WORLD'S NEED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 228, 27 September 1938, Page 15

WORLD'S NEED.

WOMEN'S INFLUENCE.

APATHETIC ATTITUDE.

A good attendance of members and their guests listened with marked interest to a vigorous address given by Mr. B. Beekerleg, who took as his subject, "Woman's place and her opportunities in world affairs." Mrs. A. Cladding (vice-president) presided. Women, said Mr. Beekerleg, had failed to take their-peeper place in the disturbed affairs of the world to-day. The refining influence of women was universally acknowledged, yet women remained apathetic toward the brutality which men were on the very verge of perpetrating. The world's need, said the speaker, was woman's opportunity to use that influence. Every man still retained his inborn chivalry to women, yet women were losing their effectiveness through their own apathy toward things refining. Now was women's opportunity to work to raise the standard of culture and intelligence. To build, and not to destroy. She had the ability and the courage, but these qualities were discounted by her failure to use her own power. Men were willing to work with women, and in some instances even preferred them, said Mr. Beekerleg. Mrs. Gladding thanked the speaker for his splendid address. Hostesses for the afternoon were Mesdajnes Howden and Hurley.