress has tied the Executive's laurels and thinking that nothing|

to be achieved. hands from negotiating now settle- now, remains ments that would recognise changed | Equal" parliamentary franchise in world conditions. If the situation one thing--and a very great thing. remuns as it is, not only will then other countries and at other return of a world economic order times men have fought and killed for the right to vote, knowing that be impeded, but the payment of any money at all will be jeopardised, this meant far more than choosing one candidate or another in a par- To postpone is to forget.

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THE ANGLO-GERMAN AGREEMENT

WAR DEBT PROBLEM

that's recent

the Mr.

ILI-

This year there have been mass meetings of teachers in London, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, and for equal work. The same prin- iple was upheld at a big confer-

The Very Idea!

A PARKING. INCIDENT-

The European car-driver's eye lit up with anticipation. He almost rubbed his eyes. car park was actually vocant in Pedder Street at 2.15 p.m.

A

He stopped his car and com- menced to back in.

The Chinese owner of the Austin sighed thankfully.

He had not anticipated finding o vacant car park in Pedder Stroot after 2 pm.

Hastily he swept out towards the Gloucester Building and then turned his steering wheel to bring the ear neatly into the park.

in the Alm "Royal Cavalende" the aequence ends with the fine other eltics demanding equal payOne car tried to push the other out

photograph of Lady Astor's pre-

sentation to the Speaker an first woman member of Parliament.

It looked like victory. It was victory.

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ence of industrial and professional women organised Inst March by the Open Door Council at Ashton- under-Lyne.

women aru

The Civil Service asking for it, and a deputation of women from all parties recently enlled upon Lord Sankey asking him to expedite reform of the legal anomalies which still exist between husband and wife,

As the two cars meet in the centre of the parking place, their owners exchanged baleful glances.. and the driver of the second viciously jammed on his brakes.

For three minutes they stared at each other.

Then, without a word, they des cended, slammed their respectivo · doors and went to their offices.

Five minutes later a policeman arrived.

After some searching he found the European owner,

The European retired defented with his car, in search of another parking place in a more remoto

But victory hasn't gone to China. The number of an Austin "baby" is in the policeman's book,

A deputation of British feminists | area. 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.

These are inatters for deliberate

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But in this country there are It is left to a Southerner in battles which women still have to Senator Tydings to recommend an-

Bght before they can enjoy any- other attack on the War

Debts thing like equal economic oppor- and organised action, but they are Asked for a sentence to illus problem. He has introduced into tunities, equal legal rights, and un

not by any means the hardest bat- trate the meaning of the word the Senate a resolution which is equal moral standard.

tles. The real difficulty lies in "meddle," a little city boy gave the kind of pendant to Mr. Morgen-

men, but following:-- pro-stabilisation

A curious incident occurred inst Persuading not only

women themselves, that they are "The soldier's bravery won for· speech; for the Senator suggests March at Liverpool. The Housing rational and responsible people. him a meddle." The naval agreement reached another world conference which will Committee interviewed a woman

For hundreds of years society examine not only the possibility estate manager for the position of between Britain and Germany of currency stabilisation but also all superintendent of lettings. She has been unconsciously influenced TOO LATE AND TOO EARLY, the imperiments in the path of such was then employed by the county by the points of view epitomised in represents a definite concession stabilisation. War Debt unsettleborough of Rotherham; her qualian oid Russian proverb: "A hen When speaking at the annual to the German demand for ment is only one inpediment.fentions were so good that she is not a bird; a woman is not a luncheon of the Chelsea Flower Senator. Tydings als mentions the was offered the post, subject, of human being." The notion was Show, Lord Aberconway told the | modification of the terms of therms problem and the disabilities course, to the decision of the coun- that "the indies" must be sheltered following story:--

Versailles Treaty. In view of that are throttling world trade ex- | cil; but three weeks later the re- from all knowledge of reality.

A man was visiting a very sick is n pansion. It

furt, as the commendation was rescinded, be- the fact that Germany had on Senator implies, that all these dif- cause she was,

The past fifty years have revoliu. friend and asked whether he should woman, und

send him flowers or fruit. "No, many occasions expressed an in-neulties are part of one problem.might, during the course of her tionised our moral values, thank you," sail the invalid feebly.

the "urselves Liverpool duties, have to supervise inadequate, but they are at least Divorce Laws are still shockingly tention of securing a measure of That problem 4s

"It is too late for fruit and too has caught men. defence security equal to that of done attitude which

now based on equal grounds for early for flowers." other Powers, it is gratifying to As Mr. Henry Wallace save, the almost every iation in its toll.

