PERSONALITIES AND POWERS

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 49, 26 August 1922, Page 16

PERSONALITIES AND POWERS

Under the above i heading, the women journalists' paper, "Time and Tide," gives account of present > day women who/ have accomplished great things through their own exertions. A sketch of E. Cora Hind, a Canadian womanjournalist, is of much interest as showing what a person can do who seizes upon the "flood-tide thai leads to fortune." In the very early days of shorthand and typewriting, Cora 'Hind, then a very young girl, decided that in that direction .was her chance. She qualified, worked for a legal firm for some yean, and then opened a reporting bureau, making a special feature of the reporting of conventions of farmers and live-stockmen. She became secretary of the Dairy Association of Manitoba, and her facts and figures bepame of importance in the agricultural world. Miss Hind then became agricultural and commercial editor of the Manitoba "Free Press," and made it into a "big job." It .appears that for the last 20 years, Miss Hind has travelled regularly over an area of 900 miles by 600, taking samples of grain at close intervals, noting the quality of the crops, and receiving, at the earlier, stages of the crops' growth, reports of several hundreds of corespondent*. From this date Miss Hind produced estimates which were found to be amazingly accurate, and are always accepted by the Canadian Government. Miss Hind was interviewed during a visit to England and described the scenery as worthy to be called "an Earthly Paradise." "So 1 far, so good," says "'Time and Tide," "but,when the question of the surplus women was ventured upon, Miss Hind blazed up. She did not like that term at all. 'Over here you' don't give women a fair showj' she said. 'You work on the assumption of woman's inferiority; in Canada we would net stand for that. I have watched the faces of the girls who come out of the London termini, in their thousands every morning; • btit I saw few smiles, they looked almost sullen. Then there's another thing; you don't devote enough space in your^ newspapers to women's serious interests/ Have you any women leader writers in your big dailies? Not one; but we have had them in Canada for many years. I have asked why, and the reply has been a shrug of the shoulders; that is not right.' The writer reminded Miss / Hind that some of the most brilliant journalists in England are women; that there are journals conducted solely by women; , she remained unconvinced. 'Your women police have no power of arrest, and you contemplate their abolition1; we iii Canada,' are just, beginning to realise the value of their services. Then, again, you do lots for your ex-service .men, What are you doing for your ex-service women ' Miss Hind's vehement, championship of' her sejc was a thing to admire, and her last Parthian shot was as follows :'. 'Before I came over here, -1 could not understand the militant suffrage movement. Now I do.' Miss Hind has had a wonderfully successful career, carved out by herself, and it is natural that she would advocate equal opportunities for other women on the same lilies."