A WOMAN POLITICIAN

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16772, 11 October 1928, Page 3

A WOMAN POLITICIAN

MEMBER OF GOVERNMENT

FIRST IN BRITISH EMPIRE VANCm/VFII. August o. ! .fit.: Itmi. Irene. Rat T". , " ' " ha . hU' !vi pa -L seven yea' :> been a mem >er "I lie- . i |lie: 1 a (fi ,\ eriuiu re . i ■ Ibe till, and (■..t' unman la buml- A! in>-1 •i • hi llm ! !• 'i' ll Emp'rc. i .Mis. I'avifiy, who I. a .Minidi'r withj “ifi poitfolio, ii;i. been '!• •:.( !' asaocija a i wit 1 1 I fie dm e|, i| ai e 'll Icl 1 1"' I’l'.i il'ie j a 'l'ie a* med I liey year.' ag". JI i i Ui,iiter of Colonel Marne! I, II • --. ol jti. • ■ iudiaii Aillty, slie/,ci:-, o: ;'>i ’ll I .oil | do.i 50 years ago, dm mg a_. holiday Ju-r j ; .:-v tils wen- spending ui luiglaml. “I 'axes away from borne mi lurlougli wlieu j I. las born,’’ slie remarked in a public Middress recently. As an infant site j»■ : 1 1 to l udia, and In in t-.i, |y eiiild- ' lined was cdiaulcd in England and on ! I.m Continent. When her father re--1 i! ed from I lie Army, .she st tidied musicand paintinc' abroad. An invitation lo stay wiili friends in Albert a brought'- Mm. I’nrlbv to Canada in 1896. 8!m mel and married Mr. Viallcr Par I by, a young ( ambfidge graduate ulio had a iiomeslead on Hie praiiie. Fittv miles from the railway, surrounded by foreigners, Mrs. I’arlby shared all the early trials of Hie farmer’s wife licit no llm (inning ol: Hie railroad. When Hie xvheatgrnwers began to see the advaiilageS of ivi-operai io'ti, and the I nifed Farmers of Alberta was formed, it- it'll to Mrs. I‘ai Iby lo organise the women's auxiliary of that movement, \\ lien the first women's club was formed. site wrote a letter to the London .Spectator, asking for gifts of reading matter. Supplies of ( iUerature came -b'l'in all parts of the Empire- •enough to turned! libraries for a- score oi clubs. TO PARLIAMENT AND CABINET. Mrs. I’arlby was first president <A the United Farm Women ol .Alberta. After four years’ hard work, she set. the organisation on its feet, and retired lo tlm comfort of her music and books and flowers. Her respite was sliori-lived, however, for u request- came for Mrs. Farlliy to accept nomination for Parliament. She accepted, and was elected with a- big majority, which was greatly increased at the next- election, four years later. She was taken into Hie Government at her first- election in 1922, ami her ladministration .lias given wideapt ead satisfaction. Mr. Henry Wise Wood, president-of the .Alberta. Wheat Pool, who is known a- (ho Tuierow ned king of Alberta.” pays a. high tribute to Airs. Parlby. “Fhe has been true,’ he says, “to all the highest ideals of the farmers’ movement. I think her understanding of these ideals has been mid Ls perfect.” The Premier and members of the Legisiaiui'c think she has been a constructive power for good in the Government of Alberta. She does not let. her emotions run away with her. Flic lias an uncompromising sense- of justice, and lias the quality of recognising potential attributes in others. It was Airs. Parlby who nominated Mrs. .Margaret Dunn its her successor in leading Hie farm women of Alberta. “She i.s an inspiration io the women of the l’rairie,” said tho latter. ■A CORNER OF MY GARDEN.” ‘‘Just as Hie women never hesitated to follow their husbands into Hie- ■wilderness.” said Mrs. Parlby recently, “so they have borne their part in the new organisation for their mutual benefit.”, ■Speaking of her beloved garden, she said: “Thrones might totter in Europe, gigantic upheavals, physical and human, might take place, but I was much more interested in bringing safely through I lie winter some, perennials sent from Home, to make a. corner of my garden ‘forever England.’ ”