WAR, WASTE, WOMEN

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 63, 7 December 1937, Page 7

WAR, WASTE, WOMEN

Topics Discussed at British Conferences ConTerences sitting in Britain one day recently t&lkcd about these things: Women whose careers spoil their chances of marriage; the prevention. of war by intellectual evolution; the wastage Sf valuable material worth a fortune by housewives who throw empty tins and bottles away.

Mr. St. John Ervine, speaking at tne Modern Churchman's Conference at Cambridge, paid the church still had to tackle the problem of the -vjpman who earns £1000 or more a year and who wants the privileges of marriage without sacrificing her career for them. Her ability and rank removed hel from men who had not made their way in the world, and she was forced to the friendship of middle-aged men. Because of this many women who earned £1000 a year were unmarried. Were wc so rich we could afford to let intelligent and capable women go childless to the grave? asked Mr. St, John Ervine, At Nottingham the British Association' conference advanced the suggestion that the gradual change which was taking placa- in the outlook of mankind might eventoally lead to a state where -war would bo automatically abolished through. intejlectual evolution. Sir Edward Poulton, the eminent entomolggist, said men were kinder to animals to-day than they were ioO years ago. And there was reason that this growing feeling would eventually be refleeted in the attitude of men and nations to one another.

.Thingg that British housewives throw xn the dustbin — things worth a fortune — are the topic of debates at Brighton, where the Sanitary Inspectors' Association wag sitting. Mr. J. F- Eogers, of Chiiigford, Essex, says articles worth £1169 were thrown away in Chiogford lasfc year. Some way of stopping this wastage is being sought. Steel magnates are particularly perturbed at the way people throw away empty tins, it was said.