PUBLIC OPINION.

Hokitika Guardian, 23 August 1928, Page 3

PUBLIC OPINION.

THE NEW BIG FACT

“No thinking man or woman can now ignore air development. They may agree or disagree with it, but to block its progress is not possible. What are the great measures, tliat the airmen seek to solve? Where is the man or woman who does not desire to see our great world-scattered Empire linked up l>y rapid means of transport, travel, postal services, emergency services in the case of sickness or accident? Sea travel, read travel, train travel, air travel, are all now neeesary to build up our Empire on ns solid a foundation as Cheops’ Pyramid. Where is the man or woman who is not vitally concerned in seeing all nations of the world linked u,p by a network of air routes to benefit civilisation? By this means barriers between people of all countries can be broken down, new bonds of friendship can be formed. It will enable all races to better understand one another, and appreciate the real conception of inter-relationship. A family of nations, knit together by com mercial air interests, enabling the closest intercourse, will do more for peace throughout the world than a thousand Locarno treaties.” —Rear-Admiral Sueter, M.P. WHAT THE TURKISH WANTS.

“In modern democracies, the rights of citizenship belong to every individual without distinction of sex. But if n woman is not considered a person, she is deprived thereby of all these rights. (According to present law), the Turkish woman may not testify, neither may she become a trustee; further, she may not even interfere in community affairs, where the social and hygienic ’•life of her children and of herself is greatly concerned. She still is not considered an independent being. If she has not a father or , a husband, she is doomed to fail in the struggle of life. She has no credit in business or commerce. Her part in the family ' is an unconditional submission to the head ,of it. Because the head of the family is man, she is not a person, but instead an encumbrance, living as a parasite on the man and on society. As to her political rights, they are denied her in advance. I want my right as a ■human being before by right of voting. I want from our justice the right which it has given to the ordinary man in my status as a person. I want that it should accept my capacity of seeing and perceiving like every other individual.” —A Turkish Woman, ip ‘"Pi? Workl