NOT CARRYING GUN.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 194, 17 August 1936, Page 10

NOT CARRYING GUN.

WOMAN FROM CHICAGO. ARRIVAL BY AORANGI. "I come from Chicago and I don't ■carry a gun cither," 'was the greeting extended to a reporter who interviewed Mrs. E. Edmonds on the Aorangi this morning. Mrs. Edmonds lias been on a brief visit to Australia and after spending two weeks in the Dominion, will leave by the Makura from Wellington on her return to the United States. Mrs. Edmonds said she had lived in Chicago for 22 years, and in that time had seen only on-2 shooting. "Our reputation seems to be mostly for guns," she added smilingly, - "but the shooting is between the gangsters themselves. I think that is a good thing. Of course, there are lots of hold-ups, but they are no greater than those which occur in any big city." Mrs. Edmonds explained that she was making her tour purely for a change of scenery and a rest. In Chicago she was connected with, the women's auxiliary of the child welfare movement, which showed an interest in the health of the young people. Children suspected of having T. 8., for instance, were given attention, and under-nourished children were taken in hand and sent to open-air schools and were given rations of milk, apparently on similar lines to the Community Sunshine Association's scheme in New Zealand.