WOMAN'S PART

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 71, 29 June 1942, Page 5

WOMAN'S PART

IMPORTANT FUTURE ROLE RECONSTRUCT!ON I DMAS "What of our womenkind?" asked Mr Brian Dunningham at the public meeting in Whakatane last week. "In the past they have been passed by and ignored 1 in a world dedicated mainly to suit the purposes of men. We believe (World Reconstruction movement) that as the Divine' Creator ordained a dual control in the home, that there should be the same quality of purpose in the policy and governing cf nations. Women are in many sense's equal if not superior to men in miany spheres of life. This should be recognised in making them equal in every respect to man in the things that really matter. Many of us in the commercial world have become mioney-mindied l —obsessed with the money motive and blinded to the true values of life. Surely the only thing we should bend our efforts towards should be the equality of distribution of the goods of this world so that we overcome poverty, mistrust, intolerance and international jealousies. By this method 1 we should be hastening the coming of a better, safer and happier world and to that end iit is necessary to bring womankind more into our affairs, knowing that, they willl bring with them that soul, and l that love of brotherhood that so few of us possess. Speaking of youth, he declared that it was the greatest asset of any nation. Unfortunately in most cases the energy and ideals of youth had been -wilfully diverted in order to gain a national end, formulated by embittered men of the world. Hitler diverted the educational system of Germany by teaching racial hatred. In the last war we ourselves sent bur overseas to get us out of a mess which we ourselves had got into. On their return they were faced Avith unemployment. Quoting from a well known insurance company's figures taken over an average civilised community, lie said that of a hundred young men 25 years old in 40 years 1 would he wealthy 4 would lie well-to-do 5 would be still Avorking 3G would be dead 54 Avould be dependent on friends and cimrity. "What a prospect to offer youth under the present system," he concluded.