WOMEN IN CONFERENCE

Chronicle (Levin), 21 August 1946, Page 7

WOMEN IN CONFERENCE

OBSEHVATIONS ritOM SYDNEY SYDA'EY, August 15. Sonie thougli t-pro\okijjg oliservations! i:id iioxcl idcas luxve conic I'rom dele- j ..ates to Ihe Women 's Charler Coufer- j lice in Sydney. Miss I'.tsie Andrews, from A'ew Zea- ' anil, advaiiced tlie theory thal parents I •vhu tauglit cliildren to believo in ' "iuntii CJaus inipairod tlie cliildren 's ubtlity to think clearly. She said slie ■ uad tauglit youiig children for 50 years, aiul knew the best ansxver to a j ■'hild 'm question was tlie trulh. Tlie, .veakest point in cliild-training xvas j faiJure to aJlow childreli to exereise I their imnds. Children iisually aceepted ! parentul beliefs as actual faet. Barents ! sliuuld jireface answers to cliildren 's : quesl ions with "I believe", and avoid 'iibterfiige and evusious when answer- ! ng children 's questions. Tntelligence ' •vas the only xveupon witli wliicli tlie! 'uimaii race could fight atomic. bombs. Comnxiuxity Farming, ! Mrs. Ma rv B.van, a delegaie i'rom Bortland, a small toxvn aboxit 40 miles rom Sydney, tohi the eonference that' Aust ralia should begin coninuinitv Di vining. Villages of 12 famiiies should ' !"' established. slie said. Each village j -•'iiouhl be close to farms, lmt isolated ' farms, where mothers struggled with- i out amenities, imist be abolished. Cliij- j dren should have swimming pools and I oarks. ' ' Dou 't braxid me as a Com- ! munist for tliis- suggesfion, "-she said. Women and Hoixsing. Deeisions reaelied by tlie confei-enec inelxided the following: That country residonts be given special transport i Paeilities; bush nursing itiid ambulanee • systems be extended to all districts: ! mothers bc given tuition in babv and I child care: women be employed to help j plan, dovelop. and administer housing . schcmes; national. regional, and town nlanning autliorities to set up to deal witli housing and slum clearance, as nart of ,a national town -plan ning seheme; fares to outer snburbs be refbved fo nimourarre home building. and homos be built for low income groups, inoludiug large famiiies, old-age jxensioners and «inrrip oPnti-c.,