“WHAT A WORLD”

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18236, 3 November 1933, Page 11

“WHAT A WORLD”

G. B. SHAW AGAIN A REBUFF TO WOMEN (Received Nov. 3, 3 p.m.) LONDON, Nov. 2. A typical breezy correspondence is published in which Mr. Bernard Slmw refuses to attend a meeting at Westminster to deal wifli the question: “Should married women earn?” Shaw’s letter to Mrs. Pethick-Luw-renee says; “Nothing would induce me to speak at a meeting to demand the rights of women. I have lost no opportunity of giving the cause a lift in my writings, but my personal vanity would not allow me to be led in triumph by eloquent militant women, exhibited peeping behind their skirts, speak out a little piece in favor of this or that concession, and then he patted on the head as a good little knight errant and sent home to hed. A pretty picture I would cut at 77 demanding the rights of married women. Besides, the significance of the meeting would be entirely spoiled by the crowd that follows me everywhere, not caring two straws whether I am advocating purdah or promiscuity.” Mr. Shaw goes on to argue that much more important than adult suffrage was his earlier advocacy that there should be a proportion of women on every governing body.” “Don’t Mussolini, Hitler and company make you think occasionally that 1 was right,” he asks. “We now have the spectacle of women’s votes keeping women out of Parliament and the negro republic of Liberia reviving the slave trade. What- a world !”