NOTES FOR WOMEN

Maoriland Worker, Volume 12, Issue 301, 6 December 1922, Page 12

NOTES FOR WOMEN

[ »: Conducted fey VMLIMA ; i '" ■' _...,- , . ■ For Womeii'm fte Cily \ By the thiie: :: '-tliis reaper is ii\ tli© Ifeaads of most people the Great Issuo tyill have been, decided. It is rather a wonderful tblftg.-io ;tb.ink that by a mere "Scrape,© , the pen," we have the power to change the destiny of a whole people! For it REALLY DOES MEAN Just ' that, you know. ' J If the women, of Great Britain, wir'atheir limited vote, could do So muehj for the Cause, we in New Zealand: with so much mom power, should usp j Uto the very last ounce! . j Remember the determination of the: women at the election in. Wales— when some of them 'were, so shabby ihat they could not be seen in tlieir j rags on the public streets— ; their more, fortunate, sisters lent own gar : |. ments—so that not a vote should be'; lost! Labour wants not "Juwt a-v^eto-ry."—• j but an OVERAYHELMIX.G VICTORY? \ ■X- ' * -:<- :«• ~ j Our candidates and their, band of| helpers have woi'ked like Trojans—! going out in all-weathers to.sp&ak in; the streets. They have given tfie i people the 4 best they had to give—j counting n o trouble' too great, so, that; 'they might give Truth, and accjjjate; information t 0 tlieir hearers. They have done their part—the \ final act is burs— the "People's Act": —to express the "People's Will." WE] *CAN, AND WE WILL, FT ATE '-A GREAT VICTORY, if when" v:& go to the polling booths on, December 7 we : Vote OUT the OLD-vote IN'the NEWi Voio OUT the FALSE—vote IN ins: ■ TRUE! I Aha don't forget—that the way* to d& ; ii. this ' time ..is,,- CROSS OUT THE; :\IEN YOU DO NOT WANT. BY RUX-' NING THE PENCIL THROUGH; •THEIR NAMES. j "',' have been asked by a reader o? T)!o 'WorivC-v why. as a/ ••■riter for women, I have never men-, toned such an important matter,.as. the Prohibition- issue? Because I think that Hiia is a question to be dec-ded" individually—it is. nurel) r a personal matter. But. 'there just one i>oint # I fiave heard it- • repeatedly asserted that "Drinls is the cause of all the" Poverty." , j I most certainly take exception to that statement. Some men may fall; and drag thfcir wives and families | v/'ith th ciii. But I thinly, if. we- really i care to GO TO THE ROOT OF THE, MATTER, we shall find that in n'ne' cases out of ten, "Poverty is the cause of Drink!" . j There is often more than appears on the surface in the sayiog "Drink. ;o drown your sorrowo.' , * -» •$ -S America's Great Consdentlons ob|edi9r When'the question oj America's entry into the war way being discussed in congress, Senator La. -Fol-| Jelte'a voice was the only one raised j in dissent (with the exception, of! course of the 'woman member, Jeanctta Rafckiu-). Hβ made a passionate protest against 'Americfa's ■sntrj* into ths European war. He said, "I cannot leave my children land and rtrlies. | I cannot leave them fame. But I can j leave tliem the name of ;zn ancestor, •who, mattering not the consequences to himself, never hesitated to do his ! duty, as God gave h'fn to «oo it ... j Whatever be the future, whatever be i the rewards of penalties of-this na-; tons ■ step. I shall always . believfe th,«t we could, and ought, to have Jcept out of this war .... Profound**}' | impressed with the gravity of the situaLion and appreciation to the fullest, of the penalties which war will impose, I my conscience and judgment, -after 1 mature thought and. fervent prayer for rightful gu'-dajiee, liavo pointed out cje,aiiy, Uie path of ray duty. | I have made xtp my mind to walk, in j it, if I go barefooted and Alone. I Bliall vo'l'--s against tbis l-esolutiaii." \ * * .. * . * ' Of course, La Irtotlettfe vvaa- practically "sent to -Coventry" by Mα coua- ; trymen—callxtl a "Pro •Gfermian," ;*;; "Disloyalist," etc. Now tbe pen'dulttiu. Jnas awurig the other way—Robert..lj*-; Foilei-te has been re-oiected.. toy * MugQ ' H3Eai(^jfcj'--A>f Xi ' Tisß. BUJSf IN AMEftltfA T6-DAIH IST :SA.Yir^-'-' e NBVER Wlfct-: INTO Qtf JHE&'jl, IIELSZ" . f