WOMEN CANDIDATES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20242, 30 April 1929, Page 14

WOMEN CANDIDATES.

Sir, In every progressive country nowadays Canada, America, Germany Finland—as well as in tho LeagueV of Nations' personnel at Geneva, women are busy m the councils of the nations, because wise men recognise tho value to the community of their special gifts inherent in their womanhood, quite apart from any special abilities they may possess. Women possess vision, foresight, developed by long generations of foreseeing tho needs of the family, and meeting them as economically "as possible. Secondly, intuition, which is really a keen imagination touched with emotion, so that when a woman sees loaves of bread being delivered by filthy hands, or uncovered dust carts distributing filth all along the windy roads, she can picture the germs of dysentery, typhoid, tuberculosis, etc., thereby being delivered into tho homes, and the emotion of anger that touches her at such cruel waste of life is the force that stirs her to fight for clean food, pure milk, a city cleTm, not only physically but morally, fit for her children to grow up in! Lastly, women have no selfish axes to grind, having fewer business entanglements, and also less inclination to compromise with evils than men. A home without a mother is very apt to suffer, and a city is merely an aggregate of homes, in the government of which the point of view and gifts of women, representing, as tliev do, two-thirds of tho community, are invaluable, and elsewhere tho truly progressive men Vealiso this fact. Tho platform of theso so-called "progressive" candidates does not face such problems as tho proper supervision of public dance halls, tho safety of tho streets, so dopendent upon the drinking habits of the citizens and on the too Humorous open bars which tempt them everywhere; the delivery of clean food and mills; '.lie salvaging of largo areas where our poorer children can play team games elsewhere than in the streets, and many ' other matters in which women are vitally interested. Truly a people gets jiist the government that it deserves, and nowadays any country, any city, lags behind if women have not. their full share in the. counsels and administration of civic and national afiairs. Mildred E. Stalei.