To-day the world is no longer men and women; the unlilies of comradeships, spirited feel that she has now consentedUnited States is inextricably bound shocked, as it was when Florence candid

Nightingale battered on the doors courage and self-reliance fostered to a fixed ratio of thirty-five per up in the world fabric. cent. with the British Navy. disentanglement is not merely of the War Office, asking leave furto-day in women's education have women to nurse sick and wounded always existed, but only during retardative nf recovery but is a is This, it

soldiers, if women seek work and the past few years have they been unnecessary to positively disruptive force. Time

even work as colleagues with men; recognised as more desirable than emphasise, is materially below was when isolationists said sever her pre-war ratio, but it is also nee of currency and commercial but the idea that a woman might ignorance, elegant idleness, and

have to give a man an order offends | squeamish sensibility. would For nearly

by the Versailles Treaty. More-growth of this kind of self-

it made over, under that Treaty Germany sufficiency. Has was prohibited from owning exactly propitious to call the World peaceful world? It may not be submarines, whereas under the Economic Conference, back into agreement now reached she boing. This can be done, inciden- SSTEESSSCRSSSSSSSSSB claims parity with Britain, al-tally, as the conference was merely

though undertaking not to ex-ever too

postponed, not wound up. But it is late to begin informal ceed forty-five per cent. of feelers back to a world united in British under-sea tonnage, unless quest for a higher living stand-Yan-boys scurrying at her com- accept protection and claim privi- of your coat hangers."

mand. One might have thought | lege; to be sheltered and paid for exceptional circumstances arise, and for all.

that housing management was a and flattered without returning A pence. peculiarly suitable occupation for citizen's equal service, women; but prejudice takes little account of reason,

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In controlled areas, an accurate speedometer reading is essential. The instrument may be perfectly correct in its recording, but the rending cannot always be relled upon.

An-

friendly discussions between the TO-DAY'S MOTORING HINT 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 Ailies 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 with the agreement is that the when they are under-inflated.

other common cause of faulty German ratio in comparison with Į readings is that a different make Britain will not be affected by of tyre has been bought to that the building programmes of originally fitted. Although they may be labelled as the same size other nations. None the less, there is sure to be an appreciable, there are already indications difference. 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.

If larger tyres are fitted this should be remembered when taking the reading. If the existing tyres are 27-in. and new 20-in, ones are fitted the speedometer will show lower reading than it should; the difference is the ratio of 27 to 29. The reason for this is that

standpoint, the agreement, so far tion, the negotiations are in from contributing to disarma-striking contrast to the prolong- ment, might conceivably have cd and generally fruitless dell- 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 naval 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 each terms were settled is a point other. The example set, if more SIX LINES.

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Double entry is charging up the same thing twice. return borrowed volumes.

Bookkeeping is forgetting to

A foreign draft is a glass of cognac.

Single, entry is charging a man None the less, we have a long with goods, but not crediting the That they are only prejudices way to go, though the remedy for cash he pays for them. can be realised when we see how 'our troubles now lies in our own { I don't know what a negotiable- little objectionable it appears for hands. The battle is no longer note is; never could make one.

well-to-do woman to control her between men and women, but be gardeners, chauffeur, and batler, tween women and their own igner- for a hospital matron to superviseance or prejudice or fear.

Our male orderlies, or for a great enemies to-day are our desires to dressmaker to send her tailors and make the best of both worlds, to

Certain professions, the Stock Exchange, the Anglican Church, the Diplomatic Service, do not yet

But the fight is worth while be- cause freedom is a positive good. Only when men and women work together will the human adventure really face success.

"Grover believes a writer should not attempt anything before he is forty,"

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A BIT MIXED

This story was told at the Women's National Liberal Federa- tion at Blackpool.

Mrs. Burnett Smith (Annie S. Swan), the novelist, spoke of an elderly man who suddenly realised how many things there were in If he did not know.

"It is simply marvellous," said the man. "Only yesterday I learn- ed that Dan and Beersheba wero places, not man 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:"Doar Madam, so long as your son's foos aro prompt.. ly paid, there will be no question as to his antecedents."

A proud father was belittling education to a headmaster..

“Look at mo,”, he said. “I'm a: self-mado man."

"Yes,"

agreed the headmaster, "and you have rid the Almighty of a very serious responsibility.