A WOMAN’S PROTEST

Timaru Herald, Volume CXL, Issue 20260, 8 November 1935, Page 13

A WOMAN’S PROTEST

To the Editor of " The Timaru Herald ” Sir, —I would like to refer to an incident at the close of an address given by the Rev. Clyde Carr in the Scottish Hall last evening. Because one woman had the courage to vote against a motion of confidence in the candidate, Mr Carr not only remarked on the fact, but took the opportunity of making rather a questionable jest about it. Those who joined in the laughter were equally as much to blame as the candidate himself. Now, sir, although such ungentlemanly behaviour might be overlooked, if indulged in by persons of a certain class, one does not expect that sort of thing from a member of the “cloth.” Most women consider a minister of religion a person one can respect most highly, and go to for sympathetic advice, and certainly not a person who would make jokes about being a "ladies’ man”. In effect, the Rev. Clyde Carr said that a philanderer, a gigolo, a betrayer of women’s affections, would be the only type of candidate to appeal to the women of Timaru as a whole. Such is the definition of a “ladies' man” in the accepted sense of the words. However, the women of Timaru will not be likely to forget this insult to one o their own sex on this occasion, and I might add that there are more women than men in Timaru. Nor are they likely to forget that the Rev. Clyde Carr not only voted in support of a Bill which was the means of giving

extended gambling facilities on the racecourses, but he made a very vigorous speech in support of it—an attitude not in accordance with the views of ministers of religion. In conclusion, Mr Editor, I would like to say that the notorious song which the Rev. Clyde Carr sang marchirg through the streets, was hardly the “Hallelujah Chorus” we would have expected him to sing, but “a straw shows which way the wind blows.”—l am, etc., ANOTHER WOMAN. Timaru, November 5.