"WHAT A WORLD"

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 54, Issue 20, 3 November 1933, Page 5

"WHAT A WORLD"

SHAW'S BREEZY VIEW.

DECLINES TO ATTEND MEETING.

THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN. (United Press Association— Copyright). (Received This Day, 12.55 p.m.) LONDON, November 2. Typical breezy correspondence has been published, and,' Mr George Bernard Shaw refuses to attend a meeting at Westminster to deal with the question, "Should married women earn?" Shaw's letter to Mrs Pethick Lawrence, wife of the ex-Labour M.P., says: , "Nothing would induce me to speak at a meeting to demand rights for women. I have lost no opportunity ot giving the cause a lift in my writings but personal vanity will not allow me to bo led in triumph by eloquent militant women and exhibited peeping behind their skirts to speak out a little piece in favour of this or that concession, and be patted on the head as a good little knight errant and sent home to bed. A pretty picture I would cut at 77 demanding rights for married women. Be'sides, the significance of the meeting would be entirely spoiled by the crowd that follows me everywhere, not caring two straws whether I am advocating purdah or promisCU MrShaw goes on to argue that much more important that adult' suffrage was.his earlier .advocacy, that there should be a of women, in every governing■;-body•;■•-•■ ; and com■pariy niakeyou think■.< occasionally that I right?" ; asks Mr Shaw, "We : h ave:ho|;:the spectacle of .women s votes keeping women out of Parhament and the negro republic ofJJ. reviving the . slave trade.. What a world."