AMONG THE GIRLS.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 March 1920, Page 3

AMONG THE GIRLS.

f . LONDON, Feb. 9. s What to do with the surplus women is agitating many circles in Britain. The retransformation of industry has been , t carried out with the same silence and | b ease which marked the entry of great a armies of women into the work of war. j C They have disappeared from buses, b tramcars, banks, farms, many officers, and factories. Hundreds of thousands -4 of soldiers’ wives are slipping back in- n to their old household duties. T Emigration is urged in some quarters, e and other remedies Vary from the establishment of farm settlements to the taxation of bachelors. Sir Leo Chiozza Money, a noted economist, writes in the “Daily News,” de- e daring that the numerical inequality,of e the sexes is a grave problem, with un- ; eknown possibilities. He believes that e emigration would afford only small re- d lief ,because of the heavy losses in p young men suffered by the Dominions, 1 and in this connection he mentions Australia’s experiences. Sir Leo Chiozza Money urges reforms, the cheeking of emigration of men, the better education of women, special care i of male infants, and the heavy taxation of bachelors. The women’s educational movement is helping in Great Britain and colleges £ of domestic economy, health and phy- ft sical culture are widely extending. In addition to the Government’s great S scheme of unemployed women, the Na- e tional relief fund has donated £500,000 for the maintenance of scholarships at p teachers’ colleges. h It was reported last week that Lr Murray Leslie (senior physician at Hie I Prince of Wales General Hospital), in a a lecture at the London Institute of Hy. I giene said that the excess of females yif a reproductive ago in Great Bri- ]i tain was over 1,000,000. 1 The moral effects of the disproportion of the sexes could be seen in the s crumbling of the old ethical standards, h Much of the existing unhappiness was due to clandestine relations between C siingje girls and married men, and a the increased number of postponed marriages due to the high Cost of Living. 2 The social butterfly and the scantily b clod, frivolous jazzing flapper type was never so prevalent. They were 'or 2 ever competing with each other for the 1 scarce and elusive male. Dismissing polygamy as impossible, the lecturer considered that the best remedy would be to encourage the emigration of girls to the Dominions, but the ‘Daily Mail’ pointed out that Can. ada, and Australia have suffered losses in men as severely as England.