PRESS COMMENT

Hokitika Guardian, 21 January 1929, Page 3

PRESS COMMENT

SEARCHING QUESTIONS. “Out of all the storm the stress of tiie last few years over the status ami work of women-police one or two burning questions have emered and women all over the country are asking ever more and more insistently: Who questions children, young girls and women who have been the victims or witnessi s of sexual offences? Again it is asked: Who takes charge of women in custody in police cells, through the day and through the night, over the weekend, on remand or waiting for the Court f What arrangements are made for young girls under arrest? Aie they put into police cells? Are the arrangements in police cells decent and humane? Can women in custody gel food and sleep and wash themselves before appearing in Court? Have all our women magistrates personally visited tile polide cells in their area and discussed their possible improvement with the inspector, the chief constable, policewomen and Police Court missionaries—the only people who have access to the women's cells?”—Miss Edith Tailored, speaking at the Congress of the British National Council of Women. THE “MAN OF THE WORLD.” “The man of the world’ is responsible for more erroneous opinion than perhaps anyone. He is the kind of mail who says that fighting in natural to man. and that because war always has been therefore it always will be. It you sit down and wait for the next war you are sitting down to wait for the destruction of civilisation, and civilisation cannot stand another war similar to the last. It is bound to produce disaster, not only for the conqueror. 1 do not feel disturbed by this attitude of mind, because it is the attitude which has always manifested itself against every great reform that lias ever been carried out.”— Viscount Cecil. LONDON NEWSPAPERS EXAMINES MR, HOOVER. “Mr Hoover is not at all' the man to sit idle at the White House and refrain from initiating new courses.” points out the “Daily Chronicle” (London). “All his past is against it; lie has everywhere shown the exploring, organised, creating instincts. In what special directions he will leave his mark, we must wait to see. But as far a.s foreign affairs go—with which Europe is naturally most concerned — lie will at least meet the problems with nn equipment of solid knowledge and personal experience not approached by any previous President.”