A WOMAN'S VIEW.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 55, 21 October 1914, Page 4

A WOMAN'S VIEW.

An Australian writer discusses Miss Harriet C. Newcomb, secretary of the Dominions’ Woman’s Suffrage Union, who has turned her attention to the war and its consequences. Her heart has gone out to the little childi en in London, the babies of the poor, to whom the winter is always a period of misery, and which this year is to he accentuated by the extra strain of an Empire at war. Money for food is wanted, and warm clothing. “If any woman or girl in the happy homes or schools overseas would make just one garment —a simple vest or a pair of drawers, a jersey, or a petticoat—the total contribution would bo magnificent. If on each little garment were stitched a message of loving sympathy for the child whose little shivering body is to wear it, the value of the gift would be increased tenfold.” At the foot of the same circular appears

the following message: “This fearful war, which has brought ruin and desolation on the whole of Europe, is the climax of government by men only. , We women, who had no voice in the! matter, must not be content with straining every nerve to alleviate the distress around us. Wo must think ; on the causes of the policy which has' led to it. Financial success has stood foremost in men’s views. The welfare of human communities has been for-'

gotten. In the work of the social reconstruction which must follow this debacle, women must see to it that the sex disqualification shall be completely removed, and that they take their place, co-operating with men on equal terras in every department of the State.”