WOMEN'S DAY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1844, 19 June 1920, Page 9

WOMEN'S DAY.

WILL INVADE THE LEGISLATURES. LADY ASTOR INTERVIEWED. LONDON, June 3. Lady Astor, M.P., r is to Geneva to .attend the World Suffrage Congress in the capacity of the British Government delegate among the.soo representatives of 50 nations. She is going to snpa.k especially on the need for lady members. In an interview with the London repicwntativo of the Sydney Sun she warned aspirants to public, life that such a. careci was hopeless unless people _ were actuated bv devotion to public service. She admits that pioneers are handicapped by the tear of creating awkward precedents and they are. also bound to make things harder. lor the remainder in proportion as they do not, Compromise, with their opinions or console is convinced, nevertheless, that the right women are forthcoming everywhere, are prepared to invade the. legislatures at an early .date. . . “There are iofe of excellent mon inside the House,” she said, “and lots of excellent women outside. I want them to meet and co-operate to make the world a better ‘Lady Astor admits (he unselfish services of men in favour of women, but, it. is impossible for men to do women s work, because their training preoccupies them wit.li material statistics’ instead of the working out. of social problems. ’ , . , Replying to the objection that the congross would furnish the maximum of discussion for the minimum of results, Lady Astor said, “If its atmosphere is merely a vague internationalism 1 don I wondei. We want to pool national characteristics in a common fund for the benefit and to abolish pious sentiments of the brotherhood order unless they can be translated into life and action. ONE MORAL STANDARD. “There is no reason why the mow blessed lands should not, improve otl.e s, and equally there is no reason why an ntornatioiial congress oi women should not Astor waxed eloquent on the fearful congestion of Parliamentary business and the 6 isolation of Ministers from ordinary humanity. . . She looks to women to go far low. ds settling the vexed question of the,doubt, standard of morality. “he lies in home education, she said, and vie mothers must demand from our hoys the same morals as we expect from K 111 V She emphasised her favourite panacea loi the liquor traffic Slate acquisition and control phis local opi mo-and recapim . ed her familiar arguments of domislic min.i U TI, C value of war-time restrictions proved how to lessen driinkeuur-s and the i« - iint overlaying and malmurilmn ol cmhlicn, contended Lady Ast-os-, and added that experience shewed that the children argument was the quickest way to; effect reform. . r r 11 I she advocated the S'cuang of full .ami proper nourishment for the next generation, c-l c -ialK- of sugar, instead ol sqnandeiing ii on Saucy e itahlcs andtrade Iqxnries. K;ii..r.y.'s!i; - was convinced that the oinv dividing influences hi twcin England and I • 'ijnerica were greed and suspicion. ,u “ ‘ . removed by » c!o e ,1 onleiyncc Ir twm ■, lead' rs. Ih> Eng i h-.-p-, along c .iiiunes , would he as.one as mu: has .evi r.