TUG-OF-WAR

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 37, 8 November 1920, Page 1

TUG-OF-WAR

The tug-of-war tournament at the Town Hall concluded on Saturday evening, when Herlihy's teajn beat the'Watersiders. The final results are: Brice's (Petone) team first prize M), and Herlihy's team second prize, .£lO.

Women of the Nations. Christiania has witnessed a sight during the past fortnight -which in all its long and historic life it has never b«fore Been, states a Christiania correspondent of the ."Daily News." Day after day, from September 8 to 18,. women of all nations were seen makinjf their way. to the Storthing—the Norwegian House of Parliament. Moreover, the manner of - the entry of these women from nil parts of the world into the .nobly-built House of Representatives was invested with a peculiar dignity. The Norwegian Government, impressed with the importance of the occasion, had arranged for the delegates of the International Council .of Women to enter by the main front door, which is only used when the King opens Parliament in person. Thus ;and in I many other ways did Norway do honour to the sixth quinquennial meeting of the International Council of Women. Lady Aberdeen's presidential address ' was ver.v -fine. v Not on account of its oratory—it was very simply delivered— but because it contained alllthe essential elements of a speech that tells—thought, strength, human feeling and intuition. • In the course of her address cam© these words: "And now the world waits- to see what use woman is to make of her enfranchisement and of her now-found powers . . . The hour is come when to us is com. imtted the future of the world's history. Let us make no mistake about it. Are we to allow tradition and custom, and the old octopii of private greed and selfish nationalism to enchain us with their manacles under the specious argument that human nature is human nature, that in tho end, after all, -might does prevail, that in all phases of our commercial, industrial, and nntirinal life tho fittest must survive. ... If so, our opportunity wiU-'hnve gone." f Thus did the president, strike the note to the council, and the motif was heard again and again in the discussions.