WOMAN AND WAR.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 3, Issue 60, 3 May 1912, Page 12

WOMAN AND WAR.

AN ACTRESS'S VIKWS. Miss Ola Humphrey, tho well-known actress, said recently---"But though woman has advanced wonderfully in the past two generations, her influence is yet embryonic. What s-h'e lias attained at the present is nothing to what she will accomplish in the future. She has worlds to conquer yet—worlds now governed by tyranny and brutality. For, oh! ye mon who preach and prate about your civilisation, to what have ye yet attained that is so near heaven that ye have tho right to call the cods to Witness? In the vital, elemental things ye arc still as savage as in the days when our forefathers painted their faces and wore skins. Your progress is hut the veneer of education and travel. Beneath is still tho brute instinct to kill. Your lives are full of war—endless, relentless war. What is your commercial expansion? War. What is your industrial development bid a blood struggle—class against class? What aro your highest ideals hut national glory at the expense of other races of people who breathe and think and feel as you do? Yet there are many who say' that woman is going too far—that hor reach will exceed her grfcsp; that men alone can dominate the. universe. But let mc put forth a theory. Supposing every woman in the world could be so developed by a broader education—a better and moro liberal upbringing—that she could freely exercise the love and gentleness in which she is man's superior. Would thorp bo piiv more war? I say confidently, no. For this is the only 'solution to ttiy .mind of that great question which man has never solved. Develop your women. Never forget that upon this generation depend the generations of the future."