WHAT WORLD NEEDS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 118, 21 May 1932, Page 10

WHAT WORLD NEEDS

ATTENTION OF WOMEN. PROFESSOR’S VIEWS EXPRESSED. LONDON, May 10. “What the nations of the world need most is a woman’s attention, and particularly the attention of a severe mother,” said Professor Gilbert Murray, formerly of Australia, at the Albert Hall, to-day. Their housekeeping was shocking, ho added, and their food terrible. Professor Murray, the organist, and the broadcasting official were the only men among the 2800 women present, representing 250,000 of their sex at a conference of the National Federation of Women’s Institutes. The professor said the huge attendance of women strikingly testified to lecent social changes. Women’s institutes possessed an unrealised power to secure the well-being of the nations. Speakers advocated the promotion of British industries and food production by means of homo patronage, demanded the enlightment of the public in order to compel the production of ;-ood films, and urged the continuance of agriculture by peasant farmers. The activities of the institutes, which were inaugurated in 1915, and now number 4887, include the provision of social centres for the discussion of national and local problems, I raining in rural arts and crafts, the production, preservation nnd preparation of food, the co-operntive marketing of members’ products and the arranging of converts, folksongs and dramatic performances.