NEWS AND NOTES.

Hokitika Guardian, 28 August 1929, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES.

WHAT ABOUT LAND DISARMAMENT?

“Even if there is an all-round reduction in naval armaments” says the ‘'‘Manchester Guardian,” there remains the far more urgent and important reduction of land armaments. On the European continent the victors of the Great War face the vanquished in overwhelming strength. A reduction of land armaments will inevitably level out this preponderance. That is why the victorious Continental Powers are opposed to any real disarmament on land and in the air. This impediment (which is almost absent from, the problem of naval disarmament) can only be met by political action, and it will be necessary ior the United States to show more understanding for the special difficulties of this country than they have shown hitherto. For the States to say they are not interested in land disarmament because it does not directly affect themselves simply will not do.”

WOMEN’S ORGANJSATIONS PASSING.

“Habit of mind is far stronger than Acts of Parliament—and if we are ever to break down the prejudices that still deny of women simply because they are women, the right to enter certain trades and occupations, or to enjoy certain high offices and honours reserved by custom for men, or to earn the same reward for work equally well done, and the same amount of rest from toil, we must get rid of the mentality both in men and women that regards there injustices either as inevitable or as negligible,” writes Miss Evelyn Sharp in the “Daily Herald.” “That is why I think the time has come for women to cease isolating themselves in separate organisations, a method which tends to perpetuate old antagonisms and suggests that dedicate human questions can be solved by approaching them primarily as women’s questions. Youth I believe, will settle these questions automatically while we are still arguing aljout them. It is inconceivable that the sons and daughters of enfranchised parents will over grow up to tolerate• petty injustices that are based on sex differentiation. Their habit of mind will he utterly opposed to such a moss-grown point of view.”