THE WOMAN'S VOICE

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 51, 28 August 1925, Page 7

THE WOMAN'S VOICE

POLITICS AND WELFARE MISS STANLEY SPEAKS PLAINLY. (UNITED PRESS .• SSOCUTION—COPXRIGHT.) ■ SYDNEY, 27th August. Miss Preston Stanley (Nat.), the first woman elected to the New South Wales Parliament, declared in her maiden speech that she was not in Parliament merely, to represent women. Women's questions were national questions, and- national questions were women's questions. Humanitarian principles should be the vital principles of every Government, providing that people were not rendered foolish by political pampering. In 1 referring to mental defectives, tion for mothers and children, ■• Miss Stanley announced her intention of moving for the appointment of a commission to inquire into the causes of death among women and children.. She., said that during the, past thirty years New South Wales had lost 10,000 mothers in child-bearing, and 15,000 children. ■„' In referring to mental defectives. Miss Stanley declared that a race of thoroughbred men and womcu should be bred, rather than horses, cattle, and dogs, and that while the control of tho pests which. blighted the potato and tomato was important, it was profoundly important to learn to control tho. pests that were blighting human life. • Replying to the interjections of a Minister against her attack on the '11----hour week proposal, she told him tllat any man with common-sense knew her statements wero true, and that tho figures ho had quoted in favour of his proposals were not obtained from an authentic source.