MRS JOSEPHINE BUTLER’S CENTENARY

Evening Star, Issue 19918, 14 July 1928, Page 2

MRS JOSEPHINE BUTLER’S CENTENARY

A centenary celebration of tho birth of Mrs Josephine Butler, tho famous social reformer, will bo held in the Y.W.C.A. hall on Monday evening, under tho auspices of tho National Council of Women. Mrs Aslin, tho president of the council, will occupy the chair, and the lecture on Mrs Butler’s life and work will be delivered by Mrs H. H. Driver, Few women are more worthy of remembrance than Mrs Butler. She fought a valiant and victorious fight against legalised iniquity. She endured much hostile criticism and social atrocism in her attitude of uncompromising hostility to the C.D. Acts, but lived to see tho principles she held approved. Her example inspired other social workers with courage, and her enthusiasm proved infectious. By her eloquence she swayed great audiences, and by the nobility and purity of her character she won the esteem even of those who disapproved of her aims and methods. Dame Millicont Fawcett recently wrote: “ The more I dwell upon the details of her life and work the more I am convinced that she should take the rank of the most distinguished woman of the nineteenth century.” At a recent memorial gathering in London Miss Bondfield, M.P., paid a similarly high tribute to Mrs Butler’s influence. To review so noble and so effective a life should give new inspiration to all social workers in our city, and to all women who desire tho highest moral welfare of our land.