MEN WORTH TWICE AS MUCH AS WOMEN
TORONTO, Sept. IS. Stalisticn and service clubs were championed by speakers at the directors’ luncheon at the Canadian National Exhibition 011 Wednesday. Mr. E. 11. Coats, chief of the Dominhju bureau of statistics, and Mr. John Nelson, of Montreal, third vice-president of Rotary .International, were the speakers on retail merchants and service clubs’ day. Census-taking, Mr. Coats said, was the largest, peace-time operation undertaken by tlie. Government, and utilised more men than the army of Wolfe in his attack upon Quebec. It cost more than £500,000 this year, he said. Women are only worth half as much as men, in economic value, Ho told the meeting. “Every male, at birth, is worth £ISOO to his country, and the statistician estimates that females are worth only half that ot males.”
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17609, 27 October 1931, Page 12
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