ENGLISH TOLERANCE.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 September 1924, Page 1

ENGLISH TOLERANCE.

LONDON, July 2A. -I like England for its lolcrniuo. ,|„ not believe in Hn’ Prohibition spirit which is coining into disrepute in America,” said Miss Nellie Carlin, of llinois, a vice-president of the National Women Lawyers’ Association ol America, to a reporter yesterday. "As n woman lawyer, I know ihe tragic results of intemperance, hut 1 preli-r these evils to the greater ones hnnight ohout bv so unnatural an enactment as the Prohibition law. Young women are more free from restrictions than ours. Take the ease of _ cigarettesmoking among women. N’o Englishman betrays any aversion lie may have , 0 the practice, hut «» America there , is bv no means so general an aeqmes--1 , v nce in the right of women to make J their own choice in such matteis. Miss Carlin, who has been a member of the Chicago Bar lor twenty-live ) years and is the first woman in Ame- ( riea to he appointed Assistant Mato j Attorney, represented Illinois State in f the Court of Domestic Relations. “There is a great need of women lawyers in such a court." said Miss Carljn, "to assist unfortunate voting women’. Your law is much more just in this respect than ours. Aon provide for a tegular payment hv lathers , 0 f illegitimate children. In A.ne.icn a small sum is paid to the woman and no adequate provision is made lor the child." ~ , "I like your women lawyers, sm 1 added. “They have line ideals of tjjo task theyJtave^taken^npd^