FLAG-WAGGING

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 259, 24 June 1932, Page 3

FLAG-WAGGING

AUSTRALIAN WOMEN'S PLEDGE TO SECURE CONTROL OF ARMS TRAFFIC. DISARMAMENT COMMISSiION. LONDON, Saturday. "The days of flag-wagging are over. Women realise that Empire unity will be promoted by levelling u'p conditions, not slavishly adhering to the traditions of the past." So says Miss Ruby Rich, of Sydney, after attending the British Commonwealth League's Conference, representing 50,000,000 women, of alh nationalities. "I pledged all the Australian women I represent to. make every sacrifiee to secure international control of the arms traflfic, ' abolition of military and naval aircraft, and appointment of a permanent Disarmament Commission," she said in a Sunday Sun interview. "The experts at Geneva," she said, "are only creating a smoke screen behind which the nations are increasing, not limiting, armaments. "Women have a clearer vision of the horrors of war than men. They are the creators and custodians of life, and feel a bigger responsibility to protect it. "It is terrible to see what they suffered to create destroyed." Abolition of the section of the Queensland Health Acts relating to puhlic morals has been recommended by the conference. Stating that the section created the very evils it was designed to prevent, | Miss Rich said that Queensland was the only part of the Empire where such legislation existed.