CALL TO ACTION.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 13, 16 January 1940, Page 9

CALL TO ACTION.

MUST HAVE PURPOSE. ADVICE TO WOMEN'S CLUBS. All women's club« and organisations which do not set women to work on constructive jobs in their communities are soporific. When first established, women's organisations filled a great need by educating women who had little chance for a college education, by training them to work together, and by rousing their interest in current events. Now with education, lectures, magazines and books available to everyone, too many cluta keep women in the first grade when they should bo in the high school of the world's work. Listening to lectures year in and year out is of little use, unless it stirs one up to do something. But the privileged woman is encouraged to listen to everything and do nothing. Women's clubs must have a new purpose. They must graduate from Study Clubs to Clubs of Action. How often women of ability are satisfied to use up their executive talents in club and charity work when they might bo making a much more useful contribution in- politics or business. —Alma Lutz in "Equal Rights."